mabuhay ka tony

[blinkinrogue]

tony hi remember me as a fan from the philippines? anyway as my name suggests i am both a rogue and blink fan, 2 characters obviously related to you...
anyway i have a question, where can i send ideas/concepts to marvel, or even to u regarding characters, etc? I am really not after the money or royalty or whatever you call it, i just want to contribute "new ideas" and get acknowledged for it. well it regards mutants (as marvel seems to horde the most popular ones) and i was thing of a new species/subspecies, something not like the neo or vargas, and i was thinking of sharing with you my ideas. is it ok if i post them here? Hopefully if your not busy u can find the time to check them out.

Salamat! hehehe.

[Tony Bedard]

This is trickier than it seems, Blinkinrogue. You see, publishers will not accept your ideas in the way you'd like to contribute them, because if you come up with a popular character and it ends up in a movie or something, the assumption is that even though you said you didn't want to get paid, you will probably sue for a share of the movie profits. It doesn't mattter if you swear you'd never do that, or even sign something to that effect -- no publisher wants to simply take people's ideas for free and profit from them. It makes them look exploitative. Some publishers won't even accept ideas and story pitches that they didn't ask for. I know DC has had a policy like this.

So my advice is for you to keep these ideas for yourwelf and use them. It's woinderful that you want to share them, but it just creates more problems than it solves. Tell your own stories, my friend!