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X-Factor #10: Finale
Aug. 6th, 2021 12:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
superboyprime
"Something became very clear to us all during the pandemic -- not just me, Tini, and Vita, but also Jon, Ben, Zeb and Al -- the fact that as X-writers, we were helping by giving readers a safe place to escape to in the form of Krakoa. That became my greatest wish in writing X-FACTOR during the pandemic and all of the turmoil the past year -- I wanted to give you all a safe place to retreat. I wanted you all to feel welcome in Krakoa and know that you belong there. I wanted you to feel the community and camaraderie that I feel with my peers and know without a doubt that you belong. I wanted to keep the gates open for you for as long as I could. It's been an honor." - Leah Williams
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alliterator
BEST! CONCERT! EVER! The Morrigan needs to be destroyed! The answer lies in the Mojoverse. LOOKS LIKE WE’RE GETTING THE BAND BACK TOGETHER. -- Solicit for this issue.
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superboyprime
'He’s not the worst! I totally disagree with that. And “horny” is such a reductive view of his thot crimes. He’s a really layered, complex character–totally loyal to his sisters, dry wit, deeply charismatic, but has enough of a chaotic neutral streak in him to keep things spicy. Not to mention he’s an investigative powerhouse–his pheromone ability can relax killers into confessions, he can track a subject by scent while masking his own, heightened senses, can move with preternatural inaudibility, etc. He’s OP as a stealth agent. I’m going to make you love Daken so hard that we’ll revisit this question with laughter in a few months.' - Leah Williams
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X-Factor #7: Scientia Vincere Tenebras
Mar. 5th, 2021 07:33 pmsuperboyprime
"Jean-Paul is canonically anti-establishment and proud of his identity as a gay mutant, so coming out of AOXM would have very clear implications on his emotional state. He’s angry and traumatized and has always been an agitator who pushes against the establishment. Asks a lot of questions. Instigates. So tracking down missing mutants is a righteous and natural fit for him, now." - Leah Williams
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icon_uk...and adorable fanboying ensues (Oh, and a mystery is introduced)
( but we'll stick with the cute. )
( but we'll stick with the cute. )
superboyprime
"I made a love letter in the form of our new X-Factor Investigations; which is full of intrigue, action, sexiness, and secret bread-crumb trails for you to find. The entire series is layered with clues about mutant resurrection’s ultimate end-game, but you’ll have to keep reading to figure it all out." - Leah Williams
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superboyprime
"He was a really good dude. I mean, because if I remember correctly, tell me if I’m wrong about this, he basically started as like a background gag, right? Like he just was like a big dude who looked like the Thing. [...] And it was like, don’t worry about it. He’s not a character. And then he became a character and the character he became was absolutely a very moving character because he was good. He tried to do what was right. He was very heroic. Him and Anole–the two of them are absolutely a great pair and they would be superheroes together. Like, it was awesome. And those stories are still awesome. And I’m sorry, he’s dead." - Jordan D. White
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superboyprime
“Ann Nocenti’s and Arthur Adam’s original Longshot mini-series wherein Mojo first appears is still breathtakingly prescient to me. Ann was getting her master’s degree in media studies at Columbia University at the time she was creating this world, so she was reading a lot of McLuhan and Chomsky and internalizing the complexities of mass media and public consumption. She created a visceral horror of a zeitgeist with the Mojoverse and in the Longshot mini-series we see this hellish visibility navigated by a non-macho, more or less androgynous protagonist. Ann Nocenti is one of the ground-breaking pioneers of Marvel storytelling that I owe my livelihood to.” - Leah Williams
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superboyprime
"I’m not interested in belaboring an individual cast member’s internal strife; I’m interested in their healing. I am deeply committed to how Krakoans build community to support each other instead of ostracising any one mutant for being different, so I’m far more invested in exploring the ways they’re able to thrive in an adaptive environment than I’m invested in story-mining the traumatic pasts of Prodigy, Rachel, Aurora, Jean-Paul, Polaris, Daken, etc. It is a part of who they are, of course, but no one is alone with that burden. We carry it forward together." - Leah Williams
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icon_ukLike basically, how the whole "Coming back from the dead" thing works...
Could this be...
( ...an X-istential Crisis? )
Could this be...
( ...an X-istential Crisis? )
