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Charles Valderrama
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"An oral history of Marvel comics from the men who made it what it is now. It’s scathing, bitter, and revealing. Including comments from Stan Lee, Joe Simon, John Romita Jr, Chris Claremont, Frank Miller, Todd Macfarlane, and many of more of the biggest names in comics."Link:Maxim's Oral History of Marvel Comics Weird comments from some of these big names... -C!
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Jim Campbell
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Wow. What an incredibly annoying and stylistically lazy piece."Hey, let's post a one-para potboiler history of various stages of the industry, and then stick a bunch of disjointed soundbites from people underneath each one."Narrative? Flow? Who bothers with that crap any more?" *Sigh* ... Another missed opportunity. :-( Cheers Jim
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Joe Hollon
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Mind-blowing quote from Joe Quesada, on the Marvel before he got there:
"Marvel was spending too much time writinglove letters to the past. Nostalgia can put you out of business becauseyou’re only appealing to a dying fan base."
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Daniel Kendrick
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X-Men killed off S&M-tinged leading lady Jean Grey, the Phoenix, and its circulation went through the roof.
um...huh? Sounds like they read a single Hellfire Club issue and that was it.
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Mark Waldman
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Maxim's schlock writing, not surprising at all.
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Paulo Pereira
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I'm surprised the "S&M tinged Lady Grey" idea wasn't used for the cover.
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Kevin Brown
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um...huh? Sounds like they read a single Hellfire Club issue and that was it. ************************************ I think "reading" is pushing it actually..... "Looked at the cover" is more likely.
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Tim O Neill
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I can't believe Maxim is not living up to its usual journalistic excellence.
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John Byrne
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X-Men killed off S&M-tinged leading lady Jean Grey, the Phoenix, and its circulation went through the roof.•• 175,000 for that issue. I don't recall the roof being that low back then. And people wondered why I declined to be interviewed.
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Martin Redmond
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QUOTE:
| Jim Shooter: When I was editing Chris’ stuff, I’d have to say things like, “You cannot have the professor dressed in transvestite bondage gear.” The editor would tell Chris, and he’d lose his mind. |
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There's still hope in X-Men Forever. *fingers crossed*
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Mike Farley
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I thought Shooter's editorial input on X-MEN was more like "I know the story was approved at every step and the book is already penciled, inked, scripted, lettered, ready to send to the printer, and you're in the middle of the next issue, BUT you're going to need to completely change the ending."
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John Byrne
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Jim Shooter: When I was editing Chris’ stuff, I’d have to say things like, “You cannot have the professor dressed in transvestite bondage gear.” The editor would tell Chris, and he’d lose his mind.•• In the business, we call this "a misrepresentation of what actually happened".
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