Article: Interview - Simon Spurrier - X-Club PLUS Competition

[Phil]

There was no seperate inker.
Paul was the sole artist.

[rplass]

Ah, well, same concept then: I wonder how it would look if he himself had a lighter touch on the ink over his own pencils. It's a subtle thing to notice but I don't think he's ever had anything published by Marvel with someone else inking over his pencils. Maybe something else he did.

[Karl 1000]

Went for this purely because of Simon's involvement and was not disappointed. Great to see him getting some love in the US.

[rplass]

Hey Karl 1000, welcome to the boards! This isn't a US board though; it's actually a good blend of UK, US and Canada, along with a bunch of other countries I can't remember or we already bombed.

[Flightpath07]

or we already bombed.

[Phil]

I think Karl means in the US comics market, rather than the UK one he began in.

[Le Messor]

a bunch of other countries I can't remember or we already bombed.

Hey! That was YOU!?!?

[rplass]

Our Phil-boss got a Jeffries question answered today in Si Spurrier's interview over at CBR:

Phil, a fan of your mini centering around the X-Club wants to know if you've got more plans for those characters in "Legacy."

Hi Si, I was a big fan of your "X-Club" series and was just wondering if you were planning on using Danger & Jeffries in "X-Men Legacy" at all, seeing as no-one else has really followed on their storyline since?


Hey Phil -- thanks for the kind words about "X-Club." Man, I was proud of that book.

It's something I'd like to revisit, definitely. I have a huge soft-spot for all the characters in that book, and I feel like Jeffries deserves his happy ending more than most. And -- I won't lie -- I live for the day I get my mitts back on Doctor Nemesis. But the Marvel U is a huge and ever-changing place, and right at this moment those pieces aren't arranged on the chessboard in quite the right way. But the second they are -- the very second -- I'm there.

Fortunately David's curious journey more than makes-up for the lack of technosexual, monomaniacal, starfish-based emofarting in my life. Believe it or not "Legacy's" more than fed my addiction to Mad Ideas since I finished "X-Club."

[Le Messor]

Congrats, Phil!

I guess we shouldn't hold our breaths on Jeffries, though.

~ Le Messor
"He had delusions of adequacy."
~ Walter Kerr

[Flightpath07]

Maybe if we send Marvel some Phil-hoodies, they'll change their mind on Jeffries?

[Phil]

See, I read Si's answer differently; in that he couldn't use Jeffries & Danger as they were being used elsewhere...

[Flightpath07]

See, I read Si's answer differently; in that he couldn't use Jeffries & Danger as they were being used elsewhere...

Oh no, I agree with that interpretation!

[Le Messor]

Ooh, that's a good interpretation!

~ LM
"He has Van Gogh's ear for music."
~ Billy Wilder

[Phil]

X-Club 1-5 are today on sale digitally for 99c each over on Comixlology:
http://www.comixology.com/Astonishin...collection/882

[Sypes]

Oh sweet, thanks for the head's up Phil. Totally gonna get it.