{"id":921,"date":"2007-08-25T14:12:07","date_gmt":"2007-08-25T14:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=921"},"modified":"2007-08-25T14:12:47","modified_gmt":"2007-08-25T14:12:47","slug":"comics-creators-on-x-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/08\/25\/comics-creators-on-x-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Comics Creators on X-Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/comcrex.jpg\" alt=\"Comics Creators on X-Men\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Tom DeFalco<\/strong> (Titan Books)<br \/>\nISBN: 1-84576-173-1<\/p>\n<p>This concoction of pop-cultural history from ex-Marvel Editor-In-Chief Tom DeFalco gathers together the reminiscences of a broad band of those creative types that turned the X-Men from a quirky cult-comic into the multi-media branding juggernaut of today. From Lee and Kirby, via Roy Thomas and Neal Adams, through the Cockrum, Claremont and Byrne years, and beyond to the dramatic re-thinkings of Grant Morrison and Mark Millar, the articles are peppered with personal anecdotes, and a frank bewilderment at what the franchise now means.<\/p>\n<p>This is a thoroughly readable, heavily illustrated companion tome that doesn&#8217;t really add anything to the collecting of X-Men comics, but does give some salutary insights into working on a major comic book title. Released to coincide with the release of the third X-Movie, it nonetheless still has interesting meat for the dedicated fan.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 2006 Tom DeFalco. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 By Tom DeFalco (Titan Books) ISBN: 1-84576-173-1 This concoction of pop-cultural history from ex-Marvel Editor-In-Chief Tom DeFalco gathers together the reminiscences of a broad band of those creative types that turned the X-Men from a quirky cult-comic into the multi-media branding juggernaut of today. From Lee and Kirby, via Roy Thomas and Neal Adams, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/08\/25\/comics-creators-on-x-men\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Comics Creators on X-Men&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-eR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}