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James Woodcock
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Someday, people will learn.
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John Wickett
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Yeah, in hindsight, that question was poorly phrased. My bad.
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Rodrigo castellanos
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"Easy to work with" has got to be one of my most hated pieces of corporate speak HR bull.
It basically means people with no spine, no opinions, no nothing. And that makes them completely worthless IMHO.
Picasso, John Lennon, Stanley Kubrick (I could go on forever), notoriously not "easy to work with" or easy to deal with in general.
Pheh!
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Peter Martin
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The whole thing is a bit too reductive anyway. If there is friction between collaborators, there will be a whole story that goes with it and if you're interested in understanding the situation, it's worth trying to work out some of the context.
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Mark Haslett
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To paraphrase Tolstoy, every happy relationship is the same. Every poor
relationship is its own unique tragic story.
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John Byrne
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Picasso, John Lennon, Stanley Kubrick...•• I guess I would not have got along with any of them!!
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ron bailey
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It sounds like the kind of half-assed comment that would more likely come from the editorial and bean counters of a company, not the collaborators or the talent. You know, you agree upon the terms upon which a project is to be undertaken, then half-way through they unilaterally change the terms, then you're "difficult to work with" because you call them on it and object. Classic middle management stuff.
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Jason Scott
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This thread gave me an unusual thought.
Question for JB:- If someone had offered you the keys to the Kingdom, in terms of being the Editor in Chief, woud you have been interested?
And now I'm just trying to imagine what a JB run Marvel would have been like. If wishes were horses!
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David Miller
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Meanwhile, Neil Gaiman has conceded enough credible sexual assault
allegations through his lawyers to populate a class action lawsuit, but he’s
“affable” so fans are twisting themselves into knots in his defense.
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John Byrne
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Question for JB:- If someone had offered you the keys to the Kingdom, in terms of being the Editor in Chief, woud you have been interested?••• Maybe if they gave me a deathray…. No. Not even then.
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ron bailey
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This is why it's best to laud the work and recognize that anyone whose work of which you're a fan is human and fallible just like the rest of us. At the end of the day it's like the Woody Allen problem. Or Picasso. Let others sort out that crap and just enjoy and appreciate the brilliance of the art for what it is.
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Joseph Vecchio
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One of the reasons I approve of being called a legend. Legends are made up of stories that are mostly not true
Like that time you leapt over a building to save myself and my pet cat from muggers, I'll never forget that.
I mentioned in one interview that I had given JRjr a plot that included a page that just said FIGHT! Another writer responded that that wasn’t writing, it was typing
Reminds me of the stories I heard about writing for Mork and Mindy: "Let Robin kill five minutes here"
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