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Dawgstar posted:How did Rosenberg get the gig? He did a New Mutants mini and some Astonishing X-Men (and a bunch of other stuff), so it's not like he's a complete unknown.
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Mar 21, 2019 16:08
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Skwirl posted:He did a New Mutants mini and some Astonishing X-Men (and a bunch of other stuff), so it's not like he's a complete unknown. That's right. Although now I can't remember if those were well-received, certainly not to the extent of 'yes, let's give this gentleman a flagship title.'
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Mar 21, 2019 16:48
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Dawgstar posted:That's right. Although now I can't remember if those were well-received, certainly not to the extent of 'yes, let's give this gentleman a flagship title.' What had Gillen done when he was given Uncanny? An indie series about magical Britpop DJs?
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Mar 21, 2019 16:54
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I was gonna say Journey into Mystery but looks like that ran concurrent with Uncanny. There was S.W.O.R.D. and uh, some x-men minis i think?
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Mar 21, 2019 17:08
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I think Age of X-Man has thrown Uncanny X-Men's failings into starker relief: i.e. having the X-Men flagship book have nothing to say while a crop of newer, more diverse writers are right there exploring the concept of being a Mutant from multiple angles within an AU setting. That, and the two preceding utterly uninspired Flagship X-Men volumes. Archyduchess posted:I'm struck by how the only PoC on the Uncanny team have been turned into de-humanized cyber-monsters. And like-- I don't think he's doing this out of explicitly racist motives, I think it's just a testament to how half-assed and poorly-conceived this run is that this decision slid by without editorial going like, uh, maybe not. As Archyduchess notes, no one seems to particularly care about Uncanny, leading to the awkward marginalisation of the few PoC characters (notably an issue in Dead Souls too) in the book, and X-Force has been very "stock" so far as well.
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Mar 21, 2019 17:14
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Skwirl posted:What had Gillen done when he was given Uncanny? An indie series about magical Britpop DJs? When Gillen started writing Uncanny he had written: Phonogram vol. 1 and 2 A story in This is a Souvenir Warhammer: Crown of Destruction #1-4 A story in CBGB #1 A story in Starcraft: Frontline newuniversal: 1959 Manifest Destiny #5 Origins: Sabertooth A backup Dark Reign: The Cabal SWORD #1-5 Beta Ray Bill: The Green of Eden Beta Ray Bill: Godhunter 1-3 Thor 604-614 Siege: Loki Seige: Epilogue New Mutants #11 Dark Avengers: Ares #1-3 The Mystic Hands of Doctor Strange World War Hulks: Spider-Man vs. Thor #1-2 All of which is to say he was clearly rising and Marvel knew what they were getting by the time he was put on one of their biggest series.
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Mar 21, 2019 17:16
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Shoot, I forgot Gillen filled in on JMS's Thor run after he abandoned it. That was my first exposure to his writing.
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Mar 21, 2019 17:19
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Dawgstar posted:How did Rosenberg get the gig?
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Mar 21, 2019 21:13
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He was part of the first DC New Talent Workshop in 2016 (along with Vita Ayala and Joelle Jones and some other people) and I have no idea of the mechanics, but pretty much all of them ended up getting a lot of writing gigs with everyone *but* DC in the ensuing years.
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Mar 21, 2019 21:49
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4 Kids Walk into a Bank was quite good so Rosenberg's not without talent, but none of his X-related stuff has left me with the impression that he likes these characters. The main thrust of the plot in Dead Souls is pretty good at least, even if it fails the characters. Here, it seems like he'd rather be doing anything else. There's not even a half-decent plot to carry things along, it's just "what if Uncanny was X-Force?" Which we already did like two years ago. And on the character side, nobody cares that the New Mutants have gone all techno-organic. There's a single word balloon recapping the situation. Nobody's concerned for their well-being, nobody's wondering if they can be counted on in a fight, nobody's asking if there's a way to turn them back to normal. Nobody cares.
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Mar 21, 2019 22:10
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Talk of Gillen's bibliography requires me to note that Dark Avengers: Ares was loving amazing and if you haven't read it you should
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Mar 23, 2019 10:27
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I guess in a few hours we will know if Hickman is gonna come and save the X-Men from Rosenberg's mediocre work so far. I am liking Age of X-Man and the talent there is pretty great, but once it is over and we are left with only Uncanny X-Men and Rosenberg, then things are gonna be rough for a while. I enjoyed Dead Souls and Multiple Man, but Uncanny has not been good so far (also, it is kind of hard to have a good book when your artist is Larroca; Uncanny never had a chance)
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Mar 23, 2019 14:42
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radlum posted:I guess in a few hours we will know if Hickman is gonna come and save the X-Men from Rosenberg's mediocre work so far. radlum posted:I enjoyed Dead Souls
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Mar 23, 2019 14:50
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radlum posted:I guess in a few hours we will know if Hickman is gonna come and save the X-Men from Rosenberg's mediocre work so far. I am liking Age of X-Man and the talent there is pretty great, but once it is over and we are left with only Uncanny X-Men and Rosenberg, then things are gonna be rough for a while. I enjoyed Dead Souls and Multiple Man, but Uncanny has not been good so far (also, it is kind of hard to have a good book when your artist is Larroca; Uncanny never had a chance) Man, it's sad Rosenberg can't even make people mad like a Chuck Austen, but instead just instills such apathy. Dawgstar fucked around with this message at 20:12 on Mar 23, 2019 |
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Mar 23, 2019 14:53
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IUG posted:Is there something that is coming up "in a few hours" that with answer what Hickman is actually doing? Marvel said they're announcing what the "Hickman is coming" ads referred to at a panel at C2E2 today.
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Mar 23, 2019 15:47
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https://twitter.com/XavierFiles/status/1109565593605279745 https://twitter.com/XavierFiles/status/1109565778209198086
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Mar 23, 2019 22:21
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Oh it actually is? I was kidding before because a lot of rumor places were saying it was like 0% chance of being X-Men.
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Mar 23, 2019 22:23
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Hickman: Again, we're keeping alot of this under wraps. Let me just say that we have radical, radical plans for all of you. I grew up primarily a DC Comics guy; the only book I read of Marvel growing up was the X-Men. All the books I've done at Marvel up to this point, those were fantastic jobs -- but they were jobs. This is was the first book I've loved before I started doing." Hickman: I probably haven't been more proud of anything I've worked on than this. I think all of you will be pretty jacked. We're doing some different radical stuff. Two books that'll you have to read both to stay tuned, but there's a good reason for it. Clarifcation, the titles are House of X as in the letter "X", then Powers of X as in the roman numeral 10.
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Mar 23, 2019 22:25
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Dreams do come true!! 
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Mar 23, 2019 22:27
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Teaser pic: https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/1109567300879949830
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Mar 23, 2019 22:29
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Looks like EDIT: Who's that on the right with Colossus' skin and Magick's sword? I'm assuming far left is Nightcrawler's father. IUG fucked around with this message at 22:31 on Mar 23, 2019 |
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Mar 23, 2019 22:29
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I just hope there's still room for the great stuff happening at the edges of the X-office like Mr. and Mrs. X, X-32, and Domino/Hotshots. I don't want to lose those voices and perspectives, and frankly, the queerness.
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Mar 23, 2019 22:29
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rantmo posted:I just hope there's still room for the great stuff happening at the edges of the X-office like Mr. and Mrs. X, X-32, and Domino/Hotshots. I don't want to lose those voices and perspectives, and frankly, the queerness. I mean, there's probably no chance they're reducing the X-Men line to only 2 books.
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Mar 23, 2019 22:31
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IUG posted:Looks like Hickman said some characters are from the past, some are from the present, and some you haven't ever seen but every character has a reason for being in that promo.
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Mar 23, 2019 22:32
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Kid Havok is adorable.
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Mar 23, 2019 22:34
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Man there's a lot of questions in there. The 90s costumes, 2 Jeans, the very prominent Magik/Colossus hybrid, child Havok. (Some of this may be current, I'm not caught up.) Who's that sitting with Xavier on the bench?
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Mar 23, 2019 22:36
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HALLE-loving-LUJAH. Blue and Gold were the most underwhelming goddamn Flagship X-Books probably ever and this Uncanny has followed that proud tradition (into the ground) but I always knew it was only gonna be a brief-rear end run. I just assumed when AoX ended and the New Status Quo started that it was going to be the same old names as before.
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Mar 23, 2019 22:36
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Aphrodite posted:Who's that sitting with Xavier on the bench? I think it's Moira MacTaggert.
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Mar 23, 2019 22:38
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X-O posted:Hickman said some characters are from the past, some are from the present, and some you haven't ever seen but every character has a reason for being in that promo. Ah, I've been out of X-Comics for a while, only hopping on for a few issues when Gold or this Legion/X-Man arch before bailing out because they were abysmal. I thought I missed some characters.
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Mar 23, 2019 22:38
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Oh no, is that Vulcan behind Azazel?
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Mar 23, 2019 22:39
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JordanKai posted:I think it's Moira MacTaggert. I don't see Kitty anywhere else so I assume it's Kitty. X-O posted:Oh no, is that Vulcan behind Azazel? Why would anyone put Vulcan in a promo art, that character should be forgotten, not used in ads.
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Mar 23, 2019 22:42
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X-O posted:Oh no, is that Vulcan behind Azazel? Looks like it, in the costume he wore while in the X-Men.
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Mar 23, 2019 22:42
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Put Scott and Emma back together
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Mar 23, 2019 22:43
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Codependent Poster posted:Put Scott and Emma back together I thought you people wanted X-Men fixed?
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Mar 23, 2019 22:44
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The most important character in the promo art.
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Mar 23, 2019 22:46
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Bleeding Cool were 100% right on with what they posted about this, including this being the 5th big Milestone in X-Men comics. So I'd imagine they're also correct in that both of these books are six issue minis. And that whatever comes after is the December thing in this publishing slate. EDIT: All issues are already done. Twice monthly alternating for 12 weeks. Hickman has been back with the company for a year working on this in the background. Hickman: I'm sorry for what's about to happen. [laughs] I feel you . Change is good. And I do like Cyclops. X-O fucked around with this message at 23:02 on Mar 23, 2019 |
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Mar 23, 2019 22:52
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X-O posted:I thought you people wanted X-Men fixed? 
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Mar 23, 2019 23:06
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X-O posted:I thought you people wanted X-Men fixed? Yeah, which is why I hope that's not Kitty.
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