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Wednesday, October 27, 2004
From the Mouth of The Mont!
Thanks to Scott Saavedra and Neilalien for finding this radio interview with Gerard Jones author of Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book on NPR's Talk of the Nation. I must ask, am I the only that finds just a teensy bit of irony in Chris Claremont (or as I call him, The Mont) calling in and making this inference?
The Mont: [T]he irony of that was as more and more of the creative writing community and as importantly the editorially community came out of fandom the stories tended to be much more about, sadly, the minutiae of the characters. They became more and more isolated for a time from the world around them.
Host Neil Conan: Inside baseball almost.
The Mont: Yeah. And while they were very exciting for the converted there wasn't a lot to speak to people who were just wandering in and taking a look at them.
Because if someone who had never read comics but just saw X-Men 2 wanted to read the latest issue of Uncanny X-Men...
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