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laughing_tree
I did a short 5 page story about Doctor Aphra and company, which involves game of holochess between a Wookiee and some droids. I have no idea where I get my ideas from. -- Kieron Gillen
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laughing_treeI did a short 5 page story about Doctor Aphra and company, which involves game of holochess between a Wookiee and some droids. I have no idea where I get my ideas from. -- Kieron Gillen
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laughing_tree
It’s taking superheroes and turning it into a science fiction idea. Let’s take this novum of an idea which is, “These people are powerful enough to destroy the world. Let’s dig into them and take that seriously and follow the extrapolations out.” That gets to a place quite rapidly that uses a lot of superhero grammar but without actually giving you any of what it normally does. -- Kieron Gillen
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laughing_tree
"Yes, we're influenced by Watchmen, but we've got some significant differences in our approach"
"Like how?"
"Er... a confused cow on the cover?"
-- Kieron Gillen
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The Power Fantasy #2 - "Public Enemy"
Oct. 16th, 2024 01:59 pmlaughing_tree
Young Avengers was a much loved book, but we were aware of the hard limits on it. We had ideas and approaches which simply would not never work in the Marvel Universe. Not in a bad way -- just that the ideas wouldn't fit the vessel. So we did The Wicked + The Divine, where we could really show what we could do. The Power Fantasy is that for my time on Immortal X-Men. -- Kieron Gillen
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laughing_tree
One classic critique of superhero comics is to dismiss them as simple power fantasies, and say they're at least borderline fascist in their Might Makes Right tendency. That normally prompts defences describing all the other many things they can do -- the living metaphors, the moral play, the soap opera, the poetry, and a whole lot more. They're good defences.
But as I looked at chat around the big-two comics, I wondered whether we were just deluded.
There is so much conversation around power levels. Issues are picked over for more "feats" (characters showing their abilities at ever greater levels). The demands to make more characters "Omegas" (X-Men terminology for the apex mutants whose powers can't be transcended). I was especially unnerved when I saw people say the most powerful characters should be the leaders. There's a word for that.
-- Kieron Gillen
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numeronone
It's an ongoing. Like most my creator owned work, I consider it a novel. I've an amount of story in mind, and we'll see how long it is. There's a potential that I'll decide to go a shorter length, but it has the potential to be somewhere between Die and WicDiv...Most don't clock WicDiv as a superhero book, despite the DNA...It's not a “if superheroes were real” book – it's a book about what if 6 people had an unimaginable level of power. One of the shorthands I'm using is “Watchmen, if there were 6 Dr Manhattans” - but the thing there is “how on earth do six world-ending people come to terms with one another?”
-- Kieron Gillen
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alliterator
"Moira is quite big in this story because the end of the X-Men Krakoan era had to come back to her. It had to come back to Xavier as well. Because we basically started with those two people on a bench. For all the big ideas Jonathan Hickman started, it was a very powerful, personal story about these people trapped and wanting to be free. That's the thing that Moira gave everyone; a chance to try things a different way. Of course, in the end, Moira is not reliable or good, but she had a point."
-- Kieron Gillen
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laughing_tree
It's really tricky to talk about because I see this all as one motion. Not in a "you can't jump in at any point" way, but more of, "This is a story I've been building for over two years, and the X-office has been building for five." We'll hit a conclusion, and it will be big. It's the Endgame if we want to talk about a Cinematic Universe parallel, which is not a bad comparison to make. -- Kieron Gillen
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X-Men Forever #4: "No Hope"
May. 15th, 2024 09:34 amalliterator
"This is a book of big ideas, and it would be easy to get lost in the big ideas. What I think will ground it is that it's very personal. It's about what people are willing to do to save the world. That's the heart of superheroism, this idea of what are you willing to do? It becomes an increasingly hard question."
-- Kieron Gillen
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One more panel from X-Men Forever #3
May. 9th, 2024 01:52 pmicon_ukI should probably apologise in advance to whoever ends up scanning this one properly in a few weeks time, but I couldn't resist
( How badly are things going for the X-Men on Krakoa? )
( How badly are things going for the X-Men on Krakoa? )
X-Men Forever #2 - "Quiet Council"
May. 8th, 2024 08:40 amlaughing_tree
I wish I could reveal more, but I can say it comes from my frustrations with the Krakoan age. I don't mean that as a bad thing. It's one of the problems about telling stories in superhero comics. I think that's warped our perspective of Krakoa -- the sexy cool superheroes get all the panel time. So this other side of the story is me, at this late stage, going, "What about the rest of Krakoa?" What were they about? We'll get there. -- Kieron Gillen
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From the X-Men Forever #3 preview
So, one mutant who was very Quiet Council adjacent has been noticeable by their absence since before the Hellfire Gala went pear-shaped.
Now it's time to wake up, though one might excuse them for asking for "
( Maybe five more minues Mom? )
X-Men Forever #1 - "A Ghost"
Apr. 26th, 2024 03:05 amlaughing_tree
It's going to be interesting because what I hope we've done, and your mileage may vary on this, in that whilst we've got Mother Righteous and Stasis and Orbis and Enigma, the ones I wrote, I really tried to delineate why is Stasis different to Sinister, and who knows who will survive? And Mother Righteous especially is nothing like any of them except for possibly the ego bottomless hole thing. The X-Men always needs more villains. And I would love the idea in 10 years' time no one even mentions Mother Righteous was derived from Sinister. You know what I mean? It's a footnote. People don't even talk about that anymore. She's just this weird X-Men manipulative, private, red woman. That's where she survives. -- Kieron Gillen
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laughing_tree
Moira is quite big in this story because the end of the X-Men Krakoan era had to come back to her. It had to come back to Xavier as well. Because we basically started with those two people on a bench. For all the big ideas Jonathan Hickman started, it was a very powerful, personal story about these people trapped and wanting to be free. That's the thing that Moira gave everyone; a chance to try things a different way. Of course, in the end, Moira is not reliable or good, but she had a point. -- Kieron Gillen
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alliterator
"Next week – Rise of the Powers of X #3, where everyone sits down, talks it out, and comes to a reasonable compromise, meaning the rest of the event is just everyone eating scones."
-- Kieron Gillen
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numeronone
You can stop reading Immortal X-Men and then jump over to this new book, which takes it further. - Kieron Gillen
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Rise of the Powers of X #1 - "Data Pages"
Feb. 18th, 2024 09:22 amlaughing_tree
Fall of the House of X is Gerry doing the enormous, explosive, big-budget, present-day fight against Orchis. I'm doing the multiple timelines, Moira collapsing real space, "What is the nature of the future anyway and can we fight it?" plot. Both metaphorically and physically, because it's an X-Men comic and the metaphor is also physical, and a metaphor you can punch in the face is how one does superhero comics. -- Kieron Gillen
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