Without getting too deep into spoiler territory, theres a shocking reason why the last issue of this series has stuck with me for over nearly three decades at this point. 2023 GAMESPOT, A FANDOM COMPANY. Jordan D. White: I WANT to want to hang out with Deadpool and Shiklah, but I know that doing so would like 90% likely end up with me dead. I also think that unlike Logan, Laura hasnt had literally decades to come to terms with her destructive past. They feel to me like theyd be at the heart of a vibrant queer party on Krakoa, late nights and dancing, and thats close to my heart, too. All rights reserved. But if I had to do a real two-sentence logline, its maybe Laura Kinney has been many things to many people, but who is she really? Prepare yourself though. Erica: Hi moonage00daydream. Link below and quotes of this subject will be below the link. The X-Mens animated adventures come to an end in this ambitious collection. Jean stans, back me up! I can tell by the way you write. If you dont want to read it all, I will summarize it at the bottom of each quote hidden in spoilers. And hes bendy! But youll be more likely to remember that time when he and Mary Jane broke up or the time when thisperson started doing that because thats the ongoing plotline that you are following. Lets start by going back to the beginning what was your first X-Men experience as a fan? . And everyone was on their best behavior and super sentimental except Sabertooth. My wife went to medical school in New York specifically so I could apply at Marvel. Hes the closest thing to a sexy Man-Thing. The X-Men movie had just come out about two years before Lauras debut, so mainstream audiences were being introduced to the concept of mutants. 114k members in the xmen community. Steve Foxe: We all saw shirtless Sunfire on Arakko, right? I find comics blend of visuals and text to be that perfect type of mental stimulation. Press J to jump to the feed. I dont mind being left alone in their living room while theyre getting busy upstairs. Lauren Amaro: My name is Lauren Amaro, Im an assistant editor over in the X-Office and Ill have been at Marvel for 4 years this coming Spring (2022)! The home of all things X-Men on reddit, be it I did it. What makes Laura interesting is that she has a very different path from Logan. Perfect Y2K punk grunge love. And so our focus is never on, Lets find out what people want and do it. Our focus is always Lets use our best judgment to tell the best story possible, given all the pieces we have in play. And we have to believe that making a good story is the most important thing over all other concerns. (Side note: I googled Sexy Xorn, and the main result was a Sexy Corn Halloween costume, which is a thing I can now never unsee.) Juggernauts never taken his pants off to my knowledge. And dont get me STARTED on Hawkeye and his escapades! Sarah: Yep, read a lot. AIPT: Is there one thing you find yourself doing as a comic editor you never would have eXpected? Shes on the way, surely. Steve Foxe: I dont know what it says about me, but my first reaction was Logan mercy-killing Jean near the end of New X-Men. AIPT: Finally, what can readers look forward to in the visuals department from your collaborator, artist Edgar Salazar? But what I know is at the root of what all readers want is a good story, a good comic, done well. AIPT: Youre welcome, Hellion fans. Remember, X-Fans, X-23: Deadly Regenesis #1 goes on sale March 8, 2023. Either or! Kate Pryde and a Tusken Raider. Shes a clone of Logan with similar experiences, but also vastly different ones. If this is your first visit, be sure to After my masters program, I knew all I wanted to do was to work in storytelling. Erica: Hi Larisa, so Haymaker is an interesting villain. And Ive found myself working with people I met while doing my stints in book publishing and podcasting. They sidelined them. Erica: Ive read all her solo series, so I dont know if I have a favorite. They would never invite me to hang out. But what about the editors diligently working behind the scenes to help make these stories the best they can be? Kieron Gillen: Melters transformation into the Human Torch Nouveaux over in Sabertooth is pretty hot, right? Always love a chaos couple. Al Ewing: Ive always wanted to see the X-Men team up with the slightly less glamorous mutants of Strontium Dog, so maybe Johnny Alpha and Jean Grey. Plus, an eXclusive first look at lettered preview pages for X-23: Deadly Regenesis #1 and the cover to X-23: Deadly Regenesis #4! Im an assistant editor. Hyped for this book, but will have to skip if Howard is writing it. Cookie Notice It has to do with the ways that the industry has trained the audience to respond to things and what it should value in a comic book. X-Men appears in 12995 issues. So I think theres always a chance for Laura and Julian. Thats important for all of us to try and find, so it was interesting to explore that with her. Steve Orlando: My biases should be obvious, but I have to humbly suggest I just wrote it in the first issue of [redacted Fall of X title]. We and our partners use data for Personalised ads and content, ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development. I will explain none of my choices as they are all painfully obvious. Because you know whats going to come next, you cant do anything thatll mess up that continuity. So the easy answer is: That was the assignment. Thats why they have a cliffhanger and stuff, but you might not because you just go to the newsstand and you sometimes get it and you sometimes dont. Continue with Recommended Cookies. I end up spending a lot of time cleaning the drool off of my keyboard. Mark: Good luck and happenstance certainly played a role, beginning with landing an internship in editorial. It felt like the world opened up when I picked that book up. For instance, Man-Thing grabs one guy by the face and the next panel is Jean and Storm telling us that a group of guys have been set on fire. Wait, I want to change my answer to most romantic moment. And I think part of the reason for that is not because theres no audience for those things, but because the audience for those things doesnt look to Marvel because the audience, in general, goes to Marvel to read superhero comics. Anyway, Xorn has a cool mask, and a star in his head, and hes a man of mystery, whos done terrible things, but has a wounded soul. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Hes already been turned into a big beefy boy is there any amount of sexy poses that can make his extremely odd face and, more importantly, the cascading ropes of snot that he shoots look sexy? No matter how you feel about Valentines Day, X-Fans, I hope this brought some joy to the start of your week. If not, I reckon Wells would be great for it. By the way, I am pretty sure they are still married. In the Utopia era, one of the things that made Laura feel ostracized from the younger X-Men like Bling was that she had no social graces. AIPT: So bringing it all the way back around, do you think romance comics could work today? Team I mean, how many times have Rogue and Gambit broken up and gotten back together? AIPT: Great advice, everybody! If a story is good enough, they will come around with an open mind. Do you think its possible to make Snot into a sex symbol? She never had friends. Id steal whatever he had lying around his room. And on top of all that, X-23: Deadly Regenesis, which revisits Laura's earlier years . Is it occasionally melodramatic and wacky? But as for one that comes from X-History, Id have to say the Age of X storyline in X-Men: Legacy is one of my favorites. Alex Segura: Rogue and Gambit would be the most fun! For instance, the first hundred pages are made up of shorter stories originally published in Spider-Man Magazine, in which the wallcrawling hero frequently ceded pages to his mutant compatriots on the Fox Kids block. Show Variants. Thats part of the puzzle you dont already have to figure out. AIPT: Welcome, everyone! Mondo is a sexy Man-Thing. select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. Jordan: Ive loved comics as long as I can remember. If you can find some friends to talk out those opinions with, thats a great way to help articulate your thoughts and even expand your own taste as you get exposed to books or other media you might not have checked out on your own. Become a patron today to gain access to exclusive perks, such as: Exclusive previews, reviews, and the latest news every week, delivered to your inbox. Erica: Im the WORST at the elevator pitch. As our own David Brooke noted when reviewing the Tooth and Claw TPB collecting these short adventures, theyre a bit of a mixed bag, but when theyre good, they really hit a nostalgic sweet spot. Acne. There was of course Batman Adventures and its various spinoffs/continuations, but another book was taking its cartoon source material and building upon it in interesting ways. Jordan doesnt believe that a plot revolving directly around romance solely would be accepted by their target audience, but he does believe that the audience is more accepting of those elements. I mean, I as a reader have definitely read stories that, if you said to me, Hey, heres what happens in this story? Lots of us fought for that love (cherylcole.mp3) and every time I see it my heart swells. OK, this question is nutty and its inspiring nuttiness. Jordan: I have a good friend who is a huge Punisher fan. Tim is dating someone now, so Id probably ship Jubilee with Stephanie Brown (Spoiler) instead their dates would probably consist of setting up elaborate pranks in the Batcave. X-Men Forever (Earth-161) Age of Apocalypse (Earth-295) War of the Worlds (Earth-691) Days of Future Past (Earth-811) Mr. Sinister's X-Men (Earth-956) Blink of Generation X Lived (Earth-957) MC2 (Earth-982) Gambit Condemned (Earth-983) Last Man Standing (Earth-1004) Freedom Force (Earth-1013) Mutant X (Earth-1298) Ultimate Universe (Earth-1610) Im sure we will continue to do that. Its honesty. In pretty much all iterations of the character, Wolverine has had some agency and made decisions to be a part of this black ops team, or Department H. He had a choice. I just think shed sort him out, but in a nice, ominous, baffling way. Want to take our relationship to the next level? This is what makes her interesting to write. But you know, again, he might fight Electro five times. Win a copy of the 4K Steelbook collectors edition of the original The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Marvel Legends: Hasbro reveals classic Luke Cage figure, Marvel Comics teases Contest of Chaos coming in 2023. Thank you for these, Jordan! And Ill just hang out for the rest of the time. And hes like, Yeah, absolutely.. Tells stories the animated series could never have gotten away with at the time. If anyone has half as much fun reading a Marvel comic I put out that I did reading Maximum Carnage or The Dark Phoenix Saga that would be extremely gratifying. This is the quote from the interview Also, additional thanks to X-Men Senior Editor Jordan D. White for these eXclusive preview images from upcoming Excalibur adventures. Kyle is a saint. Ariana Maher: Angelo Espinosa, of course. 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Thats about when I realized my mix of obsession for the medium and obnoxious organizational skills might be a good fit for editing. She was basically a feral animal. The artwork is bright and colorful, and the action scenes are breezy and fun. But Im thrilled with the new stuff Im helping build. Alias another not particularly super heroic book and one of my favorite comics of all time, still. It also has a lot of pain. Later, in college, one of my best friends (still to this day) was a huge Marvel fan, and when I fell out of reading the books, he would always catch me up on things. Im probably supposed to say something funny here, right? Also fellow Sins of Sinister-ite Jon Ironfire. Sexy and a mess. Sorry. I don't read Excalibur because it's not really my thing, but I wasn't too impressed by the X of Swords stuff and the return on it in the weekly threads seems to be quite negative. Growls! Steve Foxe: Black Tom Cassidy and the Log Lady from Twin Peaks. Want to take our relationship to the next level? Shes going to have different boyfriends and work on being a model. I really enjoyed the Utopia era, and Lauras sabbatical from the island has a lot to do with her finding her place in the world of the X-Men, but also in the world at large. I thought it was a really interesting way to introduce a new character that was linked to one of Marvels most popular characters: Wolverine. I told you Im the worst at this. FEARLESS! AIPT: Hellion. Heres your first look at the cover to Junes X-23: Deadly Regenesis #4, courtesy of Kalman Andrasofszky. Jordan: Well, again, I dont think that the people who are buying comic books in the direct market on a regular basis are people who would be necessarily willing to buy a comic that was overtly a romance comic and not something else. What, in your opinion, is the most romantic moment in X-Men history? Jason Loo: Probably Gambit and Rogue. Thats love, baby! 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