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X-men: Year 2

Mr insensitive

11:33 / 19.02.02

What do you all expect? More of the same or something different? What would you like to see transpire? I'm interested.

The Natural Way

11:38 / 19.02.02

Twill be schooltime. We already know that much. I'm hoping that future storylines will focus on some of the groovy new students: Beak, Emma's girls - I wanna see them filled out a little. Oh, and it'll all be working towards some kind of Morrisonian transcendence thing.

Matthew Fluxington

11:55 / 19.02.02

I think that Grant Morrison will continue to stomp all over continuity, ignore prior characterization, make Jean Grey responsible for genocide, and destroy comics for all the real fans. Then all you 'creator chasers' can be happy!

Mr insensitive

11:55 / 19.02.02

And one other question. I heard from a hugely unreliable source that the art in Y2 will be batted back and forth 'tween Frank Quitely, Greg Capullo and Igor Kordey. What do you think about that?

Matthew Fluxington

12:01 / 19.02.02

Where the hell did you get Greg Capullo's name from?

I just read a new interview with Ethan Van Sciver in which he talks about how he's still signed on to do four issues of NXM per year, and Igor and Frank are doing the rest. It seems that it will break down to maybe 6 Quitely, 4 Ethan, and 3 Igor (note: no annual this year - we get one extra issue instead).

I just wish that they had three artists who were similar rotating rather than three guys who draw nothing at all alike.

I would be very upset if Greg Capullo did sign on though - that guy is terrible.

Mr insensitive

12:24 / 19.02.02

It's unsubstantiated Rad. I doubt there's long-term plans for Beak. He's a cameo character. That's how I see it. But we'll see...

The Natural Way

12:30 / 19.02.02

You obviously haven't heard my proud, strutting eagle theory. A cipher for the whole maturation deal - an ugly duckling narrative.

Oh, and certain students continue to make their presence felt (Beak himself has graced the book's pages twice and features on the cover of 126) and Morrison hasn't really turned his full attention to the school stuff yet. I really think we'll have to wait and see how this plays itself out, but it wouldn't be terribly surprising if ol' Beaky has an important part to play in future storylines.

And I'm not Rad. Runce, not Rad.

12:41 / 19.02.02

Oh, great. So we've got a year of Grange Hill with mutants to look forward to.
Are they trying to market this book towards the Roswell/Smallville/Buffy crowd, perchance? "They've got weird powers! But they have to do their homework!"

And I think Emma Frost should start wearing some proper clothes in the classroom. I don't care whether the Institute is going for some Steiner-esque free schooling charter or not, the sight of Caprice in a basque is not going to be conducive to learning for teenagers.

12:50 / 19.02.02

quote:Originally posted by Sax:
Oh, great. So we've got a year of Grange Hill with mutants to look forward to.

Dawson's Beak?

12:53 / 19.02.02

Freak Valley High?

Mr insensitive

13:08 / 19.02.02

"Mrs Grey? Beast stole my lunch money!"

Mr insensitive

13:13 / 19.02.02

Do you think Xavier should bring back the cane? (I mean the stick, not some obscure villain that got killed off a long time ago.)

Haus about we all give each other a big lovely huggle?

14:16 / 19.02.02

The Cain Marko?

Our Lady of The Two Towers

16:36 / 19.02.02

Grant tantalised us in E for Extinction with the X-Men taking a new direction and then taking the story off in ways that have left us unable to deal properly. I want to see Xavier not only deal (presuming this new storyline leaves him able to) with being 'outed' as a mutant but 'deal' with the fact that for however many years the X-Men have supposed to have been around he always pretended to be normal. Self-hate issues?

I'd quite like to see Cyclops develop a personality again. I know he was never the most interesting of characters but at the moment Chakotay from Voyager has shown more emotion.

Surely the X-Men's questionable 'UN for mutants' stance is going to bring them easily into conflict with some other team like the Avengers? The X-Men are outlaws, last I checked, and now the Government knows where they live.

And it'd be nice if they could finally out Iceman...

18:56 / 19.02.02

The reason Scott has the personality of a wet paper sack is because he had the horrible experience of sharing a body with Apocalypse. I'm sure we can all imagine how traumatized he is.

I'd really like all the sexual tension that's been building up to finally come to a head and explode. Jean and Logan give into their obvious feelings for each other. Scott gives into Emma's seductions.

I don't remember if its previously been done because my memory of the last few runs have been hazy, but I'd like to see Bobby confront Emma about the matter of his powers going out of control when she possessed(?) his body.

20:11 / 19.02.02

There was one issue mising in Grant's run, I believe. It's just me, I don't know, but it lacked something more of the explosive World reaction to the X-men's new attitude. Media and boggotry is missing in the storyline. New X-men had no 'new turn from now on, folks' issue like X-Force did. It was almost banal.

I don't want no mutant 'Dawsons Creek'. I think Grant won't let the link with the coming up second movie slip from his hands and the book may speed up into action by the end of the second year.

20:28 / 19.02.02

quote:Originally posted by Mr insensitive:
Do you think Xavier should bring back the cane? (I mean the stick, not some obscure villain that got killed off a long time ago.)

[Ali G]So did you get CAINED at school?[/Ali G]

Mr insensitive

20:36 / 19.02.02

*Heh heh* When I was in school...
I think that things are about to get a lot more interesting between Logan and Jean. They're both, shall we say, 'forces of nature.'
And Scott Summers is a much deeper man than you give him credit for...

yawn - thing's buddy

08:49 / 20.02.02

quote:Originally posted by Mr insensitive:
[QBAnd Scott Summers is a much deeper man than you give him credit for...[/QB]

oo-er!

Horus lord of force and fire

19:36 / 02.04.02

This from todays Newsarama:

"It’s been over a decade since he got his start at Marvel Comics on such titles as Quasar and X-Force, and now after several years as long-time penciler and cover artist for Todd McFarlane’s Spawn and creator of his own Image series The Creech, artist Greg Capullo is returning to Marvel… for at least one month anyway...
The artist has announced he’s just completed work on his first Marvel project since leaving X-Force in the early 90’s. According to Capullo, he and inker Danny Miki illustrated a 15-page Spider-Man story tentatively titled Spider-Man/Jay Leno, written by Ron Zimmerman.

Capullo reports the story will be told in three, 5-page parts, and will appear in half of Marvel Comics shipping in May.

The serial will apparently lead into the June 64-page one-shot by Zimmerman and penciler Darick Robertson called Spider-Man: Sweet Charity, which also promises an appearance the NBC Tonight Show host.

What this means, however, for the five-part, 5pp. serial You Can Call Me Al, by Zimmerman and Rio, previously announced to be a free-of-charge back-up in half of Marvel’s May releases (with the five-part serial The Call by Chuck Austen and David Finch in the other half), remains to be seen. You Can Call Me Al is also scheduled to run in its 25-page entirely in issue #1 of the five-art mini-series Get Kraven, also debuting in June.

Asked about possible future Marvel collaborations, Capullo said he said he could not commit to an answer either way at this time, including whether he’d do any new comic book projects at all, but told Newsarama while he’s got nothing else planned, he added. “you can’t discount it anyways.”

Creepy.

Murray Hamhandler

21:18 / 02.04.02

I'm hoping that this Jay Leno shit is just a belayed April Fool's prank, because it's the most fucking retarded thing I've ever heard.
Arthur Sudnam, II

20:48 / 04.04.02

I dunno. Have you seen the old Marvel Team-Up with Spidey and the original SNL cast. John Belushi takes on the Silver Samurai. Pretty silly.

Zoom.

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

23:55 / 04.04.02

or i think it was the x-men and david letterman?

El Gato Was Right: the t-shirt

14:17 / 07.04.02

For the record, I think Scott and Emma hooked up back in the last Annual. If I remember correctly, there was Graduate-style panel in which Emma invited Scott in for champagne, and then -- cut away to something else. In a later issue (sorry, I'm too hung over to remember specifics) when Jean asks Scott about sleeping with Emma, there's some inference that -- ooh -- they NEVER SLEPT. Get it? Wink Wink, dear reader.

El Gato Was Right: the t-shirt

14:22 / 07.04.02

For the sake of keeping this thread on topic, I think I'm going to create a new thread to discuss the above. Join me, won't you in "Did Cyclops and White Queen do it?" (or something). I think the heated debate that will invitably follow will justify it.