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Uncanny X-Men #190 (February 1985)
When I sold off my collection of X-Men comics in the late 90s, this (and the following) issue involving Kulan Gath and Manhattan transformed into the Hyborean Age were the only ones I kept. As such, these two issues of X-Men are the only ones I currently own that are from my original collection (unless by means of some undiscoverable coincidence one of those issues ended up back in my hands through back issue hunting)
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Marvel Team-Up #150 (February 1985)
This is one my favorite comics of all time and this is the issue I bought off the stands at age 13. I love Spider-Man walking away in the corner box. I love the solemn faces and caption box on a cover drawn by Barry Windsor-Smith. I love that Louise Simonson wrote it. I love that it reinforces my belief that Juggernaut and Black Tom are in a committed but open romantic relationship. I love that the whole thing is basically one long superhero punch-up. It also serves as a segue between November’s “team-up” theme and December’s X-related comics theme.
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From “Superior Responsibility: Spider-Man & the Thread of Identity”
Hail to the...Teen? Cory is off this week, so Hub and Lisa take a look at Prez #1, the 1973 comic about the first teenage president. Topics include: politics, racism, and unqualified presidential candidates. Y'know, fun distracting stuff like that. But we also talk about a disturbing novelty watch Willem Dafoe once wore in a movie. So there's that.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/titan-up-the-defense/id1024210268#episodeGuid=https%3A%2F%2Fttwasteland.podomatic.com%2Fentry%2F2020-11-11T16_44_39-08_00
Great tangent for a great podcast!
I also write about Prez (and OMAC) in “OMG OMAC 4 PREZ!: Future-Past-Prolepsis”
The Marvel(ous) Covers Of The Torpedo
I own every one of these!
Love & Rockets; Maggie the Mechanic:How to Kill a by Isabel Ruebens and Jaime Hernandez
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Izzy stories hurt my heart
On the subject of marvel comics ...
If we’re gonna talk about how Marvel does literally nothing about giving a leg up to marginalized creators and staff members, I’ve got another story to tell. Towards the end of my time there, I’d been getting a sense that marvel editors were lying about keeping me in mind for projects after iceman, and the following incident sealed the deal in terms of being told (not in any legally binding way) that I had overstayed my welcome at the house of ideas.
Sometime in 2018, an editor at a different publishing house asked if I’d pitch for an all-ages Spider-Man book they were licensed to produce. Considering I saw CB Cebulski have a conniption at a comic con party when another Marvel Comics writer told him he’d been courted to do the same for avengers, I asked that editorial to make absolutely sure marvel was cool with me pitching for this project. The editor got approval, and I wrote a damn good idea that was on the fast track to being the next arc in the series. For those who aren’t familiar, when you’re not a household name, pitching for a legacy character is quite a bit of work. Given my lifelong love of Spider-Man, it wasn’t exactly grueling to come up with a handful of ideas and then properly outline the one my editor liked the most… but it’s still work. All that being said, I felt great about the final document, and that I’d bought myself a few more months of being Marvel-adjacent so I could continue growing my reputation for being known for my writing chops, and rinse off the notion that I was ever anyone’s diversity hire.
Cut to a few weeks later, and my editor tells me that I can’t be used for the series. The exact words he relayed from Marvel were: “they’d like to keep the focus on iceman for now.” That e-mail came in the day I turned in my last script for Iceman. I reached out to Marvel’s talent relations guy, and he got me on the phone to explain a completely different reason why I was taken off the book: he said that Marvel only wanted people with experience in all-ages because there were different formatting rules than what goes into a standard comic script (a half truth that doesn’t matter when you read the next sentence). I mentioned that I did an all-ages book for Simon and Schuster, a middle grade series for Image Comics, short stories for Boom Studios, and edited an all-ages title for Robert Kirkman. The talent relations guy was like, “Oh, I didn’t know all that.” He then went on to say that Marvel had a list of people they wanted this editor to approach and as a result some wires got crossed and thus I was out of several months’ work. He didn’t offer to fix the problem, he didn’t offer to throw me on any number of space-filler mini-series that were just basically keeping Jonathan Hickman’s seat warm… nothing.
In response, I said to the talent relations guy: “Do you believe what you’re telling me?”
He didn’t have a particularly good answer.
Oh if you’re wondering: like NONE of the writers who did end up getting hired for these all-ages titles had legitimate experience with all-ages material. They’re all great writers and some of them are my homies, but it’s not like they came from scholastic or random house.
All of this is to say: I went above and beyond to make sure I was approved to pitch on a project, I worked my butt off and wrote something my editor was incredibly enthusiastic about, and then I magically got unpicked and wasn’t offered a reasonable explanation, a substitute gig, or a kill fee for the work I had put in on the proposal. Thanks, Marvel.
This whole debacle wasn’t included in a piece I wrote last year because the editor I was working with asked me not to. Given that his relationship with Marvel was already tenuous, he didn’t really need more pressure/ stress. This guy went to bat for me and helped get me one of my favorite gigs, and having been in his position as an editor dealing with multiple bureaucracies, I didn’t want to make his life any harder. But he’s no longer at that company, and he gave me permission to bring this up. So here we are.
I hate that I’m once again in a position where I have to call out Marvel on some BS, because I don’t know that anything positive will come from it, and that everything I’ve done in my career will once again be boiled down to: “semi-attractive queer comic creator complains about marvel comics.” Like, never mind that I’ve been at this since I was in high school, ran Kirkman’s imprint on my own before I was 25, and have gone on to write almost all of my favorite DC Comics characters after leaving Marvel. It’s shitty to be an individual talking about a beloved company… but it’s the right thing to do. The only thing I can 100% predict will happen from me speaking up is: a bunch of haters are going to get back on my dick again and make social media unbearable. To those folks, my birthday is on Monday… can you maybe not? Just this once?
Stories like what I’ve written need to be considered when discussing if Marvel has actually done anything to be accountable for not only hiring more diversely, but for fostering an environment where those people feel valued. My only advice to Marvel would be: fucking hire a third party organization to teach you all how to do this right… you can’t keep propping Sana up on a podium and pat yourselves on the back for doing half of the bare minimum. I hate that I still love your books (I spent good money buying the oversized Silver Surfer Black collection), and I just wish that the gatekeepers were a bit more responsible and cognizant of how deep their behavior and apathy cuts. Granted, this is a company that has a bad reputation for not treating anybody fairly, so there is always the argument that Marvel Comics is just run by a box of pythons who indiscriminately poison and devour folks. I’m not sure… after 18 months away from them, I still try to excuse the bad behavior and blame myself for how things went down.
Batman: White Knight demonstrates the limitation of the white imaginary regarding a post-police society by simply not being be able to envision one.
The latest guest post on The Middle Spaces
I guess this is how I’m processing what we’re all going through right now. I had the stray thought, “What is Spider-Man doing during all this?” and this happened. On the one hand, it’s kinda sloppy and inconsistent, but on the other hand, I had the idea Sunday night and I’m posting this Wednesday night. 5 color pages in 4 nights is pretty good work. Anyway. Hope everyone’s safe out there.
If you’re bored during these strange times, I’ve got hundreds of pages of free comics on my website, www.comicsfromspace.com. There’s a longer bootleg Spider-Man comic, a comic about teens in the future vs. monsters called Closed Galaxy, and a gag comic about people living on a spaceship also called Comics From Space. If you have a look, I hope you like it!
Thinking through how personal narratives also become mediated narratives that enable queer world-building through the example of The WB’s Birds of Prey.
Overtaken by events. Iron Man #231, 1988, by David Michelinie, M.D. Bright and Bob Layton.
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From Matt Lubchansky.
I think we all know who this is supposed to be
Comicsgaters are wrong because comics have always been political, but those politics weren’t always as great as they are sometimes made out to be by comics’ defenders.
Guest post from Dr. Martin Lund on responding to #comicsgate
By Osvaldo Oyola In the conversation between Jonathan Lethem and his collaborator Karl Rusnak about the original Omega the Unknown series (included in the volume collecting their 2007-08 re-imagini…
I wrote about Omega the Unknown #1 (March 1976) for Shelfdust as part of their 100 Best Single Issues of Comic list.
“I’m not a racist, just a concerned Marvelite who doesn’t want his favorite comic company ruined by something that really doesn’t involve you as comic publishers.” https://www.westword.com/film/stan-lee-brought-classic-superheroes-and-moral-code-to-comics-10998286
REST IN PEACE, MARIE SEVERIN
For a few years now we’ve produced a free comic book for a special collections exhibit at UCSC. The first exhibit was on the work of Marie Severin, one of the most important figures in the modern comics era. Marie passed away this week and we thought people might want to read a little about her groundbreaking career.
LAABÂ #0 (2018)
I’m not sure this is actually dated (didn’t have a chance to look in detail), but LAAB #0 is an amazing piece of work - a broad sheet newspaper filled with comics and essays put together by Ron Wimberly. This thing is smart and sharp and subversive and weird. Get one if you can find it. I got mine by supporting the Kickstarter.
