Blackbird jets existed, and the X-Men flew a modified Blackbird in the books.

Oh, and I am a fan of much of John Byrne's works, but recently on his website he has shown a tendency to throw, for lack of a better term, diva strops.

As for Byrne, I'm a fan of his too (recent stuff included), but that theory sounds farfetched to me. Comic shop owners aren't even organized as far as I know, let alone colluding against certain creators. Why would they all agree?

- Z

An Urban Legend story I would like to see covered is that John Byrne comics don't sell. We all know it's the comicshop owners that are sabotaging Mr. Byrne's efforts with their bizarre vendetta against one of todays finest comic professionals. Starting with Chapter One and Lab-Rats, they have done evetything they could to make him look like a washed-up loser.

- Z

Dave

At the time I found it hard to believe that comic book circulation numbers could support such a work-for-hire salary. And I've always assumed that the only road to such a salary was from the ownership and licensing of the actual characters to such endeavors as action figures, movies and television, rather than just writing/drawing the characters owned by others. Thanks.

"Everything is a lie!"

And then nothing. And that issue was never referred to again.

Before Howard Mackie became the sole writer of Amazing Spiderman an PP:SM, he wrote Ghost Rider into Spiderman #93 to give the series the closure that never got

Honestly, the comic didn't make any sense (for Spiderman fans), since Ghost Rider spends the issue like a plot device and saying that everything was a lie

Anyway, at the end of the Doctor Strange : Sorcerer Supreme series, when J.M. DeMatteis came on board, he was going to deal with Strange's life from "waaaay back".

It was supposed to be something where it was revealed that Strange's father had NOT died (way back in Doc's early "selfish Dr." days), but was, in fact just ABOUT to die and DOC goes back home to deal with this.

Then, I guess the "cancellation" notice came thru and it rushed itself off into a weird story of Mordo begging forgiveness, and Doc dealing with the Cython mess in the final issue.

Oddly enough, the COVER to issue # 86 has DOC kneeling over the dying body of an old man while Mordo's face gloats in the sky.

Scene never happened in the book.

Any way to find out what was supposed to have happened?

Personally, while I usually LOVE DeMatteis' work, I thought his stint on the end of the title did so much damage (Doc being DESTINED to be the CHOSEN ONE, Mordo causing mental torment in the boy Stephen Strange - due to his jealousy at discovering that this boy would grow up to be "chosen", this mental tampering being the cause of DOC's callous nature and alchoholic tendencies...etc, etc..) that it still leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Oh! And one of the worst offenses, he has Doc meet some lady who lived next to him when he was young.

According to most Marvel canon Doc is faaar older than the usual "10 year" rule and has been in the Sorcery biz for quite some time.

This lady should have been old. Not a "youthful" 40 something.

Sorry for the rant, but it's all connected.

Anyone know of this storyline's true purpose.
I HAVE to think that J.M. had a PLAN that was just tossed due to looming cancellation.

ThanX!
~P~
P-TOR

1) Rumors of Grant Morrison's displeasure with one or more of the fill-in artists on the run?

2) How fast did Igor Kordey draw some of the issues?

3) Is Kordey's reputation from that run the reason why he is no longer getting work at Marvel, or was that of his own choosing?

4) Was there a shouting match between Quesada and Morrison at SDCC right before Morrison was announced DC exclusive?

The answer is Yes, that's true. I've got the writeup over on my site, the Legion Omnicom.

It's basically the same thing with projects developed for editors who were fired - if the new editors don't like the idea, it's gone with the old editor.

The only difference is that this time, the editor's departure was a far more tragic one.

The writer was not dead, the artist was not dead, the inker was not dead, the letterer was not dead, the colorist was not dead, the assistant editor was not dead, and the publisher was not dead. They scrapped approximately 30 issues of the series because they couldn't find another editor?

Again -- I am not trying to make light of a person's passing. I just don't understand the cause and effect in this instance. Couldn't they have released further issues and dedicated them to the memory of Lou Stathis? For example: Brandon Lee died during the filming of The Crow. But they didn't shelve the film -- they released it in his memory.

Brian, can you provide further explanation? Am I missing something? Did they torpedo the project out of grief? I'm perplexed.

Thanks.