Our latest Marvel creative retreat was this week, where a bunch of us writers come to New York and sit in a room with our editors and publishers, and for three days straight we all talk comics and make fun of each other. While I can't tell you exactly what was talked about, I can say with confidence that this retreat was more jam-packed with awesome ideas than any retreat I've ever been to. I always come home from these things fired up to get back to work. After this one, even more-so.

Among the things I'm working on right now are AVENGERS VS. X-MEN and its tie-ins issues of WOLVERINE & THE X-MEN. I'm happy with the momentum we've all got going on X-MEN right now, so trust me, I'm very conscious about trying to maintain that during the tie-in months. Our story will not suddenly stop and be replaced but a bunch of crossover stuff that has no connection to what I was doing before. It will all flow together, including in some ways you might not be expecting.

As always, thanks for reading.





The other big highlight of the week for me was dinner at David Chang's momofuku ssäm, where thanks to C.B. Cebulski, a bunch of us gorged on a ridiculous spread of duck, steak, fish, pork buns and spicy sausage. Over dinner I told Remender and Hickman why I think Session 9 is awesome and Christopher Nolan not so much. I also extolled the virtues of Exorcist III but I'm not sure I won them over quite like the pork buns did.

David Chang, I think I love you.

That was interesting. I've never done anything like that before. Sat in a big room full of people and talked and talked and talked about comics for three days. Don't know that I was ready for it at first, honestly, but by the end I felt like I was able to make a contribution. Sometimes things went super fast, other times points were belabored. Loeb gave me a lot of shit, which I took in stride, and turns out he's a sweetheart. Loved meeting him. Fraction cried a few times, which was kind of pathetic, but what are you gonna do? All in all, I was really excited about all the new books we talked about and that my WOLVERINE ideas survived without being ripped apart or shot down. Excelsior!

Opening day of the Marvel retreat was apparently pretty mellow by retreat standards. If that's the case, I can't wait to see it when it gets truly contentious. Found out about a cool new gig today. Also saw a bunch of kick-ass pages from the upcoming IMMORTAL WEAPONS one-shot. Tomorrow things kick into high gear.

I've been invited to Marvel's big editorial retreat for the first time this week. I'll try to post some photos and updates here as we go along, as well as on twitter:

https://twitter.com/jasonaaron

If I'm not back in a week, somebody send the Alabama National Guard.