Comments on: Beware: It’s [a Look Back at] Assistant Editor’s Month! Don’t Say We Didn’t Warn You! http://prettyfakes.com/2007/06/beware-its-a-look-back-at-assistant-editors-month-dont-say-we-didnt-warn-you/ Pouring bourbon on the line that separates art from trash. And then? Setting it on fire. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:32:44 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Name Required http://prettyfakes.com/2007/06/beware-its-a-look-back-at-assistant-editors-month-dont-say-we-didnt-warn-you/comment-page-1/#comment-107350 Name Required Mon, 20 Oct 2008 02:11:31 +0000 http://prettyfakes.com/?p=1100#comment-107350 Just a little correction: "Iron Man" #178 isn't part of the "Demon in a Bottle" storyline. That one ran from "Iron Man" #120 to #128 and was done by David Michelinie, Bob Layton, and John Romita Jr. #178 was part of a storyline that ran from #163 to #200 and focused on Stark battling Obadiah Stane, who drove him back into alcoholism. Just a little correction: “Iron Man” #178 isn’t part of the “Demon in a Bottle” storyline. That one ran from “Iron Man” #120 to #128 and was done by David Michelinie, Bob Layton, and John Romita Jr. #178 was part of a storyline that ran from #163 to #200 and focused on Stark battling Obadiah Stane, who drove him back into alcoholism.

]]> By: gorjus http://prettyfakes.com/2007/06/beware-its-a-look-back-at-assistant-editors-month-dont-say-we-didnt-warn-you/comment-page-1/#comment-45774 gorjus Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:01:22 +0000 http://prettyfakes.com/?p=1100#comment-45774 Oh, you need a little MTU, do you? I really liked a lot of the AEM stories, but as a kid reading them (I was eight) I didn't understand a) what an editor <em>did</em>, or <em>certainly </em>b) what an assistant editor did. Since apparently Marvel and DC don't even <em>have </em>editors now--remember when the odd misspelling was simply because the letterer messed up, and not because the people working the books didn't know them words go?--it's an almost hilariously moot point, a relic of the time when the "bullpen" actually had a comprehensive policy in line to guide books towards a certain mythos, or, if you will, selling point in the market. I'd forgotten about that Iron Man story but love the <em>Kingdom Come </em>amalgamation of Hawkeye and Mockingbird! Oh, you need a little MTU, do you?

I really liked a lot of the AEM stories, but as a kid reading them (I was eight) I didn’t understand a) what an editor did, or certainly b) what an assistant editor did.

Since apparently Marvel and DC don’t even have editors now—remember when the odd misspelling was simply because the letterer messed up, and not because the people working the books didn’t know them words go?—it’s an almost hilariously moot point, a relic of the time when the “bullpen” actually had a comprehensive policy in line to guide books towards a certain mythos, or, if you will, selling point in the market.

I’d forgotten about that Iron Man story but love the Kingdom Come amalgamation of Hawkeye and Mockingbird!

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