>"With St-Paddy's Day just past, I thought I might talk a bit abut my failed BANSHEE pitch."
Things that could have been: Declan Shalvey's Banshee-led X-men project
Carter Thompson
Landon Hill
>"to wonder what that book could be. So, along with an artist who will remain anonymous, I pitched the boom to an editor at Marvel. I got a surprised ("I'll say this much Dec, no one has ever pitched me a Banshee book before") but also positive reaction to it. It bounced around a bit, and I gave it a second shot, trying to sweeten the deal with redesigned characters and to fit in the 'colour' approach they'd been using on the X-books of late (as X-MEN: GREEN). Again, the response was positive, but there were just some basic factors that worked against it. To be clear, I'm not sharing this as a slight against Marvel ("they didn't recognize my genius," etc) as it didn't work out for various reasons as they were very cool to take my pitch on board. I know they definitely gave it some thought, but it just couldn't work out."
Brandon Carter
>"I got the sense with Banshee not being an A-list character, a more known artist would have to be attached, so I suspect it would have gone ahead were I to agree to draw it. For me though, I just couldn't sign up to a commitment like that until INJECTION is finished"
>I won't share the whole pitch (Just in case, you never know...) but it's safe to say it's not happening, and I thought it'd be interesting to show here. This was the was the main thrust of it."
Kevin Bell
>"Sean Cassidy is back from the dead. Completely (and suspiciously) healed from his experience with the Death Seed, he has retired to his ancestral home of Cassidy Keep. Wanting to be left alone, but old ties keep pulling him back to the world. Sean, reunited with his daughter Theresa, decides to make his home a sanctuary for troubled mutants. A quiet place, a safe space where they can learn to deal with their powers. A place where secrets are buried, in some cases quite literally. But secrets don’t stay buried, and troubles always follow no matter how far you hide. BANSHEE is the story of a broken family, trying to become whole again."
Aiden Mitchell
>"I had this big arc planned, family drama along with introducing the main cast (Banshee/Sean, Banshee/Theresa, Chamber, Marrow, Artie and Leech), a host of new mutants and a mysterious threat. Speaking of the cast, I also redesigned the costumes to fit in with this new team dynamic..."
I was pretty happy with this idea, I thought it had legs. In my mind I would write it for another artist and between arcs, I could write/draw standalone issues. I thought Sean Cassidy has so much of an interesting backstory, I could pop in here and there with interesting stories from his past, while the main artist would draw the larger, modern-day stories."
>"At the end of the day though, Banshee is not a major character so it was always going to be an uphill battle. Marvel were great, the feedback was very positive, but the marketability was a fair concern and it was not soething I could dedicte myself to fully. I've mentioned before I want to write and draw a project, but I can't accept a commitment like while INJECTION is still in development."
>"Who knows, maybe I'll be able to come back to this in some form someday..."
Logan Cox
This sounds like an x-man story i'd actually want to read, damn.
Ryan Young
Jono a cute
Wyatt Carter
>X-MEN: GREEN
Good god I love unintentional racism against the irish. Is there anything funnier?
Tyler Nguyen
The idea of Jono going back to work with Banshee with the bitter realization that he's the only member of the original team left who isn't dead or evil/insane is super depressing.
Logan Carter
I like Banshee.
Chase Flores
What are they even doing with his character these days? He appeared for like two pages in the new Uncanny run a few weeks ago just to tell Cyclops to fuck off.
Jayden Roberts
Intentional racism against the Irish
Levi Wood
He's in this week's issue. I almost bought it because of him and Alex, but I'm not into Larroca.
Jaxon Davis
I'm glad he's making appearances, but given Rosenberg's track record of killing off former X-teens I'm also extremely worried.
Also Larroca's main problem is that he can't drawn mouths, so Jono actually looks fine drawn by him kek.
Jason Fisher
>leech and artie
how have they been the same age for like 30 years
Nolan Barnes
Which comic?
Jeremiah Hall
Uncanny X-men, volume whatever. The current one.
Hudson Clark
so he's with the morlocks, or what?
Parker Martin
The girls are still around
Luke James
They're supposedly the only mutants left on the planet after Nate's meltdown.
Carter King
I thought Jubilee was still a vampire, I must've missed when she got cured.
Luke Baker
Wonder Woman: Bondage
By Frank Miller and Bill Sienkiewicz
>Frank and I were jazzed about working together again. We were up for doing another series and churning the waters on on some old DC character, as he’d done with Dark Knight.
Wonder Woman seemed like a pretty good choice. She been simultaneously revered and handled poorly in some incarnations. To me she’s always been a ‘”symbol” more than a character that has been well-utilized in a story context. The most interesting stuff was the earliest – and felt the ripest for revisiting.
The fact that her creator William Marston also created the precursor to the lie detector and was into bondage lent a weird kinky vibe and made the idea of mucking with her and her origin a potentially fun trip.
The image was done by me to visually test the water, so to speak and my own comfort level, if not everyone else’s, about how far it could be pushed. I did some others that were far more extreme, no one has seen those, this one was relatively tame by comparison. Still it was perhaps a bit over the top, but I think Frank and I invited that. So was the idea for the series in very basic broad stroke discussions between Frank and I , with some input from then-DC editor Bob Schreck. The piece was never intended to be seen by anyone else, but of course , someone bought the original , and despite assurances from everyone who had seen the piece that they would not pass it along ( I should have known better, it was too provocative NOT to make the rounds)… ah well, so it goes.
William Harris
X-Man Nate? I only ever had like 2 comics with him in them
Julian Reed
Yeah. He came back dressed as Jesus and sucked like half of the mutant population into his own fabricated reality where mutants are free from persecution but also sex is illegal. That's where most of the X-men currently are.
Jacob Myers
Jesus christ, that sounds dumb.
Juan Parker
Is this about the "I bet Elektra doesn't have to put up with this kind of degradation but I guess I shouldn't gloat." drawing?
Aiden Thompson
Also in this universe Apocalypse is a hippie leading a sexual liberation movement.
Luis Powell
so this is the state of x-men comics
It seems like every character introduced (or elevated in popularity) in the 90's got shafted super hard
Ryder Ortiz
it's actually rad as hell, it's just hard to summarize
Chase Martin
bump
Luke Murphy
Evan Roberts
its bad
Jaxson Campbell
Honestly sounds like the first X-Men story I'd have cared about since like, Age of X.
Brody Morgan
Pitching to a comic company after doing a comic about syringes. What a world. What was Trees even about or Injection for that matter. Doing get it at all. Bring back Black Summer or Put Warren Ellis back on Authority.
Charles Flores
I’m just interested to find out if Kurt fucked his mom.
Alexander Wood
Jubes, Husk and M are all around and 'fine'.
The boys though...
Levi Hill
>I just couldn't sign up to a commitment like that until INJECTION is finished
Ah yes, the comic that NEVER FUCKING COMES OUT
Angel Myers
It's a cool pitch but I remember reading a comic written by Shalvey once and I really didn't care for it.
Matthew Cruz
I like how Jono is just casually holding a baby next to his fire chest. The next panel should be Jono freaking out about the now burning baby he's holding.
Carson Morris
Damn it user, you forgot the pic that he keeps referencing!!
Blake Powell
Shalvey is a potato nigger himself