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Questions With Joss Whedon About Astonishing X-Men

Questions With Joss Whedon About Astonishing X-Men






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5 Questions With...Joss Whedon

Wizard caught up with the man behind the biggest X-events of the summer: X-Men Reload. The Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Angel creator sat down and gave us the dirt on the upcoming Astonishing X-Men.

1. Who will be on your Astonishing X-Men team? You're kind of picking up where Grant Morrison left off in New X-Men, right?

My team will be Scott [Summers, Cyclops], Emma [Frost, White Queen], Hank [McCoy, Beast] and Logan [Wolverine], all holdovers, and the one new person on my team will-not surprisingly to anyone who knows me-be Kitty Pryde. The first four were really the mainstays of the New X-Men. I wanted the continuity of whatever had been going on with certain changes, obviously, and those changes mostly involve sort of pairing it down.

2. How did you decide on that team?

The thing that I like about the characters that I focused on the most is that I have a very specific rule: no powers that I categorically don't understand. This team is very, very grounded. I don't even have anyone on it who can fly, which I love. Not that I don't want to tell epic science fiction stories because I do, but at the same time, I want to understand when I open a book, "Okay, that guy has got claws. That guy's got eye beams." That kind of simplicity is important to me.

3. The X-fans are rabid; do you check out negative feedback on your run, even though it hasn't started yet?

People are just going to come out against anyone who gets this gig and you sort of have to set yourself against that while at the same time telling yourself, "They're probably right." [Chuckles]

4. What's one of your favorite X-Men solo stories of all time?

I would say Frank Miller's Wolverine mini-series would go on this list because that was part of his changing the way stories are told in comics, just stylistically. It was beautiful. It had great integrity and Wolverine is getting married? He's a loner. It was such a shock that he would go there; I loved that.

5. How are you going to play Scott and Emma's relationship?

Obviously, Scott and Emma have a very different kind of romance than Scott and Jean [Grey] had. It's still kind of a new thing, and one of the things that interests me about Scott is, because he's such a stiff, and that's kind of his defining principle. I always thought that Superman should just fall in love with the wrong woman once; that's how I feel about Scott. And how difficult and unseemly, and yet kind of potentially beautiful that relationship is, fascinates me.

For more from Joss Whedon, plus a preview of Astonishing X-Men #1 check out Wizard 152 - on sale this Wednesday!







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I'm stoked, the creator of my favorite television series writing my favorite comic of yore. It's defintely going to be awesomeness to read. He'll put a spin on the X-Men like no other writer can. Oh, and Storm isn't really a must, she's just been around forever. Plus, she's already a mainstay in the Extreme X-Men book. Alright, enough of my fan boy rant.
 
As far as I know it's pretty rock solid. I'm not aware of any release date being published. It wouldn't necessarily mean much anyway. Joss has shown a tendency to be late with comics in the past.

Or wait minute Alyson, do you mean the other comics he's involved with? The Tales of the Vampire series is complete. I don't know the score with Tales of the Slayer. He promises a Fray sequel, but nothing firm has come out as far as of yet. He never had much to do with the Dark Horse Buffy/Angel comics to my knowledge.
 
Wow, this should be so cool. My favourite comics and my Favourite TV writer combined!

I like the team he's picked. Nice and simple, although i think Chamber should be in there, so under used (not even used to the potential he had in Gen-X in the current Weapon-X)
Storm is a little over used i feel.
 
I meant im like totally confuzzed. Is he continuing with the X-men comics or the TV show? or the movies?
 
Whedon Previews X-Men Arcs

Whedon Previews X-Men Arcs






Whedon Previews X-Men Arcs

Joss Whedon, who will write The Astonishing X-Men comic for Marvel, told SCI FI Wire that he will deal with the "mutant question" in his series, which is set to come out monthly starting May 26. "It's basically the mutant question and are the mutants taking over the earth, and all of that stuff has been dealt with for so long that I thought I'd talk about it more and try to put a fresh spin on it," Whedon said in an interview at the Saturn Awards in Los Angeles. "I can tell you that, you know, my idea is basically to ... bring up something that will really divide the X-Men amongst themselves. Really bring out what's great and what's weak in every character and really let them play off each other."

Whedon will pen two six-issue arcs. "I have more ideas beyond that, but I'm not making any promises," he said. "If I can get all 12 out, delivered on time, well, anybody who knows me will know that that's an achievement." Whedon was referring to his previous comic series, Fray, which had lengthy delays owing to Whedon's TV commitments running Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and Firefly at the time









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Try this link Allyson Whedon Watch (Joss Whedon's future projects)

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Wow, this should be so cool. My favourite comics and my Favourite TV writer combined!

I like the team he's picked. Nice and simple, although i think Chamber should be in there, so under used (not even used to the potential he had in Gen-X in the current Weapon-X)
Storm is a little over used i feel.
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What's the story on Storm and Rogue, and the ones we know from the movie, anyway? Did they die? Did they leave the X-Men? Do they appear in a different X-men series?
 
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