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When Paul Pope Got Mixed Up With Brian Wood

Published Mon, 07 Jan 2013 10:00:23 -0600

Last updated Mon, 07 Jan 2013 10:06:18 -0600

From the backmatter interviews in Image Comics titles, with Paul Pope.

What's the best thing a fan has ever said to you?

Probably the times you meet someone who said they read your books with their kids. That is really meaningful. I like meeting people, everyone has something to say.

I did, however, just find out that I met Jordia Bellaire, the colorist on Mara, at some show when she was THIRTEEN and sold her a copy of one of my books.I've never felt older.

Seems fair enough. But not to Paul Pope. He tweets;

@davezissou @royalboiler It's a pet peeve~people talking about "feeling old". My grandma is 93, never complains, despite pain. F that.

— PULPHOPE (@PULPH0PE) January 4, 2013

@davezissou @royalboiler Someone inserted the bit about Mara & colorist & my "feeling old" without my permission/approval. Never said that.

— PULPHOPE (@PULPH0PE) January 4, 2013

How so? Journalist extraordinaire Ales Kot is on the case!

I just double-checked this against the previous interview from December – the one with Brian Wood – and figured out what happened.

It looks like an accident. Part of Wood's answer to the same question stayed in the interview with Paul Pope. A simple copy & paste mistake and not something premeditated.

Scandal averted! For now…