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The Immortal Thor #19 - "Tales of Asgard"
Feb. 12th, 2025 01:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
laughing_tree
This one's an experiment that came into being almost as soon as I started batting around a "Tales Of Asgard" issue – something that would act as a whistle-stop tour through the current status quo for Asgard and the Asgardians before the big explosions go off later in the year. I mentioned to Editor Wil Moss that we could do it as a bunch of one-page vignettes with a new artist on every page... and once I'd said it, I couldn't hold back from attempting it. -- Al Ewing"
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alliterator
"It's the end, but the moment has been prepared for, as they say. Here's where we tie off all the mysteries into a neat little bow - a little earlier than originally planned, but it should be a neat package for all that, with plenty of twists, turns, heartwarming moments and tragic downfalls as a few guest stars of old return for one last case."
-- Al Ewing
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Avengers Inc. #4 - "Who Is Victor Shade?
Jan. 24th, 2024 02:15 amlaughing_tree
Jan's story started with avenging the murder of her father. She's got a lot of detective-genre DNA in her makeup, and if she hadn't been sidetracked by Hank Pym into a superhero setting, she absolutely would have done it on her own as a traditional gumshoe. So exploring her in a detective role makes a lot of sense to me. -- Al Ewing
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laughing_tree
I think we settled on Avengers Inc. because it suggested a private investigation firm. It's quite telegenic. It doesn't make too many noir promises. (Our dark secret is that this is shaping into a pretty fun series.) -- Al Ewing
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laughing_tree
I think we're less of a sister title right now and more like a cousin who might fly in for Thanksgiving or might have a big party all their own, but that doesn't mean there'll be no connection at all. Vision's our earliest "celebrity guest," and in terms of the larger Avengers lore, we're taking some very big swings. -- Al Ewing
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laughing_tree
It's kind of a classic 'will-they-won't-they' crime-solving partnership—or it would be if the 'will-they' in question was 'save the world from...' Well, that'd be telling. -- Al Ewing
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alliterator
"This one's interesting and somewhat experimental, in a very genre way - it's basically an attempt to take another route into the whole "Avengers" concept, by starting with the word and building out. It feels like a pulp word, a title that promises something other than superfolks, something from a different branch of serial fiction's family tree - I didn't immediately think "what if the Avengers were the Avengers", although it makes a dandy elevator pitch, but I was definitely starting somewhere in that ballpark. It's gone through a lot of permutations and evolutions behind the scenes, and what's left is a kind of TV show format, with a Big Mystery simmering in the background and Little Mysteries solved on a monthly basis."
-- Al Ewing
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icon_ukAnd I'd put money on it being nothing like you might expect
Embiggened cover under the cut
( An Avengers Crime Noir series? Why not? )
Embiggened cover under the cut
( An Avengers Crime Noir series? Why not? )
Sabretooth & the Exiles #5: Station Five
May. 4th, 2023 11:47 amsuperboyprime
"In the case of my very specific little sandbox, I found Sabretooth’s history (and that of many of the other mutants who ended up in the Pit) to be a treasure chest of intriguing, exasperating, and inspirational choices by the writers who came before me. It’s amazing, in fact, to imagine that any of these lives have as many twists and turns, highs and lows as they do. It’s freeing as well though because, in the end, you’re just adding to that long history, to be enjoyed and forgotten, like all life is eventually." - Victor LaValle
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Sabretooth & the Exiles #4: Station Four
Mar. 23rd, 2023 05:38 pmsuperboyprime
"I did want to tackle some serious subjects AND I wanted there to just be fun parts. A Sabretooth story without some mayhem isn’t worth telling, after all." - Victor LaValle
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Sabretooth & the Exiles #3: Station Three
Mar. 10th, 2023 10:35 amsuperboyprime
"I like writing the villains more than the heroes, but even by villain standards Sabretooth is a piece of work. The question, for me, became whether or not the situation would offer me a new way into depicting Victor Creed. While we’ve seen him hopping across dimensions, serving Apocalypse, and even turning into a good guy, we haven’t seen him locked away quite like this, not for this long and not — in essence — in the middle of paradise. What might that do to a mutant like Sabretooth? What might he be willing to do in order to escape, especially if his usual methods of clawing and killing might not be all that easy down in the Pit." - Victor LaValle
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superboyprime
"The history of X-Men comics, in particular, is one of wrestling with serious political and cultural issues so this seemed like the perfect lane for me to be in if I wanted to bring these issues up. I wasn’t trying to impose this on the comic, instead it was the situation itself that demanded some kind of reckoning with these issues. The worst thing I could’ve done, in my opinion, was write a Sabretooth comic where he gets out of the Pit and spends five issues tearing off people’s heads and making jokes. He’s a better character than that. Not a better person, but a more interesting character than that." - Victor LaValle
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Sabretooth & the Exiles #1: X-Isle
Dec. 11th, 2022 10:20 pmsuperboyprime
'In the Slack, there was agreement/understanding that the mutants in the Pit would have committed crimes that should bother readers more than a little. It was easy for some (many?) to understand or accept why Sabretooth went down (though I’d argue he went down for his history of crimes rather than just the crime he committed in House of X/Powers of X). But I wanted the other mutants to be people who readers wished would receive mercy or understanding… and then they don’t. The point wasn’t to say that Xavier or Magneto are evil, but to say that if “justice” is capricious then it isn’t true justice.' - Victor LaValle
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Sabretooth #5: The Magnficent Eight
Aug. 4th, 2022 04:17 pmsuperboyprime
"One of the things Hickman said in the X-Slack, back when I first joined, was that we should always be adding to the larger mythos of Krakoa. It was one of the best pieces of advice for joining a story world that isn’t yours, one that will go on long after you’ve left that universe. If Sabretooth left and Hell went with him, that would make a kind of sense on a short-term level — but if he left a little bit of Hell behind then you make it possible for some other writer to pick that idea up and do something incredible with it." - Victor LaValle
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Sabretooth #3: Whisper Campaign
May. 25th, 2022 12:31 amsuperboyprime
"When we had our meeting, they asked what story I was interested in telling. There was only one answer for me: what the hell has been happening with Sabretooth? I had some ideas of what might be going on and both Hickman and Jordan seemed to like what I was thinking. Even better, they started tossing their thoughts in, too. And the idea only got bigger, knottier, and more fun as a result. Soon after that, they told me I could tell that story if I wanted to. And I wanted to, real bad." - Victor LaValle
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Sabretooth #2: Know Your Enemy
Apr. 7th, 2022 12:48 amsuperboyprime
'Victor Creed made a threat, or a promise, to Xavier and the Quiet Council in House of X/Powers of X: “I will make your line extinct.” The rest of my story is about how he does it.' - Victor LaValle
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Sabretooth #1: The Adversary
Mar. 2nd, 2022 04:13 amsuperboyprime
"My favorite villain stories in the X-Men universe are the ones where they remain villains, but for reasons of expediency, or something else, they decide to work on the right side for a little while but everyone knows this truce isn’t going to last. I like that tension quite a bit. So I’ve enjoyed the Krakoa era, in part, because it’s never been hidden that the villains remain villains. They haven’t had a change of heart, if anything it’s the heroes who have to do the most changing." - Victor LaValle
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Sabretooth #1: "The Adversary"
Feb. 2nd, 2022 02:04 amalliterator
"I like writing the villains more than the heroes, but even by villain standards Sabretooth is a piece of work. The question, for me, became whether or not the situation would offer me a new way into depicting Victor Creed. While we’ve seen him hopping across dimensions, serving Apocalypse, and even turning into a good guy, we haven’t seen him locked away quite like this, not for this long and not — in essence — in the middle of paradise. What might that do to a mutant like Sabretooth? What might he be willing to do in order to escape, especially if his usual methods of clawing and killing might not be all that easy down in the Pit."
-- Victor LaValle
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