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superboyprime
"AXM:SS, like Joss & John’s AXM, runs parallel to mainline continuity, sort of looping in and out of the timeline like a drunk driver cutting you up on the open road. (Shush. This sort of thing is important to some people.) This means that, like Joss, I can do four stories without having to refer to, react to or otherwise deal with monthly shifts in continuity. It’s as close to complete creative freedom as you can get on a major franchise book. It means that I can ring changes without having to worry about anyone else. I already told the main X-writers that I am their blood enemy now. I don’t think they quite understood. This is why I don’t have any friends." - Warren Ellis
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superboyprime
"XENOGENESIS, and the remaining issues of EXOGENETIC (and that’s how fried I was, that I came up with two titles that sound almost the same and didn’t catch it) represent the last of my ASTONISHING X-MEN work. (EXOGENETIC was nearly called DOCTOR X, but Axel Alonso told me to basically sober up. I still kind of regret that. It has a goofy pulpy sound that reflects the material better.)" - Warren Ellis
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superboyprime
"So I was writing ASTONISHING X-MEN. I was writing a serial therein called GHOST BOX. I had also started writing the next serial, XENOGENESIS, so we didn’t lose time when GHOST BOX ended. And then there were problems with GHOST BOX, and apparently the only solution was for me to write a short spin-off piece called GHOST BOXES. And then there were problems with XENOGENESIS, and apparently the only solution was for me to write a new serial to temporarily replace it called EXOGENETIC. And this all happened within the same couple of months, as I recall, and basically broke me." - Warren Ellis
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Wonder Woman Historia
Dec. 1st, 2021 12:06 pmgoodbyebird
The wait is over, and the entire story of the Amazons can finally be told! Millennia ago, Queen Hera and the goddesses of the Olympian pantheon grew greatly dissatisfied with their male counterparts…and far from their sight, they put a plan into action. A new society was born, one never before seen on Earth, capable of wondrous and terrible things…but their existence could not stay secret for long. When a despairing woman named Hippolyta crossed the Amazons’ path, a series of events was set in motion that would lead to an outright war in heaven—and the creation of the Earth’s greatest guardian!
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icon_ukTo start Monday morning off with some sort-of comic news, they've finally announced who will be voicing the Ray in the forthcoming "Crisis on Earth X" crossover event for the various DC TV series.
This is a little bigger than some news, since the Ray will be the first gay male hero that the DCTVU (There must be an easier name for it than that) has featured;
The Ray will debut in the crossover (which will also include Arrow, Supergirl, Flash and the Legends of Tomorrow team), before getting a four episode animated series "Freedom Fighters: The Ray", and will be played by openly gay British actor Russell Tovey, best known perhaps, aside from an appearance in Doctor Who as Midshipman Alonzo Fraim in "Voyage of the Damned" (And later making a brief cameo as a potential new boyfriend for Captain Jack in "The End of Time") as George, a werewolf in the supernatural comedy-drama "Being Human" (The UK version that is).
Some promotional art was put together by Phil Jimenez, in the style of the old multiple Earth crossover covers to publicise the event, which also hints that it will take place around the wedding (or not) of Barry Allen and Iris West.
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Now, understandably, there has been some eyebrows raised at the decision, in the current political climate in the US, to make the Arrowverse/Supergirl crossover be based around Earth-X; the DC Earth where the Nazi's won World War II, and where we will see several Nazi versions of established heroes, so we'll have to see how THAT is handled (Secret Empire is a low bar to clear, but here's hoping)
As a geeky aside; Earth-X debuted in 1973, when WW was less than 30 years finished, as a separate home for a number of Quality Comics characters DC had acquired, like Uncle Sam, the Human Bomb, Doll Man, the Ray and Phantom Lady. They were folded into the WWII heroes following Crisis on Infinite Earths, though more modern takes on them have surfaced a time or two in the last couple of decades.
This is a little bigger than some news, since the Ray will be the first gay male hero that the DCTVU (There must be an easier name for it than that) has featured;
The Ray will debut in the crossover (which will also include Arrow, Supergirl, Flash and the Legends of Tomorrow team), before getting a four episode animated series "Freedom Fighters: The Ray", and will be played by openly gay British actor Russell Tovey, best known perhaps, aside from an appearance in Doctor Who as Midshipman Alonzo Fraim in "Voyage of the Damned" (And later making a brief cameo as a potential new boyfriend for Captain Jack in "The End of Time") as George, a werewolf in the supernatural comedy-drama "Being Human" (The UK version that is).
Some promotional art was put together by Phil Jimenez, in the style of the old multiple Earth crossover covers to publicise the event, which also hints that it will take place around the wedding (or not) of Barry Allen and Iris West.
(Click to embiggen)
Now, understandably, there has been some eyebrows raised at the decision, in the current political climate in the US, to make the Arrowverse/Supergirl crossover be based around Earth-X; the DC Earth where the Nazi's won World War II, and where we will see several Nazi versions of established heroes, so we'll have to see how THAT is handled (Secret Empire is a low bar to clear, but here's hoping)
As a geeky aside; Earth-X debuted in 1973, when WW was less than 30 years finished, as a separate home for a number of Quality Comics characters DC had acquired, like Uncle Sam, the Human Bomb, Doll Man, the Ray and Phantom Lady. They were folded into the WWII heroes following Crisis on Infinite Earths, though more modern takes on them have surfaced a time or two in the last couple of decades.
New X-Men: Planet X - Conclusion
Feb. 6th, 2017 09:16 pmhistory79
"The 'Planet X' story was partially intended as a comment on the exhausted, circular nature of the X-Men's ever-popular battle with Magneto and by extension, the equally cyclical nature of superhero franchise re-inventions. I ended the book exactly where I came on board, with Logan killing Magneto AGAIN, as he had done at the end of Scott Lobdell's run. Evil never dies in comic book universes. It just keeps coming back. Imagine Hitler back for the hundredth time to menace mankind. So, in the way that something like 'Marvel Boy' had that insistent 'teenage hard on' engine driving its rhythms, 'Planet X' is steeped in an exhausted, world-weary, 'middle-aged' ennui that spoke directly of both my own and Magneto's frustrations, disillusionment and disconnection, as well as the endless everything-is-not-enough frustrations of a certain segment of comics aging readership. In hindsight, I think I overdid the world weary a little but, you know, my loved ones were dying all around me while I was working on those issues, so I'm entitled to a little stumble into miseryland. Fantomex's line [he accused Magneto of speaking in cliches] summed up my own cynicism at that moment, definitely and seems justified by subsequent plot developments. In my opinion, there really shouldn't have been an actual Xorn - he had to be fake, that was the cruel point of him - and it should have been the genuine Magneto, frayed to the bare, stupid nerve and schizoid-conflicted as he was in Planet X, not just some impostor. There's loads of good stuff in Planet X - it's just that miasma of bleakness and futility which hovers over the whole thing.
What people often forget, of course, is that Magneto, unlike the lovely Sir Ian McKellen, is a mad old terrorist twat. No matter how he justifies his stupid, brutal behaviour, or how anyone else tries to justify it, in the end he's just an old bastard with daft, old ideas based on violence and coercion. I really wanted to make that clear at this time."
- Grant Morrison
Source: http://geoffklock.blogspot.de/2006/07/why-grant-morrisons-magneto-sucks.html
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New X-Men: Planet X - Part 2
Feb. 3rd, 2017 11:05 pmhistory79
"Magneto’s an old terrorist bastard. I got into trouble—the X-Men fans hated me because I made him into a stupid old drug-addicted idiot. He had started out as this sneering, grim terrorist character, so I thought, Well, that’s who he really is. [Writer] Chris Claremont had done a lot of good work over the years to redeem the character: He made him a survivor of the death camps and this noble antihero. And I went in and shat on all of it. It was right after 9/11, and I said there’s nothing f*****g noble about this at all."
- Grant Morrison
Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/2624941/grant-morrisons-playboy-interview/
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Some pretty for a Monday
Aug. 29th, 2016 06:30 pmicon_ukPartly inspired by the announcement of the lineup of characters for the New Mutants TV show, partly because it's a Monday and some nice art never hurts, and partly because I am so freaking jealous of this guys collection that I think it deserves
( Phil Jimenez on the New Mutants )
But wait.... there's more,
( George Perez draws soome Titans double acts )
( Phil Jimenez on the New Mutants )
But wait.... there's more,
( George Perez draws soome Titans double acts )
Tags:
- char: blackfire/komand'r,
- char: cannonball/sam guthrie,
- char: cheshire/jade nguyen,
- char: cypher/doug ramsey,
- char: deathstroke/slade wilson,
- char: lockheed,
- char: magma/amara aquilla,
- char: mirage/danielle moonstar,
- char: raven/rachel roth,
- char: robin/nightwing/dick grayson,
- char: shadowcat/kitty pryde,
- char: speedy/arsenal/roy harper,
- char: starfire/koriand'r,
- char: sunspot/roberto da costa,
- char: trigon,
- char: warlock,
- creator: george perez,
- creator: phil jimenez,
- group: new mutants,
- group: teen titans
DC Universe Rebirth #1
May. 25th, 2016 03:13 pmsuperboyprime
"If anyone wants to check out comics, wants to check out DC Universe Rebirth #1 and doesn’t like it, they can mail it to Warner Bros., to me, and I will send them a check, I literally will, for both postage and for the book. I will buy all these books back because I believe in this issue a lot. I think it’ll do very well. I hope it does well. But I seriously will, I’ll buy back this book." - Geoff Johns
"We're exploring a very big theme in that book. That theme is the power of optimism and the power of hope and how no matter what you do it will shine through if you try and help it shine through." - Geoff Johns
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