Neil/Joss interview at Time
Sep. 28th, 2005 11:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendiThe 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.
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.