Comics The '07 X-Event: Endangered Species, Messiah Complex, & Disassembled

[Snikt 6]

That would be cool. Getting him on the Uncanny team would be awesome also.

 

[El Bastardo]

Sunspot rocked in X-Force.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

That would be cool. Getting him on the Uncanny team would be awesome also.

The Adjectiveless team could use his superstrength more. Uncanny already has Warpath.

 

[Snikt 6]

He was really good back in New Mutants also.

 

[Snikt 6]

The Adjectiveless team could use his superstrength more. Uncanny already has Warpath.

True dat.

 

[OutcryX]

Yeah but in addition to the strength he can fly and shoot sh_t with is sun-like energy..thats black....Warpath just has heightened senses and super strength with i think speed....i hope they retconned his flying ability

 

[DarthCyclopsRLZ]

*snorts*

The current UXM crew could use about ANYONE when Storm leaves.

 

[Havok83]

Yeah but in addition to the strength he can fly and shoot sh_t with is sun-like energy..thats black....Warpath just has heightened senses and super strength with i think speed....i hope they retconned his flying ability

I dont. I hated it and wish it never was put on him

 

[Specter313]

^Still? He went there, what 6 years ago and he is still just a chillin'?

Essentially he's running it. He's the Lord's Cardinal of the HFC now.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

*snorts*

The current UXM crew could use about ANYONE when Storm leaves.

Husk FTW!

 

[Havok83]

Husk FTW!

No bc the team needs Archangel more and there sno way in hell I want tehm together

 

[OutcryX]

They need Angel/Archangel WHY exactly? to fly around and provide them with a breeze when its hot?

 

[Slant]

He makes for good covers, with the wings and all that.

 

[Havok83]

They need Angel/Archangel WHY exactly? to fly around and provide them with a breeze when its hot?

bc I like him damn it! Thats all the reason needed

 

[Specter313]

IGN Comics: A few questions about the first chapter of Endangered Species then. You touched upon this a bit already, but why is Beast so obsessed with this mutant cure? We've seen him tackle "impossible" situations before, such as when he tried to cure his physical deformation. He gave up on that. This time he's not. Can you elaborate why?

Carey: I think there's an awful lot more at stake here. There are several of us writing these pieces, and we talked about it extensively together. Writing Beast is basically writing a scientist as a hero. This is the rationalist mind, the scientific mind, approaching a problem which is baffling, terrifying and almost intractable, but not insoluble, because no problem is. Surely human reason can ultimately address and grasp anything? So Beast comes at this with the belief that if there's a question, there has to be an answer. It may not be an answer that he himself can find, but he's been an X-Man, he's been an Avenger, he knows a lot of powerful people. If it's not something he can solve himself, surely he knows someone who can. That's the dynamic and rationale.

IGN Comics: Speaking of knowing people who can potentially "fix" things, Beast turns to some very interesting people including Dr. Doom and some other villains. He's turning to a very dark place we've never seen him before. To me it's always seemed as though Beast, and perhaps you feel a little differently, is the one who always takes that high ground. So what in him makes him deal with devils? We're talking about a very big change for a very beloved character basically.

Carey: Oh, of course. I think it's because we're coming in at the end of a process. You'd have to imagine, and the first story fills in some of these gaps, the Beast doing everything that he possibly can himself. He's never going to ask somebody else to do something that he hasn't already tried to do. He's working himself almost to death, and then approaching Reed Richards, Tony Stark - all of the benign geniuses of the Marvel Universe. And he's striking out again and again and again. Finally, reluctantly, desperately reluctantly, he reaches the conclusion that before he takes the next step he has to be sure he hasn't left anything else out. He needs to ask these others because one of them might have an answer.

IGN Comics: Well, we have one last area to talk about as we look to the future. Messiah Complex. I'm sure you can only talk about it in a teasing sense, but what can you tell us about that story?

Carey: -laughs- Messiah Complex. I think as far as X-Men crossover events go that this is something pretty special and pretty unique. It's big. It has the Uncanny team, the adjective-less team, X-Factor, New X-Men and most of the Astonishing cast. But at its heart it's a very, very simple story with a really solid emotional core to it. It comes down to a clash between two characters - two people, two mutants who we know have a lot of weight on their shoulders and a lot of status in the X-Universe. And it's a face-off between these two people, each of whom has very good reasons to act in the way that they're acting. After that clash, everything else, the bigger events, spin out from that one core event.

The other thing I'd say is that Messiah Complex is something that all of the X-books have been building up to, for at least a year. All of the writers have been talking to each other and we've all known where we were going. We've all gone away from these retreats saying, "Oh, I could do that or I could do that." We've all been planting seeds, and all of those seeds are about to blossom in very unexpected ways.

IGN Comics: Can you comment on the creative process behind Messiah Complex and how the work is being split between you and Peter, Ed and Chris? At this point is all of Messiah Complex laid out and you're simply scripting?

You also mentioned this is a very emotional event which would seem to imply that it relies on a lot of subtle characterization - how are you writers managing to do that when each chapter is being passed to someone else?

Carey: You have to bear in mind that we've been planning this for a very long time, and most of that planning has been face-to-face - all the X-Men writers and all the X-Men editors in the same room for several days at a time, thrashing out ideas and hammering out structures. We have a very detailed scene-by-scene plan now that we've all played a very active part in constructing.

But that's only a part of the answer. the other part is that we're passing the baton in a very precise and coordinated way. Each of us is working from the full set of scripts to date when we write our own chapters - and each of us getting a chance to comment on each script as it comes in. It's not scripting by committee - that would almost inevitably lead to blandness. It's more like we're all acting as editors of each other's work.

IGN Comics: Can you comment on some of the major players in Messiah? We know the following play an important role: Sinister, Mystique, Xavier, Gambit and Madrox (to name a few). Can you offer clues as to who this Messiah might be?

Carey: Yeah, those are certainly some of the big players - although arguably they leave out the two biggest. Mystique is worth watching closely, especially in view of the events of #200. Readers are going to be left with some big questions in their minds with regard to her state of mind and her agenda.

Who is the Messiah? Doesn't that beg the question of whether or not there is a Messiah? All we know, or maybe all we can infer, is that somebody sees himself or herself in that role. Somebody has that kind of an agenda. I wouldn't for a million dollars say anything that would close down the possible associations you might have to that phrase.

Well, maybe for a million dollars I would. But not for twenty.

IGN Comics: -laughs- I'll get working on that... Will Sebastian Shaw be involved in Messiah? How about Magneto?

Carey: Shaw won't be playing a part in this. I didn't put him into Endangered Species as a way of flagging him up as a potential player. I just wanted that conversation between him and Xavier to take place. In another situation, at another time, it might have been a conversation between Xavier and Magneto. It was just a beat I wanted to hit.

Magneto is back in circulation, as we're seeing in Uncanny. And the question of mutant survival is obviously one that's going to be exercising his mind a lot. But as to how exactly he gets involved in the crossover... sorry, you'll just have to wait and see...

IGN Comics: Thank you so much for your time, Mike!

Carey: Not a problem, Rich! Any time!

 

[Cdnmouse]

What a pretty Silvertri cover.

 

[DarthCyclopsRLZ]

Yeah, those are certainly some of the big players - although arguably they leave out the two biggest.

Cyke and Hank pulling a Chuck/Magneto, anyone?

 

[Slant]

Yeah, I think its those two.

 

[DarthCyclopsRLZ]

Carey's 'selling my soul' wording in ES does seem to hint at such an outcome, eh.

That, and Beast not appearing with the good guys on any promo shot.

 

[Jennifer Walters]

That Silvertri cover reminds me of a Star Trek poster. Tis cool.

 

[DarthCyclopsRLZ]

Or a Star Wars poster from the last 3 flicks with good acting this time around.

 

[Snikt 6]

Makes sense to me ..... Beast and Cyke.....hmmmmmm.

I guess its Beast's turn to loose it......

 

[UraniaChang]

Kind of miss Mr. Sinister, whem he used to pine after Cyclops for his sperm...I mean DNA.

 

[DarthCyclopsRLZ]

Can't wait to see what spawned this 'Kill'em All' policy.

Sure it can't just be the Metallica album lying around or him watching one too many Seagal flicks.

 

[Havok83]

Kind of miss Mr. Sinister, whem he used to pine after Cyclops for his sperm...I mean DNA.

hopefully this event will make Sinister more like the competant bad ass he was originally bc he's been a joke in recent years. When was the last good Sinister story? Nah, I cant even remember