Heroes For Hope 1 Super. Mega. Monkey chronocomic. Issues Heroes For Hope 1. Cover Date Dec 8. Title Heroes for Hope starring X MenCredits Chris Claremont, Ann Nocenti, Berni Wrightson, Jim Starlin, Jim Shooter Story. Stan Lee, Ed Bryant, Louise Simonson, Ed Bryant, Stephen King, Bill Mantlo, Alan Moore, Ann Nocenti, Harlan Ellison, Chris Claremont, Mary Jo Duffy, Mike Baron, Denny ONeil, George R. R. Martin, Bruce Jones, Steve Englehart, Jim Shooter, Mike Grell, Archie Goodwin Script. John Romita Jr., John Buscema, Brent Anderson, John Byrne, Berni Wrightson, Charles Vess, Richard Corben, Mike Kaluta, Frank Miller, Brian Bolland, John Bolton, Steve Rude, Bret Blevins, Herb Trimpe, Gray Morrow, Paul Gulacy, Butch Guice, Howard Chaykin Penciler. Alan Gordon, Klaus Janson, Joe Sinnott, Terry Austin, Dan Green, Jeff Jones, Jay Muth, Tom Palmer, Richard Corben, Al Milgrom, Bill Sienkiewicz, P. Craig Russell, John Bolton, Carl Potts, Al Williamson, Sal Buscema, Gray Morrow, Bob Layton, Josef Rubinstein, Steve Leialoha, Walt Simonson Inker. Pat Blevins Terry Kavanagh Assistant Editor. Ann Nocenti Chris Claremont Editor. Heroes For Hope FoundationReviewplot This is the We Are The World of Marvel comics. By looking at the credits you can tell this was a jam issue. This was started by a suggestion to Jim Shooter from Berni Wrightson and Jim Starlin whose art contribution was the back cover, with the idea that all the creators would donate some of their time to this project, with the proceeds going to charity. In addition to many Marvel regulars, there are some unusual names in the credits, including Stephen King, George R. R. Martin, and Alan Moore, and those like Steve Rude and Paul Gulacy who had never done much for Marvel or were no longer regularly working there. Despite the varied credits and art that changes every couple of pages, the story manages to be reasonably coherent and even manages a few interesting character moments. The big problem with the story is the fact that Marvel super heroes cant actually go out and punch famine. Well, actually they could, especially once Apocalypses Four Horsemen are introduced, but the point is you cant have super heroes solving a real world problem without trivializing the problem or changing the nature of the Marvel universe. So the story instead introduces an African demon and perhaps the ultimate primal mutant who evolved alongside humanity, but on a plane of existence more psychic than physical that feeds on human suffering. AeWQH10/Tm6eoe1Df-I/AAAAAAAAAUE/y5CA-xosTIw/s1600/Heroes_for_Hope-40-weiss.jpg' alt='Heroes For Hope Starring The X-Men' title='Heroes For Hope Starring The X-Men' />Its said that it was awoken by the rise of mutants, not the famine in Africa, but it wont be destroyed until suffering in the world is eliminated. Storm finds the creature familiar, which she attributes to genetic memories from her African ancestors. So its clearly not a great story. Its the X Men fighting a big clunky metaphor. ODAwWDUzMA==/z/pAgAAOSwKtZZkBlW/$_58.PNG' alt='Heroes For Hope Starring The X-Men' title='Heroes For Hope Starring The X-Men' />But it is put together well enough. The problem, of course, is that since the X Men couldnt solve famine for the purposes of this comic, having them tackle the issue of famine was a no win situation. It might have been better to just do a straightforward super hero story that ignored the actual cause and just donate the money to charity. Instead the X Men fight a demon and then help unload cargo from a plane. And talk about how they cant really do anything, but that i guess having hope is important. And in the meantime, there are a lot of character vignettes as the demon torments each of the X Men, which can be interesting, especially if you know the industry and characters and you want to see John Byrne drawing an X Men story co written by Clarement again. Heroes for Hope Starring The XMen. Marvel, 1985 Series Series Details. See series timeline depends on key dates being set correctly Key Date Pub. Date. The XMen face an entity that feeds on psychic misery in this jam book originally published to benefit famine relief in Africa. Story by Chris Claremont, Ann. Stephen King writing a scene with Kitty Pryde fighting hunger. Alan Moore scripting Magneto. Walt Simonson inking Howard Chaykin. And cool moments like Rogue absorbing the powers of all her teammates to fight the demon. Always cool when she does that, even if in this case the demon winds up subverting her. So some fun moments, although the story as a whole is a bit of a bust. From that perspective, probably the best you could expect from any kind of jam annual, for charity or otherwise. The proceeds of this comic were originally going to go to Oxfam. You can read Jim Shooters account of why Oxfam rejected the issue and the donations and the proceeds instead went to the American Friends Service Committee. Cours De Technique Bancaire Pdf Gratuit there. For the purposes of discussion, ill accept Shooters description of the Oxfam exec as given, but i still do want to share some of the images from this comic, mostly of Storm. And heres one of Rachel Summers in full out S M Hound gear. This stuff looks pretty typical to us, but it might have been worth Marvels time to think about what these outsiders so unfamiliar with comics that their initial reaction to a comic book for charity was theres nothing funny about famine thought about those images. In the context of the story, some of the images make sense. But taken as ones first experience with a comic book, its understandable to see these images as exploitative and degrading, and even accepting the premise of the demon there is a bit much of that. Theres already a sensitivity that comes with this sort of thing. On the one hand, you want to show the suffering so that others understand the scale of the tragedy. But as some critics have said, the long term effect of those types of images is that people walk away thinking Africans are these hopeless tragic figures that can only survive thanks to the donations of richer nations. I can say that as a kid growing up in the We Are The World era, my impression of Africa was exactly like those two images directly above. Add to that the fact that your only non tragic African character is repeatedly dressed up like a prostitute and it can come across as racist and sexist. I know that wasnt the intent of anyone working on this project. But the comics world tends to be a bit insular, and the depiction of women in particular is only going to get worse as we hit the 9. Oxfams reaction here might have been a wake up call, but it went disregarded. Another perspective on this comes from Christopher Priest whose website seems to be descending into linkrot so i am reprinting the entire section for preservation The most heated racial episode in my career occurred during Marvels production of their charity book for Ethiopian famine victims. Promoted as work from the top writers and artists in the industry the very best of the very best, profits from this effort were going to be donated to help the poor starving Africans. It was a truly noble effort, one the entire industry rallied behind at least until DC decided to do their own book, thus dividing the talent pool along company lines. Denys Cowan dropped by and mentioned, amused, that hed seen the list of talent working on the famine relief project. There wasnt a single African American creator invited to participate. This actually amused me tremendously, and I went over the list myself to make sure, but, yup, no blacks had been thought of as, the very best of the very best, and none were invited to work on this book. Tickled, I picked up the phone and called Larry Hama, telling him no blacks were on the list. Larry was hugely amused, and suggested we do our own charity relief book for the poor white trash of Appalachia. He and I howled with laughter, and then shook off the dumbness of it all and got on with our lives.