876d46 No.158150
Why don't they hire the highly rated, disciplined writers over at FIMfiction?
97e9bc No.158151
>>158150
I know from experience that more often than not, the highly rated writers aren't as much disciplined and skilled as simply attention whoring, writing generic plots with likeable themes.
Also, It's quite probably that IDW doesn't even know fimfiction exists.
79967e No.158152
>>158150
Writing comic is very different from just writing. You have a fixed amount of pages to write about, and very limited set of panels in each page. So basically you have to make a story in 22-88 pages while make sure you convey every point you try to make without going over or under the limit. Also, you are writing a description for an artist to draw, and sometimes, things looks better in your head than when it's drew on paper. So a writer with an artistic background is strongly encouraged.
I thought it was easy too, but I realised I've got a long way to go.
569b9c No.158154
>>158152
Yeah, but considering how upset we are? Wouldn't it be better for them to interest the possibility?
I am sure several authors in the fandom could do it, better than the current IDW writers.
6d4b3d No.158159
iirc, isn't the pony comic the highest selling comic IDW has?
319654 No.158162
>>158150
Most of FIMfic isn't even talented, most of these "high rated" people have just taken ideas from other forms of media and poneified them.
df00c2 No.158183
>>158162
That being said though, there are a few diamonds in the rough of that website.
894ce0 No.158184
>>158159
last time some faggot checked the sales are going down
9aed25 No.158217
>>158151
Fucking this. They are not good. They are just good at giving their audience what it wants. Seriously, read real books for a while, and you will see what I am talking about.
bac806 No.158232
If the deviantart artwork artists banded up together with the fanfic writers then we could blow the fuck out of IDW permanently.
97e9bc No.158233
>>158217
Yeah, well, 'real' books often aren't any better, though. I mean look at bullshit like 50 Shades of Gray – do you think that's the only piece of garbage that got published and marketed? There are tons of other books just as shitty, only less heard about.
There are fanfics on fimfiction that are, objectivelly, better written than many a 'real' book, but for each such fanfic, you get a hundred that are total shit, and a dozen that are mediocre but milk a certain audience.
47818c No.158243
>>158232
we need madmax, vavacung, or doublew to replace katie cuck! Or alternatively they can do the art and Ponimotes, weaver, and InsertAuthorHere can do the writing.
And Sidorovich, if anyone can bring that ass out of hiding.
97f1ab No.158256
>>158233
Tbh 50 Shades of Gray was a really shitty example, as it was originally a Twilight fanfic.
97e9bc No.158258
>>158256
Yet it is a published, thus 'real' book. Anyway, I think you get my point.
cdd37a No.158298
It is too smart of an idea.
ed2e38 No.158322
97e9bc No.158324
>>158322
Well sorry if you disagree with the way I used the term that another anon literally just made up.
ba7663 No.158368
>>158217
The most popular ones that come to mind are past sins and I don't even remember the name but it was generic self-insert I-have-fire-hair-and-am-shipped-with-luna fic. The writer tried rewriting the whole thing and gave up
248eb9 No.158568
I think Bobby might be absolutely right with this.
>writers do not matter as much as artists when it comes to comic books
dde468 No.158598
Letting fans write for an official product is always a terrible idea.
>>158233
>fifty shades of shit
>a real book
Absolutely not.
If you want to read, start with classical literature.
If that's too much for you right away, then start with some decent light fantasy like the Wheel of Time.
>>158568
I don't know about that.
Remember the Reflections arc? Sure, Price can draw, but nothing short of Michelangelo-tier paintings could save the abysmal mess that the story created.
The plot doesn't need to be too complex in comics, but it needs to get the point across as clearly as possible while still being likeable to the audience.
97e9bc No.158600
>>158598
>implying I don't read
Right now, we're flinging shit at each other because each of us understands something else under 'real book'. So let's define it. Your definition so far seems to be 'Only books that I personally like are 'real books''
My definition so far was 'Any book that gets published and sold in bookstores is a 'real book''
dde468 No.158606
>>158600
I never said or implied something like that.
By definition, yes, it is a real book. Sure.
But so are the "joke" books with no words and only empty pages.
I don't like or even care about classical American literature, but I'd never say that those aren't "real" books.
My point is that there are works that are so atrocious that it is easy to universally agree that they are not worthy of mention if you are into reading.
c8b9b9 No.158623
>>158598
I hadn't thought about it that way. I really enjoyed Whitley's first story with the Twilight micro-comic, even though Thom Zahler didn't compare to Andy Price at the time.
Ah, those were the good days.
6e07f6 No.158624
>>158623
Anyways, Curnow might have been emphasizing that the look is more important than the story in a visual medium like comic books, but maybe he's wrong about that. Maybe it depends also on what kind of reader you're catering to: one that just likes to look at the pictures, or one that cares about what's going on and why.
f41815 No.158625
>>158623
>Twilight becoming a fanfic-worthy Mary Sue
>So funny in retrospect
>Also: is that a vagina?
dde468 No.158629
>>158625
>Also: is that a vagina?
>yfw the artists know what people want
>>158624
I'd say he's right, but the problem is that people mostly just give the pictures a quick glance and then move on to the text.
I'm mostly fond of short comics that have no text whatsoever, but rather use images to tell the viewer what is going on.
b1e79d No.158630
>>158568
>writers arent important
>he didnt fire ted betafag
34ed3a No.158631
>>158150
no that's like getting modders to make your games for you
4f1823 No.158664
>>158568
Retard alert. Somebody tell this mongoloid how wrong he is and how deserves to get not only fired, but shoved in prison for 5 years. God I hate IDW as much as Hasbro.
It's good for your artist to be good in both writing and graphics art.
248eb9 No.158667
>>158630
>>158664
Yeah, I figured since this guy works in comics that he knows what he's talking about, but the way it sounded just reading it should've tipped me off that he might be full of shit.
Anybody got a Twitter account?
4b8f2d No.158673
>>158667
We call upon our Twitterfag
Douchebag, yer needed ere
7b34e2 No.158908
>>158631
Mods are games on their own. ;)
7b34e2 No.158910
>>158568
Oh yeah like IDW's art is so much better compared to their corny kiddy writing.
He's so incapable he fails to realize how dimwitted his team is.
What's the word for people who move goal posts, promise things as if they were true… hypocrites? Faggots? No True Scotsman logic?
248eb9 No.158942
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4b8f2d No.158948
>>158676
Fuck
I haven't been here for quite sometime
Not even lurking
7b34e2 No.159202
I've had a thought… why doesn't Mitch Larson hire himself as a writer for IDW?
c94048 No.159207
>>158631
they do it for 25%
>>158629
>mostly fond of short comics that have no text whatsoever, but rather use images to tell the viewer what is going on.
well you are going to love the short story of sara richard
>mfw sara will never jerk you off while she paints using your semen.
248eb9 No.160888
Wow, are they all going to turn into bats next issue, or is this just classic comic cover misdirection?
That actually looks pretty awesome
>Comes out 8/12/2015
No wonder the forums are dead. At least the next Friends Forever comes out on the 5th, I guess.
94c21c No.160889
>>160888 (Checked)
Well, from the last issue, the only way to defeat the apples are letting Fluttershy becomes Flutterbat.
Maybe the whole gang will go batshit insane and suck all those scheming apples.
248eb9 No.160894
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>>160889
>Maybe the whole gang will go batshit insane and suck all those scheming apples.
That's pretty fuckin' l-lewd
ba9e34 No.160895
>>160888
looking at a lot of covers, its just a cover misdirection, odds are its only fluttershy going bat and use her powers to control an army of ugly as sin cute little fruitbats.
248eb9 No.160897
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>>160895
>its just a cover misdirection
It's practically false advertising. I hated the way they did it with Reflections.
ba9e34 No.160902
>>160897
Yeah, I lost my shit when flash sentry didnt appear in the comic.
f41815 No.160919
>>160897
>"Evil" Twilight is unicorn, because fuck you for not accepting Twilicorn
Already I don't want to know what happens in the comic
000000 No.160926
Because disciplined writers have to take criticism
248eb9 No.160927
>>160919
Nothing. It's just a tragic romance between Celestia and Bizarro Sombra where morality is fake and the Mane 6 don't matter
248eb9 No.160928
>>160926
More than can be said for some of IDW's staff.
f41815 No.160930
>>160927
Already I feel like vomiting.
ba9e34 No.160980
>>160919
you havent read any of the comics?
f41815 No.160984
>>160980
I don't have a lot of money to give to Jews
dde468 No.160992
>>160984
>not just getting them off of yayponies
Come on anon.
Although I don't really like them a lot myself due to several reasons.
ba9e34 No.161023
>>160984
>jews
>i was giving my shekels to the jews
>even buying multiple covers
>tedgate
>stopped buying the comics
first time buying comics ruined, life is shit.
you could always break the law and read them in yayponies, i think there is a thread about them, you could ask some faggot to upload them.
dde468 No.161031
>>161023
>download a comic from the internet
>break the law
Hello, American.
21683c No.161038
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>>161031
>not breaking the law
94c21c No.161040
>>161023
>break the law
Oh kek
0cd972 No.161090
>>158568
Nice derail.
Long story short, artists put in far more hours for a comic than writers do. There's more work for artists.
Bobby just worded it for those in the know within the industry rather than the regular twitter follower.
Also, I got this info from /mlp/. Which probably has some /co/ oldfags, one of who does know better.
>>158150
Back on topic, we've talked about this before. But in a less pretending-to-be-retarded way.
Bobby confirmed for OP.
Bobby, check my dubs.
21683c No.161096
>>161090
The dubs have abandoned you.
248eb9 No.161109
>>161090
>The dubs have abandoned you.
But thanks for the explanation. Now I don't have to wait.
c8b2f3 No.161798
>>161090
Quote op, using a medium usually reserved for 'conversing with fans' and other numbskulls with an attention span of only 140 characters which apparently counts unicode characters rather then bytes. Can someone post 140 鼻's? i've got an idea this might break twitter's storage, and then use it to convey jargon dependent information. May be missing some of the context here, but that sounds a tad like a faggoty move.
aabc29 No.161826
>>161798
Twitter is a bane on the concept of discourse. And not in the fun /bane/ way.
>>161090
So he's basically only got a point in the context of comics.
But even then, a comic can have great art but without good writing, no one is going to give a shit. Of course, the best comics have both, and presumably writers and artists who work together well and don't degrade the other's talents. Given the medium, that in fact seems absolutely necessary.
6f042c No.161832
>>161031
>>161040
>doing unlawful things
6aac1b No.161878
>>161826
Bobby worded the relationship a little derisively. At least that's how it read, as if giving artist's license to treat writers like shit or something. I'm sure he meant to convey a pragmatic truth of the industry, but still sounded kinda gay.
017d95 No.161880
>>161878
Maybe he has had to deal with a self-impressed prick of a writer before.
248eb9 No.161952
>>161880
So he's going to let one shithead writer he hired reflect poorly on the rest?
Interesting way to foster improvement.