Scott Lobdell

Okay, so for X-Men number 6, this one is called Farther Still.

Scott Lobdell is credited with the script with Art Thibert on finishes.

Um, I think it's kind of telling in this one that Lobdell is credited after the inker.

Uh, we've mentioned before that the inclination of editorial in the '90s was towards these hotshot artists instead of the writers, and so I think this, uh, the order of the credits actually speaks to that.

This one I thought was fine.

I actually was like, okay, I do think it should have came out after Teen Titans, but it's Scott Lobdell and R.B. Silva, like an early R.B. Silva from... emperor doom from one world under doom right um but i kind of like this again they're trying to do something really different with superboy uh we got another organization the nowhere organization the cliffhanger connects to teen titans but i wish we got teen titans before superboy but i was kind of fine with this deathstroke now i had read this one for a dc all-stars episode kyle higgins and joe bennett at the time i thought it was kind of weak and then i think i i read this with the notion of of the new 52 and it kind of made a little more sense because he's trying to make a new name for himself a new status quo and trying to edge out the younger, hipper mercenaries.

But again, it's very violent.

It's got guns.

And I think they should have leaned in on that.

So yeah, I wasn't feeling this one.

Teen Titans I didn't hate this I thought it was okay Scott Lobdell Brett Booth I like Brett Booth from the old Backlash comic you know Again, not terribly deep.

And the Superboy comics should have come out after this, but I was okay.

One pixel, one pixel at a time.

And so I, it was like, I had all this love, all this, you know, access to money, access to resources, even Marvel, like friends with them.

Everything was going great, but the art sucked.

Wait, how did the art look like? How does it conceptualize it? Are you just messing with me because you wanted to keep going?

It was like, to mediocre artists.

So this was golden and I totally got lucky with them.

So Steve and Mira end up doing a lot of art for a lot of my games because we stayed friends and I keep making games.

And then Steve, of course, is responsible for the entire look

And of course, he will make his first appearance in Marvel Comics in X-Factor number 92 in May 1993.

He's going to be created by Scott Lobdell and Joe Quesada.

So before we get into his lore, let's talk about how ridiculously powered he is.

Exodus is described as a psionic of the highest order.

Instead, you know, they got powers like having extra skin or pulling out your bones and throwing them at people or having telepathic slugs for your digestive system.

Man, we should really keep Scott Lobdell away from pencils and computers, huh? As the Senshi leave, Artie says, We're counting on you.

And Luna gets up to say, It's my fault.

I made her fight against the one she loves.

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Uh, and shout-out to, uh, Scott Lobdell, because when I first met him, I, I was at the Age of Apocalypse, uh, summit, which very few people were allowed to go to.

Uh, and I said to him, "You know, this isn't my real job.

I have a real job writing movies." Uh, and he looked at me and he went, [laughs] "Oh, this isn't your real job?"

Uh, but the early, the, the, the initial six launches.

So there's Brandon Choi with, with Jim.

Scott Lobdell comes in.

Jeff, I don't know if Brandon Choi writes anything anymore.