Wednesday, May 16, 2007

PATRICK, FORGIVE ME

Patrick I'm not trying to poach from you

BUT

Sean, is there any way you would ask Byrne (if he declines to work on a second-string Venom-based Spidey book) if he would have any interest in helming the She-Hulk and the Fantastic Four L.A. book?

I'm comfortable letting him write it and draw it, or plot and draw or just write and let Amanda pencil the thing; however he'd like to contribute. Since that's not a title that's going to tie into the events that much, I'd give him total freedom.

And that would, at least initially, comfort lots of people, both fans of the FF and She-Hulk alike.

5 comments:

Michael Heide said...

What's wrong with McDuffie and Conner? Haven't you contacted them already? If you kick them off the book now to get Byrne in, they'll probably move to BigMoney Comics and give us bad press.

Besides, Byrne on a She-Hulk/Fantastic Four book (outside of a flashback) reeks too much of "Been there, done that". It will appeal to a small circle of old-school fans, but aren't we trying to get new readers to the book?

Nostalgia is death...

Michael Heide said...

It'll come even worse when Tom decides that we have signed Amanda Conner to an exclusive deal based on Sean's post at the Blah Blah Blog.
If we don't put her on one of the books then, the VP of Operations will have our heads on a platter...

Philip Schaeffer said...

I can use Conner on Fantatic Four after Deodato leaves. Keep them coming.

Sean Kleefeld said...

I don't want to push on Byrne too much. Let's see if I can coax him onto Spectacular with the SheHulk flashbacks. I also know Byrne's mentioned concern over looking like he's trying to compete with his own legend, so I don't think that's going to lead anywhere.

Philip Schaeffer said...

Fair enough, 'twas just a thought.