Comic Book Writers on Comic Book Writing

a6e443d3In summation: If you’ve got talent, it’s easy. Otherwise…

I’M KIDDING!

Pull the gun out of your mouth and relax that trigger finger, Mr. or Mrs. Struggling Comic Book Writer. After all, you’re gonna need that finger for clicking link after link in the vain hope that something said by Neil Gaiman, Joss Whedon or Grant Morrison will suddenly awaken your long-dormant talent.
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Comic Book News, In Brief

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Dan Slott (author of my all-time favorite She-Hulk book) and Mike Allred (artist of one of my all-time favorite X-books, X-Statix) and are teaming up for a new Silver Surfer series. (You guessed it: One of my all-time favorite comic book characters!)

While this sounds an awful lot like Marvel is tapping my REM sleep, robbing me of my dream comics, I’m not planning on pressing any charges just yet. So long as the series ends up being as all-caps AMAZING as it oughta be, we’re cool. But if it starts slipping into guest writers and fill-in artists before the first TPB is complete, I’m calling on the combined powers of Freddy Krueger, Morpheus and Li’l Nemo of Slumberland to take back what’s rightfully mine.

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