I’ve never seen more than a single episode of Buffy (at a friend’s insistence) and have never exposed myself to any other of Joss Whedon’s creations. I had long ignored his Astonishing X-Men run until I was recently flipping through a trade paperback collection and found myself drawn in by John Cassaday’s artwork. I love his stuff, first being exposed to it in Planetary (now somehow over yet feeling unfinished) and he got me to pick up the series. Both creators are creating something very readable between them despite Joss’s failings. John’s art makes it all go down easy even with some corny characters and not-entirely-fleshed-out concepts
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