Et pour cause puisque c’est à cause de lui que Defalco & Frenz ont été débarqués d’Amazing.
Pour quelle raison déjà ?
Hormis qu il prenne pour shooter.
Parce qu’ils avaient du mal à tenir les deadlines il me semble (un autre facteur qui a pu jouer: le long feuilleton autour de l’identité du Hobgoblin, avec les épisodes de Peter David concernant le sort de Ned Leeds, qui a percé en tant que scénariste grâce à l’aide de Owsley/Priest).
Here 's Jim Owsley on how the era ultimately ended: « I had been told (by Shooter) at least a dozen times to fire Tom. Tom was late. Tom was busy. Tom was distracted. And now, Tom was not doing his best on Spider-Man. Inker Joe Rubinstein quit, annoyed that DeFalco and Frenz were habitually erratic. I scheduled fill in after fill in, affecting sales. »
DeFalco’s take: (from Back Issue 35 ) « Owsley gave us a schedule that basically said I’d have to do a plot every three weeks to get the book on time. So Ron and I would follow that schedule and when I would turn in the third plot, Owsley would give us a new schedule that showed I was a month late. And he kept doing this to us. (…) Editors get to create their own schedules. I think what Shooter said to Owsley was ’ If the guy can’t make deadlines, get rid of him .’ So consequently, Owsley was constantly revising and remaking the deadlines. »
Back to Owsley: « I told Jim I was taking Tom off of ASM , and creating this other animal ( Sensational Spider-Man , a quarterly special - Tom and Ron could do as much Spider-Man as they wanted and were capable of doing, and we’d be off the hook for the monthly deadline) for him and Ron. Jim said, fine. »
"Tom took the news very hard. It ended our friendship, and, I am told, Tom saw Jim’s hand in this and threatened to quit. A stunned Shooter appeared at my door the next day, and I knew I was about to be fired. He asked me, and I quote ’ Why’d you do that ?’ I just stared at him as he stammered and stared at the floor (…) and I felt like I was the victim of some macabre Corleone plot. What the blessed hell was this man talking about?! I cleared this all with him before I did it. (…) I said, ’ Because you told me to .’ To which Jim replied, and I’ll never forget this, ’ Yeah, but I never thought you’d actually do it .’
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https://mcmolo.blogspot.com/2015/06/spider-man-1984-before-secret-wars.html
https://mcmolo.blogspot.com/2015/06/spider-man-1984-after-secret-wars.html
https://mcmolo.blogspot.com/2015/07/spider-man-1985.html
https://mcmolo.blogspot.com/2015/07/spider-man-1986-pt-1.html
https://mcmolo.blogspot.com/2015/07/spider-man-1986-pt-2.html
https://mcmolo.blogspot.com/2015/07/spider-man-1987.html
https://mcmolo.blogspot.com/2015/08/spider-man-1988.html
https://mcmolo.blogspot.com/2015/08/spider-man-1989.html
https://mcmolo.blogspot.com/2015/08/spider-man-in-1980s-epilogue.html
Priest ne garde pas un bon souvenir de cette période :
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Et pour l avoir tiré du marketing, on ne l en remerciera jamais assez.
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Et à Carol Kalish qui l’a engagé (son mentor), sans oublier l’impact bénéfique des X-Men de Claremont (un mérite parmi d’autres: renouveler l’intérêt de PAD pour les comics mainstream).
Quand donc ?
Sans doute le début (Cockrum/Byrne).
Le mec ne démérite vraiment pas sa légende de chef tyrannique.
Cette anecdote m a toujours fait rire !
Bon ça va faire de la lecture tout ça.
J avais lu le blog de priest à l époque.
Tyrannique d abord avec ses têtes de turcs comme colan, Gerber, moench, mcgregor… puis ça finira même avec ses chouchous byrne, miler, claremont après secret wars et qu il pensera que sa façon d écrire est la norme absolue (loin de la)
A double page spread from Erik Larsen’s never-published issue of X-Force. All of the originals burned up in a house fire.
Ah zut : un X-Force par Larsen, j’aurais bien aimé le lire. Ou au moins le regarder.
Jim
J aime bien.
Je n.aurais peut-être pas aimé à l.epoque.
Son imitation de liefeld est convaincante tout en apportant une qualité qui fait défaut à l’original.
Ah c’est cet épisode-là ?
Jim
Pa sûr. Le numéro n’est pas indiqué sur la planche.
L’information de Shrödinger : à la fois vraie et fausse, jusqu’à ce qu’on vérifie.
Jim
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Mais il a dû être bien désarçonné par le changement de style.
L’histoire dit-elle si Mignola a dû reproportionner les personnages et surtout agrandir les cases pour qu’on voit leurs pieds ? ;p
From Bob Layton’s Facebook page:
"This was part of a pitch for a spinoff from my second Hercules mini-series. Butch Guice and I had an entire four-issue arc planned out… but it never came to pass. We wound-up creating X-Factor instead. Poor us.
