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http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=92222
Not sure if there is a topic elsewhere, if so please merge.
Apparently he passed last night due to complications from diabetes. He was 63 and had been very ill for the past 2 years. Naturally he is best known for his work on Legion of Super-Heroes in the Silver Age and on his run on Uncanny X-Men with Len Wien, creating many of the "new" X-Men characters that we take for granted today, like Nightcrawler, Mystique, etc.
For me this smacks a little harder because I actually met the man at a New York Convention I think around 2002 or 2003. It was one of the Big Apple Con's at St. Paul's Cathedral or something and it was the first "real" con that I'd went to (that wasn't a card show in some church somewhere in Brooklyn). I decided against paying $30 for a sketch so I could buy bootlegs, a decision I regretted for years. But I did get to speak with him a little and he was a cool guy. He was always eager to talk about the X-Men (X2 was then I think just coming out and everyone was anxious about Nightcrawler, a character he claimed "was him" in the series) and show off his past work on DC and Marvel. He didn't care for the "priest" stuff that was done with Nightcrawler and seemed to see him as being a bit more hardcore; "the point of carrying a sword is sometimes you stick people with it", or words to that effect, he said. It was an honor meeting him, little did I know how sick he would get so quickly afterwards.
Comics lost a legend today.
At least his legacy and work will live forever.
Not sure if there is a topic elsewhere, if so please merge.
Apparently he passed last night due to complications from diabetes. He was 63 and had been very ill for the past 2 years. Naturally he is best known for his work on Legion of Super-Heroes in the Silver Age and on his run on Uncanny X-Men with Len Wien, creating many of the "new" X-Men characters that we take for granted today, like Nightcrawler, Mystique, etc.
For me this smacks a little harder because I actually met the man at a New York Convention I think around 2002 or 2003. It was one of the Big Apple Con's at St. Paul's Cathedral or something and it was the first "real" con that I'd went to (that wasn't a card show in some church somewhere in Brooklyn). I decided against paying $30 for a sketch so I could buy bootlegs, a decision I regretted for years. But I did get to speak with him a little and he was a cool guy. He was always eager to talk about the X-Men (X2 was then I think just coming out and everyone was anxious about Nightcrawler, a character he claimed "was him" in the series) and show off his past work on DC and Marvel. He didn't care for the "priest" stuff that was done with Nightcrawler and seemed to see him as being a bit more hardcore; "the point of carrying a sword is sometimes you stick people with it", or words to that effect, he said. It was an honor meeting him, little did I know how sick he would get so quickly afterwards.
Comics lost a legend today.
At least his legacy and work will live forever.
