AiPT!: It’s always an event when Jonathan Hickman steps through a Krakoan gate to join us here at X-Men Monday, and in true, unpredictable Hickman fashion, he brought along a special guest: fellow X of Swords mastermind and Excalibur writer Tini Howard!
AIPT: Jonathan, you’ve used the Captain Britain Corps in stories pre-X of Swords. What do you two like about the Corps and Otherworld the most, and what new addition to their lore are you most excited about moving forward?
Tini: I love Alan Moore’s story work on Captain Britain so much–that moment where he zooms out from the earlier stuff and makes the national hero trope (which can seem clumsy at times, in general) into a defender of all reality? That’s it for me. I’m excited that I feel like we’ve gotten to do something similar with expanding Otherworld and changing the Corps. The Captain Britain Corps is so fundamentally weird that these sort of inside-out flips of the whole concept don’t feel disrespectful to the original, they feel in line with it. It’s fun.
Jonathan: Yeah. And as for what it gives us moving forward, the answer is a lot. We actually built each of those Otherworld kingdoms as a separate story engine that feeds into one or more of the other kingdoms. So there’s a progression baked in. And a good bit of that mythology leans toward Tini’s main book and the evolving Captain Britain drama.
“For so long, my life has been out of control. Chaos and serendipity, wrapped in insanity. I have suffered, I have lost. Not just my life, but my very soul, my self. But no more. Now I know who I am.” – Elizabeth ‘Betsy’ Braddock, daughter of Otherworld, mutant, telepath, telekinetic, defender of the realm and, above all, X-Man.
4 comments:
There's so much Otherworld i cant wait to see covered i just hope Howard can deliver some more exciting and fun stories now that all the Sword event stuff (that Excalibur essentially built up to since #1) she may be less hundred in her writing going forward
Agreed, let's see what she can do with the characters and story without having to set up an upcoming event and without Apocalypse
100? If anything less than 30 is enough to bust Otherworld. 2019 and 2020 have been the 🐝tches with lots of Betsy and Brian dissin. Time for a breather.
Hire Alan Moore to do it and sales will go up to the stars.
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