Anonymous
asked:
You will often defend series that are unpopular online but still sell by saying that people are buying the series because they like it and not because of habit or being tricked into it. What then do you say about Chuck Austen's Uncanny X-Men run? Not only is it reviled online, many Marvel creators openly dislike it, and Chuck Austen has been blacklisted from Marvel. Clearly people were only buying his run because it was Uncanny X-Men, habit not quality.

First off, Chuck Austin has in no way been blacklisted from Marvel. He’s not doing comics at the moment, but if he wanted to, he’d be welcome to come back and pitch ideas and stories to us.

And again, I do not think you can draw the conclusion that that many people bought Chuck’s run on UNCANNY X-MEN for so long–he wrote that book for a good long time–simply because they “had to.”

I also question whether many Marvel creators openly dislike it.