| Posted: 19 May 2010 at 5:30am | IP Logged | 2
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On the heels of the huge success of ALPHA FLIGHT, Shooter began bugging me about doing an X-MEN crossover. I said repeatedly that I didn't wish to return to the X-Men at that time and that I didn't wish to work with Chris. But Shooter was unrelenting. So, finally, I presented this proposal: somebody other than either Chris or me would plot the story, I would draw it, and Chris would script it. This way I would not have to read a Chris plot (which tended to run many, many pages full of superfluous stuff), and, indeed, I would not even have to look at the finished book.Shooter agreed to this, and I asked for one more minor favor: Kitty would not appear in the story. "Have a taxi driving away on the splash," I said, "with everybody waving and saying 'Have a nice vacation, Kitty!'" Shooter agreed to this, too. He told me that he, Ann Nocenti (X-MEN editor) and Denny O'Neil (ALPHA editor) would plot the story. A few weeks went by, and eventually a plot arrived. It was a ponderous tome, and my spider-sense tingled immediately. I read the first few paragraphs (which featured a specific kind of aircraft for which no reference was provided, plus a character reading a book I had never heard of) and knew immediately that Chris had written it. I flipped thru the rest of the pages, and found that Kitty was not only IN the book, she was VITAL to the story. So -- I had laid out my terms, and they had been agreed to. Then they were promptly ignored. And I did not do the book.
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