News on New Warriors *spoilers via link*
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There's a Christos Gage interview up on Newsarama here. Please be warned, that there are spoilers for upcoming issues and several preview pages (with the New Warriors and MVP's father).
NRAMA: That said, the implosion of the Initiative happened largely without Osborn's interference. In your view, would what is going down in the pages of the Disassembled arc have happened without the outcome of Secret Invasion and Osborn taking over SHIELD? It seemed that the stresses were reaching a boiling point...
CG: It's true, the Initiative imploded largely through its own mistakes...and some help from the Skrulls. I think you're right in that the Initiative would have to have changed significantly even without Norman's involvement...but it might actually have changed for the better. With Norman swooping in to take advantage of Ragnarok's rampage and the New Warriors' revelation of MVP's death, he's basically used the events to reshape the Initiative in his image...and that's not good news for the country.
NRAMA: At the same time, you also pared down the Scarlet Spider population, and made it clear that the New Warriors were watching the program...larger picture for your team, why did that need to be done?
CG: I killed off one of the two remaining Scarlet Spiders because I thought it made the final one more unique and left him in a more interesting place. He's always defined himself as one of several...almost part of a hive-mind...and now he's got to learn how to be an individual. We'll be following his journey in upcoming issues. As for the New Warriors, I wanted there to be the nucleus of a resistance to Osborn's Initiative already in place, and Dan and I had set up the New Warriors in that role back in issue #12-they vowed to keep an eye on the Initiative and keep them honest. (They were called Counter Force at the time, but as soon as I got the OK to use the New Warriors name again I jumped on it.) Of course, the Warriors will be chagrined to realize that they inadvertently helped Norman remake things in his image...we'll see how they react to that in #25.
It feels sad looking at those first few preview pages. Maybe that will change when there's text to read but Ramos' style has really grown on me with Runaways and the Initiative, he conveys wicked amounts of emotion through his pencils. Sandoval will be taking over from next issue I think, so we will have to get used to a new artist again.
There's a Christos Gage interview up on Newsarama here. Please be warned, that there are spoilers for upcoming issues and several preview pages (with the New Warriors and MVP's father).
NRAMA: That said, the implosion of the Initiative happened largely without Osborn's interference. In your view, would what is going down in the pages of the Disassembled arc have happened without the outcome of Secret Invasion and Osborn taking over SHIELD? It seemed that the stresses were reaching a boiling point...
CG: It's true, the Initiative imploded largely through its own mistakes...and some help from the Skrulls. I think you're right in that the Initiative would have to have changed significantly even without Norman's involvement...but it might actually have changed for the better. With Norman swooping in to take advantage of Ragnarok's rampage and the New Warriors' revelation of MVP's death, he's basically used the events to reshape the Initiative in his image...and that's not good news for the country.
NRAMA: At the same time, you also pared down the Scarlet Spider population, and made it clear that the New Warriors were watching the program...larger picture for your team, why did that need to be done?
CG: I killed off one of the two remaining Scarlet Spiders because I thought it made the final one more unique and left him in a more interesting place. He's always defined himself as one of several...almost part of a hive-mind...and now he's got to learn how to be an individual. We'll be following his journey in upcoming issues. As for the New Warriors, I wanted there to be the nucleus of a resistance to Osborn's Initiative already in place, and Dan and I had set up the New Warriors in that role back in issue #12-they vowed to keep an eye on the Initiative and keep them honest. (They were called Counter Force at the time, but as soon as I got the OK to use the New Warriors name again I jumped on it.) Of course, the Warriors will be chagrined to realize that they inadvertently helped Norman remake things in his image...we'll see how they react to that in #25.
It feels sad looking at those first few preview pages. Maybe that will change when there's text to read but Ramos' style has really grown on me with Runaways and the Initiative, he conveys wicked amounts of emotion through his pencils. Sandoval will be taking over from next issue I think, so we will have to get used to a new artist again.