dav
Hank Scorpio
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Post by dav on Jan 5, 2015 15:54:10 GMT -5
Having worked in it briefly I've been writing for Marvel since 2005. How's the Squirrel Girl series shaping up?
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WWEedy
Don Corleone
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Post by WWEedy on Jan 5, 2015 17:37:17 GMT -5
Having worked in it briefly I've been writing for Marvel since 2005. Fair play. I'm not one to exaggerate my experience, you clearly have more and if that differentiates from mine that's fair enough. I've been nowhere near the big 2 and certainly not for nearing a decade. From my experiences neither myself or my workmates were ever too happy to be bumped off for a guest. I'm surprised it's not like that at the top as well.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jan 5, 2015 18:12:27 GMT -5
I've been writing for Marvel since 2005. Fair play. I'm not one to exaggerate my experience, you clearly have more and if that differentiates from mine that's fair enough. I've been nowhere near the big 2 and certainly not for nearing a decade. From my experiences neither myself or my workmates were ever too happy to be bumped off for a guest. I'm surprised it's not like that at the top as well. No one said it wasn't; just figured since we were all throwing around credentials, I'd get in the game. I can't honestly say I can think of any instances where a writer was removed from a books/story so that some celebrity guest could jump in and do it instead. Can think of plenty of times when they removed a regular writer and handed a book off to another regular writer they believed to be more in-tune with what they were wanting, but that's pretty much every business. Sure, they handed Kevin Smith some plum spots, but he had experience writing already. Same with Brad Meltzer and Whedon. Guys like Punk and Raven are/were completely unknown commodities in the field. No one outside of maybe 1998-era Image would dare hand them the reigns of something important or even ongoing. Raven got a throw-away one-shot story in a Spider-Man title that barely anyone knew about and Punk is getting back-up stories in annuals. Y'know, the place where they used to let Fred Hembeck do whatever he wanted or reprint origin stories. If they'd handed him an Avengers ongoing or something, sure, I could see the problem, but they didn't. He's pretty much starting as far at the bottom of their structure as possible without being a Handbook writer first. The fact of the matter is that Marvel (I can't speak for DC, but I imagine they do the same) don't work the same way they used to in terms of bringing up talent, finding something great in submissions or at a convention. To get in these days, you pretty much have to be a name already.
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Post by TOK Hehe'd Around & Found Out on Jan 5, 2015 18:27:45 GMT -5
Apparently Ed O'Neil challenged Punk on twitter. I thought there was an MMA fighter with that name, but nope that's good ol' Al Bundy in a gi.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jan 5, 2015 18:37:12 GMT -5
Apparently Ed O'Neil challenged Punk on twitter. I thought there was an MMA fighter with that name, but nope that's good ol' Al Bundy in a gi. Yeah, dude trained, partly with the Gracies, for something like 2+ decades, legit black belt in BJJ. He's also only two years shy of being 70, so there's that.
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Post by 1 Free Moon-Down with Burger on Jan 5, 2015 19:09:43 GMT -5
I'd laugh for days and days and days after seeing Punk get choked out by Al Bundy.
Then the crowd gives him a whoa bundy in the post fight interview.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Jan 5, 2015 19:31:39 GMT -5
I'd laugh for days and days and days after seeing Punk get choked out by Al Bundy. Then the crowd gives him a whoa bundy in the post fight interview. I love Punk, but I desperately want to see this.
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