I've read that Astonishing (not Astounishing, I have to keep reminding myself) can be considered the replacement (not the right word, but continuance is probably wrong, too) for Grant Morrison's run on New X-Men. (To confuse matters further, Marvel will be coming out with a title called New X-Men: Academy X that is supposed to be a continuation of New Mutants. Gotta love Marvel).
OK - key question: how many titles does this mean I'm going to have to keep up with just to keep up with Joss' run? Is Joss on for X (heh) number of issues, or is it open-ended? If anyone knows. Including Joss.
I believe it's a 12 issue run. (For Joss at least. Not sure about the title.)
Marvel has stepped away from massive X-title crossovers, so you probably can get the full story without scratching your head too much just by reading Astonishing's 12 issues...
In fact, all the X titles seem completely unrelated at this point.
I was hoping for some Kitty Pryde in Joss's X-Men. As surprises no one, she's my favorite character. (What? A small, bookish, Jewish performer-type with headaches? No!) I'm so relieved to see she will be old school Kitty and not this new thing I've been told is Kitty. (I'm a bit of a crappy X-Men fan, as my current reading of comics has me only caught up to around 1984.)
ETA: Also the computer-nerd thing has no small part in my Kitty love, and where I see a big Kitty-Buffy parallel is dealing with superpowers while your parents are mid-divorce. All the while being expected to go to school, and trying to have a nice, normal life with a boyfriend who's too old for you. (Granted, there's a big difference between 200 years older than you and 5 or 6 years older than you, but still.) Which, by the way, I never forgave Colossus for Secret Wars. (I'm all out of order in my reading of X-Men related stories...)
Just a reminder to everyone that Tales of the Vampires #4 is supposed to be in the stores today.
There is also a decent interview with Sam Loeb, who wrote a story for issue #5, up at The Pulse.
Remember folks, it's not what you know, it's who you know.
Is there any way this isn't a dig at the first movie (white fonted):
Scott: Sorry Logan, Superheroes wear costumes. And quite frankly, all the black leather is making people nervous.
Once again -- I really liked the Jane Espenson story but actually both stories were good. I'm not sure I understand what it is that the kids have suddenly understood in the framing story.
Sumi, I think the vampire storyteller has mesmerised his captors, and they're bringing him the children as dinner.
