Dark One Had Cometh

brevoortformspring:

>”You can’t force a creator to like a character, and you shouldn’t force a creator to use a character—the results are not often pretty.”

I agree with this. However, I think there’s a big difference between saying “you have to use the character this way” and “you know, that’s been done a lot with that character. Any chance there’s another take you’d like to take on him” or “How is this going to be different than stories X, Y and Z.” We know from the Dan Slott panel at SDCC, for example, that you’ll say you think a story is horrible (which seems like exactly what the role of the editor should be). I know from my real life as both an editor and less frequently a writer that final work is almost always stronger for the collaboration.>

I think that sometimes you and other readers mistake things that you don’t like for things that I don’t like.

Our creators should be at Marvel telling their stories, not my stories. If I want to see my stories in print, I should leave staff and pursue a career writing comics—same thing with any other editor.

So sure, there’s collaboration on every story that we do. But that doesn’t mean that I’m going to land where you would (or where you think you would, standing as you do outside and apart from that collaboration, and not knowing what was discussed nor in what context, nor what conclusions were reached,.)