Art Machine
Just another former infatuation junkie

Sometimes you try an idea and people don’t like how it turns out. It’s pretty much a given that it will happen at some point in your creative career – everybody except Pixar fails at least once.

Over on the Marvel.com blogs, Tom Brevoort has posted a 4-entry series on comics he doesn’t apologize for. It’s a fascinating look into the editing of comics (a sentence which rarely appears in – well, pretty much anything) that shows how an editor can make a choice they firmly believe to be the right choice, only to have the fans disagree. The first entry is on the ill-received Codename: X-Men.

CODENAME: X-MEN concerned a covert government project overseen by Colonel America, which had rounded up 666 rogue subhuman mutants, and used them as shock troops to hunt down others of their deranged kind. Written by Mark Millar and illustrated by Sean Phillips, it was full of big, crazy ideas and manic energy. (My one meager contribution of note was the notion that Cyclops’ gaze turned people into stone.)

While Brevoort is being unapologetic for his creativity, I feel in a mood to be proud of my own. I launched my latest video project – MyFirstRiotGear this week. For the most part, it has been well received, although at least one person on one of the numerous video sites feels that I really suck. Not the video, mind – but apparently he feels that I suck. Meh.

Coming soon: more information on my next unapologetically creative project. Stay tuned…

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