But even if you are marketing it to tv fans - you still need writers who will draw them in. Unknowns don't work. I'm not going to pick up a comic book written by an unknown, I'll flip through it first. And when the Williams boys were first announced? There was a lot of excitement and anticipation...due to who they were.
Hey, don't signal out IDW here - Whedon and Dark Horse did the same thing when they hired best-selling novelist and DC comic scribe Brad Meltzer (who is not known to tv fans but is known to comic book and science fiction pulp fans) as co-plotter and writer. And Meltzer is just as bad as Willingham in my opinion. Possibly worse. Also, Jeff Loeb - big comic book name. And Brian K. Vaughn - also big comic book name. That's Allie's job to get big names. All the writers on that were pretty much big names. They didn't have any unknowns.
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Date: 2010-07-30 11:15 pm (UTC)And when the Williams boys were first announced? There was a lot of excitement and anticipation...due to who they were.
Hey, don't signal out IDW here - Whedon and Dark Horse did the same thing when they hired best-selling novelist and DC comic scribe Brad Meltzer (who is not known to tv fans but is known to comic book and science fiction pulp fans) as co-plotter and writer. And Meltzer is just as bad as Willingham in my opinion. Possibly worse. Also, Jeff Loeb - big comic book name. And Brian K. Vaughn - also big comic book name. That's Allie's job to get big names. All the writers on that were pretty much big names.
They didn't have any unknowns.