[B5JMS] Smith to pen AMS; JMS to launch new Spidey comic

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From: "Kyle L. Dennis" <ifdude at yahoo.com>
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Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 02:17:03 -0600

I know you are getting your own Spidey book but I still wish you could stay
on ASM. It is the best it's been in YEARS.  Unbelievably good.
Oh well.  Has the title for the new series been decided yet?

Later,

Kyle

"Jms at B5" <jmsatb5 at aol.com> wrote in message
news:20020508012816.26385.00004319 at mb-ff.aol.com...
> >What I don't get is, in the past, (i.e. silver age and back) writers and
> >artists could produce not just ONE title and get it out on time, but
> >SEVERAL.  Granted not all were their best work but the fact remains that
> >todays writer/artists should really be able to churn out ONE book a
> >month, as this is all many (JMS, KS) are asked to do.
>
> Well, that and write 2 other books for Top Cow, write a movie for MGM,
write
> and produce a TV series for Showtime...it ain't like I'm sitting around
eating
> bon-bons here....
>
> That said: Let's set the record straight here, shall we?  I've been
writing and
> selling professionally for 30 years.  During that time, prior to last
year, I
> could count the times I've missed a deadline on one hand.  That's it.  In
200
> TV episodes, 3 published novels, 500 published articles and short
> stories...five examples.  In 30 years.
>
> Last year I fell off the face of the earth and got slammed by the worst
patch
> of work I've ever faced.  The thing about writing is that you put a lot of
> things out there knowing that only about 1 in 10 ever gets picked up.
When
> several happen at once, it's great but it kills you.  I explained the
situation
> to Marvel and they said it's okay, take the extra time.  They would rather
have
> the book done *right* than done Tuesday.
>
> So there was a bit of a slowdown on this one front, because if an issue is
a
> week late, it's a week late, no serious harm to Marvel (in fact,
resoliciations
> sometimes went up from original figures).  It had to be that way because
if you
> fall behind on a TV series, it's $125,000 per day down the tubes.  I had
to
> make the responsible decision on where to slow down for a bit.
>
> SInce then, I have not only been delivering on time, in the last 6 weeks
alone
> I have turned in 3 full scripts for ASM -- that's one every 2 weeks, boys
and
> girls -- and I expect to keep that up for the next month or so to get
really
> ahead of schedule.
>
> So in this discussion, let's *try* to have a little persepective, shall
we?
>
>  jms
>
> (jmsatb5 at aol.com)
> (all message content (c) 2002 by synthetic worlds, ltd.,
> permission to reprint specifically denied to SFX Magazine
> and don't send me story ideas)
>
>
>




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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 08 May 2002 09:25:35 GMT

>I know you are getting your own Spidey book but I still wish you could stay
>on ASM. It is the best it's been in YEARS.  Unbelievably good.
>Oh well.  Has the title for the new series been decided yet?

I think they're just gonna call it SPIDER-MAN, but I haven't heard that
conclusively.  I think Kevin's gonna take a very different slant to his
approach to ASM, so I may transplant wholecloth what I've been doing on ASM to
SM and let him have a clear field.

 jms

(jmsatb5 at aol.com)
(all message content (c) 2002 by synthetic worlds, ltd., 
permission to reprint specifically denied to SFX Magazine 
and don't send me story ideas)