[B5JMS] Midnight Nation

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From: "Darren Bayley" <darren at bayleyhome.fsnet.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 14:03:43 +0100
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Well its been said before but I'm going to say it anyway.

Got issue 12 in the mail two days ago, been out in the garden today to start
to read the first few issues, I knew it was going to be good, I wanted to
savour it and not rush through and get to the end and for it to be over
but......

12 issues later

What a story, absolutely amazing, thought provoking, moving....

Thanks so much Joe and I wish you well in getting what deal you want to
bring this story to a TV or cinema and loads more people.

Is your work at marvel going to be solely within their universe and
exisiting characters (Spidey is great too) or will you have the chance to
craft some more stand alone work like Midnight Nation again ?

Darren




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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 29 Jun 2002 23:11:40 GMT
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>12 issues later
>
>What a story, absolutely amazing, thought provoking, moving....
>

Thanks muchly.

>Is your work at marvel going to be solely within their universe and
>exisiting characters (Spidey is great too) or will you have the chance to
>craft some more stand alone work like Midnight Nation again ?
>

I have a three-pronged deal: stories with established characters in the Marven
Universe, reviving dormant characters in the MU as well as creating new
characters there, and creating wholly new characters in a non-MU situation
allowing me to do pretty much anything I want.

Well, that's not absolutely accurate...when Kevin Smith came on board, he asked
to be given dibs on bringing MJ and Peter together again, if and when that
decision should be made.  So in terms of that aspect, all I can do is kind of
play around the edges a bit, the ball is well and truly in Kevin's court, he's
the only one who can resolve and bring them together if that is the way Marvel
wants to go.

I was gonna bring 'em together again shortly, because it was my intent to get
them apart only for a while, but at this point it'll be an if/when situation
between Marvel and Kevin.

 jms

(jmsatb5 at aol.com)
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