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I met Joss Whedon once. He told me he learned to write comics by studying some Alan Moore scripts his editor provided to him. They scared the hell out of him, as I recall. Alan writes massive scripts. I mean, he's got his own hole in a forest somewhere, and it's a mile across and denuded of anything that can be pulped into paper. Now go and read one of Joss' comics -- or use Bit Torrent to steal it off the internet, the way I did. (It's okay -- I was going to get Marvel to send me a copy, so I wasn't going to pay for it anyway.) (Yeah, yeah. Shut up.) It doesn't read like Alan's work, does it? He took what he needed from it -- how to pace comics, how to isolate moments, when to punch and when to go quiet -- and put his own voice on top of it. That's how to do it. Joss went on from that meeting to write an introduction to a PLANETARY collection wherein he made fun of my beard. And Alan's.

Now I must wonder why he wrote an intro to Planetary and if it was any good because the comics were. Until they slowed down in favor of the Authority. Or was it the other way around? Because, honestly, after awhile they had three [I think] very similar books out at the same time and each would start after the previous series had just had some massive shakeup. But I think Planetary first... Point is, good stuff. Expensive boogers in trade form though. Jesus.



Now I sleep.

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