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I did a short 5 page story about Doctor Aphra and company, which involves game of holochess between a Wookiee and some droids. I have no idea where I get my ideas from. -- Kieron Gillen
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laughing_treeI did a short 5 page story about Doctor Aphra and company, which involves game of holochess between a Wookiee and some droids. I have no idea where I get my ideas from. -- Kieron Gillen
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X-Men '92: House of XCII #5
Oct. 18th, 2022 05:06 pmsuperboyprime
"Right from the beginning, the pitch was to take this massive, sprawling era and distill it into five issues, including a wholly original ending, since Krakoa isn’t anywhere close to slowing down in the 616, thank Apocalypse. This also got rolling before a single issue of Inferno was finished, so that fifth and final issue was an extra-big question mark. Jordan offered to tell me some Inferno plot points early but I wanted to experience them fresh as a reader!" - Steve Foxe
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X-Men '92: House of XCII #4
Sep. 15th, 2022 06:22 pmsuperboyprime
"In fact, I’d say the Animated Series foregrounded the “hated and feared” aspect even more than a lot of the comics did at times. One of the things that struck me when I started my chronological X-read is that there are large swaths of the comics that barely *actively* engage with the mutant metaphor because they’re focused on fun, exciting plots about aliens and other dimensions and magic and whatnot. That’s not a criticism — the line can’t always be about just one thing — but as a kid, I remember the cartoon hitting that beat very consistently. I mean, the pilot sees the X-Men acting as freedom fighters (and their critics would use a less flattering term) for the cause of protecting fellow mutants from government registration. So I do think the X-Men of the early ’90s would feel just as relieved and grateful for a safe homeland and would be just as willing to fight for it." - Steve Foxe
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X-Men '92: House of XCII #3
Aug. 17th, 2022 09:14 pmsuperboyprime
"The idea is to embrace the most iconic version of the franchise and characters we have trapped in amber in our memories and build the story off of that golden nostalgic feeling of the team. They’ve leaped off a lunchbox or T-shirt and into this story." - Steve Foxe
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Generation Hope #8 - "The Ward, Part 3"
Jul. 24th, 2022 03:50 amlaughing_tree
Teon is a primal character who's all about aggression and instinct. I'm interested in the idea of instincts; what they actually mean and how we use instinct. How much of our conscious thought is actual instinct that we assign meaning to after the fact? There's an interesting paradox of consciousness in that the signal in the brain which raises my arm happens before the signal of the conscious thought. So there's one theory that the thought signal is a side effect of the action, in which case everything we do is instinct. That's an incredibly scary thing to think about. Teon is an exploration of that. How much can you get by on instinct? And how can you adapt to your current situation in a highly proficient manner? That's what Teon ends up doing. -- Kieron Gillen
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laughing_tree
Jean wouldn't walk around with guns for a start. She wouldn't impulsively ignore the rest of the team and go off on her own desires (ala the first "Generation Hope" arc). She didn't have the odd state of grace that Morrison's Jean had -- and I mean "grace" in its religious sense (e.g. the bit where she lets Sage into her mind in the Emma-Frost-Murder-Mystery arc). The temper is about the only real connection I can see, and Hope's temper is much more a physical thing. Hope punches people out when she's annoyed with them, as a matter of first course. Jean wouldn't go around wearing a ratty scarf for a month either. -- Kieron Gillen
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X-Men '92: House of XCII #2
Jun. 30th, 2022 06:31 pmsuperboyprime
"It was particularly difficult for me to keep Emma Frost mostly on the sidelines, and to use Dazzler only sparingly, but both barely appeared on the cartoon and were in the middle of being written out of the books circa 1992, so it just wouldn’t be faithful to the era to prop them up here. That extends to folks like Iceman, Nightcrawler, and Colossus, all of whom I love, but who just don’t make sense for major roles in this version of the story. That’s not to say they don’t appear — I found a way to use everyone I possibly could because Salva is brilliant and every character deserves to be depicted by him — but they’re not going to get the spotlight in the same way Rogue and Storm and Jean will. But the fun flip side is getting to focus more on characters like Gambit and Beast who haven’t necessarily gotten a lot of time alongside their ’90s teammates in the titles recently." - Steve Foxe
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laughing_tree
Some readers have commented that Kenji is behaving like the character Tetsuo in the anime adaptation of 'Akira.' That resemblance is deliberate and highly stated. I mean, the first line in the whole comic is, "I am becoming art." What I'm trying to do with Kenji is [show] that he's an artist, and I wanted to talk about the idea of creation. He consumes culture, and now his body starts acting in a certain way. He could have created anything, but he hasn't. He's acting like he's in 'Akira' because he's watched 'Akira.' It's how he thinks he should act, it's the only way he can process the horror of his body starting to warp. It brings to mind that wonderful scene in 'Preacher' where Cassidy takes the piss out of another vampire who's doing the whole gothic thing. He's like, 'Why the hell are you acting like that?' That's what's going on with Kenji. He's somebody who's consumed all this art, and now, because of that, how he instinctively chose to apply his power is kind of derivative. Of course, what's interesting about him is that he makes his living doing high art, but underneath it all is this stuff from the pulp tradition. And as we progress, he becomes more his own thing. It's the concept of what inspires you when you're trying something new out. -- Kieron Gillen
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laughing_tree
I did things I thought would be obvious and realised that people are just going to miss 95% of the stuff. I mean, Generation Hope’s first arc featured someone basically turning into Tetsuo from Akira – it was a whole art/inspiration/derivative story, etc. I had the whole first page him going on about I AM BECOMING ART and all that jazz, and figured that was fine. No, it wasn’t. I don’t think anyone got it, and I had to leverage some stuff in later in the story to make what I thought was obvious clear. If I were to rewrite it, I’d have plastered an Akira poster in his room, at the very least. -- Kieron Gillen
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X-Men '92: House of XCII #1
May. 14th, 2022 05:00 pmsuperboyprime
"Especially because there’s so much that seems incongruous — the high-concept cerebral Hickman stuff versus the excessive action and heightened emotion of the ’90s — making that contradiction make sense just seemed like the perfect premise. It’s more of a tribute band than a cover song." - Steve Foxe
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Krakoa, 30 Years Early
Apr. 16th, 2022 01:58 pmshakalooloo
The infographics are a bit more Saved By The Bell than Hickman, but they get the point across.
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cyberghostface
"I suddenly had this fully formed vision of a militant '60s X-Men team... like the Weather Underground meets Doom Patrol. Hippie, beatnik superhero revolutionaries. When I decided Apocalypse was going to be a combination of Professor X and Andy Warhol, I knew I had my in, and finally a use for my years of Art History college classes." -- Tim Seeley
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