What is it that’s so challenging in writing Professor Xavier?
He tends to get pulled back in, then written out of the “X-Men” books repeatedly. Mike Carey: He’s a fascinating character, but again, not always an easy one to write. In a way, it’s ridiculous to compare him to Lucifer, but there is one point of comparison which is that he’s of huge stature and you have to try to write him in a way that gives him a sort of gravitas. You have to believe in Xavier as the most powerful mutant mind in creation and as a man of huge moral authority and as a driving force. It’s very easy to screw up by making him too ordinary. You’ve got to convey that sense of the supreme intellect. Examiner.com: You seem drawn to the sort of X-Men that other writers find difficult like Xavier, Rogue, Mystique and Iceman. Without spoiling anything, what’s it like writing Rogue again in her upcoming “X-Men Legacy” arc? Mike Carey: What I wanted to do in the next phase is put Rogue in a very different role. It would be easier in some ways to go back square one in “X-Men” and
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