To Bendis, Gail, and other comic writers, about fame.

[I've Got the Monkeys]

You don't understand. Tibbitz was home schooled.

Well, that changes everything.

[Tyr]

Again the conversation about editors is all well in good, but I think that's a different conversation altogether.

What people think they hate at the beginning, they often come to love.

Acquired taste eh?

Yeah, but that can be a crap shoot, and not something that any author should rely on, not if he or she still wants to have a career in what they are doing.

And I find more often then not people grow to love something because that something has improved, like the USA network, or Ted Turner's networks.

[TIP]

You don't understand. Tibbitz was home schooled.

And his mother said he was the best-est of the best-est-est.

[I've Got the Monkeys]

Again the conversation about editors is all well in good, but I think that's a different conversation altogether.



Acquired taste eh?

Yeah, but that can be a crap shoot, and not something that any author should rely on, not if he or she still wants to have a career in what they are doing.

And I find more often then not people grow to love something because that something has improved, like the USA network, or Ted Turner's networks.

Remember Gruenwald's Maxim:

The writer's job is to give the [audience] what they want, not what they say they want, and to give it to them in a way they don't expect.

[Tyr]

Remember Gruenwald's Maxim:

The writer's job is to give the [audience] what they want, not what they say they want, and to give it to them in a way they don't expect.

Yes, but if the don't want it, and keep saying they don't want it, then odds are they will quit buying, watching, or reading something they don't want. Sales plummet, ratings drop, and you find a series coming to an end a lot quicker then you anticipated. And forgive my ignorance, but who is Gruewald?

[Corrina]

The late and, in my opinion, great Mark Gruenwald. Long time writer on Captain America and one of my all-time favorite Marvel series, Quasar.

[I've Got the Monkeys]

Yes, but if the don't want it, and keep saying they don't want it, then odds are they will quit buying something they don't want. And forgive my ignorance, but who is Gruewald?

Yes, but even if they say they want it, when they get it they won't buy it because the tension is gone, or it wasn't what they actually did want, or they're not interested anymore.
Mark Gruenwald was an Assistant Editor, an Editor, The Executive Editor of Marvel, the writer of Captain America for over ten years, writer of Quasar, the man who wrote the seminal Squadron Supreme Maxi-series, amongst other hats.

[TIP]

Yes, but even if they say they want it, when they get it they won't buy it because the tension is gone, or it wasn't what they actually did want, or they're not interested anymore.
Mark Gruenwald was an Assistant Editor, an Editor, The Executive Editor of Marvel, the writer of Captain America for over ten years, writer of Quasar, the man who wrote the seminal Squadron Supreme Maxi-series, amongst other hats.

Yes, but was he Home-Schooled?

[Tyr]

Yes, but even if they say they want it, when they get it they won't buy it because the tension is gone, or it wasn't what they actually did want, or they're not interested anymore.
Mark Gruenwald was an Assistant Editor, an Editor, The Executive Editor of Marvel, the writer of Captain America for over ten years, writer of Quasar, the man who wrote the seminal Squadron Supreme Maxi-series, amongst other hats.

Yes and that is a valid point. On the other hand lets look at Wonder Woman on the JMS/Jim Lee run. Many people did not care for JMS's story, did not like where it was going, and this....



Looks like Diana is going through a midlife crisis and has just raided Cassie's wardrobe.

You'll notice that DC has currently dropped that costume.

Anyway point I'm trying make here is there is a difference between just caving in and giving your audience what they specifically want, and continuing to push what they don't want.

[Tyr]

fame has nothing to do with anything in my life or my work or why i do what i do. and there's a big difference between famous and comic book famous

I remember the Kevin Smith interview of Stan Lee, I believe Stan said at the begging of it, "I feel rather silly, I should be the one interviewing you."