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litheraWoah.
That would be great.
The word is that when Grant Morrison is gone, away from New X-men, they'll be bringing in Joss Whedon to write.
He could save my poor, tormented X-men.
Because you know what? He's been writing X-men all along, if you look at it right. You can't help but see the comic book influences in his shows, even when he isn't directly writing them in.
Sources say it will be a year between Morrison leaving and Whedon taking over (giving him time to set up the Firefly movie, if it is going to happen.) As to who would be filling in that year, it is really unknown at this point. Rumors are flying like crazy.
Salvador LaRoca is coming back for art and that makes the world better even without knowing who will be writing.
That would be great.
The word is that when Grant Morrison is gone, away from New X-men, they'll be bringing in Joss Whedon to write.
He could save my poor, tormented X-men.
Because you know what? He's been writing X-men all along, if you look at it right. You can't help but see the comic book influences in his shows, even when he isn't directly writing them in.
Sources say it will be a year between Morrison leaving and Whedon taking over (giving him time to set up the Firefly movie, if it is going to happen.) As to who would be filling in that year, it is really unknown at this point. Rumors are flying like crazy.
Salvador LaRoca is coming back for art and that makes the world better even without knowing who will be writing.
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Date: 2004-01-09 10:34 am (UTC)Which I think is what comic book publishers realize. Pick up somebody with a fanbase from TV or movies - Joss or JMS or Kevin Smith - and you bring in new readers.
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Date: 2004-01-09 10:41 am (UTC)The trick would be seeing if Joss could do the same for New X-men. It already has about 130,000 readers.
I think this is a good move but it is still a time in the future. No idea who is filling in that year, yet. Rumors say Neil Gaiman but he says he's too busy writing his book and I believe that.
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Date: 2004-01-09 10:43 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-01-09 10:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-09 11:03 am (UTC)And besides, why are the X-men fighting Doom anyway? There are people better suited for it.
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Date: 2004-01-09 11:10 am (UTC)I have to admit that I disagree...I'm worried about Joss Whedon's jumping on the NEW XMEN title...His writing does absolutely nothing for me. I've never been a fan of anything he's done, not Buffy, not Angel, not Firefly (although, yeah, I understand he didn't exactly WRITE all of them).
Following Grant Morrison's going to be really tough...His run was, easilly, the best run on XMEN in my lifetime.
We'll see, though..I'm willing to give it a try, of course.
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Date: 2004-01-09 11:13 am (UTC)Although I think Doom is currently dead, or something, and the UN is attacking the FF for taking over his nation...
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Date: 2004-01-09 11:13 am (UTC)You actually like his current run on New X-Men?
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Date: 2004-01-09 11:13 am (UTC)I have hated everything Morisson has done. I wrote a rant about it not too long ago. I'd rather not go back into it here since it makes me sputter somewhat incoherently after just a little bit.
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Date: 2004-01-09 11:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-09 11:18 am (UTC)I don't know...He made them hard core and I really have enjoyed it.
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Date: 2004-01-09 11:21 am (UTC)But, you know, again, to each their own.
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Date: 2004-01-09 11:21 am (UTC)And while I'm all about bringing in new blood the Revolt at the Mansion is really where he completely lost me. I cannot see the X-men just letting that happen as it seemed they did.
To me, he may have made them hardcore but he also lost a lot of what the X-men are in doing so.
And Magneto on drugs? He was much more effective as a martyr.
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Date: 2004-01-09 11:23 am (UTC)Think about that for a moment.
; )
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Date: 2004-01-09 11:25 am (UTC)He started to lose me with the evil twin of Professor X. It seemed a random plot device that could have been replaced by something less.... hokey... and set up the things that it did.
I just get frustrated with writers who write in these great and brave choices only to later change them back. It loses the effect of having made the first change.
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Date: 2004-01-09 11:27 am (UTC)It could be cool, I'll grant you that. Just the X-men have cliches and using them again doesn't make them any less cliched.
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Date: 2004-01-09 11:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-09 11:34 am (UTC)Sometimes, I /am/ too nice for my own good.
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Date: 2004-01-09 11:36 am (UTC)I liked the Invsivbles, though I always felt as though there was something missing...
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Date: 2004-01-09 11:36 am (UTC)I want to know who will fill in that year...
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Date: 2004-01-09 11:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-09 11:39 am (UTC)And the cliche' thing is a good thing to bring up because that's what Joss Whedon's famous for, really...Taking cliche's and kind of saying "See? Isn't this funny?"
We'll just have to see...PERSONALLY, I'd like to see more unsigned creators (AHEM...HELLO?) other than Hollywood muckitty mucks taking over books.
I'm STILL waiting for the last book of SPIDERMAN BLACK CAT and the rest of DAREDEVIL: TARGET from Kevin Smith and it's been, what, over a year?
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Date: 2004-01-09 11:39 am (UTC)I feel you, sister. I do.
I've become almost entirely a DC girl over the past few years and it makes me somewhat sad.
It isn't that I'm not enjoying my DC-fest but... I miss at time when the X-men didn't seem schizophrenic.
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Date: 2004-01-09 11:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-09 11:45 am (UTC)And that's why I like Joss. He takes the cliches and makes them funny or makes them poingent again. He doesn't use them as everyone else does - he gives them a new spin.
I'd like to see someone take the X-men from where they are and move them forward, actually evolve them forward a little.
Like Jean - What would it mean to have come back from the dead? I've never felt that that has actually been looked at well. If you're going to do something make it have ramifications that really mean something.
I agree with you that shaking things up = good. I just suddenly felt that I didn't know who any of these people were. I'd been reading constantly and it felt like I'd stopped for ten years and come back to people I didn't know anymore and I couldn't find the people I knew.
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Date: 2004-01-09 11:56 am (UTC)It's nutty.
I think the concept of secondary mutations is great...And her past history as the Phoenix (well, NOT as the phoenix, but with everyone telling her she WAS the Phoenix) is causing her secondary mutation to appear in the phoenix form...
I dunno...It's all so convoluted from years and years of tampering.
SIGH...I miss my early issues of EXCALIBUR...
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Date: 2004-01-09 12:00 pm (UTC)Though if we're going with mutations, shouldn't they appear as a response to the environment.
I find myself liking the movie verse more and more. It cuts out all of the junk and stays true to the characters. I never thought I would cry for Jean Grey or Scott Summers but I did.
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Date: 2004-01-09 12:15 pm (UTC)I enjoy the movies because they have a foot firmly set in "reality" (as real as a world with mutant super-powers can be). I LOVED the way they handled Nightcrawler (my favorite-although I would have liked a WEE bit more swashbuckling romance there...But it's such a little complaint...) and I'm anxious to see how they handle the Phoenix situation without the wacky Shi'Ar Empire stuff.
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Date: 2004-01-12 08:42 am (UTC)What is Magneto's device activated secondary mutations in those who had them?
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Date: 2004-01-12 08:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-12 09:03 am (UTC)I thought I was the only person who noticed that. it's why things start to go all wacky for her powers, too.
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Date: 2004-01-12 09:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-12 09:17 am (UTC)Awwww.
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Date: 2004-01-12 09:28 am (UTC); )
I kid you.
You know something...You and I may be the only souls on the planet who noticed that. We're the King and Queen of Geek. ALL HAIL US!
Don't um...Don't tell anyone.
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Date: 2004-01-12 09:37 am (UTC)Well, we can agree to disagree about Morrison, I think.
As a side note, Claremont's run on JLA scares the heck out of me and it isn't even out yet.
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Date: 2004-01-12 09:46 am (UTC)I dropped JLA a long time ago because I needed to cut down on books...I could never seem to get into team books, althoug WILDCATS 3.0 has been fan-freakin'-tastic.
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Date: 2004-01-12 09:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-12 09:53 am (UTC)Personally, I never liked WILDCATS until volume 2...but I miss what's his face...Warblade?
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Date: 2004-01-12 09:57 am (UTC)There was a great issue where Grifter was drunk at a bar after obviously looking for women who looked like Zealot to sleep with. A woman shows up at his table and he says something about her not even looking like her and, of course, it is Zealot. She tells him he's pathetic, sleeps with him and then leaves.
I kind of miss Warblade too. I definately miss Void.
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Date: 2004-01-12 10:03 am (UTC)Again, the only vol. 1 WILDCATS (I'm sorry...Back then it was called wildC.A.T.S.) stuff I have are the Travis Charest issues...Then I picked up on Volume 2 which, from what I could tell, managed to do a pretty good job of creating a new direction...
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Date: 2004-01-12 10:11 am (UTC)I have it all back to Vol. 1. Lots and lots.
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Date: 2004-01-12 10:17 am (UTC)I'm glad to see Ladytron back...kiiinda...she was always bad ass.
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Date: 2004-01-12 10:20 am (UTC)It was but I had a weakness for Zealot and once I start buying a comic, it is a real pain for me to stop. Especially when I have it since #1.
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Date: 2004-01-12 10:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-12 10:36 am (UTC)I like Grifter, too. It's better now that he's having to find ways to overcome a severe injury. (Wow. Someone with a lingering injury in a comic book!)
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Date: 2004-01-12 10:43 am (UTC)I'm really intrigued with the whole corporate espionage angle of this series. I think Wax is awesome and he's doing what, logically, any guy would do if they had the ability.
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