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Comics really can be amazingly random in what becomes successful. And incredibly confusing as to what even happened behind the scenes, let alone what was written.
I seem to remember that Bob Budiansky was pretty happy with the plot. He had only one question, "What about the skeleton in the smokestack?"
"The WHAT?!" I asked. That's when I learned that somewhere between the time my plot was finalized and I delivered it - a period that couldn't have been longer than twenty-four hours - someone had proposed the "skeleton in the smokestack" subplot, Bob agreed to it, and decided that it should begin in the issue that preceded mine.
"Let me get this straight," I asked in what I'm sure was a less than civil tone, "The issue before mine ends with the discovery of the original clone's skeleton in a smokestack and you want to know how I intend to address this cliffhanger in my story."
"That's right," he responded. "What are you going to do?"
"Do we know if this skeleton actually is the original clone?"
"No."
"Do we know if it's fake?"
"No."
"Do we know ANYTHING about it?"
"No."
"Do we have the slightest idea WHERE WE ARE GOING WITH THIS #%^@& SUBPLOT?"
"Errrr...no."
"And you want to know HOW I'm going to address it?"
"Yes".
"ARRRRGHHHH!"
(If memory serves, the conversation went downhill from there!)
I cannot stress how handy it was that Liam Sharpe was willing to talk about Ultimate DH
I was reading a behind-the-scenes on the Clone Saga earlier, and that one was maaaaaaad:
If only Death's Head II had crossed over in a Clone Saga foil cover one-shot special that also had Ghost Rider to be the most 90s comic ever
Comics really can be amazingly random in what becomes successful.
* The Froschbär (lit: frog-bear. On the picture, he looks like a short man with a fat, hairy body, a big mouth and long fingers. Kinda Penguin-like.)
* The Sk'x'x (An extraterrestrial villain, looking like an attractive woman in a black-yellow speckled fire salamander costume.)
* The X-Phantom. A rather conventional comic villain, with a black mask and a costume in black and yellow too.