LWW: I love that you've kept David [Alledyne] around, as a depowered student, I particularly liked the Doug Ramsey reference. Do you have any plans to give cameos of small moments to any of the other depowered students, particularly those who have left the school?
CK: We have stories mapped right up until the crossover. At this stage I don't see too many more of the depowered students coming into play yet. It's tough to say, in the crystal ball, what we have planned for this series or ourselves after the big crossover. Whatever lends itself to a good story or makes the most sense for us will do. Just like we focused on our core group of kids, focusing on David as a depowered kid makes him special
if we were to bring anyone else in I don't think we'd have them stay long because we don't want to pull that light off of David. He's such a great guy, he just proves that the training he received as an X-man and who he is as a character stands
it puts him in a place where he can sit alongside his team-mates and do a great job. Not yet, maybe, but David's our guy for the moment.
Will Illyana any version of Illyana be joining the New X-Men team at the end of the The Quest For Magik storyline?
I don't want to give away too much and I think it would be unfair to
although Chris and I have knocked it out, I really look upon this as Chris' chance to do some of his own stuff without me meddling in how some of these pages will turn and how some of these stories will happen, so I don't wanna betray him on this one. All I can tell you, being an old fan of comics and loving those old stories, we hope it's a story that resonates with guys like us, gals like us, that it has great meaning to long-time fans and that people who have been following our book see it as a story that they really wouldn't have seen coming down the pipeline given what we've done so far. It has a wonderful heart at it's core and that's what we talked about when we started doing this series, how do we make this an emotional story. He had some of the epic elements to it in place in his mind and I said what are people gonna really care about here? What's the journey that makes this such an engaging, moving story, and I think that it has that now.
Having a character like Illyana as the object of desire and pulling our kids into a fight that may not be theirs but one which they've been handed either way is gonna make for a beautiful story, and I am so excited for what is gonna happen to some of the second-tier kids. Pixie, Anole, some of these guys are going to have moments that I think even their hardcore fans won't see coming and haven't been expecting and I imagine the majority will love it, some won't, but all I can tell you is it's not going to disappoint. The talents involved with this book are incredible, and it's a great turning point, it's a great new chapter in their existence and I'm really excited for everyone to get into it, it's gonna be great.
What would you say to fans of Illyana who are little worried that the introduction of any character of that name won't live up to their affection for and memories of Illyana Rasputin?
I think what's fair to say is that you could put ten fans of any character together in a room and you could please two of them whole-heartedly, irritate three or four completely, and then find shades of emotions in-between both of those for the rest. For me and this is the way Chris & I approach all of our work, whether it's animation or comics what's important is identifying the essence of the character, what do we see as the elements that make them loved or hated or so important to the fans, and we do our best to celebrate those elements. You're never gonna nail it for everybody.
You could read ten different breakdowns on what's great about a character, and none of them would be the same, so all we ever try to do is get close enough and look to ourselves at what love, what do we care about, what do we think will be meaningful, and then shoot from the hip, because if you start to scrutinise yourself and listen to the internet too closely you all of a sudden become petrified and can't move and can't make a choice, it happens to everyone from greats like Sam Raimi to poor schleps like us and you just can't do that. If you're moved by it, if you're passionate about it, if you're excited by it
Chris and I both believe it's going to have that same connection with the fans; not all of them, that's never the goal, but as many as you can get. That's what I would say to anybody out there: move yourself and that should translate to a wider audience.
The Illyana that we're going to see
how is she different or similar to the Illyana that we've known before?
Again, I can't get into that too much
all I can say is that the Illyana that Chris & I think about, care about, is the one that we all grew up with, the one that Colossus loves more than anything else in this world. That is the character that we care for. That's about the best I can give you as to the kind of version of her or the direction that we thought about when moving into the story.
When I think about Illyana, I immediately think about Belasco, who to my mind is one of the most under-utilised villains that Marvel has. Any sign of Belasco?
[laughs] I'd say you should definitely look into this chapter of New X-men . I think you'll be very very pleased [laughs] hopefully Chris won't club me for saying that [laughs harder].
After this we're moving towards the big X-book crossover. I know there's a limit as to how much you can say about that
but are you looking forward to getting the chance to write some of the other X-characters?
I tell ya, Chris & I are really excited because we came in right after the last big crossover [ House Of M ], so had missed out on that first opportunity for the books to intermix. That was kind of a bummer. It was a good time for us to come in but we would have loved to have been part of an everybody in the mix' storyline.
It was a fantastic meeting in New York. With as many characters as all four of these books share and the kind of ideas that the editors had in mind and that the creators were bringing forth, it was a little crazy on day one, and I think we had had 12 or 15 huge sheets of paper that we had put on the wall and were starting to hammer out the details and map this monster of a story out. We went home that first day and went brrrrrh, I don't know if we're gonna get out of this thing [laughs] cause we're not making a lot of headway and then day two came and it just clicked; slow-burning in the beginning but it was amazing how stories started to dovetail into others and characters that were established in all the books were starting to have similar goals in mind yet their paths would cross in destructive and massively conflicting ways, both on the sides of villainy and on the side of heroics. I was amazed, I could not believe how much ground we had covered in that second day, and by day three it was really dotting is and crossing ts. It was exceptional.
What Chris & I wanted to see when we walked out of there was
we wanted to know that it was gonna matter and it was gonna make some change and not just feel like if you didn't read it in all honesty if you read the issues after it's not going to have any influence; and it was great. To Joe Quesada and Alex Alonso's credit and that's not to take anything away from the other editors in the room they really wanted to redefine the X-universe, get in there, make some changes, give it some life, a new direction
now that reformation was settling down
if the books deliver the way we've discussed, this is gonna be a hell of a ride for everybody. There's going to be some wonderful mixing and matching of characters and teams, and when it's other, things will be different. Not in such a way that you're not gonna get the books anymore, but in a refreshing and exciting way. I think it's gonna be a lot of fun getting there. There's so many wonderful things I wish I could tell you about, but someone up above would beat me up if I did.
I appreciate that
in terms of characters that are on the other X-teams, are there any in particular that you're looking forward to writing?
Some stuff that I'm anxious to see is some interaction between Wolverine and X-23 I'm obviously incredibly biased in that way for me that's a very unfinished chapter of her existence and I'm really looking forward to them having some time together. His life has changed a lot in the last couple of years in comics, I don't know what that's gonna do to that exchange when it gets to happen. I'm anxious for them to have some time together when they can bear soul as much as possible, being who they are. That's what I'm looking forward to, which is a very personal stake. There's lots of other stuff I'm looking forward to ,bigger event stuff, some action elements that are going to be incredible and some of the emotional stuff that's gonna happen in other books I can't wait to see how it happens, there are some incredible opportunities for wonderful emotional moments between all kinds of characters, between hero and hero, hero and villain, villain and villain, it's gonna be exciting.
So any characters, so many storylines, so many things moving already in a certain direction, to have those weave together, make sense, improve and mean something, that's not easy and we didn't have a ton of time to bring all those pieces together but with the editors in that room and Joe [Quesada] involved at every stage and all of us working together, it just came together. It was not easy, but I have all the faith in the world that this thing is gonna deliver.
Might we see another Anole-Northstar moment?
Y'know
I guess I can safely say
I don't think that's on the cards right now. Those kids are gonna play a part in that but I'd say the core group of our kids will be far more in focus than some of the secondary kids. I'm not saying Anole will stay where he currently resides as far as rank in our title, but I wouldn't say all 27 of the kids that still remain are going to share equal spotlight in this coming event. It's our core seven and probably a couple of others as well.
Having just had the issue with Selene and Wither
how long do you plan to keep us waiting before we see them again?
That's a great question and it's something we've talked a lot about, having set this in motion. We're mapped up to the crossover. Whether or not we even get to see a peak of them, I don't know, there might be a chance between Magik and the crossover to see a little bit of that but it's too tough to say at this point, because if it's going to be a part of anything, it needs to matter, it needs to be given the proper amount of time. We're anxious to get there, it just depends on how everything moves to the event and where we stand at the end of the event that's gonna be the next year, what do wanna do, what's the plan for us, for the title, I think when we get closer to the end of the crossover we'll have a better sense of when that will come to life, but we do have plans.
With Nimrod, Stryker & Selene
they're all classic X-Men villains. Are there any plans for any New X-Men specific villains to be developed?
I think there may be elements that can be woven into the Selene arc that we have loose ideas for, but for us trying to make these kids matter in the eyes of comics fans who don't read the book or don't care about the book, or who, for whatever reasons, got out of the book, we thought the way you give them some validity is have them face foes the X-Men themselves have struggled with or not defeated, and that gives them some credibility. For right now we're focusing on bringing the bigger threats of the Marvel Universe against these kids. Once they've really proven themselves we'll worry about bringing in someone who's unique to them and their situation.
Thinking of the core cast you're working with, have you consciously tried to make Julian a bit more likeable?
Well, who doesn't love that gruff hardened exterior, the scoundrel who in all honesty is not as tough as he or she would claim to be; to me those are the most endearing characters. Chris is a big Cyclops fan, he loves the boy scout, for me
I prefer the scoundrel not Wolverine, but the flag-weaver doesn't do it for me all the time. I prefer my Emma Frost to my Jean Grey any day of the week, to me it's a much more complex character.
I'm not putting down Chris' taste, it's just he likes these heroes through and through and I respect that but I celebrate the scoundrels with morals I'll kill this guy and this guy and this guy, but not her. I'll steal from these people and not them. I like that, to me that's a much more interesting kind of character. I liked Julian's attitude and his rudeness and his edge and his fiery temper, but when Chris & I were talking we said there has to be more to him than that, there has to be a reason why he's this way and why he's so angry and it can't just be that he's a bad guy. We have some thoughts on that, we haven't been able to get into it as fully as we planned but this is an ongoing story. We love his connection with X-23. We still think he's a prick but we believe he has reasons behind it, valid or not, he does have reasons why he's the way he is, and to me I think that translates into him being a little more likeable because he's not just a jerk, he has moments where he's actually nice too.
The way his powers have been increased did you feel the need for the team to have more of a powerhouse on it?
We had some things in mind when we moved forward, and then as they evolved pieces fell into place and came together and that moment with Julian really happened because when they lost Tag
when that bus strike happened, they were unable to save their friends and Rockslide froze. They had really failed everyone themselves, their friends and in this final fight they had to get to a place where no matter what happened they weren't gonna make the same mistakes.
Rockslide believed he was giving his life when he jumped in the way of that beam by Nimrod he was fortunate not to die he did what he did thinking he wasn't going to make it. Julian wasn't going to put one more of his friends even someone he's barely got to know - in the ground. That was over for him, that wasn't gonna happen, so for me and for Chris it was about having them fail in so many ways and giving them an opportunity to do it one more time and no matter what they took they were willing to make whatever sacrifices were necessary and that's why Julian went the route he did. I think he's gonna shrivel now, his abilities, he's not quite ready for this power, but just like Rockslide he made that decision knowing that it was a risk, but one he was willing to take. It wasn't to make him more powerful, it was to further his character.
When New X-Men: Academy X first started there was a real sense of rivalry between Julian & Nori. Do you feel they've moved to a position of mutual respect now?
Yes and no, I think there's definitely more respect between them but Julian doesn't quite respect surge's authority or the need to answer to her, and she
Nori doesn't take that well, and she shouldn't, at the end of the day she's the boss and Julian should listen. They're still working that stuff out. I think there's a little bit of that Jack & Sawyer thing going on they can work together very well if they do, but they still struggle to find an even ground to work together on. They're far from buddies, for sure. That's the thing, we hope no-one gets too comfortable.
I think one of the best duos right now and again this goes back to Chris and how well he's handled these two characters and their moments together is Anole and Rockslide. They're hilarious together, and the mutual disrespect they show for each other is fantastic. They both give it to each other and it's great, I just love it. Secretly, yea, they like each other but they would never, never let anyone know that they're friends because it would be bad for both of them, and I love it, I just love it, they're just so crabby to each other and it always makes for a great scene. There's a lot more of that to come and you can look definitely look forward to more of that in the Magik arc, too. It's such a great duo and Chris has a great sense of how they should be together and sound.
Given that Santo's a bit of a bully, why does Cessily admire him so much?
I think he's just that dumb lummox, if he knew better he'd probably act better, but he doesn't, he's just so stupid and we have to take that into consideration. He's never been unkind to her, y'know, if there's anyone besides Hellion that he really cares for, it's Cess, and she loves that, and that's why she will stick up for him. She'd smack him if he's being rude but she'd also attack anyone who'd ever challenge him because she knows there's sweetness in him, it's always in her direction, so
what are you gonna do? He's never shown her an unkind moment, so how can you hate him? He's not an unkind person; yea, he's a dick, but he's not a bad person so that's what's good about Santo a little bit like Hellion but not to that degree. He plays rough and tough and yes he's strong but he's just a big dummy and he's one of our favourites. We love that guy, we loved him before anyone else did, and we love that people have come around to the guy because we always felt that for him, we always felt he could be a breakthrough favourite, and I love that those two characters have this sweetness between them. How can you hate someone that loves you so much?
It seems like it's Cessily's turn to be put through the mill now
[laughs loud] Everybody's in a line, dude, she just happened to jump to the front
How are we going to see Santo react to that?
I think you know that everyone's anxious to get home; sadly they're going to be late, in many ways, but
y'know, I think that's more of a long-term question, how's it going to affect her, how's it going to affect him, what's it going to do to her after it's over. Just like the attack on the bus, it's not going to be all seen right away, I think it's something that's going to be a wound that's not going to heal for her and a character like Santo who can come up to you and talk feelings, y'know, so even if he had it in his heart to try, I don't even know if he'd know how to approach that issue. I see them as an ongoing storyline and something that will evolve with time.
I wouldn't say you're going to see a lot of reaction from Santo right away. I think it's something that as cess processes what she's been through, the misery and the pain she's getting a taste of what X-23's been through her entire life, and that's going to be an eye-opening thing for her, too that's really going to affect their relationship, now that she has had just a small taste of the horrors X-23 only knew as her life, it's gonna change her.
Are we going to see The Purifiers, with this story, start to develop as a long-running threat for the New X-men?
I can assure you you have not seen the last of The Purifiers. They are still on God's mission and they will not stop until the last one is in the ground. There are many many battles to fight and, unfortunately, some sooner than later.
My favourite character in the book, by far, is Anole, I love him
[laughs joyously] Wow, you have to start the fanclub because I assure you, you have about a thousand strong out there waiting to join you.
Yea [chuckles]. Given that until recently he's had only a small role in the book, what do you make of his huge popularity.
I don't know why you're asking me, I should ask you, why do you love this guy? Chris & I are still trying to figure this out ourselves. He's had maybe 5 pages of comics in thirty-something issues. What is it about him that you love?
It's partly that he's that sensitive guy, that sensitive kid who's stood slightly aside from things a lot of the time and is discovering sarcasm, and that takes me back to high school, and he's got a great visual and look, he can be really cutely drawn there are some agonising moments, because when he looks sad, your heart breaks.
So you like the emotional angles? I agree with that. Ask my wife, I'm the one who cries at movies, she doesn't, I say she's dead inside
My wife would say the same thing [both laugh]
It's pathetic, I'm watching American Idol and they're having a girl call her family saying she snuck out to go and audition and I'm oh no, here it comes' I'm a sap, I can't even watch Extreme Home Makeover anymore because I can't stand the last ten minutes [vigorous laughter from both] so I can definitely connect with that. I think some of it is that there aren't a lot of great gay superheroes out there and I think people love the fact that he is and that he's part of a team and I think that's wonderful. I would tell anybody, I don't care if a character's gay or straight, they've gotta be good, it can't be their sexual orientation
where they lie as far as romantic connections to other people
it's part of who they are but it shouldn't be why they're popular, in my view. That's my opinion.
For someone who'd like to look for characters like myself in comics, I can see that, but as far as Chris & I are concerned that's not a good enough reason for him to be popular, so we want to make that kid shine, we want him to be special in our eyes, we want him to have many wonderful qualities as well as being a cool gay character in comics. So for a long time Chris & I have been trying to figure what to do with him, what do we do to make him someone we're more excited to draw, to write, and to tell a good story about. I think we did it and I think you're going to see this in the coming arc with Magik and
you may go what did you do? You ruined
AHH!' but I can assure of this we're not gonna kill the kid.
We want him to be exciting, we want him to be cool, we want everyone to root for him, we don't want one group to scream louder than the other, we want everyone to celebrate him together. He's everyone's hero, but then again we love that there's a part of his sexuality that brings in a new fanbase to him but what we really want him to be a wonderful character, we want everyone to love him. I think we've found that. He had a nice base to start and I think we found a way to elevate him a little bit more and make him someone that anyone who loves a good young hero can get behind
but who knows and there'll be plenty of Rockslide problems down the road but we're excited about him. If I'm excited about two characters in the coming months, it's him and Pixie.
You say Anole has a fanbase as a gay superhero, but he's not out in the comic, is he?
I guess not, officially, but Chris & I look at it this way: if you have a gay friend that's largely true to themselves, you usually get a sense that that's who they are and we're not talking any particular stereotype here but if people are more comfortable with themselves they may not have come out and said this is what I am, this is who I am, deal with it or not'.
We thought about that, like that moment, if we wanted to make more of it, and we have some thoughts on it but for us
we're not ignoring the fact, we absolutely are aware of it and it's nice, it's refreshing, it's unique to this kid and we know that, but we don't want to just be the straight guys handling the gay kid, forcing him into some ridiculous scenario where we're writing painful scenes between him and his father
we just want to do him justice. When, if we hit that issue, we want to do it right, y'know? [ Young Avengers writer Allen] Heinberg did such an awesome job of writing characters who are gay, straight and everything in-between and I love it it's respectful, it's cool, it's fun, it's not too safe, it's very natural, and that's what Chris & I want to do.
We think we can write any character black, white, gay, straight, transsexual, you name it, and we can do it honestly through just trying to connect with a human emotion, a human being, and that's what matters, not saying it's more authentic because I share this trait or that trait with the character. If you can connect them on a human level and express that in a way that we all believe is honest, sincere and emotional, then we've done our job. I just don't believe you need to fall into any of the same categories as your cast to do them justice; but if we're going to do that issue, and we've talked about it, we want to do it in a way that feels right. We don't want it to become a mockery, we just want to do it right for him. He deserves it as a character, he deserves that respect; and when I say respect I don't mean like it's going to be this Hallmark movie of the week, it just needs to be appropriate for him and we need to be proud of it, that's all.
I hate PC, I think it's destroyed the English language, it's destroyed communication, you have to be so careful what you say these days it's disgusting so to me it's like
I just don't worry about those kind things when we tell a story, we just want to be truthful. We don't want to be not offensive if you're offended, good for you, don't read this. To me, we just want to get it right, not deliberately make it so you can read it in some 5 th grade classroom.
The concern for me is
I want to see diversity in comics, I'm excited to see a variety of good gay characters in comics
and the concern in my mind is
outside of print, different creators have said he's gay, we know that, but not everyone reads interviews and the internet. My concern is you can reach a point where you have someone like Northstar who after the early 90s, after he's come out, gets his own mini-series. No mention of it and he's right back in the closet, y'know? My concern is that if nothing's put in print then it's easy for another writer who has a different agenda to come on down the line, brush over everything that's gone before and suddenly Anole's being written in a different direction and it's you thought you knew him? You thought you had that feeling about your friend? You thought you knew something about them that they'd not actually said? Well, this time you were wrong'.
I think you're right, I think if the issue is brought up in that way and who can forget the 90s? - Northstar was on the cover, he was screaming, it sold 2 million copies and then yea, it kinda went away. I think if you're going to handle that issue and say we're gonna bring him out, this is gonna be a storyline, like anything else you do it's
it may be a weird example but when [Brian Michael] Bendis brought Daredevil out and said look, this is who I am, I'm Matt Murdock', he had to deal with years of what comes with that kind of announcement. It's not a perfect analogy, but the idea being if you're gonna approach that as a story, that Anole's gonna reveal to his friends, openly, just so everybody gets it I'm sure Rockslide has no idea yet, cause some will know, some won't, Rockslide will probably still not figure it out when he says it to his face but if you're going to handle that issue, if you bring it up then you've gotta know that that's an ongoing part of that character's life, so I agree.
When and if we decide to bring that piece of the story out and tell that story, it needs to be ongoing, like any thread that we would tell. The only thing we would also be careful of is that we wouldn't want this to be a comic book where the issues we are covering outshadow the stories we're trying to tell for everybody else. That would be my concern. It's a team book, you don't want anyone going ugh that's that story with the gay kid', you don't want anything to take away from all the others and their sagas and their stories and their pain and Anole is going to have a very tough road ahead. It's never easy for a kid in that situation, in a world that has come a long way but has a much further way to go. It's an important story to do and it handle right and in a balanced way that doesn't take over the book. All of those things are thought about when we talk about writing Anole.
In the medium to long-term, would you like to see Anole become part of the New X-Men team proper?
I'd like to, he's been someone we've talked about every issue since we started. We couldn't get our head around why he should be part of the team before that and I think we are getting closer to that reasoning as we move forward. We're getting closer to that place every issue, and the Magik arc is gonna decide a lot.
Now, Dust, who I think is another great character but someone who's waiting for her moment to shine and for her full personality to come through. How much thought have you had to put into accurately depicting her faith?
Early on in our series it was really important for us to show her doing her daily prayers, to show her speaking to God when the children were killed, having her moment with X-23, trying to explain faith to her when she has no understanding of that. I'm sure in her past she's worn a burka and killed those in Dusts' country but she has no understanding of the higher meaning of faith and religion and so we've tried to find those opportunities to investigate the wonderful wonderful character that Grant Morrison created.
Even though we cut our team back, there's only so much time in every issue to let everyone have a moment to shine and be a part of the story. We definitely want to do more with her, but as of right now Cess has shifted into the front place, I think the next storyline's gonna take our core kids but some of the B-team move up front
all in good time. We love her, we think she's spectacular, and it's just
we try to pepper in those moments, where appropriate, and she has a fantastic backstory that we would love to investigate, it just depend son what else is going on in the stories we're telling now and how things move because, inevitably, as you start moving into a series and tell stories things you thought about early on tend to fall away and other stories begin to be inspired by work you've already put into the book and that's happened in a couple of places and in that case you've got to do what's best for the series and what people are going to enjoy the most. We have to make choices as we go on some issues and with Dust we'll have to see what feels right and what opportunities come up as the issues move on.
She's close to being invulnerable in her sand form does that make her difficult to write in combat scenes?
The tough thing is, we actually had her maim and kill some people when The Purifiers struck the Mansion, and that really affected her. She's somewhere between the idea of God Allah gave me these gifts' and I used these gifts to kill'. She's tormented by that decision and some of the things that Chris & I talked about are how would a look inward to what she did and the actions she's taken compared to X-23. Here she is, she took lives to save her friends, from people who would have killed them and tried and X-23 has killed because she told to and programmed to, she's killed absolutely everything because she was forced to, so X-23 looks back and she sees a pile of bodies, she doesn't see a few lives she's had to take, and she has horrible horrible guilt over it, so again, that's being able to put two characters together and see what happens when those issues are debated because if Dust can't get over what she's done, how can X-23 get over the gravity of what she's done, the acts she's committed in her life.
I think we need to be careful with how we use Dust because we can't make her a murderer anymore, and her powers are deadly she pulls the skin off of bones, so we're being very mindful of how we use her and what she goes up against and depending on the forces the New X-Men face it may allow her to push harder with those abilities where if she was facing humans or standard' mutants she might be a little more apprehensive. It's tricky from many angles, not just from a powers standpoint but from a spiritual standpoint and how she looks at the acts she commits with those abilities.
You've talked about how we're going to see some of the second tier characters get some page time and a little action. We've talked about Anole, Pixie who else will be getting their moment?
Pretty much all of the kids. I'm not going to say that they're all going to speak or all have going to have spectacular moments in the coming stories, but I'd say all of the New X-Men kids not just the core team and the two we've talked about will have page time in the coming arc, and most likely have some moments in the crossover. They won't all have huge speaking roles and stop rogue creatures or what have you, but I think everyone will have some face time in this Magik arc, for sure, and of those second-tier characters some will be play a much larger role than other.
But you don't want to tell me who?
[laughs] I want to tell you who, but this is Chris' story. I think Nezhno gets a line
all I can tell you is they're all gonna play a part, I can't get into specifics
I may lose a partner after this
[off the record spoiler removed]. It will be great. Everyone's gonna get a moment if we can possibly give them one, that was always the plan with this one, to look around the house and see who have we dealt with, who's still hanging out, who didn't get on that bus [evil cackle]
you'll be seeing them all.
Do you have any particular favourites amongst that second tier?
[Pause] Pixie
What in particular appeals to you about her?
I guess I could say very little right now, but I have a feeling that's gonna change [long, enthusiastic laughter]. If there's any one of the second tier that I'm excited about, it's Pixie. I look at her and I see a wealth of opportunity, so let me be the fan of the internet for a moment and yell she has
so much potential'. Let's just see how this all shakes out. Coming soon: join us for Part 3 to discuss why the original New Mutants left the book, Craig's long-term plans, and learn the unexpected link - in his head at least - between Dust and Mercury
