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"All of a sudden, the editor sort of gave me heck: 'Todd! You gotta stop doing those... those... spaghetti webbings!' Ohhhh, he gave a name to it! Of course, I did what all smart people do, you always say yes, and I actually made the spaghetti webbing twice as long."
Todd McFarlane on leaving Marvel, Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle

"Over a decade ago, I was writing a Thing solo series and I was building up to Issue #25 where I was going to have Ben propose to Alicia. So, I wanted to marry them, but Tom Brevoort, who's a Fantastic Four purist, told me I couldn't marry Ben and Alicia in the Thing comic. That's a major Fantastic Four event! He said, 'You can have Ben propose to Alicia in your comic, but the wedding will have to take place in the main book and Straczynski will write it. If we get there are you okay with that?' I told him, 'yeah.'

So, when I got this book the first question I asked him was, 'Can I marry Ben and Alicia?' He said, 'Yeah, you can do that!' This was the first thing I wanted to do."

"The CEO Hiroshi Matsuyama kept killing Boron during the playtests so I decided to make him super strong to mess with my boss. Now the boy has become so strong and unstoppable even us cannot control him."

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