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My New X-Men Team For 2011
Posted by Tom Mason Categories: Editorials, Marvel Comics,
I love words and phrases and funny names. I love it when new ones pop up and I love it when they get shortened, abbreviated and all slanged up as technology alters the way we communicate.
I especially like the words, slang and proper names that show up in comic books.
Back in the 1970s, Marvel Comics' writers contributed lots of great character names, words and phrases to the MU.
Sometimes it was driven by censorship - the Comics Code Authority didn't allow mainstream comics to use the word "zombie," so Marvel invented "zuvembie." Or giving Luke Cage a Code-approved exclamation like "Sweet Christmas!"
Mostly it was driven by tremendously creative writers like Steve Gerber twisting and tweaking the language and coming up with names like F. A. Schist and Dr. Bong, and Steve Englehart creating Roxxon Oil, and Don McGregor, Archie Goodwin, Gerry Conway, and others piling on.
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