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The Saginaw News interviews Jerry DeCaire, who began his art career on the Uncanny X-Men almost fifteen years ago. Most interesting:

Part of his hang-up centered on an inability to connect with the X-Men's popular anti-hero, Wolverine, a claw-bearing Clint Eastwood-type.

"I just could not relate to him," deCaire said. "He was rugged with a 5 o'clock shadow, and I was more into the celestial god-like characters like Thor and Dr. Strange."

DeCaire eventually worked with those characters too, illustrating titles such as "The Mighty Thor," "Dr. Strange," "The Punisher," "Nick Fury: Agent of Shield," "Iron Man," and "Conan the Barbarian."

Good heavens! The character some might argue is overrated by today was the hardest part of his job. I'm sure glad he got to work on ones like Thor and Dr. Strange later on, whom he could handle better.

Labels: marvel comics, X-Men