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"I’ll add that patience doesn’t come easy for comics fans. And I’m a patient writer. My comics runs tend to be novelistic. Some people have been begging and pitchforking for Beast to get his comeuppance, like, 20 issues ago. But you’ve got to earn out these big arcs. A hurried, truncated story isn’t going to satisfy anyone or wound minds and hearts or linger in the archives." - Benjamin Percy

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alliterator

"This story has been simmering since X-FORCE #1, when Piotr returned from Russia with a boatful of refugees and began to immediately act creepy and cagey. And it is coming to a head now. At last, Mikhail's plans have been set into motion—but they've come crashing up against the Orchis incursion. So—like everyone else—Mikhail and the Chronicler are in a state of readjustment, reassessment. They need to figure out the best way to move forward and how Colossus—as a pawn controlled by the Chronicler—will fit into their plans."
-- Benjamin Percy

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superboyprime

"If you look at Issue #1 of X-Force, the very first scene after the cold open is about Wolverine and Beast. This is during the honeymoon phase of Krakoa. Beast is out harvesting plants and marveling at the biological wonders available to them. But his fascination blinds him to risk, and he is almost killed by a monstrosity the island has born. Wolverine saves Hank at the last second. Just as Logan is about to take the monster out, Beast pleads with him to "let it be." You can see, in this moment, the glimmer in both their eyes. Wolverine doesn't trust this place, and of course, he's going to walk away from it eventually. And Beast…well, he's all in." - Benjamin Percy

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superboyprime

'Every event should have consequences. Reverting to the status quo feels both lazy and unfair to readers. If you've read the X Lives and X Deaths of Wolverine, you can already guess that Moira will become a major threat to the mutants. That's one major "get." But there are others, and that includes Cerebrax.' - Benjamin Percy

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superboyprime

"When people peg me as literary, they're talking about pretty sentences, sure, but I think they're also talking about an approach where I'm really thinking about the character first. I'm thinking about the soulfulness of experience and how that character's going to transform as a result of traveling this gauntlet." - Benjamin Percy

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superboyprime

"So many people kind of loved Beast, and now they hate him. So many people hated Kid Omega, and now they kind of love him. My ambition in comics is never to do karaoke. I have no interest in aping what others did before me. I hope for a signature run." - Benjamin Percy

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superboyprime

"I never knew what non-toxic masculinity looked like in comics until I started reading Ben Percy writing Wolverine teaching Quentin Quire how to be a better man." - Leah Williams

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superboyprime

"I've said from the beginning: X-Force is the dirty book. Poisonous things happen in it. No punches will be pulled. This is not to say I'm endorsing what transpires -- in a book about the mutant CIA. It means I'm trying to be brutally honest about the dark dealings and moral muddiness of nation-building." - Benjamin Percy

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superboyprime

"If you look at what's happening in the world right now the last few years, you have (in Black Lives Matter and #MeToo) movements in which the marginalized have stood up, raised a fist, and said that's enough. You see a similar shift in the way we're handling the mutants in this Dawn of X and now Reign of X. They have stood up and said, that's enough, and changed the rules for everyone as a result in a visionary way." - Benjamin Percy

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