Tom Brevoort hat in seinem Blog ein wenig zu den Stärken verschiedener Autoren geschrieben:
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For no particular reason, I was thinking the other day about the different strengths possessed by assorted writers in the business. Now, none of what follows is meant to be definitive, but it is the perspective of one editor who gets to work with these guys and watch them think and perform from behind the curtain. So here are some observations:
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN
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The most immaculate plotter is BRIAN K. VAUGHAN. Brian's the sort of guy who, once you've talked about the story in broad strokes will almost always turn in a string of scripts that are right on the money, with perfect pacing and build and reveals. And for that reason, he's the perfect sort of guy to be working on a show like LOST that plots in sweeping season-long movements (not that they're doing any plotting at all at the moment, what with the writer's strike.)
BRIAN M. BENDIS
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The fellow who most naturally thinks outside the box is BRIAN BENDIS. This can sometimes seem like a detiment, as there are times when you'd just like Brian to round the bases on a story. But this drive towards experimentation and innovation helps keep him on the forefront of the field. Even when one of his attempts at being off-beat doesn't quite come off, it's at least an interesting failure--and he's pioneered almost single-handedly a whole style of comic book pacing. Brian's also about the hardest-working guy in the industry, and is inevitably a couple of scripts ahead of the guys he works with. He just puts in the hours, day after day, week after week, honing his craft.
JMS
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The guy with the best command of language is J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI. JMS can truly put words together in interesting ways--his scripts have a lyricism to them that's almost like reading music. He also tends to be a thoughtful and intelligent writer, and his stories inevitably reflect the moral imperatives he feels the strongest about. He's also one of the most generous of writers, the first guy to raise his hand when there's a worthy cause to be supported or pro bono work to be done.
GEOFF JOHNS
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GEOFF JOHNS is a genius at coming up with what, in retrospect, seem like obvious quntessential moments for the characters he's writing, scenes and sequences that cut to the heart of a character, who he is and what he does, taking into account everything about them. He's great at boiling it all down to a tight, easy-to-grasp high concept, and is the master of the one-page character introduction. I think Geoff's largely underrated, but he's the writer most often to elicit that slap-to-the-forehead moment of, "Why didn't I think of that?"
DAN SLOTT
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The guy with the most ideas per second is DAN SLOTT, and while not all of them are shining gems, his hit-to-miss ratio is pretty high. Dan's a natural when it comes to writing comics, and yet, like Bruce Wayne, he's trained himself for years since birth to gain a mastery of the form. He's especially good at being witty on the page, but those people who dismiss him as just a funny writer aren't seeing the whole picture--he can do it all (if he'd just stop second-guessing himself so much and get on with it.)
ED BRUBAKER
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The most consistent author at the moment is ED BRUBAKER. Ed's completely in the zone these days, able to think through the storylines and character beats of all of the many titles he's writing and both keep them straight and make sure they all get the love they need. He's one of the few guys whose work is regularly immediately ready to go to the artist when it comes in, without revisions of any kind. His one flaw is that, in needing to keep so many artistic mouths fed, he's gotten into the habit of writing many of his scripts in halves--and while he's good enough to pull this off moer often than not, there have been a couple of times where a story beat might have fired just a hair better if we'd been able to look at the entire script at once, rather than seeing the payoff after the set-up in the front half of the issue has already been drawn.
MARK MILLAR
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And finally, the most fearless writer in comics right now is MARK MILLAR. He'll structure his stories like a madman, making segues and scene changes that nobody else would dare to attempt. He's absolutely fearless when it comes to hitting the page. And he's an expert at nailing the quick bit of business that gets a character or a situation across to a reader in zero time, and his absolute love of super heroes comes across in everything he writes (combined with his li'l devil persona which makes him take the piss out of everyone and everything.)
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There are tons of others, of course, and I could go on here for hours. But this isn't meant to be a complete Who's Who of writers, just a brief snapshot of what was running through my mind--so if you're one of the people who wasn't mentioned, try not to hold it against me too much.
# Bendis has two Hollywood projects he's due to start once the WGA strike ends, He can't talk about them until after the strike is settled.
# Could Powers continue after the death of either Christian Walker or Deana Pilgrim?
Bendis: "Sure. How do you know I haven't (written) that already?"
# Don't speculate that the Hood's group of villains in New Avengers books represents Bendis new take on the "Masters of Evil". That story is still coming.
# There will be rotating artists on New and Mighty Avengers due to the nature and pacing of the Secret Invasion story. This will allow a bunch of artists to jump on the books whose schedule would only allow one or two issues. After that there will be a regular artist on New Avengers, and a surprising announcement about Mighty Avengers.
# Secret Invasion will deal with The Hand's reaction to their being led by the Skrull/Elektra, and we'll see more of the Infinity Gem in Black Bolt's possession (a dangling plot line from The Illuminati mini-series).
# What does the future hold for Quicksilver?
Bendis: "He was a big topic of the last Marvel retreat... in fact a vote was put about his future as a character, so you'll be seeing a lot of him."
# Daredevil: End of Days has been delayed due to artists David Mack and Klaus Janson getting other front burner projects that have to take priority, but work continues on the DD story.
Bendis: "I've seen pages and they're gorgeous."
# The Bendis/Alex Maleev Spider-Woman book starts, "The moment Secret Invasion ends."
# Bendis defended his story choice of having Wolverine confront Spider-Woman in the shower. In New Avengers #36.
Bendis: "Wolverine would wait till she's in the shower, at her most vulnerable. Plus Jessica and Logan have had an intimate relationship in the past. I know nudity and sex makes people uncomfortable, but I don't care...It's never done cheaply (by Bendis)."
# If Bendis' voice is raspy it was due to his loud disagreements with Jeph Loeb at the Marvel retreat.
Bendis: "When we're yelling we're like it's the end of civilization...Sometimes the argument brings out better ideas for both of us, but it's really like Joe putting two pit-bulls in the same room..."
Siuntres says, "That story is truly one of the funniest creator anecdotes I've heard since starting the Word Balloon podcast.
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Bendis die Schreibmaschine!
In 2007, Bendis had 1,086 pages worth of comics he's written published.
That's an average of 91 pages - or just over 4 twenty-two page comics - a month (and it's also worth noting that had Mighty Avengers and HALO: Uprising not been delayed, they would have shipped four and two more issues by now, respectively).
In 2006, it was 1,123 pages.
In 2005, it was 1,620 pages (ave. of 6 twenty-two page comics a month).
so im surfing some websites i like. this one post links to cool or funny things and one thumbnail is of a girl's face in what appears to be an expression of mid-orgasm moaning. the caption is something like "this is not what it appears to be." so, bored and intrigued, i click on the thumbnail. the page comes up, porno ads all over the place, the video in the center. above the video it says "amateur ecstasy: these women really need release!" it loads, i hit play.
it opens with the fuzzy noise you'd expect from a low quality production. this video was probably copied from a vhs, i think. it says "pak man productions presents". then it fades into the next screen which says "ALL AMATEUR ECSTASY".
then a close up of a girls face. she is laying down. she begins to moan and stretch over the red bed she is on. she says "oh my god". the scene fades to another women, a secretary, with her hands in her crotch, moaning loudly. the boss peaks in the window. cut to a naked woman in a shower, one hand is below while the other feels herself up. cut to the first girl, her hand is in her pants, more moaning. visible nipples. back to shower girl, moaning. back to secretary girl, moaning, with a vibrator noise. several fast cuts between each girl. more "oh my god"s and moans. and then...
a-choo!
they each sneeze! revealing their orgasms weren't orgasms at all, but the "ah ah ah ah"s that precede sneezes. they blow their noses.
cut to credits. first the actresses, then the producer, then "WRITTEN, DIRECTED, PRODUCED, SHOT, AND EDITED BY GREG PAK". a few more credits.
then more scenes. the secretary reveals it was her pager that was vibrating. the peeking boss is disappointed. the shower girl exits and blows her nose.
the final screen is... "www.gregpak.com copyright 2001 greg pak. all rights reserved."
gregpak.com now points to pakbuzz.com which is our greg pak's website.
has anyone else ever seen this thing? i'd post a link, but the page is covered in pornography. it's funny in that sort of way that makes you laugh a single "heh". but it blew my mind that i had stumbled across some psuedo pornography made by one of my favorite comic writers.
two more seconds of searching and i found a link, in a very obvious place. -
Stan Lee an Bob kanes Begräbnis
I was at Bob Kanes funeral, Evanier said. There were only four people from comics there: me, Stan Lee, Mike Barr and Paul Smith. A whole bunch of Batman toys were put into Kanes coffin and they were lowering it down. As the Kane was being put into the ground Stan turned around to me and said Steve Ditko was the best inker Jack Kirby ever had. Evanier admitted that Lee didnt have the best attention span.
Re: Tom Brevoort über die Stärken einiger Autoren
Wo hast du das denn her? War bei mir der Lacher des Tages.
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or i could do what he wanted and he'd write: i used to like bendis but he does the same thing over and over and now i'm bored.
the good news here is i wasn't aware don was still writing.
bravo for a thought out piece of critism that wasn't the usual hit and run the internet has allowed to become the standard.
but i love a critique that eats its own premise by acknowledging i just did the thing he liked THE WEEK BEFORE!!
i got to where i am, in my basement :), making off beat choices and i will continue to do so. even back when he 'liked' me i was making choices he hated. i remember him not liking them.
the reason i am still running with the bulls is you really don't know what i will do next. so, may i say, i bet this critique will be dated before the summer's end. so nyah.
gail and denny still love me.
Ellis über Marvel
Over at Whitechapel, Warren Ellis is continuing to talk about leaving Thunderbolts and his stance on creator-owned work:
I actually had no intention of going back into WFH (work for hire). The creator owned stuff was selling to expected numbers and things were ticking along fine.
What happened was that Mark Millar and Brian Bendis got in touch theyd hit a scheduling wall and werent able to service twelve issues of ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR, and asked me to help them out. And when your friends ask you for a favour, you do it, you know? So I said yes, and got to work.
Thats how I ended up doing more superhero comics.
The first odd thing happened after the first issue came out. Now, remember, Id been doing mostly original material for the previous few years, and doing fine. But I was suddenly flooded with email from kids teenagers who had never heard of me before. What was happening, it turned out, was that I was reaching seven or eight hundred stores at maximum, and there was anything up to a couple of thousand stores who just werent ordering my stuff. I remember talking this over with people at Marvel and particularly DC, and it turned out that this was in fact the case that two thirds of comics stores really dont order much other than superhero comics and a few licensed books. And in those years of doing my own thing, the audience had turned over to the point where there were people whod never read a thing by me. It hadnt been all that long ago that Id been selling 200,000 copies of DV8 and 150,000 copies of WOLVERINE, I thought
The second really odd thing came in some months later. Sales of TRANSMET TPBs spiked massively. And the only thing that had changed was that I was writing UFF. What had happened was that these new readers had liked UFF, gone looking for other stuff by me, found nothing in their local store, gone to Amazon or bookstores, and picked up TRANSMET books. A few months later, I saw numbers on all my other creator-owned TPBs pick up too.
And now we can sell more than 12,000 copies of CRECY in a matter of months.
And whats REALLY strange is that I discovered Marvel under Joe Quesada and Dan Buckley is in fact a really nice place to work.
