Until next time, X-Fans, stay exceptional! And who can forget Jonathan! But the soap opera plot has, if not been made the main plot, at the very least has taken much more of the percentage than it was taking in the original. Is honesty with herself and others a way that Laura asserts herself as herself? I dont mind being left alone in their living room while theyre getting busy upstairs. Heartbreak feels good in a place like this. Steve Orlando: Slither not enough snake love out there in the world. In another, Magneto is goaded into kickstarting World War III in a story that plays out like a more emotionally fraught version of the very first issue of X-Men. The home of all things X-Men on reddit, be it It has to do with the ways that the industry has trained the audience to respond to things and what it should value in a comic book. Xorn. Xorn is the absolute sex lord, although I could never keep track of whether he was pretending to be Magneto or Magneto was pretending to be him. Become a patron today to gain access to exclusive perks, such as: Exclusive previews, reviews, and the latest news every week, delivered to your inbox. Poe has a little of Wolverine and a little Cyclops in him, and I think Jean would balance him out really well. . I mean, I as a reader have definitely read stories that, if you said to me, Hey, heres what happens in this story? Marvel Comics just tweeted out the teaser "Destiny of X. Haymaker/Jordan is just that type of character. AIPT: Stop it, that was great! Do you think its possible to make Snot into a sex symbol? The twins from Pokmon and a Sentinel. Link below and quotes of this subject will be below the link. AIPT: Well, youre an editor, you make comics for a living, so let me ask you a very direct question. All the things. 103k members in the xmen community. Erica: This is my first time working with Edgar, and the experience has been incredible. I read Fantastic Four #1 through something like #300 that summer, and it was like this huge download to the Marvel Universe. Alex Segura: Jean Grey and Poe Dameron. Mark Basso: Rogue and Gambit. If any reader picks up one of our books and finds themselves in between the pages, like I felt like I did, that would mean the world to me. Probably theres a good reason for that in that soap operas are produced quickly and cheaply. AIPT: Finally, so many X-Characters have become sex symbols among X-Fans. Dont tell me they dont count, I saw that almost-kiss. Read this one closely, X-Fans when youre talking to editors, teases of things to come tend to slip out. Summary: Basically, the interviewer asked why romance wasnt as popular in comics when there are so many asking for it, using Cyclops many ships as an example (Jean x Scott and so on). And shes clearly no stranger to cuddling bark. select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. Anthony Oliveira: Rogue and Gambit must be the most fun. Kate is a good person who has more recently toyed with the fringes of the dark side, joining Hellfire, becoming a pirate. 2011 - 2022 AIPT, LLC. Lila Cheney singing One by U2 (which Id imagine this cover sounding way better than the original) being the song to the couples first dance is just so sweet for a couple thats known each other for decades in publication. I will say, networking is really important. The home of all things X-Men on reddit, be it comic books, film X-Fan Quid asks, do you think theres still a chance for Laura and Julian? During this time, Julian is an important part of Lauras life, but hes only really in a flashback panel or two, if Im being honest. And Ive found myself working with people I met while doing my stints in book publishing and podcasting. We got (and get) a lot of questions about Hellion. Rictor and Shatterstar. I talked with every editor I could find, and wound up over at Valiant, first as an intern, then as an assistant editor, before making my way to Marvel. Some of our partners may process your data as a part of their legitimate business interest without asking for consent. Right? If you look at old Spider-Man comics from the 60s and 70s, what you will see is that the bulk of the comic, if you say they were 20 pages, like 17 of those pages would be about Spider-Man punching Electro. Ditto Maddie and Havok. Tom Taylor was the writer, but there was a revolving door of incredible talent on that book. In the Utopia era, one of the things that made Laura feel ostracized from the younger X-Men like Bling was that she had no social graces. Kyle is a saint. That means switching up tactics sometimes. She was literally bred for a singular purpose. Laura is definitely all cards on the table most of the time, but I disagree that shes honest with herself all the time, and this story aims to explore that. According to his earliest origins (Rose and Tom Logan, James Howlett, etc. Anyway, I think Xorn would be really fun to have a wild drug-fueled candy-coated wonderland weekend with, after which youd never quite know what had actually happened. Want to take our relationship to the next level? These were the most popular versions of the characters at the time, of course. Valentine's Day. Welcome, X-Fans, to another uncanny and dare I say, romantic edition of X-Men Monday at AIPT! It felt like the world opened up when I picked that book up. Then X-Men: The Animated Series came out in 1992, and I watched that religiously. Because you know whats going to come next, you cant do anything thatll mess up that continuity. CRACK ME OPEN, CLAW DADDY. Hows that? Jordan: Everything they said is true. For fun it would be hard for me not to say Fang and Aurora. Probably the couple Gillen talked about in the Valentine interview. And Ill just hang out for the rest of the time. And hes like, Yeah, absolutely.. Wait, I want to change my answer to most romantic moment. The thing you want to read as a reader of a superheroif youre the target audience in that erais you are buying this because you want to see Spider-Man fighting another guy with superpowers. For both questions, really. The home of all things X-Men on reddit, be it comic books, film, television, gaming or any other medium that Marvel's mutants have inspired people over the last half-century. Comics were my favorite kind of storytelling, and Marvel was my favorite kind of comics. Not only did Wolverine star in the recently wrapped and very fun X-Terminators, but following Forges adventure in the Vault in the pages of X-Men, there are now two Lauras running around! Comics X-Books X-Men Monday #192 - Stephanie Phillips Talks 'Rogue & Gambit' All users, both new and returning, are expected to follow THE CBR COMMUNITY STANDARDS & RULES. Several of the battles feel composed of multiple pin-ups, which I kind of love (Cyclops ramps a motorcyle like three times in one issue to achieve this effect). That being said emails. Mark Basso: Im Mark Basso. Thats another reason to love this book, even outside of its status as an extension to the animated series: It displays a sincere love and knowledge of both the show and the main 616 universes history. 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For sheer depth and scope, to say nothing of the creativity and quality Ben, Josh, Federico, Frank, Adam, and the rest have put into them, X Lives/X Deaths of Wolverine will rank up there with one of the grandest epics Ive ever been involved in. In the early-to-mid-90s, animated series tie-in comics reigned supreme. Nightwing #101 review: Its time for the Titans! So the easy answer is: That was the assignment. Give this one a shot if you love either. Anita: Lots of emails (so many), reading scripts, routing materials, writing copy, monitoring schedules, and meetings. Now, before you get too mad at Jordan for introducing the thought of cascading ropes of snot to your Monday, take a look at this weeks eXclusive preview images he not only selected, but turned into shareable X-Men Valentines! I did various comics-related internships here and there, including with the fantastic folks over at Milkfed Criminal Masterminds before I was lucky enough to land one with Marvels editorial department. Steve Foxe: Black Tom Cassidy and the Log Lady from Twin Peaks. Social media has made it a lot easier to connect with creators, editors, and voices within the comics community. Jordan: There is a copy of Watchmen downloaded to my phone at all times. Steve Foxe: We all saw shirtless Sunfire on Arakko, right? Thats love, baby! Chris Cantwell: Anytime Shatterstar looked at someone in the 1990s. She never had a childhood. Plus, 6 eXclusive preview images from upcoming X-Men comics! It also has a lot of pain. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. If you can find some friends to talk out those opinions with, thats a great way to help articulate your thoughts and even expand your own taste as you get exposed to books or other media you might not have checked out on your own. Marvel Comics teases Contest of Chaos coming in 2023. Hes a fantastic, talented, skilled artist who not only brings the action but also really hits on the quiet moments. Sarah: Fridays and Mondays are books are due to print, hustle hustle days. Mark: No two days are exactly the same, but it generally involves logging on and sinking into whichever pieces of the process need my input with the most urgency a script that needs reading and feedback back to the writer so we can finalize it for the artist to draw, inked pages of a comic that need the final thumbs up so the colorist can work on it, noting up a pass of an issue with lettering and balancing that with future planning thinking who would be best to write some new series, or locking down a cover artist, or assembling a plan for a future project. So I think theres always a chance for Laura and Julian. There was this one time when gambit was thinking about having kids but rogue was like "no, not now". I assist on Sarahs books, so: Captain Marvel, Black Widow, Ka-Zar, Excalibur, Phoenix Song: Echo, New Mutants, Marvels Voices, and some other unannounced projects. Children of the Atom is a comic book series written by Vita Ayala, and illustrated by Bernard Chang and Paco Medina and published by Marvel Comics. But what I know is at the root of what all readers want is a good story, a good comic, done well. Ladies on toilets, thats my niche. X-Reads Podcast Episode 95: 'X-Men #8' (2021) - M.O.D.O.K. You dont want to read that comic. It would be the most boring comic of all time, thats not what you want. Chris Cantwell: The hottest X-Couple ever was U-Go Girl and Mister Sensitive. And so I said to him, So what, you want to read the comic where Punisher goes, Thats it. Before we start, just a disclaimer for the super-speculative X-Fans reading that this isnt one of those X-Men Mondays where were hinting at new additions to the X-Office. I feel like theyd be good for each other, and Bobby would be good with all those Koopa kids. What happened the third time he fought Electro? Scott and Jean? The series introduces more characters that might have been too dark for Saturday mornings, like Man-Thing and the Dweller-In-Darkness, but it also manages to add an astonishing new wrinkle to the X-Men mythology. Sorry. Gerrys doing such great things on the main X-Men book right now, and Im always going to have a soft spot in my heart for the time I got to spend on the insane ride that was Hellions but I dont think theres been a project I havent been proud to work on, so Im going to cheat as well and say there are a lot of upcoming projects that have me bouncing in excitement that I get to help be a part of bringing them into the world. I told you Im the worst at this. 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