vbartilucci
asked:
When a new "big name" writer comes to Marvel (especially if they just jumped from, say, the Distinguished Competition) how often does the company have something in mind for them to write, as opposed to them coming with a title or character in mind? I imagine the goal is always collaborative to some degree, but what would you say is a good method, as opposed to a standard or perfect one?
It’s a conversation. There’s no formula to it, it’s totally situational. The same creator coming to Marvel a month later stands potentially a decent chance of working on something else–because the character(s) he or she is interested in may already be in play elsewhere, because the thing we were thinking about that they would have been perfect for has already been assigned to somebody else, and the opposite, because some new idea has come up in the interim for which they’d be a perfect fit, or the character(s) they were interested in are finished with and now at loose ends. But in every case, it’s a conversation.