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Edward Aycock
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Posted: 30 June 2026 at 2:07pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply
The first thing that comes to mind when I see this book and all the pretty colors and the nonstop action is "fun."   It looks fun, it is fun, and I haven't had fun like this with comics in a long time.  
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With the coming of the Direct Sales Market we saw comics increasingly dominated by the more marginal fans. The speculators. The dealers. (Remember, the DSM was conceived as a way for dealers to accumulate back issues, at a discount to them. It was not intended to become the primary venue.)

As such, it came to hold a huge influence over content—far more than had been in the days of the newsstand. And publishers, a superstitious and cowardly lot, paid more and more attention to what sold in this changing marketplace, tailoring the product to the speculators and pushing away the regular consumers.

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JB,

How does the amount of time you spend inking one of your own pages of tight pencils compare with the amount of time you would take to produce a similar inked page from scratch (where pencils would not need to be as tight since you already know that you will be inking them)?



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The inking time works out about the same. Same amount of surface to cover.

Incidentally, mingling with the outpouring of comments on ELSEWHEN, I found someone stating with absolute certainty that Terry was inking “mostly layouts” in our days on UNCANNY.

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Weren't there two or three instances, surely not more than that, where your credit listed breakdowns? Those would have been the only times he'd have done that correct? 
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I think there were two issues.
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Under the heading of Not Getting It, I have been seeing comments—happily few and far between—complaining about my portrayal of Magneto in ELSEWHEN. These readers want what Chris Claremont turned him into over the years after I left, not an accurate representation of the character from this vintage.

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”!!

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For years, I used to think that the idea of Magneto being a "noble freedom fighter" who chose a more violent path to fighting for mutant rights and being made a hero was a great idea (mind you I started reading X-Men regularly in the 80's with UXM #150). However, with hindsight and after reading JB's comments over the years about why making Magneto a "redeemable misunderstood villain and then turned hero" was a huge mistake and missed the whole point and original intent of the character. IMO, instead of Claremont turning Magneto into a hero, he should have just created a brand new original character who would fit that role. Hell, he should have made Gateway into the type of character that he turned Magneto into. After all, Claaremont has gone on record as saying that his plans for the X-Men was to make Gateway the new headmaster of Xavier's School and it would have made more sense to introduce Gateway as a conflicted villain with redeemable qualities and a strict moral code who felt the ends justify the means and was driven by the oppression he suffered as an Aboriginal living in Australia.
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