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well, I read it in the shop, and it is the outline/proposal given to Joe Quesada (with Quesada's handwritten notes). The first bit is talking about how he wants to make the comic exciting, his model being the Claremont/Byrne period. He discusses the things he dislikes about the way the comic had been for the past however many years, all obvious things...
A lot of what he says in the proposal he's said in other interviews about New X-Men, so not much new info....
the second half breaks down the first four issues (the ones in the collection...), and you can see a lot of his writing process, how scenes and events are changed around, you see that he originally wanted to use Moira MacTaggert and Colossus rather than Beast, and since both of those characters died shortly before Grant took over, he used Beast because he could fill BOTH of the roles those two characters were to play. Originally, Xavier was to murder Moira in the scene in 117 where Beast gets bludgeoned.
let's see...there's some talk at the end, suggesting that the story arch after the Cassandra thing wraps up would be the 'ultimate Magneto story' which I doubt will happen now. He says he wants to kill off Rogue and replace her with a new younger goth Rogue like in the movie and cartoon. Gambit would go into deep shock, and later on a one-shot issue would find Wolverine and Gambit meeting up and talking about it. This probably won't happen either, since Gambit and Rogue are in Chris Claremont's hands now. |
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