Robserecaps Forty Six – Name Withheld!
This is from a two month old episode. I had been skipping around on some of the leaner topics (Wolverine’s Got a Gun) and the heavier stuff (Ed Piskor), but this is one I am kinda glad I got back around to as this is a story, like many others the Rob mentions, I was unaware of!
- The Rob was inspired to re-tell this tale due to a recent episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm
- The main crux here is an anonymous letter sent into Comics Buyer Guide from the aspect of an artist in the business about how folks who just write are no longer needed, specifically criticizing Mike W Barr. This particular issue, dated September 27, 1991 is not online, sadly
- But, IMO, the real reason the Rob brings this up is when this letter came out, the Rob was accused if not blamed for writing the letter. Mainly because the writer of the Name Withheld letter cites X-Force characters as being created by artists and not writers
- the Rob even called the offices of CBG to tell them it was not him but also to try and find out who did write it
- The writer of the letter was revealed to be Erik Larsen, but the story isn’t done there
- The Rob spends much of the episode reading Peter David blogs from 2004 and another blog from 2013 by someone named Mezatania (sp?) that I cannot find
- the 2013 blog is mostly the writer joking about the X-Force characters being good and not knowing where the opening line “you ignorant slut” came from. We will come back around as the Rob does a two parter about how Marvel has and has been fumbling Cable since the Rob left Marvel
- the Peter David blog, found here, is just the Rob going through to comments remarking about how people either didn’t know or forgot who wrote the letter
- the Rob wraps up the show talking about atmospheric rivers
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