Like, I don’t mean to be a hater, but who looks at this and says this is the care and respect and serious thinking that the X-Men characters deserve? Hell, who looks at this and says this is competent leadership from a studio that is in no way alarming? Kevin is introducing new concepts like adamantium and mutant Ms Marvel while simultaneously recycling old Fox characters all before telling us they’re going to reboot everything anyways? Like, what the fuck? Next, let’s talk about how Kevin and Nate and Marvel talk about the one thing that’s come out of Marvel that was universally loved? Oh right, they don’t. In fact, Kevin and his vaunted “Parliment” at Marvel didn’t even attend #xmen97’s premiere. One of the crew members was in the elevator with Lou the day of the premiere and mentioned it and Lou had no idea what he was talking about. Also notice how everyone at Marvel talks like Deadpool and Wolverine put X-Men back into the modern zeitgeist? Sorry, that was #xmen97, and even Ryan Reynolds has acknowledged it. Sadly, Kevin Fiege and his sycophants hated that what I crested with my team was getting all the praise it did. And before you think I’m being egotistical, I highlight this to say, under my leadership and vision, my team and I created an project that resonated with the MCU’s core audience in a way that Kevin and his Parliament have so far failed to do in over a decade. Instead of looking at what my team and I did and learning to replicate our focus on canon and deep character work, they smeared me, tactically threatened the crew not to speak out while continuing to still abuse them, and have done everything to act like #xmen97 wasn’t a hit. Remember, I was told by a TOP exec at Marvel last year that Kevin resented my work and the show because FANS like you were using it as a referendum on how Kevin’s MCU is failing. I was told by several artists on the show that they had wanted to post or include blurbs commending me for my leadership and vision and all I poured into the show, only for Marvel to censor or reprimanded them. Remember, Jake Castorena was literally stoped by Marvel in an interview with @IGN for “giving me too much credit as showrunner.” Also, IGN went along with it, respected journalists that they are 🙄 All of this is ego, and the X-men have no room for ego. Their legacy and the investment so many of us made into it is what’s the priority, not making your mark. I have yet to see anything from Kevin and Marvel that shows that they respect how much fans have invested in these characters. Now, will this change? I hope so. As I said, I have no faith…yet. But my mind can be changed — not by PR and stunt casting and nostalgia grabs — but by someone actually doing an interview at Marvel about the X-Men where I hear them talk about actually story. Off that, I end with this: During Phase One, Marvel’s Hall H and press releases were so exciting because they were talking about the comics, and the themes and the stories. They talked about the fans and doing right by them and the comics. Now, their Hall H panels and news is just Kevin or one of his lackeys talking about the latest A-list celebrity who’ll be paid 8-figured to cosplay as a Marvel hero. There’s no talk of the actual heroes or characters or story, b/c Kevin and his brood are just Star-fucking at this point hoping it’ll earn dollars at the box office. It’s sad, and these characters deserve to be treated as something more than a PR springboard for Kevin and his celebrity pals’s stardom and careers.