I hate TV writers.<\/p>\n
For several years, I yearned to become a TV writer. Throughout those years, and in my current state of not BEING a TV writer, I built up a significant resentment for this rareified breed, these lucky duckies who sit in posh writers’ rooms and eat free food and make jokes all day and then get paid lots of money.<\/p>\n
If there’s anything I hate MORE than a TV writer, it’s a TV writer who also gets to write COMIC BOOKS. Yeah, thanks, dude. You really need to have TWO dream jobs, don’t you. I’ll just toil away at bullshit while you get to fulfill every fantasy I’ve ever had. Go ahead–lick whipped cream off the bald head of Ving Rhames. Take away ALL my hopes and dreams.<\/p>\n
In spite of all this, I have to confess that I am loving Marc Guggenheim right now. If you’re not familiar, Guggenheim just wrapped a kick-ass arc on Wolverine, maybe the best Civil War tie-in story, and now he’s teamed with Howard Chaykin on Blade’s latest attempt to support an ongoing title.<\/p>\n
I am confused as to why more fanboys aren’t wetting themselves over this Blade title. It’s firmly rooted in the Marvel U, it’s got CHAYKIN drawing VAMPIRE CLOWNS, and Guggenheim’s writing is suffused with bad-assery. That second issue, the Doctor Doom time-travel issue, just kicked all kinds of tail. And Guggenheim’s structuring it in a great reader-friendly way–a larger story that weaves quietly through each issue, but a main story that’s completely stand-alone. In other words, just pick one up and let it beat the shit out of you, already.<\/p>\n
So Marc Guggenheim, I hate you so much that I love you. Or something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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