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Big Game #1
Aug. 18th, 2023 04:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cyberghostface
"Wanted is the cornerstone of what I guess is a universe of titles, but it's also actually our world we live in now. The big plot point of Wanted, the basic concept, is that all the superheroes we read about or see in movies were real until 1986, and our obsession with them is just humanity trying to remember what was taken from us when the supervillains beat them and made us forget their existence. The villains all slipped out of their costumes and into regular clothes, and now they engineer the wars and the famines and all the things they use to control us, ruling the world from behind their puppet politicians.
But my plan over these years was that, like weeds, the heroes would start to come back in new and unexpected ways. Dave Lizewski's Kick-Ass was the first, inspired by the heroes he didn't even know were real, and this kicked off a whole chain of these guys like the Chrononauts, the Night Club, and most recently, the Ambassadors. It's all a big grand 50-volume plan with this very definitive and special story that pulls it all together." -- Mark Millar
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superboyprime
"Truth and justice are the cornerstones of great things, including our beloved comic book worlds. It is said that we are living in a post-truth world, and I hope that is not true. But it does not have to be and it shouldn’t be and the X-Men should always be aspirational." - Gerry Duggan
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X-Men #11: A Busted Hand
Jun. 8th, 2022 11:16 pmsuperboyprime
"In the early days, I pitched Krakoa adopting the metric system, we had a laugh, and I'm glad Jonathan said no cause that would've been more work." - Gerry Duggan
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superboyprime
"We discussed flags at length, and in the end we just couldn't get beyond it being a human concept that they didn't need to fuck with." - Gerry Duggan
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superboyprime
"Mutantdom isn't fascist however. Anyone who comes away with that suffers from poor reading comprehension." - Gerry Duggan
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alliterator
Pepe, we won't always have this job, and we won't always have it together, let's leave a bruise.
-- Gerry Duggan to Pepe Larazz in the script for X-Men #7
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superboyprime
"We don't put pieces on the board that don't have purpose. It can be hard for the monthly reader at the pace that single-issue comics progress story. Our brains've been altered for binging. We have long-term plans, and we're executing them quite well." - Gerry Duggan
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superboyprime
"This book and Planet-Size X-Men were collaborations that happened during the lockdown. We weren't sure what the world would look like outside your window, but we worked like hell to make sure that there was something inspirational and hopeful in your X-Men team book." - Gerry Duggan
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superboyprime
"The X-Men love humans. They love Earth. They did a restoration job on our neighboring planet, but this is still their home, and it's one that they're willing to fight for." - Gerry Duggan
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X-Men #1: Fearless, Chapter One: In Threes
Aug. 4th, 2021 05:03 pmsuperboyprime
"The first 12 issues are pretty carefully constructed to tell the biggest X-Men story we could conceive of. The X-Men are going to change the universe...again." - Gerry Duggan
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