I think I may have informed Tony Isabella what slashfic is. If he actually managed to be in the biz as long as I've been alive without knowing what slashfic is, I may have to apologize for shattering his pure, innocent soul.
Ignorantly, I don't remember who Tony Isabella is, but if he has been an adult for more than 3 years and a writer of any kind and he doesn't know from slashfic, then something is seriously missing from his education.
Slashfic is why we had a Star Trek: The Next Generation. Slashfic is why Quantum Leap kept going and going and going and going....
He started writing for Marvel in 1972, give or take a year. Created Black Lightning, despite what DC's lawyers may try to say. He may simply have passed over that whole aspect of fandom. Or maybe he wanted to be sure I was talking about slash and not slasher...haven't gotten a reply to my explanation yet. :)
Hi; I've spotted you in the comments of my friends-list LJs.
Tony also created Tigra the Were-Woman (yeah, yeah, it means "man-woman," but if Roy Thomas let it slide...) -- a retooling of the Cat (whose costume would go to one of Marvel's "model-heroines," Patsy Walker, as the Hellcat) -- and wrote most of the Living Mummy series in Supernatural Thrillers and a decent five-part arc in Daredevil (back when it was "Daredevil and the Black Widow") in which Nick Fury tried to recruit Foggy Nelson for S.H.I.E.L.D.'s executive council or board, and DD, BW and yes, S.H.I.E.L.D., fought the incarnation of Hydra led by Silvermane, along with a handful of third-string supervillains and a Dreadnought or two. IIRC, Tony Isabella was the one who tried to tie up as much of the Lee/Thomas/Steranko plot threads regarding Hydra into a more-or-less coherent history: I remember the letter columns of at least two of those DD issues being replaced by text pages written by him explaining Hydra's convoluted origins and current operations. I was kind of sorry when Mark Gruenwald had Scourge skrag one of the Hydra operatives he created, El Jaguar (who admittedly looked a bit too much like Kraven without seeming to bring anything new to the party other than jaguar/leopard paw gloves), but kept another Isabella creation, Blackwing (sort of a 4th-generation Batman rip-off who could command bats), who has never, to my knowledge, lived up to his hype in the pages of DD.
I kind of liked Isabella's Tigra stories in Marvel Chillers, and didn't feel that anyone did anything interesting with her until Steve Englehart scripted her in West Coast Avengers.
It's probably "too much information," but I can remember thinking up slash storylines about various Marvel superheroes before I'd ever heard the term "slash fiction" (or even "Tijuana bibles," for that matter); since I was in elementary school at the time, I find it hard to believe that the Marvel Bullpen of the first half of the 1970s was as innocent as Stan Lee wanted it to appear...
I fail to even see the POINT of slash fiction. Instead of using characters that are already "that way" or making up original characters, just use existing characters in such stories? Hmm, you'd think a fan of a series would be a person that likes the official plot as-is. Then again, I'm not even tempted to read non-slash fics of the same subject.
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Slashfic is why we had a Star Trek: The Next Generation. Slashfic is why Quantum Leap kept going and going and going and going....
How can anyone not know about slashfic?
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Tony also created Tigra the Were-Woman (yeah, yeah, it means "man-woman," but if Roy Thomas let it slide...) -- a retooling of the Cat (whose costume would go to one of Marvel's "model-heroines," Patsy Walker, as the Hellcat) -- and wrote most of the Living Mummy series in Supernatural Thrillers and a decent five-part arc in Daredevil (back when it was "Daredevil and the Black Widow") in which Nick Fury tried to recruit Foggy Nelson for S.H.I.E.L.D.'s executive council or board, and DD, BW and yes, S.H.I.E.L.D., fought the incarnation of Hydra led by Silvermane, along with a handful of third-string supervillains and a Dreadnought or two. IIRC, Tony Isabella was the one who tried to tie up as much of the Lee/Thomas/Steranko plot threads regarding Hydra into a more-or-less coherent history: I remember the letter columns of at least two of those DD issues being replaced by text pages written by him explaining Hydra's convoluted origins and current operations. I was kind of sorry when Mark Gruenwald had Scourge skrag one of the Hydra operatives he created, El Jaguar (who admittedly looked a bit too much like Kraven without seeming to bring anything new to the party other than jaguar/leopard paw gloves), but kept another Isabella creation, Blackwing (sort of a 4th-generation Batman rip-off who could command bats), who has never, to my knowledge, lived up to his hype in the pages of DD.
I kind of liked Isabella's Tigra stories in Marvel Chillers, and didn't feel that anyone did anything interesting with her until Steve Englehart scripted her in West Coast Avengers.
It's probably "too much information," but I can remember thinking up slash storylines about various Marvel superheroes before I'd ever heard the term "slash fiction" (or even "Tijuana bibles," for that matter); since I was in elementary school at the time, I find it hard to believe that the Marvel Bullpen of the first half of the 1970s was as innocent as Stan Lee wanted it to appear...
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