December 14 2010
Wil Wheaton praises Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men.
He recommends the Gifted tpb for those who are fed up with the Hollywood treatment of superheroes.
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marvelknight616 | December 14, 04:19 CET
espalier | December 14, 04:22 CET
Matt7325 | December 14, 04:35 CET
war_machine | December 14, 05:26 CET
ern | December 14, 09:38 CET
" 'Cause your friends don't (read Astonishing X-Men) and if they don't (read Astonishing X-Men)
Well they're no friends of mine!"
OneTeV | December 14, 10:37 CET
I wouldn't mind seeing Joss take on a project like Witchblade; I loved that comic when it first came out (granted, I was in high school at the time), but from about issue #40 onward, I just lost interest. I'd be interested to see what Joss would do with that property.
CowboyWitch | December 14, 11:09 CET
Simon | December 14, 11:13 CET
CowboyWitch | December 14, 11:34 CET
vaygr | December 14, 11:52 CET
(to those who were wondering...this is a paraphrase of a Casey Casem quote.)
Hjermsted | December 14, 12:41 CET
5X5B | December 14, 13:30 CET
There was potential there, sure. Potential in the TV series too, at least the first season (second season had a very cool set-up, for a TV show--an entire season that would be a Groundhog Day-like repeat of the first--except they didn't run with it as crazily as they should've and made the huge mistake of switching from the arc nature of Season 1 to mostly a series of standalone eps). It was cheese at times, sure, but I liked Yancy Butler in the lead (just spotted her in Kick-Ass last week). I can see why you think Joss'd be well-suited to give his take on it, lotta girl-power in the franchise, but he's shown since Buffy that that's not all he's about or even interested in continually pushing to the forefront of his work (then again, but his own admission, he couldn't resist featuring a young superpowered girl in each of his TV works--eventually Angel got Illyria, River recovered and kicked ass on Firefly, and Echo evolved in Dollhouse).
Wheaton was so goddam hot as Fawkes in The Guild.
Kris | December 14, 20:21 CET
So glad to know I'm not the only one who aoured on Witchblade. Honestly, Turner's art was what originally drove me to the book, and why I followed him when he left Top Cow to start Aspen (another book I loved early on then lose interest). Witchblade was just never the same after its creators went on to bigger and better things.
R.I.P. Michael Turner, too. :(
I could never get into the TV show, no matter how hard I tried. It'll be interesting to see if a movie comes into being, given Hollywood's love for all things comic book the last several years. In the right hands, a Witchblade movie could be a very, very good thing.
My desire to see Joss handle Witchblade has less to do with the girl-power theme (though it's there, won't lie) and more to do with seeing how great he was when someone entrusted the X-Men to him. Astonishing X-Men was excellent, so if he ever decided to write another childhood comic favorite of mine, I won't complain. :P
CowboyWitch | December 14, 21:15 CET