Tuesday, February 03, 2004

Comics news pundits were appalled at the shocking events of the latest Marvel news conference, which climaxed in Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada's right breast being accidentally revealed when President Dan Buckley accidentally leaned over the large editor and undid his shirt. Accidentally.

Discussing the new Daredevil mini-series, Father, Quesada was in the middle of detailing his new take on the character when Buckley interrupted by telling him that he would, according to onlookers, "get [Quesada] naked by the end of this conference". When Quesada continued unabashed, Buckley then apparently reached over and unbuttoned Quesada's shirt revealing a ninja star, much like one that Daredevil-villain Bullseye would use, pierced through his nipple.

Matt Brady, of popular internet comics newsarama Newsarama, commented that at that point, when the room went silent, all eyes fixed on Quesada clutching his chest and Buckley just looking kind of odd and frowning, it was all he could do to stop himself from muttering, "This never would have happened if Mike [Doran] was still working at the company."

All parties involved have since issued statements that this was in no way a publicity ploy to try and re-establish Marvel as the shocking comic company where anything can happen despite the company's recent devolution into rehashes of old comics by creators who were popular ten years ago. Nonetheless, this may be the most shocking comics moment since Mark Millar and Chris Claremont french-kissed in front of an audience of stunned fans at last year's SDCC.

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