Post by Icefanatic on Nov 17, 2017 15:59:49 GMT -5
www.bleedingcool.com/2017/11/17/x-men-nightmare-jeff-lemire/
You can tell he really didn't want to even touch the crap Bendis did with Iceman.
I still haven't finished reading Extraordinary X-Men. I started with the first few issues when the series launched, then dropped it along with everything else Marvel for abut a year. I've tried going back and reading some of the run after that to fill in the gaps but it's just an unpleasant chore to read. And I say that as someone who ranks Lemire's runs on Old Man Logan, Descender at Image and Bloodshot at Valiant as some of my favorite books.
It feels like a lot of the X-Books in recent years have been fill-in stories between editorially mandated plot-points, where things are often just in a holding pattern until the next big preplanned thing happens, with characters feeling like props and puppets instead of the people they are actually supposed to be.
Jeff Lemire Says Writing X-Men Was “Kind Of A Nightmare”
Italian website Fumettologica interviewed Jeff Lemire and had lots to ask him about his work, including current Image titles Descender and Royal City and Dark Horse title Black Hammer.
But also about his Marvel Comics work and how the different books… well, differed.
“Certain books like Moon Knight total freedom, they never gave me any notes and you can kinda see it in the work, it’s the best thing I did….
…. the X-Men stuff was… Kind of a nightmare, to the honest. Really difficult. I came into [it] and they already had storylines in place I had to use that I probably wouldn’t come up with myself, and I felt editorial was very restricting in what they wanted. And too many notes. And then you start second-guessing yourself. It’s just not a good situation. That wasn’t a great experience, but on the flip side, doing Moon Knight was really fun.”
You can tell he really didn't want to even touch the crap Bendis did with Iceman.
I still haven't finished reading Extraordinary X-Men. I started with the first few issues when the series launched, then dropped it along with everything else Marvel for abut a year. I've tried going back and reading some of the run after that to fill in the gaps but it's just an unpleasant chore to read. And I say that as someone who ranks Lemire's runs on Old Man Logan, Descender at Image and Bloodshot at Valiant as some of my favorite books.
It feels like a lot of the X-Books in recent years have been fill-in stories between editorially mandated plot-points, where things are often just in a holding pattern until the next big preplanned thing happens, with characters feeling like props and puppets instead of the people they are actually supposed to be.
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