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Old Jun 8, 2006, 01:10 am   #401
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In New X-Men were there any stories that you regretted or feel you should have done a better job with?

Crud...I had a second question and I'm having trouble remembering it. Oh well, maybe I'll remember later. By the way UPS delivered my Luna, Past Lies, Skinwalker, Three Strikes, and The Tomb. I'll let you know what I think as soon as I read them.
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I think I remembered one of my questions. I may have asked it before, but if I did I don't remember the answer.

Long before he started appearing again in New X-Men, fans suspected that Sean was Laurie's father. As a writer is it frustrating when people figure out things before they happen?

Back on NewMutants.net before the Reload, quite a few people seemed to hate David and called him "judgmental." Were you expecting people to have that kind of reaction to David?

If I remember correctly, I think you said that in your eyes Laurie may have tried to become an X-Man but would ultimately realize it wasn't for her. Did you envision her as possibly becoming a writer (like in TMI)?
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I'm not sure if this has been asked but what is Victors nationality? Where is the name Borkowski from?
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Just read N&C's Skinwalker. Loved it. Anyone interested can check out my review on my site.

Great job, N&C. You two need to be put on an ongoing ASAP. I'll post more about it later.
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Hey all,

Not much in the way of questions, but here's what we got:

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I do. This is not a shot at Kevin in the slightest, but he has never been the most mature kid out there. He left Laurie before without saying anything, and I think he would do the same again given that he had unintentionally hurt her. If he had gone to Laurie, I'm sure she would have convinced him to stay.
I think you're right. Kevin's history suggests he'd run off without contacting anyone. He's a sulker, and sulkers do their best sulking alone.

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You know, I'm really only just now getting into Superman. I never really cared about him in the past. I think I picked up an issue or two when he died and I also bought some stuff with Electric Supes, but I've only just started getting where I like him.
I never had any interest in Electric Superman. I like my Superman looking like, well, Superman.

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I know you found out that you'd be off of New X-Men shortly before your birthday last year (I think you said late April?). My question is, how many issues had you written at that point? Had you already concluded the House of M arc, or were you still in the process of writing it?
When we found out we were off HOM, we'd written all of the Hellions, and (if I recall correctly) the first issue of HOM. We may have also submitted a first draft of the second issue, but I'm not sure about that.

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You and Christina are tackling every genre, aren't you?
That's the goal.

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Well I just ordered Past Lies, Skinwalker, the Tomb, Three Strikes, Luna V3, as well as a few other Seven Seas stuff, so here's hoping it gets here by my birthday.
Very cool. Let us know what you thought.

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So what exactly do you envision Cessilys "true form" to look like?

On a semi related note, I loved the little look into Morphs past in a recent Exiles issue and he was basically born as this white sloppy goo...

Is this similar to Cess's situation?
Cessily was born as a little girl, normal in all regards, and cute as a button. She grew into a cute kid with red hair.

She changed to become all metal as a teen. This made her parents, who used to dote on her, freak out. She touches on this in the Hellions mini.

Cessily's true form...? No idea what her new base form is. But her mind assumes it's the basic Cessily-but-made-of-metal form. And when she's knocked out, she does tend to revert to that (though she's often soft and puddly and doesn't reform her unstable molecule costume).

So her subconscious mind seems to have locked that as her base form.

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Well, whatever you heard, I wouldnt worry too much. It's an amazing movie.
I've had that spoiler confirmed for my by friends and family who saw it, and I just can't see myself thinking it's that good as a result. It may do everything else right, but I can't understand SPOILER! doing the Dark Phoenix story and not having Cyclops play a big role in the end. It strikes me as an ill-concieved way to make Wolverine more central.

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In Academy X #5 (I think thats the number) Julian says that when Dallas first went in to shadow-form, his grandfather had a heart attack. Did he live with his grandfather? Did he die from this heart attack?
Nope. He lived. And while Dallas didn't live with him, he was very close to him.

In our original Hellions story, Dallas' grandfather is dying of cancer (poor guy can't buy a health break) and Dallas wishes for a cure.

But we cut it because Dallas wasn't a Hellion yet, and both Cessily and Sooraya already had family based wishes, and Kevin had a cure-based one.

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In New X-Men were there any stories that you regretted or feel you should have done a better job with?
I definitely think the first arc of New Mutants needed some more variety and needed to be sped up. I think I can be proud of each individual issue, but taken together, it was too much of the same thing - Dani finds mutant in trouble, Dani brings mutant back to school. We could have definitely sped that up or varied things more in Issues 1, 3 & 4.

On New X-Men itself?

We definitely mishandled the Rahne/Josh thing. By not taking the time to show them talking about anything other than the actual relationship and Rahne's hesitations about it, we wound up making it seem like the physical thing (kissing only) was the only positive. Which made the relationship seem hollow.

We show them bond over their pasts and being isolated in New Mutants, and he gives her the wolf powers back, and both of those are strong bonds. But in the New X-Men series we don't reference those enough, and we don't show them talking like two people with a strong bond would.

It hollowed out their relationship and made it seem less likely Rahne would do this unwise thing.

If I could change how we handled one story, it'd be that.

If I could change how we handled the whole series, I'd say we should have stood up to Marvel more. We wanted more villains and to get away from the school and to put a few more adventures into the book.

But they wanted to keep it local and have the rivalries be more important than any villains.

They may honestly have wanted some of the students to become villains, but they didn't push that, and the end result was a book they later decided had too little action.

We lost the job in part because we gave them exactly what they asked for and caved when they didn't want us to change it to something closer to what they ultimately wanted it changed into.

Had we stood our ground, maybe we could have stayed on the book. Who knows?

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Long before he started appearing again in New X-Men, fans suspected that Sean was Laurie's father. As a writer is it frustrating when people figure out things before they happen?
Depends on the story. In this case, not really. It kept him alive in readers' minds while Marvel kept making us cut his appearances.

We figured many would guess it after New Mutants #11, anyway. And those who didn't would just get an extra twist.

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Back on NewMutants.net before the Reload, quite a few people seemed to hate David and called him "judgmental." Were you expecting people to have that kind of reaction to David?
Well, let's bear in mind that by quite a few, you're generally referring to one very persistent poster (Lusiphur) and a couple of people who agreed with specific points he made, but not his overall condemnation.

He was very vocal, and expected us to change what we were writing just because he could be very articulate and persuasive.

Others mostly saw moments of David being judgemental.

And that's what we wrote. David does judge others. However right he is to judge Josh as a bigot for joining the Reavers, he definitely held a grudge.

We wrote that as one of David's flaws. We just believed (and still believe) that he was level headed enough to move past that flaw when presented with enough evidence otherwise.

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If I remember correctly, I think you said that in your eyes Laurie may have tried to become an X-Man but would ultimately realize it wasn't for her. Did you envision her as possibly becoming a writer (like in TMI)?
Yep.

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I'm not sure if this has been asked but what is Victors nationality? Where is the name Borkowski from?
He's American, of mixed lineage. Borkowski is a Polish name. But his parents grew up in America.

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Just read N&C's Skinwalker. Loved it. Anyone interested can check out my review on my site.

Great job, N&C. You two need to be put on an ongoing ASAP. I'll post more about it later.
Thanks. Great review. Hope you like the other books as well. You said you'd post 4 reviews in total, but you bought 5 books (Past Lies, The Tomb, Skinwalker, Three Strikes and Luna V3). Which review won't you be posting? Luna V3? Whichever it is, just make sure you let us know what you think around here.

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Cessily was born as a little girl, normal in all regards, and cute as a button. She grew into a cute kid with red hair.

She changed to become all metal as a teen. This made her parents, who used to dote on her, freak out. She touches on this in the Hellions mini.

Cessily's true form...? No idea what her new base form is. But her mind assumes it's the basic Cessily-but-made-of-metal form. And when she's knocked out, she does tend to revert to that (though she's often soft and puddly and doesn't reform her unstable molecule costume).

So her subconscious mind seems to have locked that as her base form.
I really dont have anything to say to this, except that Cessily is awesome. I really like her. So, uh, yeah.
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Thanks. I'll look into it. We're also possibly going to set up a web page with a bit more room. We'll see if that happens.
Ooooh, that sounds promising. Let us know when it gets underway.
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I've had that spoiler confirmed for my by friends and family who saw it, and I just can't see myself thinking it's that good as a result. It may do everything else right, but I can't understand SPOILER! doing the Dark Phoenix story and not having Cyclops play a big role in the end. It strikes me as an ill-concieved way to make Wolverine more central.
I agree, it would have been so much better if Cyclops played a larger role, but we have to remember that movie makers dont make movies for the comic reading public, they make them for the movie going public. And movie going girls who dont read comics want more Hugh Jackman, and movie going boys who dont read comics want more Wolverine slicing everything in sight.

We know that Cyclops was given a raw deal, but as a movie, it was very good. Action sequences were great, new characters were great (Beast and Shadowcat), and even though the plot was changed to fit the new form of media, it still worked out well.

There were alot of changes from the original comic form, but thats what happens with movies. The plot is simplified to keep the new audience entertained and informed. At least we still have the original comic. Two great forms of a similar story, both different, but both fun.
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Nope. He lived. And while Dallas didn't live with him, he was very close to him.
I'm guessing because of your next response, that his grandfather didnt harbour any ill (get it?) feelings towards Dallas, right?
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In our original Hellions story, Dallas' grandfather is dying of cancer (poor guy can't buy a health break) and Dallas wishes for a cure.

But we cut it because Dallas wasn't a Hellion yet, and both Cessily and Sooraya already had family based wishes, and Kevin had a cure-based one.
It sounds like Having Dallas be in the Hellions mini would have been fun. It's too bad it didnt work out. I guess its all for the best, since he's dead now... But maybe if he was in the mini, there would have been a bigger response to his death. And it would have been great to see him in action.
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Hi Nunzio-

several months ago, Marvel told us in an interview that fans have not seen the last of Dani Moonstar or Jubilee... Seeing as they have been de-powered and have been in limbo for what seems like forever, myself among others have been getting pretty frustrated and worried over lack of news and appearances of our favorite characters.
Both females deserve the chance to be brought back into the comics. Even without powers, they are highly skilled heroes. Do you know of or have any plans for either Jubilee or Dani? I would love to see the two of them on a team.

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Thanks. Great review. Hope you like the other books as well. You said you'd post 4 reviews in total, but you bought 5 books (Past Lies, The Tomb, Skinwalker, Three Strikes and Luna V3). Which review won't you be posting? Luna V3? Whichever it is, just make sure you let us know what you think around here.
I meant that Skinwalker would be the first of the four Oni books I'd be reviewing; I'll still be reviewing Luna once I get around to it.

Some Skinwalker comments and questions...

I loved Greg's introduction. For a couple of weeks I've been wondering how you two met, but didn't feel like asking as it's a personal question and not about your profession.

To be honest, I actually got to "know" Greg through you. I wasn't reading much DC until last year when you and Christina were removed from NXM. Not long after that I recall hearing about your friendship and remembering you mentioning that you and Christina appeared in one of his books (I think No Man's Land).

Before that, I wasn't really familiar with him; since then he's become one of my favorite writers.

Anyway, back to Skinwalker...

Did you learn about the Navajo traditions in college, or is that something that you studied specifically for this story?

Was the information about the Great Seal and the female hogan written by you and Christina, or was that by someone else? Was that information in the comics, or added for the trade?

I really like the insight into Ann's office. Great way to show her personality without actually "showing" her. I love stuff like that.

The scenes between Ann and Charlie's mother were nice.

Spoiler tags in case anyone reading this takes an interest in the book and picks it up...

SPOILER! Callinan kind of reminds me of Sean Garrison in a way. He started out seeming like a good guy, only to be one of the "villains" in the end. I liked the interaction between him and Ann as they argued about the medicine/witchcraft bundle.

I love the way you had Ann figure out the woman he was with was Brian, as well as Brian's reaction. Hurtt really drew that page amazingly.

I figured right away that Charlie wasn't the killer, but I never considered the possibility that it was Brian. Likewise I figured out Brian changed skins before getting on the bus, but I wasn't expecting that he was the girl. This is what I meant in my review when I said I'd figure something out, but only part of the picture.


Any idea when Once in a Blue Moon 2 will be out?

And a question about New X-Men...

How exactly is David's last name pronounced? I've always pronounced it "uh lane" (first syllable like "align"). Am I anywhere near close?

I wish DC would hurry up and let us know what you and Christina will be doing! If only I hadn't sold my pitchfork, maybe I could get some answers.

Also hope to see some more Oni work from you and Christina in the future.

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I agree, it would have been so much better if Cyclops played a larger role, but we have to remember that movie makers dont make movies for the comic reading public, they make them for the movie going public. And movie going girls who dont read comics want more Hugh Jackman, and movie going boys who dont read comics want more Wolverine slicing everything in sight.
I imagine they'd also want more of James Marsden as well.
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I've had that spoiler confirmed for my by friends and family who saw it, and I just can't see myself thinking it's that good as a result. It may do everything else right, but I can't understand SPOILER! doing the Dark Phoenix story and not having Cyclops play a big role in the end. It strikes me as an ill-concieved way to make Wolverine more central.
That's been a problem with all 3 movies. I don't think this latest one is any worse in how it treats Cyclops. I wouldn't mind seeing him SPOILER! come back from his death/off-screen exit to lead Colossus, Shadowcat, Iceman, Rogue, and Gambit.

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It sounds like Having Dallas be in the Hellions mini would have been fun. It's too bad it didnt work out. I guess its all for the best, since he's dead now... But maybe if he was in the mini, there would have been a bigger response to his death. And it would have been great to see him in action.
I read that according to the new writers, Dallas wasn't on the bus and didn't die. Maybe, he's hanging out with his grandfather or hooking up with a baseline girl right now. By the way, he's on my Re-Power Top 10 List along with Rictor, Chamber, Magneto, Professor X, Blob, Prodigy, Wind Dancer, and the 2 ladies mentioned below. (I wonder if I'm leaving out another character I like.)

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several months ago, Marvel told us in an interview that fans have not seen the last of Dani Moonstar or Jubilee... Seeing as they have been de-powered and have been in limbo for what seems like forever, myself among others have been getting pretty frustrated and worried over lack of news and appearances of our favorite characters.
When they said that, I got the feeling that they were talking about Generation M, and I think they have been in limbo between 3 to 6 months depending on which issues of that comic they appeared in (if that series counts). I'm not sure the draw is there for a seperate series, and the current writers just don't have a place for these characters in the stories they're telling. Every book will have a depowered character except X-Men and NEX, and even before Jubilee's disappearence, it seemed like Marvel needed to figure out what to do with her and her age. I'm sure their will be writers in the next big shake-up who will feel these characters have been gone too long...if the current writers don't have some surprises in store for us.
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You got such a good reaction rom fans in HoM. Seeing Synch. Seeing Jubilee. Seeing Magik. I would love to see you guys write the young version of the Exiles.

Thanks again. I miss Synch SOO much. seeing him and Jubilee in the same book drove me near crazy.
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I read that according to the new writers, Dallas wasn't on the bus and didn't die.
Where'd you read that?

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You know, I'm not sure if I want David repowered. Very hard decision, because I think he's cool either way. I loved his power, but I also like how C&C and writing him depowered.

If ever someone needed a clone, it's David, so I can't have one with powers and one without!
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How exactly is David's last name pronounced? I've always pronounced it "uh lane" (first syllable like "align"). Am I anywhere near close?
Huh, I always pronounced it "a line" (first syllable like "apple" )
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I imagine they'd also want more of James Marsden as well.
Ah, I was talking to a friend last night, and he told me that the reason SPOILER! Cyclops was cut out so early from X-Men, was because he was playing Perry White's son in Superman Returns, and the X-Men production team didnt want to cast a new actor as Cyclops, so they rewrote the whole movie with his much smaller part.
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That's been a problem with all 3 movies. I don't think this latest one is any worse in how it treats Cyclops. I wouldn't mind seeing him SPOILER! come back from his death/off-screen exit to lead Colossus, Shadowcat, Iceman, Rogue, and Gambit.
That would be just plain pure awesome.
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I read that according to the new writers, Dallas wasn't on the bus and didn't die. Maybe, he's hanging out with his grandfather or hooking up with a baseline girl right now. By the way, he's on my Re-Power Top 10 List along with Rictor, Chamber, Magneto, Professor X, Blob, Prodigy, Wind Dancer, and the 2 ladies mentioned below. (I wonder if I'm leaving out another character I like.)
Thats right, I completely forgot, he didnt die. They did say that, I remember reading that. Was that here? Or at Uncannyxmen.net?
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When they said that, I got the feeling that they were talking about Generation M, and I think they have been in limbo between 3 to 6 months depending on which issues of that comic they appeared in (if that series counts). I'm not sure the draw is there for a seperate series, and the current writers just don't have a place for these characters in the stories they're telling. Every book will have a depowered character except X-Men and NEX, and even before Jubilee's disappearence, it seemed like Marvel needed to figure out what to do with her and her age. I'm sure their will be writers in the next big shake-up who will feel these characters have been gone too long...if the current writers don't have some surprises in store for us.
Yeah, I thought they were talking about Generation M too.

But what do you mean, every book will have a depowered character except X-Men and New Excalibur? Who is the character in Astonishing X-Men?
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You know, I'm not sure if I want David repowered. Very hard decision, because I think he's cool either way. I loved his power, but I also like how C&C and writing him depowered.
No way, I want David repowered. I know he's still really smart, and a great strategist, but he had a very unique power, and I really want him to be an X-Man one day.

That leads me to a question, how exactly do David's [former] powers work? I thought he absorbed the knowledge and skills of others, so that would be languages, sports skills, anything practiced or learned, right? But then how is it that he can see where people's punches are coming first, or know which way they are going to go while playing basketball? I never quite understood that part...
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But what do you mean, every book will have a depowered character except X-Men and New Excalibur? Who is the character in Astonishing X-Men?
It's an off month so I forgot about that title. I guess there's a joke in there about Joss Whedon retaining his power too.

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That leads me to a question, how exactly do David's [former] powers work? I thought he absorbed the knowledge and skills of others, so that would be languages, sports skills, anything practiced or learned, right? But then how is it that he can see where people's punches are coming first, or know which way they are going to go while playing basketball? I never quite understood that part...
You have to think "I'm throwing a right hook to the jaw" before you do it, and David picks up that knowledge and moves out of the way.
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It's an off month so I forgot about that title. I guess there's a joke in there about Joss Whedon retaining his power too.
Oh, I thought there was a secret or something about Wolverine inviting Jubilee to come to the mansion or something... I got excited for a second.
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You have to think "I'm throwing a right hook to the jaw" before you do it, and David picks up that knowledge and moves out of the way.
But that always seemed like regular telepathy to me, and David's telepathy was much more about the subconscious mind than the conscious mind.



Ah, I thought up more questions! These ones are about some of the code names of students on Alpha Squadron. How did you come up with the codenames for Indra, Kidogo, and Loa? What do they mean?
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I agree, it would have been so much better if Cyclops played a larger role, but we have to remember that movie makers dont make movies for the comic reading public, they make them for the movie going public. And movie going girls who dont read comics want more Hugh Jackman, and movie going boys who dont read comics want more Wolverine slicing everything in sight.
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I imagine they'd also want more of James Marsden as well.
Well, the scene where he falls to the ground looking at the camera had its good points, enough to forgive the story for not focusing so much on him.
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Alleyne is the last name of a good friend of mine.. he pronounces it like "Alan or Allen"; a as i apple.
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Ah, I was talking to a friend last night, and he told me that the reason SPOILER! Cyclops was cut out so early from X-Men, was because he was playing Perry White's son in Superman Returns, and the X-Men production team didnt want to cast a new actor as Cyclops, so they rewrote the whole movie with his much smaller part.
That's wrong - Zak Penn himself answered some questions from (mostly irate) fans at the X-Verse forums last week and he said that when himself and Simon Kinberg first came on to write, the studio weren't even going to have Cyclops in the movie...at all!

Penn and Kinberg had to fight for what small part he got...
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That's wrong - Zak Penn himself answered some questions from (mostly irate) fans at the X-Verse forums last week and he said that when himself and Simon Kinberg first came on to write, the studio weren't even going to have Cyclops in the movie...at all!

Penn and Kinberg had to fight for what small part he got...
Ah. OK, thanks. I guess I'll hafta beat up my buddy for giving me wrong information then, lol.
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Ah, I thought up more questions! These ones are about some of the code names of students on Alpha Squadron. How did you come up with the codenames for Indra, Kidogo, and Loa? What do they mean?
Indra is the name of an Asian God which bears striking similarity of Thor; except Indra is the God of both War and Weather (though he seems to have been quite a grumpy and hostile bugger, which seems strange given what a pacifist the Indra of the comic is).

I always thought a loa was that flora garland tourists purportedly receive when they land in Hawaii, but it acording to ye olde Internet the Loa are the spirits of the Vodoun religion practiced in Haiti. Also, Mauna Loa is also the name of the largest volcano on the planet, which co-incidentally forms half of the island of Hawaii, so I think that's the what it's in reference to.

Kidogo might be a reference to a series of books in which a young elephant (certain that he is the smallest creature on earth), leaves home and journeys over woodlands, rivers, and plains searching for someone even smaller than he is - given his powers it seems plausible How close was I?
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Kidogo might be a reference to a series of books in which a young elephant (certain that he is the smallest creature on earth), leaves home and journeys over woodlands, rivers, and plains searching for someone even smaller than he is - given his powers it seems plausible How close was I?
N&C said "kidogo" means "small" literally .
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I read Three Strikes and loved it. Thought it started out a bit slowly, but that was important to get us to care about the characters. I think I should probably lower my grade of Skinwalker, because as much as I liked it I thought Three Strikes was a lot better. Review's on the site, if you're interested.
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I don't know if this was asked before..but honestly i just want to understand some characters.



First i just want to thanks the Creators of New X-men Academy x for making me read comic books again i stop reading for years,I've always loved the new Mutants and their rivals the first team of Hellions [ Empath ( he was so cool really nasty) Roulette, who's dead now , Tarot ...)

Second i love the new Background characters like: Jessie ( Preview ) , Hope ( Trance ) or Blindfold this are some of my Fav. I know they don't have spetacular habilities but they work for me.

Blindfold ( the girl who looks like Destiny, Mystique's friend) ... well she's a clarevoyant , so how that she dind't saw the M day coming ??? or the bomb in the bus ? or Northstar ??? ... strange.

Jessie Vale ( preview ) my fav of all ( that's me ! really )... is she dead ? is Sarah Vale ( Network - another great character with so much to develop ) her sister ?

and why hasn't Elixir repowered all the students after the M-Day like he did with Rahne's powers ??? strange...

probably i'm making silly questions ..

but if you could answear this questions that would be GREAT !!!

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Just found this thread! It's so cool to see your comments, Nunzio! All this talk about your run on New Mutants/Academy X is just making me realize how much I miss it.
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Khary Randolph's issue (which got cut in half when the suicide was pulled) was beautiful, and the best pages were left behind. It's a tragedy that a lot of the gorgeous stuff he did (one page of which is framed on our office wall) was never seen... [It pictured] Josh going to apologize to Victor and finding his body. It's stunning.
Wait, what? You're talking about issue #12 of vol. 1, right? What did Josh do to Victor in the first place? When was this? Was Victor dead?
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Just found this thread! It's so cool to see your comments, Nunzio! All this talk about your run on New Mutants/Academy X is just making me realize how much I miss it. Wait, what? You're talking about issue #12 of vol. 1, right? What did Josh do to Victor in the first place? When was this? Was Victor dead?
No, he's talking about earlier. Victor was originally slated to commit suicide. I'll let Nunzio tell you the rest.
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Didn't he already explain it in some detail just a few pages back? (I'm sure it was only a bit before what you're quoting Pyro#maniacx) Or was it longer ago than I remember? lol
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