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To call Joss Whedon a god of nerd-dom probably understates the influence of one of this generation's most beloved writer/directors. Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog: Just about everything he's applied his alchemy to has transformed into geek gold. And since he's already penned a comic or two in his time, it's only natural that he would be turning his talents to write a motion comic for Marvel, titled Astonishing X-Men: Gifted.
The series is set to debut on iTunes on Oct. 28. Marvel released the teaser trailer for the Astonishing X-Men motion comic (watch below), along with the following press statement:
"Marvel is proud to unveil the newly trailer to the hotly anticipated Astonishing X-Men motion comic, based on the seminal comic story by superstar scribe Joss Whedon (Buffy: The Vampire Slayer) and renowned artist John Cassaday (Captain America). This is your latest peek at Marvel's newest original motion comic (available October 28th on iTunes) as the X-Men embark on a bold new mission! Discover more at www.marvel.com/motioncomics, bub!"
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How 'bout making these available on Zune too, hmmm? I bet these would look GREAT on my shiny new ZuneHD. Just sayin'.
His run on this title was a lot of fun. I'm not sold on the entire motion comics format, but the trade paperbacks and omnibus that just came out are well worth the time and money.
Wow can we say female version of Mohinder Suresh? Besides the obvious parallels to Heroes it looks alright.
As for the Zune HD, well the cold hard facts called reality, dictate just because there is a shiney new toy on the block everyone isn't going to come running to get their hand in the pot. How goes that app store? Does it have more than 5 apps yet or do Zune owners not get tired of Checkers?
Thank you for briinging irony. Astonishing was in existance prior to heroes. The paralells to Emma Frost and kat pride's relationship to Cordelia and Buffy in the early seasons of btvs.
However, this should only serve as a perlude to a feature animated movie series.
Yes, EVERYTHING Joss Whedon touches turns to gold. Like "Alien Resurrection" and "Titan A.E." and "Dollhouse".
I didn't mind his run on Astonishing, but really, this new Motion Comic doesn't involve him in any way whatsoever, except for the fact that they're using an 8-year-old comic that he wrote as the basis for it.
"Wow can we say female version of Mohinder Suresh? Besides the obvious parallels to Heroes it looks alright."
Astonishing X-Men began in 2004, starting with this arc. Heroes began in 2006. Any resemblance is the show's fault, not the comic's.
The real question is whether this will come out more than once every two months on a completely random schedule or if Marvel has learned their lesson from the last Whedon/X-Men exercise.
No Jean. Don't care. Sorry, Joss. I still think you're awesome, though.
"this new Motion Comic doesn't involve him in any way whatsoever, except for the fact that they're using an 8-year-old comic that he wrote as the basis for it."
ummm a "BASIS" for it??? More like its what he wrote to the letter! it was word for word EXACTLY like what he wrote in the comic, and the art is the same too; (just moving in a choppy nauseating kind of way). the only thing not the same is the voice acting hahah. But he 100% wrote it.