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CoC Week: Luke Cage
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cyberghostface
"I start to develop Jessica Jones and asking the simplest questions about her world: Okay, she's not a super hero anymore. She's down here on the street. Who would she know? Who would she bump into? And Luke Cage popped to the top of the list. With Luke Cage I set up a situation where they're both kind of not at their best place emotionally and using each other. With that came a lot of exploration of his character. So I started really finding the inner nobility of his character, kind of scraping off all the blaxploitation elements that were being used by other writers—even in the late nineties he was still saying, 'Funky Honky' and stuff like that!
"It was time for the character to evolve past his roots without losing the thing that makes him special. [Then] I got the job to take over Avengers and really overhaul it, with what I had sold as 'the coolest characters in the Marvel Universe,' which includes Spider-Man and Wolverine. At the time I slipped Luke Cage in there. I remember I asked if it was okay if Luke Cage and Spider-Woman were on the team. Our publisher said, 'You said Spider-Man and Wolverine?' I go, 'Yep.' He said, 'As long as I see Spider-Man and Wolverine are there, you can do whatever you want.'
"Then I realized that I'm maybe the only person right now who thinks Luke Cage is the coolest person in the Marvel Universe, and it was my job inside the pages of New Avengers to prove my point—between the more intimate look of this character in Jessica Jones and the proactive superhero that [he would be as an Avenger],he could become someone with a different point of view than the other heroes on the team. I made it my doctoral thesis to tell the public why Luke Cage is the coolest." -- Brian Michael Bendis
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laughing_tree
'When you have this much sturm and drang going on in the Marvel Universe, it’s bound to affect things on the edges — I liken it to something like the play “Noises Off,” where there’s the action going on on the stage and the drama happening backstage, and one affects the other. “New Avengers” glances off the main “CW2” plot, but we’ll be coming out of it in a very different place from where we go in.' -- Al Ewing
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The New Aveng -- uh, nevermind
Nov. 23rd, 2016 10:32 amlaughing_treeOops, it turns out I was mistaken and it actually hasn't been a full month since the issue came out. I'm deleting the pages, but I'll keep the post up so the comments won't be lost.
laughing_tree
"Since the New Avengers were formed from the heroes we love but the Marvel Universe forgets in favor of the Caps, Thors and Iron Men, these villains are the strange, the forgotten, the out-and-out weird, come together to prove just how dangerous they can be. Hopefully this will be a new beginning for at least a couple of these bizarre maniacs. There's evil gold in them thar hills, and I plan to make it shine." -- Al Ewing
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laughing_tree
"Maria Hill is convinced A.I.M. is ready to break bad in a big way, if they haven't already. Remember, Roberto Da Costa is a dangerous mutant, the son of a known baddie, who’s been tipped by Professor X himself to turn towards the dark side. He’s run with all kinds of shady characters in the past, from the Vanisher to Magneto to that guy with the green topknot. He was trained to be a member of a paramilitary youth movement, and then trained to be a member of an even more violent paramilitary youth movement by a man with a cyborg arm who is also Deadpool’s best chum." -- Al Ewing
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laughing_tree
'If you’ve ever seen the trio of plays “The Norman Conquests”—three plays set at the same time in different rooms—that's the kind of thing. NEW AVENGERS is happening in the next room of the House of Ideas, and we get to see what happens behind the scenes of a major crossover while the rest of the Marvel Universe is busy. How come no villains ever time any crimes or schemes to occur during these big hero-on-hero battles, people ask? Well, they did. And here it is.' -- Al Ewing
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laughing_tree
"That’s the most unsettling thing about the Maker--that he started out as Reed Richards, the man who started it all in 1961 and was Marvel’s greatest and least fallible hero. If someone like Reed can be twisted towards evil, what chance do any of us have?" -- Al Ewing
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laughing_tree
"CIVIL WAR 2 is just the excuse we need - and we'll see people literally using it as their excuse - to back up a truck of manure, manure that's on fire and also there is lava, just back it right up and dump it all over the New Avengers." -- Al Ewing
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The New Avengers #11
Jun. 8th, 2016 06:42 pmlaughing_tree
'I still believe "A-list" and "D-list" are essentially fake ideas in cape comics. That's probably why I like the "D-list" more, actually - I've got an affinity for the metafictional underdogs.' -- Al Ewing
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New Avengers #24 (AVsX Tie-In)
May. 23rd, 2016 12:19 pminformationgeek
Writer: Brian Michael Bendis
Artist: Mike Deodato
Inker: Will Conard
Colorist: Rain Beredo
Keep that tie-in train rolling folks 'cause here comes the New Avengers!
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