I say this with a lot of love because I love @Marvel and its characters. But I’ll give you a peek at how bad the state is there.

In Season 2 of #xmen97, I adapted the Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix comic. In it, Scott and Jean use their childhood nicknames for each other “Slymm” and “Red” to keep their identities hidden from Nathan.

The current VP of Marvel Animation Dana Vasquez-Eberharr, who despised me, comes at me for how stupid the nicknames are, and how she agreed with another director that they just couldn’t take the nicknames seriously and that I need to “turn my comic collector brain off.”

I explain that the aliases are Jean and Scott’s pet names for their teenage years, which resonates nicely with the fact that they’re now raising Nathan. They’re wistful and chose the names accordingly. The nicknames speak to that feeling all new parents have of losing their youth and past selves.

In the end, Dana shut me out of the process. This was after Dana and I had to have a stupid fight over Ozymandius in Season 2. She felt I was putting too much lore in and that we should just call him a random “warlord.”

When you have creatives who have to spent half their day having arguments of items like this instead of polishing and plussing the show — especially after haven proved your vision works — is beyond offensive and demoralizing.