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Darin Henry
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Posted: 29 November 2017 at 12:16pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply

This reminds me of a scandal from around the same time Cebulski did this.  A 19 year female writer named Riley Weston who had been touted as a great young voice and who was hired to write for the tv show Felicity was exposed to be a very petite thirtysomething woman who had lied about her age. Disney immediately backed out of a deal they had made with her and I don’t believe she worked on a TV writing staff again. So there is a similar precedent involving this same corporation but with polar opposite results.  And I personally don’t feel lying about your age is as “bad” as lying about your ethnicity.  Have times changed or did she just not know important enough people?
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And I personally don’t feel lying about your age is as “bad” as lying about your ethnicity.  Have times changed or did she just not know important enough people?

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I think if you promote someone as a “teen wunderkind” writer, and she turns out to be in her 30s, you have little choice to fire the person or else you look stupid (well, stupider). 

Faking an ethnic background is just as egregious, but a comic book writer scandal wouldn’t even be a blip in the general public’s consciousness. 
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Posted: 29 November 2017 at 2:17pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply

There's an old saying that Hollywood is the only place where WRITERS lie about their age.
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Posted: 29 November 2017 at 10:20pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply

Akira Yoshida"'s history: LINK.
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Wow, that goes way beyond a simple pseudonym. Seems quite a few people were complicit in creating and maintaining this fiction 
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When I think about Marvel, I just get so depressed. Isn't it bad enough that we have to live in Trump's America?

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So would this be a bad time to tell you that Trump and the head of all things Marvel (except for the film division) Ike Perlmutter is good friends with Trump and is rumored to advise Trump on issues concerning veterans?

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