METAPATHIC

brevoortformspring

Anonymous asked:

Why are you so upset people care strongly about the X-Men? It's the only Marvel franchise that goes beyond the clichéd good vs evil and stands for so much more, the X-Men are us, everyone of us who felt like a fish out of the water during our childhood and teenage years. And now you're trying to diminish their importance. You are smothering us. You're like "Hey stop caring about these outcats, here's some government agents and cosmic trees for you".

brevoortformspring answered:

Um, no, we’re not.

We’re very happy that people care so strongly about the X-Men. That’s why we publish so many comics about them every month.

metapathic

Does this make you feel crazy or amused? Sometimes I think everyone of these anon fanxiety comments are from the same person. Sometimes I think they want the books to be cancelled so they can be right.

More you might like

gpack3

russelldauterman

Thor #6 preview, with art by me and (amazing!) colorist Matt Wilson.

This might be my favorite issue yet. Can’t wait for you guys to see some of the other pages… :)

metapathic

Wow!

kellysue

brevoortformspring

Anonymous asked:

I'm going to quote you here: " it’s our time, our effort, and our investment, ultimately." Are you fucking serious that you don't believe it's also the customers time, effort, and investment? You think it's all about you? That explains volumes!

brevoortformspring answered:

I’ve said plenty of times that it’s all your choice, what you choose to spend your time and your money on. So yes, absolutely.

Where you get confused, I think, is in what your money and your time gets you.

You pay for the book, you get the reading experience of that book, end of transaction.

As a whole, the movements and choices of the audience will have an impact on what we publish, in that what is successful will flourish and what is unsuccessful will perish.

But this is not a Democracy. You do not get a vote on stories, apart from reading them or not reading them. And you are not entitled to any particular comic book existing.

metapathic

Drops Mic!

brevoortformspring

metapathic asked:

Brian Michael Bendis, one of your top talents, writes two X-Men books. Chris Yost, who wrote Thor 2 among many other things, writes another. Some of the biggest names of draw these books. At any given month there are 9-12 X-Men books. This is the worst plan to destroy the X-Men I have ever seen.