Re: Long response... ::: deep breath :::veraklonDecember 8 2005, 21:02:36 UTC
As for the Astonishing X-Men that joss Whedon wrote, you can get the whole thing in either one or two collections, called trade paperbacks. Excellent story.
Basically, Joss put them back into costumes and turned them into heroes again, rather than the misunderstood corporate leaders that the previous writers had done.
To get a lot of the shock value, you'd have to understand several things before you read it though. First, Jean Grey/Marvel Girl/Phoenix is dead. Died. Buried. Again. So is Colossus/Peter Rasputin. Jean Grey has died and come back several times before. Colossus has stayed dead for several years now.
Uhhmm... Professor X is gone. Cyclops/Scott Summers and the White Queen/Emma Frost are now in charge of the school... and they're a couple now, though not everyone knows that at the beginning of the Joss book.
What else... ?
And as for numbering X-Men comics... each comic has its own numbering. Joss's Astonishing X-Men is 1 - 12. Yeah. All of the others are in their own system... However, a single storyline would be numbered with it. For example, The death of TKP might start in Uncanny #589. Part two would be in Astonishing #44. Part three in the next one and so on. There IS a way to keep up with it, but after a while, you wonder why you even bothered.
And speaking of comics... I have heard rumors of an Angel comic that came out recently that comes after Not Fade Away, written by Joss. You heard anything?
Re: Long response... ::: deep breath :::letteredDecember 9 2005, 00:45:42 UTC
Jean Grey has died and come back several times before. Colossus has stayed dead for several years now.
They could never keep Jean dead, even if they tried. I remember Peter sacrificing himself to stop the Legacy virus in some thread or other, but everything is very vague in my head, and I might be mixing that up with something else.
Uhhmm... Professor X is gone.
Whoa, sadness. Thanks for the update. I'm definitely going to try to make time to read the JW-written ones.
The death of TKP might start in Uncanny #589.
Dude! Have to get that one ;o)
I have heard rumors of an Angel comic that came out recently that comes after Not Fade Away, written by Joss. You heard anything?
No, but that's not saying much. All I know about is Tales of the Vampires, Tales of the Slayers, and Fray, and I've never read any of them. Whedon did recently alude to a comic series he might write about Buffy and the Immortal, and that's the latest I've heard.
Basically, Joss put them back into costumes and turned them into heroes again, rather than the misunderstood corporate leaders that the previous writers had done.
To get a lot of the shock value, you'd have to understand several things before you read it though. First, Jean Grey/Marvel Girl/Phoenix is dead. Died. Buried. Again. So is Colossus/Peter Rasputin. Jean Grey has died and come back several times before. Colossus has stayed dead for several years now.
Uhhmm... Professor X is gone. Cyclops/Scott Summers and the White Queen/Emma Frost are now in charge of the school... and they're a couple now, though not everyone knows that at the beginning of the Joss book.
What else... ?
And as for numbering X-Men comics... each comic has its own numbering. Joss's Astonishing X-Men is 1 - 12. Yeah. All of the others are in their own system... However, a single storyline would be numbered with it. For example, The death of TKP might start in Uncanny #589. Part two would be in Astonishing #44. Part three in the next one and so on. There IS a way to keep up with it, but after a while, you wonder why you even bothered.
And speaking of comics... I have heard rumors of an Angel comic that came out recently that comes after Not Fade Away, written by Joss. You heard anything?
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They could never keep Jean dead, even if they tried. I remember Peter sacrificing himself to stop the Legacy virus in some thread or other, but everything is very vague in my head, and I might be mixing that up with something else.
Uhhmm... Professor X is gone.
Whoa, sadness. Thanks for the update. I'm definitely going to try to make time to read the JW-written ones.
The death of TKP might start in Uncanny #589.
Dude! Have to get that one ;o)
I have heard rumors of an Angel comic that came out recently that comes after Not Fade Away, written by Joss. You heard anything?
No, but that's not saying much. All I know about is Tales of the Vampires, Tales of the Slayers, and Fray, and I've never read any of them. Whedon did recently alude to a comic series he might write about Buffy and the Immortal, and that's the latest I've heard.
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