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 In X-Men, Jonathan Hickman is
taking all of the X-Men as his
own personal toys to play with.
And they're going to
be fun, quick stories--
big superhero action
and adventure.
And you never know
who's going to show up.
 Well, when we leave everything
at the end of House of X,
we kind of have a
mutant nation state.
The mutants are winning--
the X-Men are winning--
which is a wonderful thing
after the last couple of years.
 Jonathan's one of the
most skilled writers
in the comic book
industry, for sure.
He comes up with
enormous ideas, and he
is incredibly good at executing
them perfectly on the page.
 I think the cool thing about
the way that we're doing it now
is that it's structured
so that I can kind of tell
any X-Men story I want to.
 When he's teamed
up with artists
that he works well
with-- which he
definitely does with Leinil--
it's going to be a great,
great looking book.
 Leinil is a phenomenal talent.
He has an incredible eyes--
his staging is wonderful,
his character designs are cool.
I love working with him.
He's fantastic.
 All you need to know is
these are the good guys,
and they're going to take
on any threats they need
to, and do what they gotta do.
 One of our priorities for
this year was to reinvigorate
the X-Men, which we've done.
And now we want to
take that energy,
and ball it up, and put
it into a comic book,
and that comic book is
going to be X-Men number 1.
 The books are uplifting.
You know, the books
are intentionally
supposed to be fun, and
engaging and energetic,
and it should be a joy to
look forward to each month.
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