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Monday, August 02, 2004
Don't Mess With The 'Mont
Ladies and gentlemen, I try to keep a happy-go-lucky spirit here on my modest blog. But sometimes I read something on this Information Superhighway that just makes my blood boil. You might have already seen other comic bloggers talk about this piece but now I must have my say. I am of course talking about the travesty that Ninth Art has committed.
Read that article. I mean, really read it. It gets something I hold very dear to me completely wrong. I am of course talking about the character Mr. Majestic.
After a simply uproarious preamble dealing with Ninth Art's image
of being "snobs" (take that people who care about such things) John Fellows confesses his fondness for the Kherubim warlord Majestros. This proves Fellows' excellent taste in comics, but I soon wondered what the taste of Fellows' truly was when I saw this mockery of a recollection:
But I just can't stop buying anything he appears in. Those original Alan Moore WILDCATS appearances. His doomed-to-failure ongoing with Joe Casey (Featuring the funniest single comic in existence, his date with raging cyborg psychopath Ladytron).
Those original Alan Moore WILDCATS appearances!!?? I’m sorry to repeat such things but such a horror must not be forgotten. Does this Fellows fellow truly not know the first appearance of Mr. Majestic, a character he at least claims to be a fan of?
I love Alan Moore’s run on Wildcats (I prefer spelling it that way) but Moore did not give us Majestros. Nay, we owe that to Wildcats co-creator Jim Lee and Chris Claremont, or as I call him, The ‘Mont.
As you will clearly see in the link provided above, Mr. Majestic first appeared in Wildcats #11 during the Gathering of Eagles arc. Alan Moore did not write the book until issue #21.
Look, there he is on the cover of issue #12:
I’m sorry Ninth Art and Mr. Fellows, but in your gross misstatement of the facts about Mr. Majestic’s first appearances, you have made me angry. You have made literally thousands, well, hundreds of Mr. Majestic fans angry. You have made Jim Lee angry (maybe). And you have made The ‘Mont angry. For that, I pity you sir. I truly do.
Also, did you know that Mr. Majestic is also the name of a dildo? If that doesn’t speak to the creativity and marketing ability of The ‘Mont, what does?
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