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Warren Ellis just sent a message to his mailing list called "X-Thing," in which he completely and thoroughly denied that he's the NEW X-MEN replacement, which should surprise nobody. He called his time on EXCALIBUR, working for the X-Office, one of the worst experiences he's ever had working in comics.
Much to my surprise, however, he then went on to prove that he might actually have done lovely things with the book -- or at the VERY least, that he would've continued following Grant's concepts (though he says he "only read a few issues" of Grant's run) -- by including a fragment of an introductory speech he would've written for Emma Frost. I dunno what the legality/morality of reprinting the whole thing here would be, but if people who aren't on his list are actually interested then I'll bang some up; it is, at the least, intriguing -- it's packed full of his pet obsessions (body modification, clipped phrasing, etc.) but does suit the character and the book.
And having watched a few episodes of BUFFY I'd never seen before on DVD tonight, I say hell, bring on the Whedon. If he fucks it up I'll just stop reading; it was painful to do so the first time but then again, I was seventeen and everything's painful then. |
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