So much for getting my hopes up.
A few days back I did a post almost begging Joss Whedon fans to crucify me, no one did.
I also decried the influx of pseudo celebrity writers hacks from television and movies whom have moved in and set up shop in comic book land during their dry spells between scripts and series.
Now the television writers strike has happened.
I say if this thing lasts longer than a month, you are going to see the biggest influx of shit writing into mainstream comics.... ever. Fanpersons will not greet this influx with distaste and hatred. They will coddle and cherish these "real writers" as valued commodities instead.
Here are a few things I would like to say to comic fans who may be swooned by any future striking writers moving to comics.
Please try to avoid the temptation to think of your valued artform as less legitimate than the crap Hollywood spews. It is your own contempt that makes you think people outside comics are better. But there is little, if any proof this is true.
Hollywood writers hold you and comics in contempt as well, otherwise they would not wait for the strike to slum in comic books.
A good lot of these folks are bankrupt, imaginatively speaking, so please avoid any high concept big new reboot of characters just because the new writer came from Hollywood. Remember, some of these folks make shows like 'Cavemen' and 'Ghost Whisperer'.
Even that movie screenwriter works for a system that regularly screws you over. Who knows exactly how many big name writers in Hollywood started out as script polishers, donut wranglers, and assistants on crappy comic movies like 'Howard the Duck' or 'Captain America'?
So when all those celebrated writers from USA orSci Fi channel original series, Family comedies, Children's animation, and Motion Pictures come knocking on our door....
Send them bums back!
(P.S. nothing against the strike. As a union guy myself, you guys try to get as much as you can out of those crooked studios. Just stay the hell away from my comics!)
I also decried the influx of pseudo celebrity writers hacks from television and movies whom have moved in and set up shop in comic book land during their dry spells between scripts and series.
Now the television writers strike has happened.
I say if this thing lasts longer than a month, you are going to see the biggest influx of shit writing into mainstream comics.... ever. Fanpersons will not greet this influx with distaste and hatred. They will coddle and cherish these "real writers" as valued commodities instead.
Here are a few things I would like to say to comic fans who may be swooned by any future striking writers moving to comics.
Please try to avoid the temptation to think of your valued artform as less legitimate than the crap Hollywood spews. It is your own contempt that makes you think people outside comics are better. But there is little, if any proof this is true.
Hollywood writers hold you and comics in contempt as well, otherwise they would not wait for the strike to slum in comic books.
A good lot of these folks are bankrupt, imaginatively speaking, so please avoid any high concept big new reboot of characters just because the new writer came from Hollywood. Remember, some of these folks make shows like 'Cavemen' and 'Ghost Whisperer'.
Even that movie screenwriter works for a system that regularly screws you over. Who knows exactly how many big name writers in Hollywood started out as script polishers, donut wranglers, and assistants on crappy comic movies like 'Howard the Duck' or 'Captain America'?
So when all those celebrated writers from USA orSci Fi channel original series, Family comedies, Children's animation, and Motion Pictures come knocking on our door....
Send them bums back!
(P.S. nothing against the strike. As a union guy myself, you guys try to get as much as you can out of those crooked studios. Just stay the hell away from my comics!)