CBR: X-POSITION: Matt Fraction

[CBR News]

The writer of "Uncanny X-Men," Matt Fraction swings by X-POSITION to discuss transdimensional psychic necromancy, the white-hot flames of crisis and truth, and answer your questions! Plus exclusive art!


Full article here.

[Pixie_Solanas]

The writer of "Uncanny X-Men," Matt Fraction swings by X-POSITION to discuss transdimensional psychic necromancy, the white-hot flames of crisis and truth, and answer your questions! Plus exclusive art!


Full article here.

OH BOY! oboy oboy oboy!

[Home made ectoplasm]

When a new writer comes aboard a long-running comic book title, they are faced with several challenges. They have to find ways to make the old seem new; they have to bring change, but make things feel the same; and hopefully they are able to find ways for their unique “voice” to shine through pre-established characters and tropes of the title.

Well, if the mail we received for this week’s X-POSITION is any indication, Matt Fraction has succeeded in all these arenas with Marvel's “Uncanny X-Men.”

Loooooooooool

[.LuckyStar.]

To be brutally honest? I saw more value in bringing a character of color into the book than yet another white face.

How racist!

[theXfactor]

Wait... Is that Psylocke's new costume (in the first image)?

[Pixie_Solanas]

To be brutally honest? I saw more value in bringing a character of color into the book than yet another white face.

Yeah, but Psylocke isn't really a character of color. The character turned into a cheap, infantile way to play off some Asian fetishes. Skintight ass floss and some jiujitsu moves? Whoooo.

She's about as fleshed out as Ahmed the X-Men Forever cop.

[.LuckyStar.]

Wait... Is that Psylocke's new costume (in the first image)?

Yeah. I think Dazzler is wearing a new costume too!

[Pixie_Solanas]

Yeah. I think Dazzler is wearing a new costume too!

If she's sporting the cowgirl chic, all is forgiven.

[Bronze Badger]

I need Ben to weigh in on this immediately.

Question: Why don't the X-Men have a PR staff and a legal team in place for situations like this? It seems like Trask and Humanity Now! can always outmaneuver the X-Men because they're working within the “non-superheroic” arena of the law. No matter how much one would like, one can't optic blast legislation away. Shouldn't the X-Men be playing this angle and looking into high-powered legal teams as well?


Matt Fraction: I think we're slowly creeping towards that kind of stuff in the periphery. Mayor Sinclair isn't going away and...well, they're gonna need it with where we're going, post XVDA. That said, the two-fisted adventures of a canny PR staff and a break-all-the-rules legal team might not make for the most scintillating comics...I mean, I'd read it, but you know how that goes.

And isn't...like, wasn't Dazzler a lawyer, too, before she was a pop star and a superhero? There's your new Dazzler book: lawyer/glamazon pop idol/X-girl. Throw in a talking animal sidekick and a love triangle with a scrappy paralegal and a strong-chinned but small-hearted has-it-all boss and you've got next year's fan-favorite title.

[Bronze Badger]

Yeah. I think Dazzler is wearing a new costume too!

That looks like Outlaw. Hard to tell though.

[Naira K]

Ah, Dodson's art is beautiful to me.

[Pixie_Solanas]

Mayor Sinclair isn't going away and
.

GROAN!

Throw in a talking animal sidekick and a love triangle with a scrappy paralegal and a strong-chinned but small-hearted has-it-all boss and you've got next year's fan-favorite title.

GROAAAAAAN!!

[Bingo!]

I don't mind Fraction on Uncanny so long as Bland isn't providing copy/paste "talent."

Too bad there isn't much meat in this article.

[.LuckyStar.]

That looks like Outlaw. Hard to tell though.

Not the cowgirl. The one between Psylocke and Domino. I guess. lol

[timbox]

How racist!

I knew you wouldn't let me down.