a book question, related to comics though

[ratcreature]

I was thinking about getting Writers On Comics Scriptwriting (Volume 2), a book collecting interviews with Bendis, Rucka, Johns, Brubaker, Vaughan and other comic writers, many whose writing I quite enjoy. However, just then I saw coffee_and_ink review the first volume of interviews, and not very favorably, saying for example that "the focus of the interviews

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[coffeeandink]

You should keep in mind that I'm not interested in superhero comics and hadn't read most of the series covered; I bet the book would be more entertaining for someone who liked those things.

[ratcreature]

Oh. That hadn't actually occurred to me, that someone would bother to read interviews with comic artists/writers without being in love with the comics they created first. I've never read something "secondary" about specific comics or creators without being familiar with at least some of their work (opposed to books about the general history of comics, art schools, or types of comics, obviously in those cases there's often some comics I don't know). Well another exception is when I read something specifically to learn something more technical, then I don't care that the examples in a book on say inking techniques aren't from comics I care about or other cases like that, because for learning to ink it doesn't matter whether you're interested in the comic artist's work as long as their inking is a competent example for a technique and they are able to explain it well.

But it makes sense that interviews would be less entertaining if you weren't a fan of the interviewed writers or their works.