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From today's LITG: At the DC Writers panel at Emerald City ComiCon, Ed Brubaker announced that he has signed an exclusive contract.

With Marvel.

What. A. Bummer. (for Gotham Central fans)

― Huk-L, Monday, 7 February 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

Yeah - even if there was some clause to all Brubaker to continue working on GC, the DC muck-a-mucks would probably give him the high hat upon learning this news. (They kick Jae Lee off of a 6-issue mini once he signed his Marvel exclusive.) Here's hoping they don't shitcan scripts already in the chute.

And I assume / hope this doesn't kibbosh any non-Big EB projects, like his IDW pirate vampire mini-series w/ Sean Phillips.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 7 February 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

Pirate vampire? You're kidding right? BRING ON THE RUFFLED SHIRTS!

― Huk-L, Monday, 7 February 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

Maybe he can take over District X.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 7 February 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

Isn't Lark on The Pulse now? Maybe, uh, y'know...

― Huk-L, Monday, 7 February 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

This article (towards the bottom) says that Bru may have been joking!
http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=4779

― Huk-L, Monday, 7 February 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

This article http://www.newsarama.com/Marvel/CAp/BuckyBarnes.htm makes me want to read Captain America. Which goes against every Canadian fibre in me.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 4 May 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

It's really really good! Join the empire, Huk!

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

How far along is it? The highest issue # mentioned in that article is 5, I think. Is that the most recent?

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 4 May 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

I believe so - it's been delayed a bit. You should be able to find the first 4 issues around & about, tho.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

Thanks.
It's a big hit with the dudes at my local comic shop, but they say nobody's actually buying it.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 4 May 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

Fans r hella stupid!

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

seven months pass...

Oh, I REALLY hope this is true, R!ch:

It's not just the world of mutants that's changing after "House Of M." The comics are also going through yet another revamp and creative shift, before the next movie comes out and before the 500th issue of Uncanny X-Men. Ed Brubaker is favourite to write "Uncanny X-Men," while Chris Claremont is being shunted off the central titles yet again...

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 00:59 (nineteen years ago)

"Favourite"?

― Obsessing over the unobtainable and nonexistent. (Leee), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 01:07 (nineteen years ago)

British?

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 01:16 (nineteen years ago)

Is he?

― Obsessing over the unobtainable and nonexistent. (Leee), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 01:50 (nineteen years ago)

I kinda figured that they were grooming Brubaker to become the main X-writer - there were some things he said in recent interviews that made it seem like a strong possibility.

It'd be nice if they only had two main X-Men titles in 2007, one Brubaker and the other Milligan.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 01:52 (nineteen years ago)

No sense in continuing with Astonishing X-Men after #18, you know? The three team thing overextends the cast, they'd be wise to cut the group in half rather than thirds.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 01:53 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't read much of Brubaker's more recent stuff. Is he as consistently solid as he used to be? If so, I can see myself getting sucked back into the X-books.

― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 02:51 (nineteen years ago)

His first issue of the X-Men miniseries was okay, but not particularly mindblowing. I figure he's a competent writer for the series, but not at all an interesting choice. I can't imagine him being very adventurous with the franchise.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 03:18 (nineteen years ago)

He's unadventurous and rarely thrill-powered, but a consistently good storyteller, and gets the right balance between grim, grit and joycore -- which is enough for me. He's sort of like PAD and BKV -- I can push his stuff on non-comics readers without fear of our mutual embarassment. Catwoman probably his highlight.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

Above An Accidental Death and The Fall?

― kit brash (kit brash), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 11:00 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't read those, thanks for the tip!

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 11:17 (nineteen years ago)

The Fall was pretty decent, that was my first exposure to him as a writer.

I would have rather them bring on Brian K. Vaughan to do the real X-Men rather than Brubaker. He did a lovely job on Ultimate X-Men, and he seems better suited to the job than Brubaker.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

I think some folks need to read Authority: Revolution ASAP, esp. if you're worried about his adventurous side!

His best Catwoman stuff was the 2-issue arc he wrote w/ Javier Pulido (&, as folks have noted, it's the closest he's come to revisiting his indie roots). Gotham Central is probably better overall, tho, and Captain America is as solid as solid gets.

My personal fave.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

I get really worried when comics fans use the word "solid" to describe something, since it so often seems to be a synonym for "risk-free boilerplate."

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

I wouldn't exactly call THE RETURN OF BUCKY risk-free.
There's nothing obviously WHEEEEE! about Brubaker's Captain America, but it's, yeah, solid. It's reliably entertaining and non-embarrassing.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

Did he seriously bring back Bucky?

Oh lord, that's exactly the sort of negative risk-taking that I'd like to stay far, far away from my X-Men.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

READ IT BEFORE YOU JUDGE

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

So I guess we can look forward to the stunning revelation that Jean Grey was actually The Changeling ever since the mid-60s!

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.scottsaavedra.com/apr2005/vibrator-ad.jpg

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

Thank you, Huk.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know if I can picture him as a great X-writer, but he'll always have my heart for Sleeper.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

Brubaker is at his best when writing non-superhero books. ACCIDENTAL DEATH is a chilling and sobering story with wonderful art by Eric Shanower. SLEEPER isn't really a superhero book in my estimation (my, how convenient). It plays with some of those conventions, but it's really a crime/character study. CATWOMAN is certainly his best superhero work, and as pointed out above, it was best when he reached back to character-driven action with expressive and "cartoony" art. His work for Marvel hasn't really inspired me. CAPTAIN AMERICA is solid, but it's not risk-free boilerplate, reading a lot like SLEEPER starring Steve Rogers minus the superhero parody.

His DAREDEVIL may rock the house, but I can't be sure until I give it a read.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

I've got a three-issue run by him on Detective (from before I was really paying attention to credits) where Batman, Retired Gordon, and the Golden Age Green Lantern team up to solve THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING DONAIR, and it's really quite excellent.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

he should do a gotham central thing with the x-men... like focus the series on the security guards at professor x's school!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

Matthew, I have a feeling that Deadly Genesis is going to get very Bucky-is-back-and-EVIL.

― Flyboy (Flyboy), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

I was using "solid" to mean "consistently entertaining". I guess I don't really see Brubaker as particularly risk-taking, to be honest, but I don't exactly associate "risk-taking" w/"consistently entertaining", either. Brubaker has a niche within which he works very well. I certainly don't begrudge him for not straying too far outside of that niche. I pick up his books expecting them to be high-quality, enteraining reads, and I've never been disappointed on that count. Whether that makes him a suitable X-writer is a whole other question.

― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

YES YES AUTHORITY: REVOLUTION IS GREATE! Except for the last issue which looked and read slapdash. He doesn't inject new ideas into the Authority so much as he injects them WITH THRILLPOWER HORMONES.

I would have rather them bring on Brian K. Vaughan to do the real X-Men rather than Brubaker. He did a lovely job on Ultimate X-Men, and he seems better suited to the job than Brubaker.

Matthew, I'm a bit surprised! BKV's UXM JTS IMO with the whole LONGSHOT mini-arc, and ever since, it's been very blase. So much so that I exchanged it for some Shulkie goodness.

― Obsessing over the unobtainable and nonexistent. (Leee), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, Leeeee! There was no shark jumping during BKV's UXM! It was all above-average superheroic goodness! Tho I am still partial to CHARLES XAVIER VERSUS THE STAIRS as the highpoint of his run.

BTW, rumor (via Paul O'Brien) has it that the Secret Baddie in Deadly Genesis is, um, Thunderbird. Rejoice, Mr. Perpetua!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

That isn't the super secret baddie, not according to what I've heard.

I don't know how to spoilerize text, so I won't post it here unless there's demand.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

His superhero stuff always seems like he sees it as hackwork - it feels like hes going through the motions somewhat. But hes such a good craftsman and, yes, solid storyteller, that its better than a great deal of the work of his peers.

I think with Catwoman and Sleeper the Spandex stuff is sidelined just enough that he can treat it almost as non-superhero work - as pointed out above, both books read like crime fiction, which seems to be more where his heart lies - and so you get more emotional investment.

Hopefully, this will mean that his Daredevil will be fantastic...but I can see X-Men being competent but uninspired.

― David N (David N.), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 22:48 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah yeah - I was gonna correct myself & say that THUNDERBIRD IS BACK, not that THUNDERBIRD IS EVIL MAN MAN.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 01:49 (nineteen years ago)

Either of which isn't all that exciting, David.

I could give another hint...

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 02:17 (nineteen years ago)

Save it for the rumor columns, Matt!

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 03:08 (nineteen years ago)

WHERE IS THE LOVE FOR DEADENDERS, PEOPLE!?.

― Amadeo (Amadeo G.), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 04:06 (nineteen years ago)

I don't write them, just get blog material from 'em...

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 05:23 (nineteen years ago)

Hint! Is it a human or a large living iyay-andlay?

― scamperingalpaca (Chris Hill), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 05:25 (nineteen years ago)

Bigger than a breadbox, smaller than Karakoa, or however it was spelled.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 05:43 (nineteen years ago)

KRAKOA

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 07:17 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, smaller than that.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

BTW, the March Marvel solicits might reveal a bit too much re: EB's plans for Daredevil. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

Also, this is off-topic, but: the cover to March's She-Hulk might actually redeem Gr3g H0rn a smidge!

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

Well, really, that's all that's left for Bru to do after the Smith/Bendis fatwa on everybody else.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

Don't forget Miller! He killed what's-her-face!

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

four months pass...

Marvel knows they've gotta lock that down.
http://www.newsarama.com/forums/showthread.php?t=68662&page=2

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 28 April 2006 00:37 (nineteen years ago)

I wasn't very into his X-Men mini, and dropped it abt halfway through.
Which x-men title is he going to be writing, and what's the current status of said title?

xoxo
too lazy to read newsarmada,
ian

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Friday, 28 April 2006 03:18 (nineteen years ago)

He's going to be doing Uncanny X-Men, which will take off more or less directly from Deadly Genesis. Charles Xavier, Nightcrawler, Havok, Marvel Girl, Warpath, Polaris and one other character are going off into space for a full year of issues on the trail of Vulcan, the third Summers brother, who is out to take revenge on the Shi'ar empire. Art by Billy Tan.

It's kind of a step down from what he's doing with Daredevil.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 28 April 2006 10:02 (nineteen years ago)

I suppose if you're going to the sodding Shi'ar Empire again, at least it's a bunch of no-marks that no-one will miss (and Nightcrawler).

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 28 April 2006 10:10 (nineteen years ago)

Deadly Genesis is SO RUB!

And YMOF's comments on the Shi'Ar seconded, it's like every X-Men writer thinks "Yes, maybe *I* shall be the one who tells a good Shi'Ar story!" and then is inevitably crushed by their own hubris.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 28 April 2006 10:54 (nineteen years ago)

It's the old "Daredevil writers are rub at supercostumes" trope. (See also Bendis, Miller.)

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Friday, 28 April 2006 11:19 (nineteen years ago)

B-b-but Captain America (which hasn't really be a super-comic, anyway).

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 28 April 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

I will defend Deadly Genesis from claims of rubdom.

― #1 Identity Crisis Semi-Fan (popshots75`), Friday, 28 April 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think it's bad, it's just his other stuff is much better.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Friday, 28 April 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

I can get behind that.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 28 April 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

I think that Deadly Genesis is really weak, but I'm kinda optimistic about Uncanny X-Men right now.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 28 April 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

Disclaimer: I know this question should be reserved for, say, X-Fans, but:

Question: what's up with the third summers brother? Can someone explain it?

― kenchen, Tuesday, 2 May 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

haha someone should link to that story pitch for apocalypse as the 3rd summers brother

― dave k, Tuesday, 2 May 2006 22:43 (nineteen years ago)

Who's the 2nd summers brother? Andy?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 00:53 (nineteen years ago)

The second Summers brother is Alex, aka Havok.

It's not all fully explained yet, but apparently the third brother, Gabriel aka Kid Vulcan, is younger than Scott and Alex. The wikipedia explains it fairly clearly:

Recently, Vulcan has been revealed to be the unborn child of Christopher and Katherine Summers, the parents of Cyclops and Havok. It is therefore theorized that Katherine was pregnant when the Summers were abducted by D'Ken and this child was born, or possibly surgically removed, on the Shi'ar throne world and raised as a slave until his powers manifested and he was somehow able to return to Earth with little to no memories of who he was or where he came from.

He chose the name of Vulcan from a book on Roman mythology, and Charles Xavier recognized his mental imprint as being related to Cyclops. He was one of the team, including Petra, Darwin, and Sway that attempted to rescue the X-Men from Krakoa.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 01:52 (nineteen years ago)

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