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Awww screw it....just bring back morrison....let him marry off Bruce and Selena and Bruce retires. The Morrison can go back to Dick as Batman with Damian as Robin, which he said he would have written for a long time had DC not told him he needed to bring back Bruce.
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Stepan Sejic twitted this : [url]https://twitter.com/stjepansejic/status/1131619066697965570[/url]
It's not for an ongoing, but why not giving him the reins ?
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Because he is not a writer. He is an artist first. His attempts at trying to write comics have not really been successes (such as the Teen Witchblade book). And DC's attempts of getting artists to be writers have been failures especially with the batbooks as we saw with Tony Daniel and David Finch.
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I'm not Stjepan Šejić is the best fit, creatively speaking, for writing Batman. He seems to write his best with wacky personal drama and slice of life stories, preferably with lots of sexy and bondage.
What I'd do if I was the Batbook editor was to open DC's address book and send out an open call to everyone in it: send me your best pitch for a single-issue Batman story, with fourteen or so winners.
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[QUOTE=lilyrose;4371037]The fact that they'd prefer a bunch of filler for seven months over letting King just finish out his story is utterly baffling.[/QUOTE]But, how much of King's [B][I]Batman[/I][/B] run has basically been labeled as "filler" by people reading it? :confused:
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[QUOTE=MajorHoy;4371474]But, how much of King's [B][I]Batman[/I][/B] run has basically been labeled as "filler" by people reading it? :confused:[/QUOTE]
How much of [I]Waiting for Godot[/I] was labeled meaningless nonsense by critics when it premiered? Answer: all of it, by every critic, in its French and American premieres.
Flash forward about 50 years and it was voted "most important play of the 20th century" in a survey of top theatre critics.
It's really easy for an editor (or theatre producer) to preside over and nurture things that are very like what's come before.
It takes a lot of guts to oversee something that's in any way intrepid.
"Godot" is obviously not the only example of this. It's the rule, not the exception. How many Columbia Records executives wanted to sign Bob Dylan? Answer: one, John Hammond, Jr. How many of them wanted to drop Dylan after his first record and took to calling him "Hammond's Folly?" Answer: All of them.
I'm not suggesting King's Batman is a Dylan or Beckett. I'm saying that in industries that succeed by repeating past successes are NEVER comfortable shepherding forward anything that breaks the mold. That kind of grass always has to bust through a concrete sidewalk.
It's why we never got to read Alan Moore's Twilight of the Gods. It's a rational but inherently self-defeating business practice. Without high risk there is never very high reward.
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[QUOTE=Korath;4371278]Stepan Sejic twitted this : [url]https://twitter.com/stjepansejic/status/1131619066697965570[/url]
It's not for an ongoing, but why not giving him the reins ?[/QUOTE]
Art-wise? Sure :).
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[QUOTE=Korath;4371278]Stepan Sejic twitted this : [url]https://twitter.com/stjepansejic/status/1131619066697965570[/url]
It's not for an ongoing, but why not giving him the reins ?[/QUOTE][SIZE=1]Shouldn't that be "[B]tw[U]ee[/U]ted[/B]"[/SIZE]? :confused:
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[QUOTE=BatmanJones]How much of [I]Waiting for Godot[/I] was labeled meaningless nonsense by critics when it premiered?[/QUOTE]Really?
All I did was reply to this:[indent][QUOTE=lilyrose;4371037]The fact that they'd prefer a bunch of filler for seven months over letting King just finish out his story is utterly baffling.[/QUOTE][/indent]Then all I did was point out that some [B]people reading it[/B][SIZE=1] (King's run so far) [/SIZE]have complained that some of King's run on [B][I]Batman[/I][/B] has felt like "filler" to get to that awesomely magical issue #100.
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[QUOTE=MajorHoy;4371886]Really?
All I did was reply to this:Then all I did was point out that some [B]people reading it[/B][SIZE=1] (King's run so far) [/SIZE]have complained that some of King's run on [B][I]Batman[/I][/B] has felt like "filler" to get to that awesomely magical issue #100.[/QUOTE]
I don't see how what he said did not relate to what you were talking about.
You said that many people see the run to be filler, and he talked about how the view of some works evolve over time.
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[QUOTE=Pohzee;4371912]I don't see how what he said did not relate to what you were talking about.
You said that many people see the run to be filler, and he talked about how the view of some works evolve over time.[/QUOTE][SIZE=1]I felt the lecture on Samuel Beckett and Bob Dylan was a wee bit of overkill . . . [/SIZE]
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[QUOTE=MajorHoy;4371923][SIZE=1]I felt the lecture on Samuel Beckett and Bob Dylan was a wee bit of overkill . . . [/SIZE][/QUOTE]
It seemed like a thoughtful response to me.
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[QUOTE=Vordan;4370227]I think Taylor might get the book, but only for a short time. DC is going to want their main book to have an exclusive writer, so unless Taylor leaves FNSM I can’t see him staying on long term.
[/QUOTE]Actually, look at the solicit for Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #11. Sounds like a finale. I think he IS off FNSM.
FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN #11
TOM TAYLOR (W) • TBA (A)
Cover by ANDREW C. ROBINSON
Bring on the Bad Guys
Variant Cover by TBA
• All the threads laid down since #1 come together in a way that you’ll never see coming!
• The Rumor, Under-York, & [CLASSIFIED] come colliding together all while May and Peter deal with her condition!
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99
[url]https://www.newsarama.com/45292-marvel-comics-august-2019-solicitations.html[/url]
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[QUOTE=Korath;4371278]Stepan Sejic twitted this : [url]https://twitter.com/stjepansejic/status/1131619066697965570[/url]
It's not for an ongoing, but why not giving him the reins ?[/QUOTE]
He responded on Twitter
he is doing a Black Label book, 3 issues, oversize, 60 pages per issue
[url]https://twitter.com/stjepansejic/status/1131622483868758017[/url]
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Before issue 100, DC should hire a renowned writer who has never worked in comics before for a brief 15 issue run ala Dardevil - Green Arrow Kevin Smith.
I'm thinking someone among the lines of...
Quintin Tarantino
J.K. Rowling
George R.R. Martin
Stephen King*
*(Yeah yeah, he worked on American Vampire, but merely as a writer of the back up stories for the first 5 issues so it doesn't really count, does it now?
This would generate massive hype, but 15 issues is sparse enough to be reasonable for these probably very busy individuals.