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Due to my seemingly never-ending, cancelled-a-year-ago Wizard subscription, I have the new issue with an interview with Grant and Frank. I'm not going to write out the whole thing, but here are the relevant bits:
Grant, on if he writes for an older audience:
I just kind of write for intelligent 14 year olds.
Plans for the next year of stories:
After the Cassandra thing is over, we'll have a story with Xorn that's really weird. Then we'll see Charles and Jean in Paris setting up X-Corporations around the world. We're going to take up what Joe (Casey) did with the X-Corps and weave it back. I want to make it more of a benign corporate thing...and we learn all about the strange underground projects that I can't divulge too much about yet. And also, the Professor starts probing the limits of what Jean can possibly do with the Phoenix - which is definitely back - and what's happening to her, and why it's happening to her. I want to deal with the fact that I see Jean as possibly having godlike potential. What happens is she gets smarter and smarter, more empathic and intuitive - what do you become?
Will other X-Men have secondary mutations?
All of them are actually doing it, I just haven't told you yet each little thing that's going on. We've seen Emma doing it; Jean's in the process of exhibiting her second mutation. So, there are a lot of things going on that haven't been revealed yet.
Why create a new Angel?
I kind of wanted to create lots of new mutants and test the waters a bit. It just seemed right for the whole school aspect of it. I wanted to create Angel as a kind of nasty character that takes years to get anyone to like her. Now all these new ones are starting to write themselves. The Beak was supposed to die after one issue, but he keeps coming back, getting more aggressive. He's fucking angry, there's no pity to him and he writes himself.
Any Magneto stories planned?
He's dead, basically. I have a little aftermath thing that's a one-shot, which is Havok and Polaris and these ambient magnetic fields. There's this weird thing in the ruins of Genosha and it's kind of what's left of Magneto. As far as I'm concerned, he's dead. Wipe out the past! Magneto will come back. Someone will bring him back. Someone always does....bringing back Magneto seems so obvious. Why do it?
A question for Frank - Are there any X-Men you want to bring back and update from an art perspective?
There was this guy...I think he was Scott Summers' brother...
Grant: Havok. He's back, but you're not drawing that one
No, he wore a black costume...
Yeah, that's him. He's in it.
Naw, he had this pointy head gear thing...
Yeah, he's in an issue, but you're not drawing it
(frowning)Yeah, well...I would have liked to have drawn Havok for no particular reason other than that I remember him.
Who's your favorite X-character?
Cyclops and Emma Frost. Cyclops because he's the coolest X-Man of them all...
Cyclops is definitely one of the best.
He's so repressed and brilliant. He just always does the right thing. He never lets you down, even though he's so fucked up. And that's his genius. And Emma's just great to write. She's my favorite to write. But I use her to voice some of my own female characteristics. There's such a great dynamic between them.... There's a lot going on there with Emma, Scott, and Jean. Emma puts out, but Jean's actually more hardcore than Emma, and Scott's torn between these two women. It's a weird, interesting set-up. And both women are telepathic - that spells bad news for Scott Summers.
It's your worst nightmare, isn't it?
Think about it. You're in the middle and they can read your thoughts. Every fantasy you have at night, they know it. There's no escaping them. That's fun.
Scott's definitely fun. He's more like us than Xavier, Logan, or Henry.
And he always tries to be a superhero. He's really good. he really wants to be a hero.
There's none I like to draw more than others, but I do enjoy Scott.
Frank, what's up with the lips?
My lips?
The lips on everyone you draw.
It's a personal thing! (chuckles) |
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