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First I heard about NYX—and this was at least two years ago—it was being developed by Brian Wood and Dave Choe. Here's what Wood has to say about it on his website:
"NYX was intended to be a human-scale drama exploring the lives of an ensemble of teen/twentysomething mutants and humans in New York City. These young New Yorkers are living heroic lives not because of their mutant abilities, but because they struggle to find a place for themselves and transcend the apathy and self-absorption of their peers and the rest of society. ...NYX deals with the world around the cast, how it affects them and how they push back against it. Largely character driven, it seeks to tell the story of the mutant experience from the perspective of the mutants themselves and their non-mutant friends. ...
"NYX is a concept created by Marvel Comics and developed by myself and David Choe. Our version will not be published by Marvel, and if they opt to go ahead with the concept with another creative team (which is certainly their right), it will not be with my orignal characters and concepts."
Sounds like the sort of Yoof Kulcha stuff you'd expect from Brian Wood, except, you know, with mutants and all.
Word on the street is that Marvel had a problem with the sex-drugs-swearing in Wood's early scripts, and fired him along with Choe. Wood has, at least publically, been a professional about the whole thing—but I seem to recall that Dave Choe mouthed off bitterly, either on Warren Ellis's old Delphi board, or to Rich Johnston at the old ALL THE RAGE...
What's happened to it since, who's working on it now—I have no idea. I only watch the hockey for the fights, you know? |
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