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The Essential Black Panther Part One @ Comics Bulletin
http://www.comicsbulletin.com/columns/4732/the-essential-black-panther-part-two/
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McGregor: I love that one too. I love that scene because it was so totally different from the previous three issues, this time of love and passion, with all the superb visuals against this beautiful background, and with the graceful movements of the giant tortoises. The sequence had some friction at the Bullpen, but the most telling line no one ever said anything about. I never thought I’d get it through. Pages after they have been swimming, and they are embracing, and there is this orgasmic burst behind them, T’Challs says, “You’re beautiful when you’re wet.”
How that got by, I’ll never know.
One of the proofreaders thought there was nipple bumps on the silhouette of Monica. Nipples are apparently always a demarcation point. It had passed editorial, and now in the Bullpen, someone was going to use whiteout on Billy’s art. Since I was there I was able to defend the art, and the claim that “We are not publishing books for sailors!” I’m not making that up. There were things like that behind the scenes. There's no incentive to get your books in early, at least in that stage of time. If you're doing something where the books were … we were doing material that weren't traditional to comics or pop culture at that time. I was basically called into the editorial conference for book after book after book. When this particular one came out, it not only got through editorial but then when the artwork would come in, I would always make sure it would arrive on the day it had to go out. Less time for anyone to fukk with the book. They had to really want to make the change, and there was seldom anything important enough, I guess, for them to hold the book up.
Because I knew John Verpooten would be overseeing it, and unless it was something really, that they just couldn't live with, or the Code wouldn't let go through, or whatever the thing was, then it had to go out that day and I would make sure I was in the office that day. It was a fight; every issue was a fight. To get the book the reader would hold in their hands, that would become the reality of the books we’re discussing decades later, to get that issue as close to the vision you had in your head, to the book you could live with.
happened to the R=G thread???
