What inspired the “Dark Wanda” storyline?
When you wrote AVENGERS WEST COAST was it your intention that Wanda Maximoff was always a disturbed young woman or was it all caused by the manipulations of Immortus? JB: From the earliest days of her introduction in X-MEN, it was clear Stan and Jack intended Wanda to be “troubled”, tho “disturbed” might be overstating it a bit. I used this, and her quest for anything even close to a “normal” life, as the basis for the storyline in which I revealed her twins were the result of what happens when a probability-shifting mutant experiences a hysterical pregnancy.
When you wrote AVENGERS WEST COAST was it your intention that Wanda Maximoff was always a disturbed young woman or was it all caused by the manipulations of Immortus? JB: From the earliest days of her introduction in X-MEN, it was clear Stan and Jack intended Wanda to be “troubled”, tho “disturbed” might be overstating it a bit. I used this, and her quest for anything even close to a “normal” life, as the basis for the storyline in which I revealed her twins were the result of what happens when a probability-shifting mutant experiences a hysterical pregnancy.
