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02:46 / 30.12.03

it's Paulo Coelho. with Norman Mailer on pencils.

really, Whedon could play well the group dynamics, but even... I don't know, anyother generic american comics guy would be more brow-raising [does this expresion even exists?]. BUFFY is too overrated anyway.

but if Cassaday is confirmed then I'll have a laugh. this sounds too geeky, but it's time since Ellis got his bitch-slapping quota.

03:36 / 30.12.03

Forget Matthew, I'd give you 22 pages of chain fighting madness every month.

I'm Rick Jones, bitch

12:32 / 30.12.03

You know, I'm really quite glad certain Bio K9 of you arent't writting this book.

It's William Gibson, with Ms Kttin on Pencils.

Matthew Fluxington

14:06 / 30.12.03

Well, I've got news for the lot of you - if they give it to me, it'll be at least 2/3 chain fighting every issue. The rest of it would be in-jokes that none of you would understand.

14:15 / 30.12.03

As if the typical corporate superhero comic--which may require a working knowledge of 40+ years of continuity arcana--doesn't constitute a huge extended in-joke anyway?

Bring on the chain fights, sez I.

14:29 / 30.12.03

I just ain't buying the David Mamet thing. Good one, Ethan. As much as I would love it, c'mon.

CYCLOPS: "What the f*ck Emma?! Do you think I don't have enough to f**king worry about without you dancing around my f**king head looking for deeper sexual f**king fantasies! F**k!"

EMMA FROST: "Oh, f**k you. I feel like a frigid f**king convent runaway uses the SAME psychic whips and the SAME S&M pirate scenarios over and over! I mean, sh*t! I'm not June f**king Cleaver!"

PROFESSOR X: "X-Men, F*CK!! This is f**king bad, real f**king bad. F**ck!"

BEAST: (drinking coffee) "Oh my f**king stars and garters. What the f*ck is it?"

PROFESSOR X: "PUT THAT COFFEE DOWN. Coffee is for closers. I don't see any closers here!"

BEAST: "F**k the machine, f**k the machine, F**K THE MACHINE!"

CYCLOPS: "That guy's a f**kin' asshole. Anybody who talks to that asshole is a f**kin' asshole."

EMMA: "Oh, just shut up and f**k me."

Ethan Van Sciver

15:06 / 30.12.03

I think David Mamet has been waiting all his life to take direction from Marvel Comics editorial. His favorite X-Man, btw, is Gambit. Anyhow, check out www.x-mencomics.com and millarworld's current LITG columns for a fun look at how hoaxes become rumours and then become news. With very little effort, in fact.

15:26 / 30.12.03

Sad, isn't it?

Hey! Did you guys hear?!?

It's been revealed that Ethan Van Sciver has actually been writing NXM this whole time? You did? Well, did you know that he's actually a 80-year old australian aborigine high priestess?!?

16:03 / 30.12.03

Jesus Van Sciver, I cannot believe X-Fan is actually REPORTING this now!

Ethan Van Sciver

16:07 / 30.12.03

Ah, me neither. I like Eric Moreels personally. And he knows I'm a bastard. It's a little embarrassing that he took this at face value, but again, it only goes to show. The more people who repeat a rumor, the more true it becomes.
I am enjoying it though. Someone exclaimed "David Freaking Mamet!", and I'm wondering if that's actually his middle name. I doubt it.
Let it run it's course though. I'd like a press release from Mamet's people, if possible. Maybe I'll concoct one.

18:26 / 30.12.03

Maybe this will push Marvel to just MAKE A DAMN ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT IT AND CLEAR THIS UP ALREADY!!!!

18:47 / 30.12.03

EVS, man if u fabricated a faux press release, and jsut said that Marvel asked you, as a former NXM artist, to "pass the torch" and announce the "new" (re: bogus) creative team...... you would be my new god, bub. Without a fucking doubt, you will be the king....

08:37 / 31.12.03

Well, let's create more over the top rumors, and see what sticks...

Grant Morrison destroys the Marvel Universe in Here Comes Tomorrow! Grant's picked up a lot of old Claremont plot threads, and the one he uses here is from the Classic X-Men backups, where Jean speculates that she's still catatonic in the institution (after the death of her friend, Annie Richardson)and that the X-Men, and all of her experiences with them, have just been some psychotic fantasy she's been having. Well, it turns out that's TRUE, as she wakes up from her coma. The Marvel Universe ceases to exist! Or DOES it?

This is where Whedon's run starts. We follow Jean as she's recovering and getting to know the real world. Her doctor, a Nathaniel Essex, is helping her adjust. She keeps hearing these strange voices in her head, but Essex's therepy and drugs are keeping them at bay. Essex is also very insistant that another doctor, Charles Xavier, be kept away from his patient. It seems Xavier has been trying to contact the patient, and Essex insists that he would keep her from completely recovering...

E

08:43 / 31.12.03

>Jean speculates that she's still catatonic in the institution (after >the death of her friend, Annie Richardson)and that the X-Men, and all >of her experiences with them, have just been some psychotic fantasy

joss whedon would be perfect for this
they had this one in buffy already , a rare brillaint episode in recent series,
really cohesive psychological explanations as to why she had to invent such a ridiculous plot line as dawn her 'new sister' etc, got all metatextual about the buffyverse in fact

and to be honest i came away thinking that it was probably all a fantasy. i mean if there were vampires in california surely we would have heard about it by now....

a

09:20 / 31.12.03

Yeah, that's where I got the idea, going from Claremont's bit, the way Grant ended one run, and what Whedon's done. It'd be very metatextual

The storyline continues as Xavier keeps trying to contact her. We meet other patients, including this weird middle aged bearded guy who insists he's a wizard, trapped there by a rival wizard. "I'll BLEEPing get you for this, you bald headed BLEEP!!!", he yells to no one in particular, as orderlies drag him away.

The crazy bearded guy keeps getting away from his keepers, and tries to talk to Jean, insisting she has to listen to him, or neither of them will EVER get out of there, only to be dragged off.

E

14:07 / 31.12.03

Well, the only reason Marvel would keep silent while all these crazy rumors flew around is if the rumor WAS true and they weren't allowed to announce it until Feb. or March because of a Joss contract provision...insert Twilight Zone music here...

18:24 / 31.12.03

Not necessarily--they let the "Ultimization" rumor fly around for something like six months (with lots of "no comment" responses from the mgt.) before finally debunking it publically. Any buzz is good buzz, I think the reasoning goes...

19:47 / 31.12.03

The big announcement's going to be that this was all a smokescreen to distract everyone from the REAL story: Ethan, himself, is the new NXM artist, and is collaborating with his longtime favorite, Brian Wilson! The ambitious, very long, project will be based on Pet Sounds and smIle, following Jean, powerful, brilliant, sensitive visionary, as she tries to evolve the species. She meets a great deal of resistance however, not just from reactionary anti-mutant groups and supervillains, but from her fellow X-Men, who don't get what she's trying to accomplish, and decide she's been using so much Phoenix Force that it's fried her brain. They're concerned that she's spending so much time in either Cerebra or the Danger Room, obsessively piecing together programs and scenarios. They're also ticked over all the sand she's put in both, because the equipment is so delicate. The biggest worry is that she might try to alter the structure of the Universe, itself. "Don't fuck with the formula of the Universe, Jean", she's told.

Each story arc collection will be accompanied by a CD soundtrack, Brian's long promised "master plan" to finally get smIle released.

E

20:21 / 31.12.03

this is a little yesterday, but:

Mamet does NXM:

An insanely powerful Chinese mutant with no face shows up and walks to the head of the class.

Beak: Who are you? What's your name?

Xorn: FUCK YOU, that's my name! You know why? Cause you flapped here on stupid-looking chicken wings to get here today and I fucking levitated myself. THAT'S my name. You see this jar with a brain in it? This brain in a jar cost more than your whole body. My star/head was worth $970,000,000 dollars last year on the black market - how much were you worth? You see pal, that's who I am, and you're nothing. Nice guy? I dont give a shit. Good father? Fuck you. Go out to the shed and play with your weird buglike offspring. You wanna stay here-- get a real power.

Ethan Van Sciver

22:02 / 31.12.03

Yes, please, I'd like to do comics with Brian Wilson. What would THAT be like?

01:47 / 02.01.04

Dizfactor, you totally cracked my shit up with that. Nice work! There were so many great lines in there you came up with I can't even begin to list my faves...

14:58 / 02.01.04

Dizfactor, you totally cracked my shit up with that. Nice work! There were so many great lines in there you came up with I can't even begin to list my faves...

why, thank you. it's basically just paraphrasing a speech from Glengarry Glen Ross and changing the particulars to suit NXM characters, but thank you.

15:43 / 02.01.04

Oh, I know the speech and play in question very well, but the little things you choose to fill in the blanks were damn funny. Someone else could have done the same and not been as funny.

Murray Hamhandler

21:39 / 12.01.04

I've been a bit out of the loop lately, but has it been mentioned elsewhere here that Whedon is confirmed? Like, for real confirmed (apparently), but won't be on the book for 12 months after Morrison's departure?

Well, there you go.

22:09 / 12.01.04

Its only been confirmed as a rumour by Rich Johnson on Lying in the Gutters. He's been squirming with the knowledge for a good while now though.

That or its all one big misdirection and I've been given the title and I didn't even realise.

17:20 / 13.01.04

There is a report on aint it cool news that the actor who plays Giles on BUFFY, Anthony Stewart Head, was heard to say something like 'When will Joss get to work on my RIPPER series and not some bloody comic book like I hear he's going to do??' (Giles was slated to appear solo in a miniseries or small series at some point.) This, if true, would seem to further confirm the story that Rich Johnston bills as 'the worst-kept secret in comics.' Rich also theorizes that the whole 'his Hollywood bosses can't know until [fill in month of 2004 here]' story was false from the beginning to keep people's mouth's shut just a little while longer.

But Marvel has still made nothing resembling an announcement of any kind on the subject.

Matthew Fluxington

17:49 / 13.01.04

The Giles dude could have been referring to Fray, HunterWolf.

"See me for what I am, OK?"

10:35 / 04.02.04

Yeah, 'specially since it's been confirmed that more 'Fray' is coming at some point.

15:15 / 04.02.04

I think the whole Whedon on X-Men story is about a lot more than Ethan's post, but of course we won't know for sure until Marvel announces something. So we'll see....I think Whedon and Cassaday would be a terrific team on the book, that's for sure.

Murray Hamhandler

18:54 / 04.02.04

Again, I believe that Whedon's been confirmed. Rich Johnston @ LITG reported monday that Whedon and Cassaday's Astonishing X-Men #1 will be solicited for May, which (I believe) is being referred to as the "Reload" month wherein Claremont and Davis will take over Uncanny, Claremont will relaunch Excalibur w/Igor Kordey, John Romita, Jr. will take over art chores on Wolverine, and (possibly, but probably just speculation on my part) Austen will launch his Nightcrawler ongoing (woo-hoo...). Maybe more goodies, as well. But I'm 99.9% sure that all of the above is, although unofficially so, pretty much confirmed at the moment.

19:43 / 04.02.04

I agree, Diggler, though I don't know why you'd be woo-hooing about an Austen-written Nightcrawler series (I assume you were being sarcastic?).

This is waaay beyond Ethan posting something on Millarworld. When this gets confirmed, we'll have to ask Ethan if he was begged by Joe Q. to retract it and say it was a joke.

21:04 / 04.02.04

Can somebody tell me where the Bryan Singer bit came from? X-Fan is apparently saying he's been rumored to write some X-Books, but this sounds like shiat to me....

21:58 / 04.02.04

Woah, JRJR on wolverine is a huge shot in the arm for that book! now if they can only get someone good to write it.

22:02 / 04.02.04

so this means that Astonishing is picking up the threads (tatters?) from NXM?

If Whedon writes it, I might consider keeping up with it. He's proven to have a handle on epic storylines. I hope.

Zoom.

23:00 / 04.02.04

So Jean gets to die once a year now?

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