Got the same complaints about HIDDEN YEARS—although there the grumblers seemed unaware that the Master of Magnetism had ever been portrayed as anything other than a noble “freedom fighter”!!

At 2minutes and 27seconds he slips into a parallel universe and starts describing THINGS THAT DID NOT HAPPEN.

For instance, telling us that Chris Claremont wrote a detailed plot description of Dark Phoenix destroying a star, and that I added an inhabited planet.

No.

By that time, and for a couple of years before, CC and I had been working from what we called “phone plots”. He and I would run up Marvel’s phone bill, Chris in New York and me in Western Canada, hashing out the details of our tales. I would then draw what I remembered, figuring that would be the best stuff.

What we’d come up with in this fashion, as Dark Phoenix began her rampage, was the destruction of a Shi’ar battle cruiser—which had attacked her first!

I felt that wasn’t enough. That DP needed to do something cosmically heinous—the destruction of an inhabited planet. As an extra bit of “fun” I decided to use the “asparagus people”, last seen in AVENGERS 4.

I ran this past editorial, including Jim Shooter, and with permission assured, added the scene.

Most of you know what happened next.

I didn’t watch the rest of the video. I didn’t want to see where he went from such a fundamentally flawed beginning.

Come on kats and kittens! This isn’t rocket science! It doesn’t fit ANYWHERE.

Maybe I should have called it OTHERWHERE.