So Kelvin noted in my post from Saturday that the gaffe I mentioned in X-Factor #11 is the sort of thing editors are supposed to catch. Except that obviously, the editors didn't catch that one, the same way they didn't catch that Tony Stark knew about Spider-Man's spidey-sense long before the new suit would've told him about it, or how Annihilation: Silver Surfer said the Skrull Empire had been wiped out by Annihilation Day 20, even though Super Skrull was still trying to save the Skrull Homeworld on Day 68, and I'm sure there are a hundred more you could come up with.
Now most of these are fairly small, and they don't ruin the story, but they do serve to draw you out of it, so for that reason alone, they need to be noticed and corrected. But they aren't, which leads us to tonight's question:
What do Marvel's editors do all day?
My guesses:
1) Giving Joe Quesada pedicures, while assuring him that all the fans are eagerly - but patiently - awaiting the conclusion to Daredevil:Father.
2) Getting Bendis coffee. Coffee? Yeah, coffee. That's it? They get him coffee? Yes, they fetch coffee. Nothing more clever than that? What's not clever about fetching coffee? Everything. You could have a made a joke about them enacting out his convoluted and repetitive dialogue sequences. . . OH, you got me! Yep, I definitely got you. You sure did. You bet I di...
Enough!!! Man, that stuff takes on a mind of its own pretty quickly. You mean it gets out of control fast? Leave now.
3) Bringing Mark Millar goats and virgins. Why? I have no idea, and I don't want to speculate. Just remember what Nextwave told us: Mark Millar licks goats.
Thoughts? Guesses? Ideas? Assumptions? Theories? Things you think might be happening but probably {BANG!}
I told him to leave.
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I love the Bendis spoof! (The Bendis spoof?) Yes, the Bendis spoof! (The Bendis spoof. Just sayin...)
Arrrrgggghhhhhhh!!!!!!
Oh, and I believe Marvel's editors look in up synonyms for "chosen one" to help out JMS.
Apparently, the editors do have some (relatively) tough working conditions; a friend of mine tells me the Marvel offices are a demoralising place to visit. I'm told the editors are mainly involved in making sure the stuff gets out the door on time (good job on that, guys), and don't get to do much editing any more.
Marvel infamously don't have an editor for the tpb department, so those things are usually full of errors, Marvel relying on fan fedback to fix errors in later printings.
Still, it's a mess. And when you see a book with three or four editors, it's hard to sympathise; one of them must have the time to check it.
they are trying to figure out how many times things can never be the same in a certain timeperiod,
before having a status que means things are not being the same.
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