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Former Marvel EIC Jim Shooter gives an interesting account of how the Claremont/Byrne tension continued to impact Marvel’s publishing line even after the two creators split up, describing an ongoing and somewhat petty rivalry between the two. 1/6 #xmen
“They had a falling out. And so John Byrne goes on to do Alpha Flight and other things. Chris gets other artists and marches on with X-Men. In the various other books he was doing, FF, Alpha Flight, whatever, John would do these stories:” 2/6
“Like if Chris was using Doctor Doom in an X-Men story, then John would do a story that proved that the Doctor Doom Chris had used was a robot. And he would have snotty comments, like you think I would have said something as stupid as what this robot said.” 3/6
“This would happen a lot. Then Chris would want to fire back. But Chris had better editors who were more on the ball. John, I think would seek out editors with whom he could get away with that type of stuff.” 4/6
“Weezi or Ann would say something like, no, Chris, you can't do this. So he'd get frustrated and come scream at me and say, "This son of a bitch did this and you won't let me fire back." 5/6
“And I'd go yell at John. And he'd get mad at me. Here I was refereeing between these guys who were sniping at each other in the comics I was responsible for. C'mon, guys, Jesus. There's that going on all the time.” 6/6
Full interview available here: https://www.cbr.com/jim-shooter-interview-part-1/
