Fabian Nicieza

We have really good stuff coming up.

We've got conversations with Pat Olive, Chuck Austin, uh, Fabian Nicieza is, is scheduled to come back on the show.

Patrick Reed, who just had the Spider-Man book, um, come out, uh, in the past month.

He's just slated to be on the show as well.

Here's where I thought the biggest fault of this book is not enough focus on the actual Legion title that it comes from, because this book came out first.

So it's Fabian Nicieza, Pete Woods.

It has characters that I like, Telus and Tyrock and Yira and Dawnstar.

But it's like, if I'm a new reader, you're not giving me all the larger DCU or Legion stuff.

So anyway, so that's kind of what Scott's talking about there.

But the first issue that came out was two weeks ago, and this was Legion Lost by Fabian Nicieza and Pete Woods on art.

So why don't we get right into it?

Take it away, man.

And, and as we kind of mentioned, you know, at this point, Scott Lobdell is-- I mean, he's basically the, the main X-Men writer.

I know Fabian Nicieza is in there on-

Mm-hmm

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So Marvel does this like Western genre every once in a while.

And Fabian Nicieza has seeded in this character as the one that Absalom chose to kill in 1897.

So the parallel here, and I want to hear your thoughts on this because it's really layered storytelling.

And Nicieza can really hit us in subtle ways.

Deadpool being written in a jackass voice but by a female writer is a really interesting thing because there's a ton of sexual humor, there's fat jokes and fat shaming and women's panties being tossed around and all kinds of that style of humor, but there's a lot of heart mixed into it.

So this is the era where Deadpool Volume 2, which is the longer run that's been going since the mid-90s, where it started with Joe Kelly, and then other writers have taken over it along the way, including Fabian Nicieza and Christopher Priest, etc.

But Gail Simone closes out the book, and then it becomes a book called Agent X. Deadpool disappears at the end of the book with his mind wiped, and Agent X is the new book that replaces that.

And the character Agent X is a guy who, like, might be Deadpool, because he kind of looks like

So her as the girl who doesn't have a family, who's now living in this internment camp and trying to form bonds, and she's the merc, but she's being hunted for who she is.

There's a lot happening for her here.

Now, Fabian Nicieza gets his 50-issue Cable and Deadpool series, which I don't know if people realize it's 50 issues, and it's pretty top quality all the way through.

It's pretty excellent.

Yeah, I mean, this is a total Chris Claremont swerve, right? Kind of thing to do.

And I think that if you are looking for a continuation of his X-Men run after 91 in spirit, you might be better off reading Blood Syndicate than the actual, you know, 1990s X-Books that Scott Liddell and Fabian Nicieza were writing at the time.

Because I think those are less successful.

You know, they have their fans, right? I'm not going to totally put those down, but I think those are like very much like...

But it's as it was kind of the first time I read something that was like.

post Fabian Nicieza especially who he writes him as a sad clown constantly but once he starts breaking the fourth wall it is like he's Bugs Bunny forever you know you know the Bugs Bunny where he um they do the ride of the Valkyries and Elmer Fudd kills him at the end and holds his body like sadly as he walks down the thing and Bugs Bunny's like yeah it's a sad one I think that's one of the best Looney Tunes because explicitly because like it, it is bugs out of character a little bit.

And there it's like, I mean, to say nothing of the fact that the animation is really beautiful and it is really like, well, like choreographed.

I, I, I've always thought the like character out of their element is always something that I like, I come back to, you know? I don't think this is as good as that right of the Valkyries Looney Tunes either.

I like it a lot.

And this is the cover for The Cat and the Bat Part 2, written by Fabian Nicieza, art by Kevin McGuire as mentioned, letters by Sal Cipriano, and colors by Ian Laughlin.

When we pick up with Batgirl entering the Gotham City Hedonist Society naked, she identifies Catwoman and follows her to the back where she spies her meeting with a Russian.

Batgirl breaks the light and in the confusion steals back her father's notebook and she fights her way out of the Hedonist Society.