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X-Men #10: "Brinkmanship"
Jan. 29th, 2025 12:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alliterator
"All the characters currently in play have been announced. There will probably be some flex coming down the line. It's not a team I would say is firmly structured, like the Avengers, for instance. With the Avengers, it's like, these are the big Marvel characters. Whereas with X-Men, it's like, here are some big-name X-Men characters, here are some smaller-name X-Men characters — let's see what happens when they come together. And let's see if we can make these small names into bigger names."
-- Jed MacKay
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Avengers #21: "Avengers vs. X-Men"
Dec. 4th, 2024 12:10 amalliterator
"I think there's a perception that the Avengers are the (small A) authority in the Marvel Universe, the ones who come down on your favorite characters when they're doing their thing (something I'm as guilty of as anyone). I wanted to re-center what expectations should be for this run of Avengers and what we want to do: the Avengers are saving lives, dealing with problems that are too big for anyone else to take on. I'm less interested in them hassling the X-Men and more into seeing what it means to put your lives on the line over and over again, because you're the only ones that can."
-- Jed MacKay
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X-Men #5: "Psychic Rescue in Progress"
Oct. 2nd, 2024 09:09 pmalliterator
"Yeah, Psylocke is very much the professional. You know, a lot of them are arguing or goofing around, but she's always been the one who gets things done. And she's the one who Cyclops looks to to do that. She's not going to get distracted. She's not going to mess up. And she has the focus of a ninja assassin because that's who she is. But of course, that background is also the reason why she's with the X-Men, as we're going to see explained in X-Men #5."
-- Jed MacKay
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X-Men #4: "Upstarts"
Sep. 19th, 2024 07:50 pmalliterator
"Yeah, there are moments for different characters to shine because this is a large team, but you want everyone to be able to do their Claremont stuff, right? So I'm trying to make sure that everyone's getting, if not the focus in every issue, everyone's getting some focus as we go on. So in X-Men #4, we've got some good Juggernaut stuff and we've got some good Magik stuff."
-- Jed MacKay
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X-Men #1: "Fire-Baptized Species"
Jul. 9th, 2024 11:55 pmalliterator
"So as we go on, we're going to explore a little bit what it means to be X-Men in this post-Krakoa world and to be X-Men in such a loud and visible manner. As you can see in the previews, they live in a building with a big "X" on the front — they’re not exactly hiding from anyone. Though Alaska is certainly remote."
-- Jed MacKay
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Moon Knight: Fist of Khonshu #0
Jul. 3rd, 2024 09:27 pmdigicomLast week, Marvel dropped a surprise one-shot introducing the next chapter of Jed Mackay's Moon Knight run.
This week, it was made available to the world at large, albeit with a different cover. It's basically an introduction to the status quo from the perspective of a certain manipulative moon god, recently released from durance not-so-vile.
( And he's still an arrogant old bird. )
3 pages out of 18
This week, it was made available to the world at large, albeit with a different cover. It's basically an introduction to the status quo from the perspective of a certain manipulative moon god, recently released from durance not-so-vile.
( And he's still an arrogant old bird. )
3 pages out of 18
icon_ukDoctor Strange #11 introduced a new take on an old... old... oooooold superteam.
( Welcome to the NEW Circus of Crime )
( Welcome to the NEW Circus of Crime )
Avengers #2
Jun. 26th, 2023 07:59 pmlordultimusKang gave the Avengers information to save 1000 lives across the world in exchange for listening to him. Most of what we see are averting sudden disasters and foiling Hydra and other villains, but one situation required a different touch.
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Avengers #1 (2023)
May. 16th, 2023 10:49 pmalliterator
"[Editor] Tom Brevoort and I went back and forth on a lineup, but settled pretty early on with what I would call an iconic lineup of Avengers, something I wanted to reflect the classic stories of the Avengers while acknowledging the modern conception of what the Avengers are and should be. While, of course, maintaining a manageable roster size – with too many characters, you're going to get into issues where some members aren't getting enough spotlight, that kind of thing. "
-- Jed MacKay
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The DINK power couple of Manhattan
May. 3rd, 2023 10:54 pmstubbleupdateThe Strange series, where Clea is Sorceror Supreme after the death of Stephen Strange, was really a lot of fun. And now that Stephen is no longer dead, the great news is that both Jed Mackay and the Warlord of Manhattan are hanging around!
After doing a whistlestop tour of New York and the Magical World and critiquing the UK refugee policy in #1, Stephen and Clea are back to doing house calls, as Moon Knight recognises when a problem is above his pay grade and calls the Sorceror Supreme for a child with sleeping problems.
And so...( to the realm of Nightmare! )
After doing a whistlestop tour of New York and the Magical World and critiquing the UK refugee policy in #1, Stephen and Clea are back to doing house calls, as Moon Knight recognises when a problem is above his pay grade and calls the Sorceror Supreme for a child with sleeping problems.
And so...( to the realm of Nightmare! )
