Joss Whedon

Talented writer has a lot on his plate besides WONDER WOMAN

LOCATION: The Whedon-verse

THE SKINNY: Joss Whedon was on hand at the Saturn Awards in Los Angeles this week to accept an award for Summer Glau for her work in SERENITY. Whedon also gave iF MAGAZINE the low down on his comic book projects that he is working on simultaneous to his much-anticipated WONDER WOMAN script:

“I plan to leave fans with a mind-blowing annual after the 24th issue of ASTONISHING X-MEN because that will be when John [Cassaday] and I leave," says Whedon. "Everything that I have done and everything that I am going to do is all leading up to one big climax. If I don’t blow some minds with it, then I did the thing called ‘failing’“ jokes Whedon.

“Let me put it this way, I told Cassaday what I had thought of for the second year," he adds. "His exact words because he was so busy and didn’t have time to draw it were ‘F-k you!’ and the next day we made the deal.”

The status of the BUFFY and SERENITY comics are official notes Whedon.

“Comics BUFFY and SERENITY at Dark Horse are a yes," he says. "Brett Mathews is waiting for me to get off my butt, and we’ve been working on another outline for a three-part SERENITY story. I’ve written the first issue of BUFFY and we’re waiting for the artist to get free, and then that’s going to be in four-issue arcs that are going to take us over several issues. I’m going to try and dragoon several very talented writers into doing their own arcs inside of that. SERENITY will be a prequel story to the movie; it will be during the FIREFLY days.”