Warren Ellis and Superheros

I’m not pointing any fingers, but note this interview with Warren Ellis in Writers on Comics Scriptwriting:

And yet you continue to write superhero comics, why is that?

At the moment, yeah, I’m still writing superhero comics. But Planetary I’m only expecting to run about three years, and that will be the last superhero project I do. Once Planetary is complete, that’s it, I’m out of the genre. Planetary is designed to say everything I have left to say about superheroes.

Page 63, Writers on Comics Scriptwriting by Mark Salisbury

Now note who is scheduled to take over Astonishing X-Men after Joss Whedon.

Not that I’m complaining. I’m just waiting for the damn trade to be released and rereading my Iron Man: Extremis in the interim.

Baddest Motherfucker in the World

“Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Columbian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.

- Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, paperback edn., ROC, 1992, p. 254.