Theyve battled their ancestors and their descendants and alternate-reality duplicates of themselves.
Piskors task is to make it all work as a single story.
Things will change to fit my narrative.
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He instantly has Cyclops leave his wife and kid for Jean Grey.
Piskor is taking a different approach.
I have such reverence for Kirby.
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I think of him every day.
Im a fan of all comics, Piskor says.
I like manga, I like French European albums, I like a lot of newspaper comic strips.
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The storytelling method I use is a storytelling pastiche of all that stuff.
I am trying to do the least Kirby X-Men comic ever made.
Luckily, Piskor is used to making comics about a complex history with a sprawling cast of characters.
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Its like I got my Malcolm Gladwell 10,000 hours of practice in dealing with a huge convoluted history.
It was an amazing education I didHip-Hop Family Treefor four years, it was like an undergrad program.
Now Im in grad school, and thats the X-Men.
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I will be forever a student of this medium.
X-Men: Grand Designhits stores on Dec. 20.
Check out a preview below, in which the original X-Men team assembles for the very first time.
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