X-Factor #39. Jamie Madrox absorbs his child. One of the most talked about single-issues of the previous year. Ignored for the Eisners. Harvey nominations are due end of this week.
Just sayin’.
PAD
X-Factor #39. Jamie Madrox absorbs his child. One of the most talked about single-issues of the previous year. Ignored for the Eisners. Harvey nominations are due end of this week.
Just sayin’.
PAD
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That was indeed a stellar issue. I never saw it coming and was completely floored when I did see it. Great writing from a great writer.
A couple of quick questions for Peter: I was just re-reading your book “Writing for Comics with Peter David” and was enjoying it as always. I was wondering what other instructional writing books have you yourself used and would recommend for aspiring writers? I know that the process is different for prose, comics, screenplays, etc but what other material should one seek out?
And:
I know that it is impossible to explain where one gets their creative ideas specifically, but are there sources that influence you more than others? Certain movies, books, places, people, etc; I’m Peter David and am looking for my next epiphany of award winning ideas, where do I go?
Great issue during a great run.
On a side note, it was a pleasure meeting PAD this weekend in Chicago at C2E2. Very friendly, and it was fun seeing his wife and youngest daughter there (doing sketches!) as well.
Valentine De Landro was also there and mentioned that he’s heard there are some amazing things coming up in X-Factor, but of course refused to drop any hints. I hope we get to see him working on this title more in the future, great fit for this book.
Honestly, Peter, that issue made me cry. It also made me very pìššëd øff at you. I mean, I was looking forward to Sean being a part of the story, but when you brought Jamie to John Maddox, again, I was very happy. John is my favorite duplicate. I don’t see why the Eisners looked past it. Maybe issue #207 will get an Eisner, next year. You mentioned that it will be even more shocking.
Well, it *was* a very absorbing story. Especially the ending…
I missed that issue, unfortunately. It wasn’t even one of the issues I got to flip through at the bookstore. But it certainly had repercussions in later issues that I did read. I can only imagine how tragic it must’ve been to all the readers that had been with the series for awhile.
Well, shocker ending is not the same as quality issue. This was a pretty good issue and maybe deserves an award, but do not consider talked about single-issues as award deserving issues, by this logic ROB’s captain America deserves a Nobel.
(well, meybe it really does, if Obama has the peace one…)
Just wanted to point out (as PAD himself did in a recent interview with Newsarama) that Jamie absorbing Sean was *not* the ending of that issue. If anything, the “shocker ending” of X-Factor #39 was Terry breaking Jamie’s finger and threatening his life.
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Chuck
Sorry, PAD. Just not innovative enough. I mean, just this year we had the death of Batman AND — this one completely shocked me — Wolverine killed someone. You gotta really work at it if you wanna compete for the big prizes.
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J.
PAD,
A bit off topic, but when’s the next issue of Fallen Angel coming out?
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Also, with regard to your comment on the health care thread regarding how you get relatively few posts on threads related to your career (which I’m addressing here, rather than there because that thread’s long enough as it is; and isn’t related to your career), let me say that speaking for myself, I read those career-related threads, even if I don’t always comment on them. I don’t read X-Factor, for example, so I wouldn’t really have much to comment about. But, again, I read the threads, so I keep abreast with what you’re doing, work-wise.
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No doubt comments on work-related threads help you gauge how well the work’s being received, but you shouldn’t necessarily read a relative lack of comments as a lack of interest in a particular project. I started reading this blog in 2002 or early 2003 (maybe even earlier; I forget now when it started), but didn’t post my first comment until October 2003. However, I was reading and buying certain works of yours. Some of which I probably learned about through this blog and/or your CBG column.
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Rick
Sorry you didn’t get nominated Perer because that was a jaw-dropping issue and heartbreaking too.
Overall I thought the Eisner’s made pretty good choices this time around, but yeah the Best Single Issue category really falls short. Random issue of Brave and the Bold? Filler issue of Captain America? X-Factor 39 and Jonah Hex 50 both should have been on that list.
I wrote a review of said Issue for Comixfan, and I believe I said it was the single best comic I have read in ages.
It still is. I also introduced a non-comic reading friend to X-Factor. he has read all fifty issues now, and is buying it. He still doesnt have time for comics, but loves X-factor.
That says more to me about the strength of the writing than any award.
That issue of X-Factor was definitely far superior to that Brave and the Bold issue, which far from random actually stands out as a particularly bad issue, and which left me questioning JMS’ familiarity with a key character.
XF 39 OTOH hit all the right emotional notes, and I could see why everyone on all sides reacted how they did. If you can sympathize with people in conflict with each other, not just one side, you have something powerful.
it was robbed!!
xfactor has been a solid book and really deserves all the love in the world!