[MUSIC PLAYING]
CHRIS ROBINSON: There's so
many things I could tease
about Children of the Atom.
But I will say one thing,
and that's new characters.
VITA AYALA: X-Men is supposed
to be something that is,
you know, important to the now.
And so, what is more
now than zoomers?
CHRIS ROBINSON:
Children of the Atom
has five new characters
at the heart of it
that we have very meticulously
wrote out entire backstories
and histories and families.
And anything, you want to
know about these characters
Vita has thought
about it already.
VITA AYALA: One of
them has a Tiktok.
One of them has a fitness Insta.
One of them is
basically the moderator
for the mutant sub-Reddit.
One of them is a cosplayer.
And the other one
makes mutant music.
For so long, it's
like the larger media
and the X-Men universe
was like mutants are bad,
and like, the X-Men are
evil, because they're
Mutants, and blah, blah, blah.
I'm like, what would
zoomers think of that?
They wouldn't-- they would
be like, no, they're great.
CHRIS ROBINSON: How the X-Men
react to these new characters
who are their sidekicks is a
major part of the story that
is going to have
all sorts of ripples
through their titles and ours.
VITA AYALA: But also, you
know, it's an X-Men comic.
There's going to be powers and
there's going to be punching
and there's gonna be bad guys
and all that kind of stuff.
CHRIS ROBINSON: I'm very excited
to have Vita Ayala and Bernard
Chang as part of this title.
VITA AYALA: Bernard
really, really
brought it under on this.
It's really incredibly dynamic.
CHRIS ROBINSON: Because he not
only had to design these Super
Hero identities, but also these
civilian identities, and like,
people's moms, and like,
their little brother.
And he's making
these characters real
and whole in a way that a lot
of artists probably couldn't.
VITA AYALA: X-Men was some
of my first comics ever.
And to be able to
play in that universe
and also to add
to that universes
is really a dream come true.
CHRIS ROBINSON: So if you've
never read an X-Men book before
and you're only familiar
with them in other mediums,
this is a great
place to start off.
VITA AYALA: It's almost like
the kids are our perspective.
So anything that you don't
know, you're discovering it
through these kids.
I don't think we've seen this
perspective in X-Men comics
before.
And I think people are
going to super dig it.
