So, What’s the deal with NYX?
Or why realistic mutants might not be a good idea.
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| “So, what’s the deal on NYX?” This is one of those questions I get all the time, so I’m going to take a minute and try to sum up all the rumors/facts that I’ve heard on this in one place. Please note that everything here is at best hearsay and at worst maliscious rumor. Don’t sue me. You won’t get anything but a bunch of dusty comics.Awhile ago, Brian Wood and David Choe were asked to bring a proposal to Marvel called NYX. It featured several established X-Men (Gambit, Jubilee, and others) and a few new faces in a ‘realistic’ X-Men book. Brian had written a large chunk of Generation X and saw this as an opportunity to do stories that he hadn’t been allowed to do back then. Marvel approved it, then cancelled it, then rethought it with a new creative team (Marvel Editor-N-Chief Joe Quesada and Joshua Middleton of Sky Between Branches) and a character that was created for the X-Men Evolution animated series. Brian Wood took his concepts to AiT/PlanetLar and created DEMO with them. NYX was a success. The books were coming out more or less on-time and it was gaining all sorts of critical success and surprising sales for an X-Men book with a Mature Content label. Then the guy who created the character introduced in #3 took a look at issue #3 after it was printed. Turns out that the creators ‘went another way’ from what was approved of by this guy who was smart enough to negotiate complete control over his creation. He placed a (what I’m going to assume was a tension-filled) call to Quesada and now they are rethinking it. It seems that the Owner of the lead character had not envisioned her as the prostitute that she is that book. Or is she? The current buzz is that they are re-writing the subsequent issues and portraying her as more of an S&M dominatrix without the sex. Sure. Why not? Will we ever see the rest of this series? I hope so, but I won’t be waiting underwater. In the meantime, checkout what Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan are doing on DEMO. Becky’s work is nothing like Joshua’s, so if that was what you were looking for, try elsewhere. But, Brian’s sensitive and harsh (weird combination, I know) writing, coupled with Becky’s punk-rock ink-slinging is pure brilliance. Issue #4 is a personal favorite of mine. They have also decided to put the ‘Extras’ in the single issues and leave them out of any collections down the line. |
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