Two Marks Explain Everything
Mark Evanier and Mark Waid first spoke about what they admired about each other’s work, then talked about their brief experiences working for Julie Schwartz, how Evanier got a Blackhawk & Superman team up story done despite strong resistance from DC, why Evanier doesn’t watch Superhero movies, the Marvel “implosion” in the early 70s, how DC seemed to be directing their continuity to align with Kingdom Come and now they’re not, their worst professional mistake, Hey Kids Comics! By Howard Chaykin and an Alan Moore thinly veiled short story involving comics industry, what they think are the most underrated comics, editorial notes they’ve gotten, how much direction they give to artists when writing, public domain characters not being done in comics, out of continuity comics, when they know a project is worth fighting for and when it’s best to just walk away, needing the ability to re-write on the fly and Bob Kane.
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