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

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From: jvv4sm at aol.comNOSPAM (JVV4sm)
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Date: 22 May 2002 11:20:40 GMT

> jms
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>(jmsatb5 at aol.com)
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Hey, at WonderCon, JRJR said he has never met or spoken to you, outside of
scripts, one angry email.   That seems really odd.  I don't know if you use a
full script or a plot, but do you find it easier or harder to get your stories
across like that?  ("NO!!! ROMITA, THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT!" vs "Hey, that's
pretty cool he decided to draw that")

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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
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Date: 22 May 2002 20:00:07 GMT

>Hey, at WonderCon, JRJR said he has never met or spoken to you, outside of
>scripts, one angry email.   That seems really odd.  I don't know if you use a
>full script or a plot, but do you find it easier or harder to get your
>stories
>across like that?  

Actually, I can't recall an angry email, so he may have been joking there...as
for the rest, we haven't met only because we just haven't been in the same
space at the same time, I'd love to meet him at some point (and I imagine I
will at SDCC if he's there).

As to the scripts, I write full, detailed scripts, it's just what I do...just
as an example, from issue 42....

PAGE ELEVEN

Six equal sized panels, each a page in width. 

PANEL ONE

Spidey's POV to the city in BG as he heads toward --

PANEL TWO

-- Jenny who is being drawn into the vortex.  We may want to blur her and/or
the rest of this panel, to indicate motion blur, that this is all happening in
the same split-second --

JENNY
Let --

PANEL THREE

Same as panel one but closer to the target.

PANEL FOUR

On Jenny, still being pulled in, blurred --

JENNY
-- me --

PANEL FIVE

Same POV shot but he's now closer to the neighborhood --

PANEL SIX

On Jenny being pulled in, blurred --

JENNY
-- GO!


 jms

(jmsatb5 at aol.com)
(all message content (c) 2002 by synthetic worlds, ltd., 
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