Neil/Joss interview at Time

[yendi]

The entire interview is here, and is wonderful, dealing with all sorts of comics, but I loved this segment in particular:

TIME: I don't even remember who's in the X-men anymore. Is Colossus still in it?

JW: Which of the 19,000 books are you talking about? In mine was the Beast, Kitty Pryde, Cyclops, Emma Frost, Colossus...and the unpopular one. Wolverine.

TIME: Emma Frost is in the X-men now?

JW: She's been an X-man for some time.

TIME: They do know she used to be a villain, right?

JW: Yes they do. It's all about forgiveness.

NG: There is a tradition in these things.

TIME: Kitty was sort of a proto-Buffy, right?

JW: Kitty was a huge proto-Buffy. I mean, there was no other you could point to as strongly. And they weren't really doing anything with her, which, you know, made me happy to no end. And when they asked me to bring Colossus back, there I had Kitty and her first love. It was actually terribly romantic, to me anyway. I think I care way too much about these characters.

NG: That's also the trouble with comics characters. If you read them at a certain age, they worm their way into your psyche. They live in your head. They are as real as anybody else in there, and you care about them.

Comments

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

Fucking GEEKQUAKE! The universe didn't implode with those two talking to each other? Yikes!

::reads voraciously::

[yendi]

Amazingly enough, we survived!

[fornorald.livejournal.com]

Yah, I just got done reading that (thank you Slashdot!).

Mmm, mmm, good.

Now, they've conducted an interview together. Let's see if the world can now get them to collaborate on a project.

[yendi]

Now that's something I'd like to see!

[terracinque.livejournal.com]

Neil just lost many points with me for using "concretizing."

[fnordess.livejournal.com]

Why? It's a word.

[terracinque.livejournal.com]

It's an awful word, right down there with "impactful" and "incentivize."

[yendi]

Words like those embiggen the smallest man.

[pbristow.livejournal.com]

And perfectly cromulent they are too.

[terracinque.livejournal.com]

Dammit, beat me to it!

[maida-mac.livejournal.com]

Why? It's not like it's a new word in that whole verbing movement. I can at least find references to it that date back more than 20 years, including in a book by a philospher about the Holocaust.

[amokk]

Ah, Marvel, where death is just a minor inconvience.

[yendi]

Unless you're a powerless relative or loved one of Spider-Man.

Or a Kree who comes to earth and befriends Rick Jones.

X-Men, however, have unlimited continues.

[pbristow.livejournal.com]

ObFilk (TTO: We'll Make Heaven a Place On Earth):

"They say he's dead, but they're wrong of course -
Mutant Heaven has revolving doors..."

[phantom_wolfboy]

You gotta have a costume and a code name. You could wear a suit and call yourself "ACcounting Man" and that would get you a ticket to Death's rotating door for superheroes.

Or be Aunt May.