brevoortformspring

Anonymous asked:

Fans often accuse writers of not knowing the characters, but without naming names, have you ever worked with a writer who genuinely didn't know the characters he was supposed to be writing?

brevoortformspring answered:

We tend not to hire writers who don’t know the characters.

Fans saying this typically mean that the writer in question doesn’t agree with that fan’s opinions about that character.

phoenix

I think the closest I’ve ever heard of something remotely like this happening…and I know I am gonna get some of this wrong, so take my faded memories with a gigantic grain of salt…

Back when Warren Ellis was grabbed as a last minute replacement on an Excalibur story, he either couldn’t because of time, or didn’t want to be bothered doing research into the characters and things going on.

This lead to some interesting new ideas with Limbo and Illyana’s Soulsword that never quite matched up with past continuity, amongst other things.

And still, he went on to be one of the top three runs on that book.

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something that exists in the city I'm moving to:

I am obsessed with this park that combines all midcentury dangerous playground elements into one awful whole. witness this steep metal slide descending from the top of a jungle gym into a concrete pit

if you fall off the jungle gym, you too will be doomed to the pit

there's very little opportunity to get out, too. the only handholds are the ones on the left. Sendai gets a lot of rain, almost as much as Vancouver, so imagine being mangled from sliding into concrete and having to climb a sheer, slippery slope to freedom. I think I would just make a home down there and give up on life