Tom Brevoort's formspring page

[Kevinroc]

Marvel editor Tom Brevoort started up a formspring page and takes on pretty much all questions from people.

http://www.formspring.me/TomBrevoort

Yes, he does state the company line (not surprising given his position) but he also provides some pretty candid responses to questions.

(Questions that clearly annoy him: Who can beat who/ how powerful is *insert character here*, when will *insert dead character here* come back, the Spider-marriage, and things that make you sound like a jerk [like how mean is some person you've never met or why did Marvel ruin *Ultimate Universe/ Spider-Man/ Avengers, what have you].)

And yes, people have asked him his thoughts on DC (likes DC and the people who work there but doesn't like the pandering to the nostalgia crown and all the seeming obsession with mutilation as entertainment but also admits some of those charges could be leveled at Marvel), what manga creator he would like to see do something for Marvel (Rumiko Takahashi on Spider-Man), his favorite Marvel character (The Thing), and other topics.

[Gabe De Los Muertos]

Before anyone says anything, he has every right to be a dick considering the stupid and repetitive questions people ask him. Dan Slott and Jim McCann have one as well.

[Gail Simone]

Tom Brevoort is one of the best editors in comics. I think it's always okay to do a little bit of trash talk, I do it myself.

I hated the Blackest Night stuff he was saying but that seemed very out of character for him. The rest is just his opinion. Always fair game.

[Apathy Lad]

I don't know, I think Marvel handles Nostalgia regression a lot better than, say, DC. Avengers Dissasembled pissed a lot of people off, to be sure, but at least New Avengers was, well, new. One More Day feels like the sole blemish.

[spidervenom]

I like how he said that mutants didn't feel like a minority because they were in the millions, but now they are minoritys because there are only 200 of them.

[scout1279]

I like how he said that mutants didn't feel like a minority because they were in the millions, but now they are minoritys because there are only 200 of them.
An argument that will never make any sense to me. Personally, the fact that there are only 200 of them now makes me wonder why people would even find them consequential enough to hate.

[Gabe De Los Muertos]

Are mutants even a race? They're their own species, aren't they?

[spidervenom]

An argument that will never make any sense to me. Personally, the fact that there are only 200 of them now makes me wonder why people would even find them consequential enough to hate.
I also loves how he spits on grant morrisons new x-men run by supporting the xorn-magneto nonsense and saying the secondary mutations were dumb. Geez, I wonder if he will spit on more top creaters once they leave marvel. oh,wait I forgot, he also piddled on geoff johns and blackest night with the siege variant cover while marvel profited off his avengers run by recently collecting them in hardcovers.

[TCJohnson]

An argument that will never make any sense to me. Personally, the fact that there are only 200 of them now makes me wonder why people would even find them consequential enough to hate.

Cause you still have mutants that can destroy entire cities single handedly like Magneto and Professor X.

Besides it is hard to let go of hate.

[Gabe De Los Muertos]

I also loves how he spits on grant morrisons new x-men run by supporting the xorn-magneto nonsense and saying the secondary mutations were dumb. Geez, I wonder if he will spit on more top creaters once they leave marvel. oh,wait I forgot, he also piddled on geoff johns and blackest night with the siege variant cover while marvel profited off his avengers run by recently collecting them in hardcovers.

He said he would love to have Geoff Johns back at Marvel. And considering it's their property, who are you to criticize what they profit off of? DC does the same thing to people.

[scout1279]

Cause you still have mutants that can destroy entire cities single handedly like Magneto and Professor X.

Besides it is hard to let go of hate.

Yeah, but the government passing legislation and such? That's the dumb part.

It's also a flawed argument from the perspective that real world minorities number in the millions. It treats readers like idiots to think they can't grasp the fact that millions is less than billions.

[Gabe De Los Muertos]

Yeah, but the government passing legislation and such? That's the dumb part.

It's also a flawed argument from the perspective that real world minorities number in the millions. It treats readers like idiots to think they can't grasp the fact that millions is less than billions.

The government passing a law that is prejudiced? That's happened before. Still happens today, Arizona.

[Hybrid2]

I like how he said that mutants didn't feel like a minority because they were in the millions, but now they are minoritys because there are only 200 of them.
There's also millions of blacks and other "minoritys".


An argument that will never make any sense to me. Personally, the fact that there are only 200 of them now makes me wonder why people would even find them consequential enough to hate.
It make them less of a peoples,to me and more of a bunch of super human.


Are mutants even a race? They're their own species, aren't they?

I never bought the diferent race thing.
They're human mutans,they have "normal" parents and can have "normal" childrens.
That's not how a diferent species work.
Being the next step of human evolution dont make them no-human.

[scout1279]

I hate that they've become a separate species too. When did that transition happen? The whole point was that they were human, and should be accorded with the same rights as everyone else. It completely undermines the message, and makes them all sound like Magneto whenever an X-Men asserts that they are not human.

[TCJohnson]

Yeah, but the government passing legislation and such? That's the dumb part.


that is just pandering to their base.

[scout1279]

The government passing a law that is prejudiced? That's happened before. Still happens today, Arizona.

The people that those prejudiced laws concern number in the millions, not the hundreds.

[TCJohnson]

The people that those prejudiced laws concern number in the millions, not the hundreds.

But we, the audience, knows what happened to the mutants. The average Joe in the Marvel you wouldn't know what happened to mutants and probably don't really sure snout how many there are.

[scout1279]

But we, the audience, knows what happened to the mutants. The average Joe in the Marvel you wouldn't know what happened to mutants and probably don't really sure snout how many there are.
We don't know either way, which is another problem.


My point is, millions of people is a minority. If there's only a few million of a certain group of people, that's not a lot of people. As a reader, I find it hard to compare their struggle with real world minorities, because real world minorities have a future stake in society. There are 200 mutants and they can't make anymore. they're gonna die out no matter what. They are a dead race already.

[Nick Soapdish]

The people that those prejudiced laws concern number in the millions, not the hundreds.

Not always. Quebec just introduced a bill that would make Muslim women take off their scarves to receive government services. There were ten requests out of 118,000 from 2008-9. I'm not sure if it ever passed.

Your point is well taken though. It's usually more obvious minorities.