New Brevoort Formspring

Englehart didn't want to write that story, it was forced on him by his editor. The Beyonder as conceived is one of the coolest characters in Marvel history, but after they did that they made him basically unusable . . . except that the way they got rid of the Beyonder was such that anyone with half a brain could write around it. Have you prevented this from being done?

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I get that you liked SECRET WARS and SECRET WARS II, but continuity doesn’t really work this way–you can’t simply ignore the stories you don’t like as though they hadn’t happened. So whatever reason Englehart did that story (and nobody can force somebody else to do a certain story, every writer always has the option of walking. Those issues, as I recall, weren’t even credited to John Harkness, Englehart’s pseudonym for when he was just cashing a check. So while you may forgive him his imagined transgressions utterly, he was as involved in that story as anyone.) it’s events are part of the history and the backstory of the Marvel Universe.
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