Day: April 14, 2005

I was going to post that there was this nice write-up on HULK #80 over on aintitcoolnews.com. But for some bizarre reason, subsequent discussion of the review on that site has morphed into fans bìŧçhìņg about an issue of X-FACTOR I wrote in which it was revealed that–contrary to John Byrne’s story revealing Lockjaw was a misshapen Inhuman–Lockjaw was in fact a dog and the Thing had been hosed.

I was going to respond, but my attempt to do so was thwarted since I did not have an AICN account. When I tried to create one, I was referred to a page saying that the account process was screwed up and it asked for patience. Considering it hadn’t been updated since November of 2004, I’m figuring I won’t be replying anytime soon.

So if anyone who DOES have access to AICN wants to reprint this entry or refer people to this site, I just wanted to make things clear: For what it’s worth, I didn’t give a dámņ about the Byrne story one way or the other. I thought it wasn’t bad; not great, but not bad. It did, however, frost the flakes of several writers and the “X-Factor” editor, basically because Byrne’s story made the Inhumans look like áššhølëš. John Byrne, foremost advocate of adhering to creator intent, ignored not only sequences where Stan and Jack had the Inhumans referring to, and treating, Lockjaw as their pet or dog, but the subsequent decades worth of continuity that did the same.

So, since Quicksilver was going to be in “X-Factor,” the writers–and the editor in particular–asked me to take the opportunity to undo that development as quickly and simply as I could. I shrugged, said, “Okay, boss,” and did so.

Now Rick Jones laughing off the Skrull involvement in the Hulk’s origin during an issue of CAPTAIN MARVEL…that was all me.

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Good day: Out of the blue, got an offer from a comic publisher for a new title. Details should be available in a few days. So that was good.

Bad day: Was cruising along during my Wednesday night bowling leagues. Had shot five games in the 170-190 range, was about to start my sixth game…and my right Achilles tendon abruptly just went. I was making my approach and suddenly, bam, suddenly could barely walk. I called Kathleen, who came running with an ankle brace, and I strapped up the foot. Completely changed my approach, moving a foot closer to the foul line, taking very small steps, and putting everything I could into my release. Wound up shooting 215 of all things, so I may well maintain that style of approach, but it still hurt like hëll and I don’t know what caused it.

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