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alliterator
"I definitely had some folks in mind at the beginning that got dropped when I was narrowing down the team. I know, 'narrow down,' it’s a huge team, but I put a lot of thought into it. I wanted to bring some more people in from classic Excalibur — I've been using Rachel more and more since X-Factor ended, so it seemed right to bring her back to the Otherworld side of things."
-- Tini Howard
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laughing_tree
Here's a character who's only been defined by things like the team that he belongs to, the sword he carries around, or whoever he's been romancing at a particular time. To me, that speaks to a very interesting and probably very imperfect character. So, I want to know more about him. I want to learn what it is that makes him so keen to avoid being defined for his own right. -- Si Spurrier
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laughing_tree
Nightcrawler senses something is rotten in the hearts and souls of mutantkind. But as he works to identify exactly what’s wrong, he realizes this isn’t a problem that can be solved with prayers and belief. It’s bigger than any one person’s specific faith. The solution has to be something that every single mutant can buy-into, mentally and emotionally. In other words, a Big Idea that sidesteps extant religions. Something that allows people like Kurt (or indeed any of our other characters with their own, different beliefs) to remain faithful to their particular creeds.
The Way is not an “instead of,” in religious terms. It’s an “as well as.” I’m actually pretty pleased with the Big Idea I landed on. I’m not going to say anything about it here, but it’s something we’ll come to as a natural product of the story in the first arc. It’s been there since my first pitch. It works. And it’s so beautifully crafted to apply only to mutants in the HoXPoX era.
-- Si Spurrier
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Cable Reloaded #1 - "Call In the Big Gun"
Sep. 22nd, 2021 12:31 amlaughing_tree
I’ve actually channeled my inner 1990s pretty strongly on this one, and I know artist Bob Quinn has spoken about how much of a blast he had making it even more ’90s than I wrote it. It’s kind of a meditation on the aesthetics of the period that also functions as a high-octane thrill ride on an alien world, with guest appearances by a gaggle of fan-favorite mutants. -- Al Ewing
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Way of X #5 - "The Fall"
Sep. 15th, 2021 04:58 pmlaughing_tree
Funnily enough the way the X-line has propagated from the House of X/Powers of X beginning, it runs in parallel to how a new state has to set itself up in the real world. Which is, you start from a position of "we are new, we are perfect, nothing is wrong with us." Then, over time, it becomes quite clear that actually it's not perfect, and probably they knew it wasn't perfect from the beginning. -- Si Spurrier
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Way of X #4 - "Heirs and Graces"
Aug. 12th, 2021 05:54 pmlaughing_tree
“What if the you who comes back isn’t the you who died?” is one of the most obviously unnerving questions you’d expect to be preoccupying people in a society like Krakoa, and when you’ve got Rockslide and Gorgon both coming back from the grave completely transformed…? Oof. Those worries only get deeper.
Quite what’s going on when this Otherworld stuff happens is something that we’ll collectively get to in due course, but the tabula rasa of it all is where the storyjuice lies, for me. Gorgon’s this monumentally powerful mutant with next-level martial skill and a lot of bad s--t in his past. When you erase the bad s--t but leave everything else, what do you get? Is all forgiven? Will the bad s--t come trickling back with predetermined predictability? What would you expect from a fantastically deadly individual whose most profound experience since he was “born” involves a fuzzy blue dude getting covered in ice cream? These are the big big questions someone needs to answer, dammit.
-- Si Spurrier
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Way of X #3 - "The Joy of X"
Jul. 14th, 2021 10:18 amlaughing_tree
Anyway, I'm halfway through writing the “Make more mutants” issue. The working title is “The Joy of X.” I don't know if I'll get away with that. It’s a lot of fun, mixed with some crazy repercussions. It's the sort of lateral-thinking stuff that you can examine when you have a world that's been built so cleverly. You can start to dial into the granular stuff and see how it would all work if you were there on the ground. In other words, this isn’t just a heady book about religion and philosophy. It's also a hoot. -- Si Spurrier
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Way of X #2 - "Let Us Prey"
Jun. 16th, 2021 12:06 amlaughing_tree
I feel like this book is the next logical step in the X-expansion -- X-pansion? sorry -- because up till now, most of the stories that have been told have taken place around the edges of this new empire. They've been about attack, defense and exploration. Small groups of people having their own adventures and intrigues. What I felt was missing is, “What's it like to just live in this place? What sort of drama and terrors would be encountered on a daily basis?” What I discovered, when I spent some time thinking about that, is that if you're a council member or one of the big-name heroes, you're probably so busy doing the big world-shaking stuff that you wouldn't even recognize that there was something wrong in the layers of culture and community below it. -- Si Spurrier
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Way of X #2: "Let Us Prey"
May. 22nd, 2021 08:03 pmalliterator
Something has slithered into a gap in the mutant community. This evil thing has identified that if you are part of a society that has no limits then you also have no direction. Look, there's a whole heap of anthropological and sociological stuff that I could bore you with here, to hint at the big picture and foreshadow some of the fears and doubts Nightcrawler is sensing on the horizon, but this is comics! So, luckily for us, all this high-falutin’ stuff takes a very familiar, and utterly terrifying, form. It’s an individual who is lurking in the shadows, exacerbating the risks that arise when you have a society without any rudder or anchor. Especially when that society is made up of people with superpowers. It’s the sociological equivalent of a nuke, and this thing, this threat, has its finger on the button.
-- Simon Spurrier
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Way of X #1 - "Way of X"
May. 19th, 2021 01:44 amlaughing_tree
So, listen: the importance of Hickman’s X-Men work can’t be overstated. For the first time in a long time someone’s doing something genuinely and ambitiously different with the Super Hero concept. To me the whole DAWN OF X canon drips with the lysergic experimentation of the best Big Idea sci-fi: Last and First Men... Barefoot in the Head… Foundation and Empire. It’s not just "what if…?", it’s "what if everything…?" It’s nothing less than the creation of an entire epochal civilisation. That Jon and the rest of the X-team are telling stories in that framework of such humanity and heart is nothing short of magical. I want in on that. -- Si Spurrier
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Champions #4
Apr. 4th, 2021 12:51 pmsuperboyprime
"Yeah, it’s interesting to me that people have been making that comparison, because to me, although the inciting incident is familiar, the ramifications are so different because the people impacted are young people. In Civil War, we see adults with different moral centers, different ethics, different relationships to the government and to power, but they all are operating in a way from a place of power. In this case, we’re talking about superheroes, but they’re still teens. Which means that they’re sort of marginalized and disempowered by mainstream American society, and they’re marginalized and disempowered by the adult superhero community." - Eve L. Ewing
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icon_ukWell, it looks like that's what he's going to do... sort of
From Si Spurrier and Bob Quinn comes....
( And he's getting his own team to help )
From Si Spurrier and Bob Quinn comes....
( And he's getting his own team to help )
