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So Theta, the lead character of this opening arc of Marvel's Predator series, got off to a bad start in my eyes by being so ridiculously badass. Now the title is giving her a little more development, and I'm warming to her more...

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Remember when the Hellfire Gala had a vote for the new X-Men team?

There were winners and losers in the vote because it was also a real world social media vote thing?

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laughing_tree

Oh, I think the X-Men is about finding the family that you never knew you had. One that accepts you for who you are, who loves you at your best and worst, and who shares your dreams for what the world can be. You know, everybody wants to love somebody, everyone wants to be loved, and it's pretty great when you find both. Especially if you're, say, a weirdo mutant with eyeballs covering your whole body. -- Jonathan Hickman

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We're in a really interesting time in that the books have launched and they're all healthy, and the reception of the line across the board has been fairly positive, I would say. And we know the things that we're doing down the road. And so what we're doing now — and 'X of Swords' is a perfect example of this — is that we're just trying sh-t out. -- Jonathan Hickman

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X-Men continuity is some nonsense. There are no rules here. There is no order. Just random unconnected gibberish. I just wrote 5000 words on when someone can, and cannot, utter the phrase "Omega Level." This is a job I have in the United States of America. -- Jonathan Hickman

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There's a shitty version where you may not want to tie into a book, but there's a really cool thing that happens when you hear a pitch and a small sliver really hooks you. As soon as I heard Al [Ewing] and Dan [Slott] talk about it, I knew I wanted to do it - and it became the X-Men book. -- Jonathan Hickman

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cyberghostface

"I start to develop Jessica Jones and asking the simplest questions about her world: Okay, she's not a super hero anymore. She's down here on the street. Who would she know? Who would she bump into? And Luke Cage popped to the top of the list. With Luke Cage I set up a situation where they're both kind of not at their best place emotionally and using each other. With that came a lot of exploration of his character. So I started really finding the inner nobility of his character, kind of scraping off all the blaxploitation elements that were being used by other writers—even in the late nineties he was still saying, 'Funky Honky' and stuff like that!

"It was time for the character to evolve past his roots without losing the thing that makes him special. [Then] I got the job to take over Avengers and really overhaul it, with what I had sold as 'the coolest characters in the Marvel Universe,' which includes Spider-Man and Wolverine. At the time I slipped Luke Cage in there. I remember I asked if it was okay if Luke Cage and Spider-Woman were on the team. Our publisher said, 'You said Spider-Man and Wolverine?' I go, 'Yep.' He said, 'As long as I see Spider-Man and Wolverine are there, you can do whatever you want.'

"Then I realized that I'm maybe the only person right now who thinks Luke Cage is the coolest person in the Marvel Universe, and it was my job inside the pages of New Avengers to prove my point—between the more intimate look of this character in Jessica Jones and the proactive superhero that [he would be as an Avenger],he could become someone with a different point of view than the other heroes on the team. I made it my doctoral thesis to tell the public why Luke Cage is the coolest." -- Brian Michael Bendis

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laughing_tree

One of the first things I wrote for Marvel was a pitch document explaining why the X-Men were broken and were going to continue to be broken and did not work anymore, and even though the books sold well, they were going to eventually fail, for these reasons, and this is how you solve it. I wrote that before Axel [Alonso] had his job, I think. [...] The point was, listen, these things that the X-Men have been about for 30 years -- and they change every decade for a good reason -- I argued that they were not timeless eternal themes like "With great power comes great responsibility," and if you're going to crack the egg and save the franchise for the next 50 years, you have to make it bigger than what it is. -- Jonathan Hickman

( INTERGALACTIC TROUBLE )

laughing_tree

It doesn’t mean anything when we kill characters in our books anymore because everybody knows that the IP is coming back. It doesn’t have the impact and I’ve said this in the writers’ room: You need to stop telling those stories, about killing characters. I understand that sometimes narratively you want to do something dramatic but let me tell you, as a storytelling mechanism, walking in the room and kicking all the toys over is not a good look anymore. It’s not the kind of stories that people are wanting to read. It’s not actually helpful in terms of you doing your job 5 years down the road. It makes all of our jobs incredibly difficult. One of the reasons why I did the resurrection stuff was not only because I wanted everybody to be able to have all the mutants back without us doing like literally 30 issues of bringing characters back in various ways. -- Jonathan Hickman

( CRUCIBLE )

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laughing_tree

I want us to be telling positive stories about the characters, and… okay, here’s a tangential thing, but it illustrates the point: We’ve gotten a bunch of pitches in about X-Men stuff, right? As soon as I took over, we started getting pitches and all the pitches – not all, but a lot of the pitches were literally breaking stuff. It kind of proved my point: that what everybody is expecting to happen is for the other shoe to drop, and everything to not work, everything to go bad. The radical storytelling choice here of doing positive books where people don’t die feels like a radical choice. Which is hilarious, right? In your T+ entertainment arena? -- Jonathan Hickman

( A SEAT AT THE TABLE )

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"Jonathan Hickman's top 5 mutants:

1. Magneto"

-- Hickman's Twitter

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laughing_tree

A group of crows is called a murder. A group of tigers is called a streak. A group of mutants is called an orgy. -- Jonathan Hickman

( GROWTH MINDSET )

laughing_tree

I had been gone for a couple of years and then I was sitting around and Dan Buckley called me and wanted me to come back and one of the things that we talked about was how do we make the X-Men the giant X-Men that it was most of my life, right? And so I came up with what I thought was wrong or tired or needed changing. And you know, in the same way, that Brian [Michael Bendis] repositioned the Avengers during “Disassembled” and all that kind of stuff. What is that version of the X-stuff? And we came up with this. What needed changing? A lot. What did we change? A whole lot. But it feels like the X-Men is the important thing. It feels like it was the book that we read a long time ago but it’s not. It’s this new thing. -- Jonathan Hickman

( THE OTHER ISLAND )

laughing_tree

I think what's been messed up about Cyclops is that he's the guy who believes. Charles has a dream, he believes in an idealized world. It's the other guy, the soul of it... that's who Cyclops is. And I think we lost that, but I won't be writing him now as him having lost it anymore. -- Jonathan Hickman

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superboyprime

"But one reason that I chose the practice of opinion journalism—which is to say a mix of reporting and opinion—is because understanding how those opinions fit in with the perspectives of others has always been more interesting to me than repeatedly restating my own. Writing, for me, is about questions—not answers. And Captain America, the embodiment of a kind of Lincolnesque optimism, poses a direct question for me: Why would anyone believe in The Dream? What is exciting here is not some didactic act of putting my words in Captain America’s head, but attempting to put Captain America’s words in my head. What is exciting is the possibility of exploration, of avoiding the repetition of a voice I’ve tired of." - Ta-Nehisi Coates

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