iblamebuckybarnes replied to your post: fun fact: i almost fought the guy who draws...
could u maybe elaborate on that?? XD
sure! it’s gonna be kinda vague bc it was actually at work but basically we had the cover artist for th*nderb*lts doing a signing. i was in full cap marv outfit, so i was having this argument in full technicolor glory, if u want to imagine me, sunburnt to fucking hell and hands on my hips and looking ready to go all sparkle fist.
i had seen his artwork on the cover and fun fact?? i’ve never seen any (professional comic) man besides kevin wada draw bucky barnes how i like (please god look at kevin wada’s work??) phil noto passes. no one else. specifically with this guy, the cover of thndrblts 001 has bucky in that god-awful hydra winter soldier mask and something very resemblance to the tws outfit. i hated it, i think it’s a severe misunderstanding of bucky’s character and an unoriginal aesthetic. so i had that chip on my shoulder. (like my guys would you please not do that). he was signing a bunch of those so i was reminded that they had put my Literal Son in that fucking mask.
anyways we ended up talking about marvel doing hydr@!c*p and as anyone who knows me at all, i think it’s a stupid fucking writing decision, on a number of levels. specifically in this argument, i was saying it was a cheap tactic to draw away from dc rebirth, at the cost of a strong jewish legacy behind the character, and that jack kirby would be coming to haunt the fuck out of marvel hq. this artist was like oh, it was such a smart marketing decision and if you went and came up with that idea, you’d have a promotion and blah blah blah.
and i was like isnt that a little fucked up. (in nicer words because i was handing out balloons to kiddos earlier and my boss was right there and she is Intense [i love her]) and he was just like it’s the industry, go be an editor and change it, blah blah blah and i was like “this is why white men cant have nice things, my dude”. (i did not say that, but it had that spirit). i was challenging that it was a quick shot that was undone in issue two and it caused a lot of fucking pain for, what, nothing bc rebirth still blew shit out of the water and marvel is now drowning.
and then i was handed more balloons and happily went to give them to more kids.
and that’s how i fought the writer of thndrblts in front of my boss, and how he ended up firmly on my personal shitlist.