John Byrne gave a rare interview to the New York Times this week, timed to the release of X-Men: Elsewhen — the 31-issue alternate timeline story he spent three years drawing as unpublished fan fiction before Abrams ComicArts and Marvel brought it to print.
It's the reason why they hate and try to silence Byrne.
He's from the before time, and he speaks a truth they have tried for decades to bury and/or rewrite.
Go look at the 90s designs for Jean Grey, Rogue, Psylocke, Storm, Mystique, and many others. Marvel was selling the female form to teenage boys just as much as they were selling action, adventure, and heroism. Only a willfully ignorant fool looks at that and sees gay allegory.
I find it glorious that Elsewhen is well on its way to selling out a second printing less than a week after release.
Meanwhile, you can find stacks of unsold Marvel trades at Ollie's or Fanaticals on eBay, trades that often have a notoriously low print run because Marvel has no warehousing capacity for evergreen titles for some inexplicable reason. (Some stuff, like Claremont era X-Men, sells out in weeks/months and takes years for a reprint while modern crap hangs around on clearance, unwanted, for years.)
Lee was first and foremost a showman; if he thought 'serious' interpretations of comic book stories would help sell comics to college kids and differentiate himself from the at-the-time-for-kids-and-more-conservative Distinguished Competition, he'd go along with it. Then of course it winds up affecting the people who write it in later years--Claremont brought in the whole Holocaust plot to give Magneto moral complexity.
That's actually not entirely a criticism; the arts always depend on hype men like Lee to balance out reclusive creators like Steve Ditko or stubborn visionaries like Jack Kirby to make stuff marketable.
I was dumping on Heather Ant-toes on Instagram and she actually responded with a brag about her Hugo Award for her Star Trek Lower Decks dreck. The fact that she replied tells me I got to her, which is hilarious, since I'm a complete nobody.
Women love to brag to men about accomplishments that have been watered down (by them) to mean nothing of any substance. Its Pen1s envy, jealously and spite all in one. Modern Feminist Women are self absorbed, selfish, petty and resentful and love to rub their worthless achievements in the faces of men they despise for political reasons who often don't care about those same worthless achievements because they watered down crap. But Feminist Women will just resort to insults and name calling because they're spiteful overgrown children.
Women generally can't help themselves. And you are so spot on - a Hugo Award is now chosen by the same useless people who win the awards. Heather imagines herself a 21st century Robert Heinlein when she's most definitely more of a Roberta Hindquarters.
It's the reason why they hate and try to silence Byrne.
He's from the before time, and he speaks a truth they have tried for decades to bury and/or rewrite.
Go look at the 90s designs for Jean Grey, Rogue, Psylocke, Storm, Mystique, and many others. Marvel was selling the female form to teenage boys just as much as they were selling action, adventure, and heroism. Only a willfully ignorant fool looks at that and sees gay allegory.
I find it glorious that Elsewhen is well on its way to selling out a second printing less than a week after release.
Meanwhile, you can find stacks of unsold Marvel trades at Ollie's or Fanaticals on eBay, trades that often have a notoriously low print run because Marvel has no warehousing capacity for evergreen titles for some inexplicable reason. (Some stuff, like Claremont era X-Men, sells out in weeks/months and takes years for a reprint while modern crap hangs around on clearance, unwanted, for years.)
Lee was first and foremost a showman; if he thought 'serious' interpretations of comic book stories would help sell comics to college kids and differentiate himself from the at-the-time-for-kids-and-more-conservative Distinguished Competition, he'd go along with it. Then of course it winds up affecting the people who write it in later years--Claremont brought in the whole Holocaust plot to give Magneto moral complexity.
That's actually not entirely a criticism; the arts always depend on hype men like Lee to balance out reclusive creators like Steve Ditko or stubborn visionaries like Jack Kirby to make stuff marketable.
Communist ALWAYS want to "destroy the past" (erase history) so they can re-write the present and future. They are evil.
I was dumping on Heather Ant-toes on Instagram and she actually responded with a brag about her Hugo Award for her Star Trek Lower Decks dreck. The fact that she replied tells me I got to her, which is hilarious, since I'm a complete nobody.
Women love to brag to men about accomplishments that have been watered down (by them) to mean nothing of any substance. Its Pen1s envy, jealously and spite all in one. Modern Feminist Women are self absorbed, selfish, petty and resentful and love to rub their worthless achievements in the faces of men they despise for political reasons who often don't care about those same worthless achievements because they watered down crap. But Feminist Women will just resort to insults and name calling because they're spiteful overgrown children.
Women generally can't help themselves. And you are so spot on - a Hugo Award is now chosen by the same useless people who win the awards. Heather imagines herself a 21st century Robert Heinlein when she's most definitely more of a Roberta Hindquarters.