Brubaker Interview

Livewire World has interviewed Ed Brubaker. He does reveal some details about the next arc and rumors about Rachel's future. Here are some excerpts: (SPOILER WARNING!)

Q: There are persistent rumours of Rachel, Marvel Girl, staying out in space and maybe getting her own mini-series or something at the end of the Shi'ar arc. Is this something you can comment on?

Brubaker: Wait - rumours about Rachel doing what?

Q: Staying out in space, not coming back with the team, getting her own mini set out in space

Brubaker: I don't want to talk about who's coming back and who's not coming back but some of them aren't coming back. Some of the characters who are in this storyline - the last five or six issues - don't live through it and the last two issues are pretty much a non-stop battle, which has been a lot of fun to fight. There's some really evil stuff that goes on and I think that people are going to be sorta shocked. There's a storyline that's left hanging at the end of it all - I tie up as much as I can but this was part of a story - The Rise & Fall of the Shi'ar Empire was kinda the sequel to that and there's room for another sequel after that - what happens next?

Everything is shaken up and it leaves a whole new status quo out there in outer space and my main goal for the whole Shi'ar storyline was to de-sissify the Shi'ar. I thought they started out as this really badass group and the Imperial Guard were like this evil Legion of Super-Heroes - all that stuff was really cool because they were the bad guys; but then the minute D'Ken goes insane and falls into a coma and Lilandra becomes the Emperor, then they're like nice and you can't go from Caligula to nice. I wanted to see more of the Caligula-style Shi'ar where you're worried they're going to come to Earth.

There's some of them not coming back and Rachel might be one of them.

Q: Does that mean those characters will, in effect, be in limbo?

Brubaker: Yes. They won't be in Uncanny X-Men for a while.