Rob Liefeld says over the phone.
As an homage to Liefelds influence on culture, aWhats your Rob Liefeld Name?
memerecently emerged on the internet.
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By that rubric, this EW interviewers Liefeld name is Blackshot, while Liefeld himself is Blastblaze.
I know my way around a good character design, its something Im proud of, Liefeld tells EW.
I made my name creating tons of characters.
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But the opportunity to put a bunch of new X-Men toys in the sandbox does not lose its excitement.
The reason that excitement hasnt gone away is that Liefelds not done making new characters.
EW can exclusively announce that Liefeld is writing a new Marvel comic miniseries calledMajor X.
To me the X-Men have always thrived on big ideas, crazy ideas.
So I figured, lets just go for it, Liefeld says.
Major Xintroduces a new character who is certain to mix up everything in the X-world.
They escaped there following a tragedy that befell mutantkind, and built this community.
There are some familiar faces that he has forged this other society with.
We progressively get him where he needs to go.
By the conclusion of the story, we catch up to modern-day Marvel.
Portacio is sharing art duties on Major X with Liefeld and Brent Peeples (Titans).
I sent him the plot, and we got him for a key chapter in the story.
Its 1991 again, Im jamming with Whilce, were making X-Men comics.
Its myself, Brent Peeples, and Whilce.
We are handling the art.
Im the bookends, and then Brent and Whilce are the middle chapters.
Marvel gave me six issues to tell the story, and Ive seen three so far.
Its explosive, its jam-packed.
Liefeld loves mysteries, and sees them as integral to the mythology of the X-Men.
I love motorcycle helmets.
I love helmets and masks that obscure identity and create mystery.
The X-Men franchise I understood as a kid was built on mystery, Liefeld says.
As pretty as the artwork was, the Chris Claremont/John Byrne team created fantastic mysteries.
The number one mystery that really carried the book for me was Wolverine.
Ive said this time and again, I was obsessed with creating the next Wolverine.
Can I nail the landing and create the soap opera mystery?
I had mom and sisters who watched soap operas, and those are all about mysteries.
He looks 30 but hes really 100?
Each of those characters had one or two big reveals.
I loaded Cables story with all kinds of twists and turns that we would reveal slowly.
I know my soap operas: Double identities and mystery, mystery, mystery.
The first issue of Major X is set to hit stores in April.
Check out an exclusive preview of the cover above.
