She's my favourite character too. I'm sure she'll pull through. She's had a couple of insanity periods, like when she lost her kids, but she eventually pulled through- but agatha erased her memory, which kinda led up to dissasembled.
It also seems that xaviers having a hard time getting into her head. I read an interview from Bendis that it's taking all of his energy to try and supress her insanity. It also looks like that the only resons why mags has his power upgrade is because of Wanda
LAYLA WHO? BENDIS & BREVOORT TALK LAYLYA MILLER
Say hello to the character Marvel promises will soon be, “…the most important person in the Marvel Universe”…
She may be small and doesn’t look all that tough, but Marvel’s summer steamroller House of M introduces Marvel readers to Layla Miller, who according to the solicitation for July’s HoM #4, is “the newest of new mutants” and who has the fate of the entire world resting on her shoulders.
Those are pretty big words, so Newsarama thought you might like an early introduction.
Who is she exactly and why is she getting this kind of advanced billing? We went to HoM writer and editor, respectively, Brian Bendis and Tom Brevoort for some answers. And though understandably tight-lipped this early on, here’s what they had to say in a brief Q&A…
Newsarama: Gentlemen, first off, can you expand on the solicitation copy at all? Who is Layla Miller?
Tom Brevoort: She's a brand new character who'll be appearing for the first time in House of M, and then will go onto other things once that series is done.
NRAMA: What can you readers about the creation of this character?
TB: Brian made her up.
Brian Bendis: I’ve said publicly that last year, unintentionally, was a year of a lot of killing for me … just kind of went that way …and that this year would, intentionally, be a year of a lot of creation. Expect new characters in almost everything I do. New villains in New Avengers and Ultimate Spider-Man. New heroes like the new White Tiger in Daredevil and whoever Layla Miller is.
NRAMA: Saying she is going to become the “most important person in the Marvel Universe” is a pretty bold statement in a universe that has a Spider-Man, Hulk, etc… Is this just solicitation hyperbole or are you already preparing to back this up?
TB: She's the most important character in the Marvel Universe as far as House of M is concerned.
BMB: Which is the entire Marvel Universe [smiles].
NRAMA: The solicitation also implies this is the “first” of many appearances for her, which is often music to collector’s ears. Is Layla a character that may be appearing in her own series in the future, or play an important role in the core X-titles being she’s a mutant?
TB: Yes, she'll definitely be appearing post-M - but just where, we can't reveal just yet.
BMB: Exactly. Sorry…
NRAMA: Okay then, on the macro side Layla would be the latest over the last few fears of new, young, female characters – including (but not even limited to) X-23, Arana, the aforementioned White Tiger, and the new Scorpion. Brian Vaughan’s Runaways are predominantly teen females at the moment. Spider-Girl is getting a big summer Marvel Universe crossover limited series. And there have been projects like Sean McKeever’s Mary Jane limited series for example.
It seems like Marvel has passed its own self-imposed version of Title IX. Why are young women being given such a spotlight in the contemporary Marvel Universe? Is it just coincidence? Or the obvious answer - to attract that readership and appeal to the manga audience? Or something else entirely?
TB: A little from column A, a little from column B. There hasn't been any specific mandate to suddenly produce a whole slew of young female characters. That said, it's a demographic that the Marvel Universe and the Marvel publishing line could use more of, so it's completely natural that people would begin to develop characters in this direction when the opportunity arises.
BMB: I noticed this too, I see it as a lot of creative people seeing a glaring hole and everyone rising to the challenge to fill it. I heard no mandate. I just looked around and felt something was needed and it looks like other people did too.
Speaking of House of M, while all parties remained pretty tight-lipped about the specific premise behind the storyline, Bendis added a little flavor to online speculation at a new interview with Westfield Comics Roger Ash.
“When we open up on House of M, here's Wanda constantly playing with reality like a band-aid, just trying to make herself happy in her own little room and Xavier trying to stop her from doing it because the consequences of her actions are too much for the world to take,” Bendis tells Ash. “Every time he does, it just reminds her of what she's done to the Avengers. She has moments of clarity. It's just getting worse and worse. You can see that holding her down mentally is taking every bit of energy Xavier has. It's more than he can handle.
Later, Bendis and Ask talk about the related limited series and ongoing series tie-ins to the event, again addressing a point that seems to be at the heart of speculation about the story.
”You can read them separately, or you can read them together, of course you'll need to have read House of M but what will shock people is that it's not an alternative universe,” said Bendis. “This is actually really happening to the Marvel Universe.
“See how cryptic yet interesting I'm being? [laughs] I want people to open it up. By the end of issue 2, people are going to be like ‘Oh my God’. The end of issue 3, I guarantee you, is my best last page of a comic ever. I guarantee you. Everyone who's read it has called me up and said, ‘Get out of here!’ I think by the end of issue 3, we'll crack the Internet right in half. I think that'll be it for the Internet.”
oh, and for that guy who didnt believe wanda coudnt turn wolverine into anti-matter:
Originally posted by stormfront13
yeah i never really got her powers. i mean she could be powerful. idk her powers were always confusing to me. does anyone know what she can do now with her upgradew?? i know she took out the avengers so it must be good
If you wanna see part of what wanda did, Avengers #500 is online at the marvel website:
http://www.marvel.com/dotcomics/index.htm
In the next issues, she conjures up a Kree Army, which results in hawkeyes death. Then she conjures up everyones enemies out of thin air, b4 being put into a coma by dr strange.
