I've got a notion for what would hopefully be a way to make this column interactive for about a two week period. But in order to do it, I'm going to need a very specific volunteer.
You see it online all the time: every few weeks, fans gather together to play the "If I was an Editor", wherein they cast their creative picks for assorted titles and so forth. But from the perspective of somebody who's inside the industry, and who knows the very real difficulties involved in managing a fleet of titles, these games are often completley unrealistic. It's easy to say that you'd put Alan Moore and Art Adams on AVENGERS when you've got absolute godlike power. But that's seldom the case in the real world.
So what I propose is that we take about two weeks out here at the Blah-Blah-Blog and we run a "Marvel Editor Simulator." I'll select one person to hire, to be a new editor at Marvel, and give them a fleet of books to edit. And then every day, that person will post his moves, and I'll follow up with the results of those moves, throwing in the sorts of events one would be likely to encounter if one were actually doing the job. So it's like editing without any actual editing.
What I need, though, is an applicant for the position of fictitious editor. I'm going to need somebody who'll be diligent about reading this blog for a two-week period and posting his appropriate moves and reactions in the simulator. And it'll need to be somebody with a lot of pluck and tough skin--there's no win or lose in this thing, it's just an experiment, but I'm absolutely going to be stacking the deck against you, piling up appropriate problems along the way in a much shorter span of time than they might naturally occur in.
If this sounds of interest to you, you can "apply" for the job by dropping me at e-mail at mheroes@marvel.com. I figure we'll maybe try to start the simulation as early as Friday, if I can get the right candidate in place--this'll give them until Monday morning to post their first set of decisions.
More later.
Tom B
Nitpicky I hate to be nitpicky, but... should you assume that all applicants will be male like that? Or is "his" gender-neuttral now?
Posted by Undergirl on 2006-08-16 11:28:37
also nitpicky "If I was an Editor" should be "If I WERE an Editor."
Posted by eldangerosso on 2006-08-16 14:52:48
cool imformative
Posted by tarhaun on 2006-08-16 17:44:28
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About this blog: Ramblings and musings from the mind of Tom Brevoort. "It won’t be clean. It won’t be fun. It mostly won’t be coherent."
About the author: Tom Brevoort is Executive Editor for Marvel Comics, and oversees such titles as New Avengers, Civil War, and Fantastic Four.
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