Tom Brevoort Would Rather Make Marvel Fans Angry Than Indifferent
Marvel Executive Editor, SVP and Senior X-Men Editor Tom Brevoort has a message for fans who get furious about controversial storylines: he welcomes the intensity, because it means they're actually invested. As well as discussing whether or not I am myself, or the reality of variant covers, he went on the Word Balloon podcast with host John Siuntres and addressed some of the most heated fan backlashes of his career, from the 2017 Secret Empire "Hail Hydra" Captain America twist that drew credible death threats, to the current online vitriol directed at Paul Raban, the recent boyfriend of Mary Jane Watson, and explained why he views strong negative reactions as a sign of success rather than failure.