Marvel has finally announced the new creative team for Astonishing X-Men; to be renamed Astonishing X-Men: Second Stage, after Whedon and Cassaday finish their run.
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Warren Ellis (Transmetropolitan, The Authority, Planetary, Nextwave, newuniversal) is the new writer, with Simone Bianchi (Seven Soldiers: Shining Knight, Green Lantern, Wolverine) taking on the artistic duties.
First Off, Warren Ellis doing X-men is MORE than worth its own thread. Second, Ellis has stated that he's not sure what the roster is going to be, so that picture is wrong.
If you want to know how good Ellis is, pick up T.Bolts or read his Avatar work; Black Summer or Doctor Sleepless !
I actually love Simone Bianchi's art, imo it's definitely at least on par with Cassaday's, so I'm pretty pleased about the decision to put him on this book. So at the very least I know I'm going to love how it's going to look.
I've liked what I've read of Ellis' work before, but I suppose I'll have to wait and see whether I like Ellis' take on this book though, what changes are made, to the style and tone, to the line-up (from that very rough preview image, one could possibly hazard a guess that X-23 may be graduating from the kids' table, but then again it's a very rough preview - none of those characters may be in the team), whether he can capture their personalities and dynamics.
I like the current line-up though, hope he at least keeps Emma Frost and Kitty Pryde in there.
I wasn't really a fan of Cassaday's art in Astonishing X-Men, so I'll be glad to see a new artist on the book. However Whedon did a great job, so I'll be sad to see him go.
God I Love bianchi's art, I just wished he'd stp giving feral characters these ridiculous overbites.. wtf..
__________________ "damn jinzin, you're a real trooper, you provde fact after fact and pages and pages of proof and these wanton miscreants just keep at it"~MERC
__________________ "damn jinzin, you're a real trooper, you provde fact after fact and pages and pages of proof and these wanton miscreants just keep at it"~MERC
It's the (under) Overbites I tell ya, that's the one thing I think he needs to get under control,cause he's way out of it drawing them that way, but by and large thought his art was superb... I don't know what was wrong with the fight scenes other than repeatative hand poses.
__________________ "damn jinzin, you're a real trooper, you provde fact after fact and pages and pages of proof and these wanton miscreants just keep at it"~MERC
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Jul 29th, 2007 03:33 PM
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