X-Men reimagined as shojo manga!
As covered here.
Today at the New York Anime Festival, Marvel and Del Rey announced a joint project which will see their most popular properties produced as Original English Language manga: X-Men and Wolverine - the manga. [...]
X-Men - Written by Raina Telgemeier and Dave Roman with art by the Indonesian artist, Anzu.
Wolverine - Antony Johnston was named as writer, with the artist to be named later. [...]
X-Men will be a shojo style manga, where the Xavier School is still a mutant academy, but it's a all-boys school - with Kitty Pryde, the heroine of the story is the only girl in the school. Kitty is torn between the popular Hellfire Club, led by Pyro, and the school misfits who she eventually bands together as the X-Men.
Okay, I have to admit I am NOT thrilled with some stuff Marvel has been doing lately hands off MJ, damnit! - but as fusions go, this is pretty inspired. I mean, that's the crackiest of both worlds right there. I do hope they can work in other female characters somehow - probably as teachers.
Oh, and Wolverine will be starring in a shonen manga, in a move that surprises no one. Only one question in my mind: will Nightcrawler be making an appearance as a bishonen? Oh, you know you were wondering, too.
Deeply pleased to see Raina Telgemeier and her husband Dave Roman getting high-profile work - I like reading her comic SMILE - a Dental Drama and have actually contemplated reading the *shudders* Babysitters' Club graphic novels to check out more of her stuff. Yes, really, she's that good.
Today at the New York Anime Festival, Marvel and Del Rey announced a joint project which will see their most popular properties produced as Original English Language manga: X-Men and Wolverine - the manga. [...]
X-Men - Written by Raina Telgemeier and Dave Roman with art by the Indonesian artist, Anzu.
Wolverine - Antony Johnston was named as writer, with the artist to be named later. [...]
X-Men will be a shojo style manga, where the Xavier School is still a mutant academy, but it's a all-boys school - with Kitty Pryde, the heroine of the story is the only girl in the school. Kitty is torn between the popular Hellfire Club, led by Pyro, and the school misfits who she eventually bands together as the X-Men.
Okay, I have to admit I am NOT thrilled with some stuff Marvel has been doing lately hands off MJ, damnit! - but as fusions go, this is pretty inspired. I mean, that's the crackiest of both worlds right there. I do hope they can work in other female characters somehow - probably as teachers.
Oh, and Wolverine will be starring in a shonen manga, in a move that surprises no one. Only one question in my mind: will Nightcrawler be making an appearance as a bishonen? Oh, you know you were wondering, too.
Deeply pleased to see Raina Telgemeier and her husband Dave Roman getting high-profile work - I like reading her comic SMILE - a Dental Drama and have actually contemplated reading the *shudders* Babysitters' Club graphic novels to check out more of her stuff. Yes, really, she's that good.