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I’m not a genius and this isn’t some backward ego stroke for Priest; I’m just saying that was the best example of the artists trusting the script and not fighting against it.
Best experiences includes Sal Velluto on Black Panther, who would take liberties but never for ego’s sake, and the pages would always come in as good as the script or better, and Joe Bennett on The Crew and Captain America and the Falcon– particularly the ‘wedding ceremony’ scene between Cap and the Scarlet Witch, which Bennett followed very faithfully but, wow, made it so much better; a scene taking place on multiple levels as Wanda shares her morning tea with Steve Rogers in a pseudo-Japanese wedding ceremony. Brilliant.
I was trained in storytelling by Jim Shooter, Stan Lee, and Larry Hama. Doesn’t make me a genius, and there really isn’t anything fancy about the stage direction in my scripts. I honestly don’t care if an artist goes their own way; just make it as good or better, and don’t just change things out of ego.
A recent project came out looking nothing at all like my script. Important storytelling elements were compromised or ignored, losing at least a third of the story because that one-third was not in captions or dialogue, but in pictures the artist chose not to draw.
I mean, it was as if the artist began each and every single page by thinking, ‘Okay, I’m not sure what I’m going to do on this page, but I know I’m not going to do what the script is calling for.’ He changed every angle of every panel of every page and ignored my repeated pleas to ‘please, please, please follow the script or at least tell me what’s bothering you and I’ll rewrite it.’
And it reminded me why I stopped writing comics altogether, the often contentious relationship between collaborators. At least, when I’m writing novels, it’s just me and my editor. I mean, the typesetter doesn’t change my plot because he sees things differently.
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Back to the film commentaries…
Every actor, every grip, every editor – talking about story, story, story: how to convey the story, how to make it clear. Hollywood is, of course, loaded with egos, but it’s amazing to see how, despite the egos, those collaborators pull together and focus on telling a story rather than butt heads and sabotage what is extremely hard work and investment just because their ego apparently demands it.
Nrama: With your initial arc of Black Panther, you isolated the Panther from Wakanda. What was the main reason for this?
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