My job is to do new stuff with it, and launch us into a newer age of X-Men.
Big things are coming, but Hickmans lifelong X-fandom has prepared him for the task.
This is something Ive been writing and rewriting in my head since I was a kid, he says.
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Ive been in the kitchen for a long time with it.
I get the ingredients, I get what makes a good meal.
Fans can expect more information about what that will look like to be unveiled at Comic-Con.
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But in true Hickman style, it will involve massive plot machinations.
I think the stories should be big, Hickman says.
Dont be an ahole and leave a mess.
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Might Hickman have as much of an impact on those as hes had on recentAvengersmovies?
Its not something he thinks about.
We should not be taking our creative cues from the direction theyre taking things in the movies.
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That kind of defeats the point.
They have a billion dollars to play with, and we dont.
You cant compete in that matter, and you shouldnt.
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My argument has been [that] I should always be way out in front of that stuff.
All of that stuff is being drawn from source material.
It goes back to, are you being destructive or are you being additive?
If they dont, then they dont.
One makes your job expendable, the other one makes you priceless.
I like having value to my work.
House of X#1 hits stores July 24, withPowers of X#1 following on July 31.
Check out the covers for those comics below.
