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andrastewhite has finished her great movieverse Charles Xavier story, Coalescence. Spoilers for all three films: Charles in his well-meaning, manipulative ambiguous glory. No one writes Xavier as multifaceted as Andraste - go and read now!

Meanwhile, over in the comicverse, there is a very entertaining talk with various gents whose shows we loved on tv and who are writing Marvel comics these days, here. My personal highlight is the following exchange between JMS (aka creator of Babylon 5, writes Spider-man) and Joss Whedon (these days busy torturing the X-men):

STRACZYNSKI: I should point out too that Joss has a definite vested interest in Spider-Man’s personal life in that, during the retreat, I mentioned a plan that we had with respect to a certain old Spidey character, and he actually got up from his chair, crossed the room and embraced me, and called me a “brother.” So there was that.

WHEDON: It’s true. I also tried to spoon him…a little bit. But he’s tall.

Anyone willing to make suggestions what specific JMS writerly deed caused this? ( Spoilers for JMS run Amazing Spider-man  )

Then there is also the following suggestion, revealing that comicbook creators really are just like fans:

QUESADA: I sense a Sue Richards mini-series by Joss Whedon in the future.

WHEDON: You sense one, eh?

LOEB: Emma Frost/Sue Richards: Extravaganza. We’d sell a billion copies.

Only having caught brief glimpses of Sue in her cameo in Astonishing X-Men and in Neil Gaiman's 1602 - since I haven't read Fantastic Four yet -, I hereby support the notion of Joss writing Emma/Sue slash anyway.