In unrelated (and old!) news -- Donna Troy is dead! I'm so hurt by this. I liked her.
Hee! ita's behind the times. Don't worry, odds are it won't last.
There was an interview with Scott Allie, the editor of Dark Horse's horror line (and Conan), here at the Pulse. Most of the interview deals with the
Conan
relaunch, but he had this to say about the upcoming
Tales of the Vampires:
THE PULSE: What's coming up in Buffy?
ALLIE: The new thing is a series overseen and partly written by Joss called Tales of the Vampires. All the writers on the series are from the TV show, and we're telling stories of vamps throughout the ages. After that, Joss is gonna give us some direction on where to take the comics series after Season Seven, but we haven't worked that out yet.
Annotations for 1602.4? What's up with the black cat with fangs?
I'm going through the annotations, and:
"He could not, however, “make people see things that are not there.”
Xavier can't do that? Ever?
Is anyone going to explain the X-verse? I've been reading Grant Morrison's New X-Men tpbs, and we recently picked up an Uncanny X-Men tpb which appears to be marginally related, at best (not to mention, is rather crappily written).
Are annotations for 1602.4 up yet? (Just got it at lunch. Very confuzzled.)
Trying to explain the X-verse is like trying to catch an otter with an oiled up pair of barbarecue tongs. The best you can hope for is that one series when written by a single author is consistent, that's about it.
Uncanny and X are written by two different authors, usually, and usually try to focus on different team members. Uncanny usually tries to focuse on the old-school members and the X-men tries to focus on the X-men in general...
There's also at least one other x-verse, where some of the characters are younger, and one where Prof X is a captive of Magneto's.
Ultimate X-men, I think. The Ultimate series of titles are reconceptualizations of core Marvel characters in the modern day. For instance, Ultimate Spider-Man has Peter Parker still in High School, and so on...
What's the one where Spidey's young, and meeting Wolverine for the first time? Too many adjectives.
What's the one where Spidey's young, and meeting Wolverine for the first time?
I believe that's in
Marvel Needs to Clear Out the Contradictory Canon Cruft a la Crisis on Infinite Earths
