"Queers - sick or just plain evil?"

Well... sick is out, so I guess JUST PLAIN EVIL!!!!

Ah, well then...  so, he'd merely know how you'd write a script... or a plot, or something.  Besides, I think Brevoort's advice is sound.  Unless somebody is hopelessly bad at any given thing, practice will if not make perfect at least improve, most likely.

Even more Arc:
"I got in touch with Brevoort by mail after I asked CB Cebulski when would Marvel plan to do a talent search for writers. They do it all the time but just for artist, and it's artists who approach Marvel most of the time. Seems like it's much harder for writers to get into the comics industry."

I think you're right in that, in particular the US mainstream comics market, opens up more towards artists.  For the obvious reasons.

Tom wrote:
"Finally -- as if we didn't already know that..."

And that link definitely isn't sending me to the right spot.  Was wondering why you referenced an article on why optimists are healthier than pessimists until I started seeing the comment below in the thread.

Sometimes these days it seems the only way into comics, as a writer (barring you're already in the business as an artist and manage to swing the back door), seems to be writing a bestseller, a smash hit TV series or a couple of successful movies. 

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Yes, and actually being a TV series writer or a Hollywood screeplay writer sounds a lot more difficult than working in the comics industry. If I were Joss Whedon, Straczinsky or Allan Heinberg I would probably have enough money to buy my way in. Say, I could buy 50 thousand issues of the whatever comic book I'm writing and thus ensuring the publishers that they would never lose money with me...