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Michael Roberts
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The really odd thing is as much as Marvel has deemphasized the FF
and X-Men for licensed merchandise, this doesn't seem to apply to
Deadpool. There's a ton of Deadpool merchandise out there, and unlike
with the Fox FF and X-Men films, they aren't avoiding putting out new
stuff to coincide with the movie. I think he brings in too much money,
especially with the Hot Topic crowd, for Marvel to turn their nose up at
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At least everyone is in their traditional costume (except maybe She-Hulk?). That's a really weird brand of "weathering" they've used, though. Looks more like a sponge filter.

I'm surprised to feel this way, but am pretty comfortable with the X-Men being "removed" from the Marvel Universe. It's been an awkward fit for years, really. Unfortunate that it came about because of film contracts, though, and that the poor Inhumans are being shoe-horned into the place formerly occupied by mutants.
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My wife and I were watching TV last night and a commercial for Deadpool came on. When it was over, she said "I'm kind of intrigued by this."

Now, she wasn't a comic book person and most of her knowledge of characters, history, and assorted whatnot comes from me. But...she did manage to add, "even though he's pretty much a ripoff of Spider-Man," referencing his smart-ass remarks and jokey nature, not the violent, shoot 'em up stuff. I was quite proud.

   
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Surprising to see work by Sandy Plunkett on a tee-shirt. Not surprising to see Jack, Gene, Gil, Herb and Sal represented. Wish I could make out some of the other artists, but the weathering/ageing is obscuring the art too much. Is Steve Ditko represented?
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Ditko did that Green Goblin. Dr Strange stumps me though - Colan?
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I think you are correct.
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This kind of collage would have been unimaginable to my teenage self. No X-Men? No Fantastic Four? This isn't Marvel--this is some weird subset.
Echoing that sigh, JB.
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The absence of Ben and Johnny is keenly felt.

Years ago, when Claremont was ousted from the X-Men in favor of Jim Lee and the Boyz 2 Image, I sent a letter to Marvel recommending they give him the Inhumans. The outsider themes, close ties, and general make-up of the group made them a near match for the Merry Mutants, I felt.

You had the dark costumed, taciturn leader in the half-face mask whose power was a curse; you had the regal woman with the massive flowing hair (and right next door, her cousin whose elemental powers could be used for weather control); You had the water-based character, the big, strong, often-thought-simple strongman, the thin, wiry one, capable of incisive humor. There's even a wild man who had three-point claws on the back of his hands before Wolverine came about... (Leonus, created in 1968) You could put Crystal and Lockjaw in the place of Kitty and Lockheed. How long before a lettering mishap conflated the two?

I thought it would be a pretty good match between characters and writer. I did not say that I thought all of that stilted "warrior ethic, heart's desire, no quarter asked none given" nonsense would sound better coming from pseudo-alien royalty than the X-Men. I thought an Inhumans-in-place-of-the-X-Men book would be a lot of fun. 

I didn't pin any hopes on such a thing, however, since I suspected that with characters he'd invested so much time and effort into having been taken out of his hands, an X-Men style team might be the last thing Claremont would want to do... Then he created the Sovereign Seven for DC...

It is interesting to me that now that Marvel has essentially switched out the two teams, the Inhumans today bear almost no resemblance to the team as it stood then, in membership or story premise. 

Regarding the t-shirt again, I do appreciate the fact that the Sentry and Jewel (AKA Jessica Jones) haven't been shoe-horned in somewhere...



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Ditko did that Green Goblin. Dr Strange stumps me though - Colan?

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That Goblin looks more like Romita Sr to me.

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Philippe Negrin
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Some strange and relatively obscurechoices here...
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Some strange and relatively obscurechoices here...

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Indeed! Six "founding fathers," and a flock of second, third, fourth stringers.

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Dr Strange stumps me though - Colan?

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Gene Colan and Tom Palmer I believe.
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