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[Paul Jenkins]

Hello chums,

We are all set to go as Flogging a Dead Horse embarks on its fourth or fifth run and I attempt to ruin the entire comics industry. The idea here is to have fun and talk about arbitrary things. Think of me as your stunt double: I break bones and do stupid stuff so that you don't have to. Unless you want to. In which case, you are welcome to.

Happy chums are always welcome. Dissenting opinions are encouraged, since no one likes a suck-up. Mean people will be tolerated, though made to bleed internally by some of our wittiest posters. To be clear: if you want to come here and just be a mean prick it is a free country. But don't blame me if your revolting suckiness becomes apparent to others and you are shunned by your own grandmothers.

Let's have fun. First one to a thousand points wins.

PJ

[Personamanx]

*BLARG*?

Super-Neato!

[Chris N]

Howdy Paul! Welcome!

I love (some of) your work!

[whiteshark]

Welcome to the boards.
I have read some of your work in the Marvel in the past as Incredible Hulk#25 which is a great story and many interesting stories in the Spider-Man titles as well.
Hoping to see more of your writing in Marvel in the future.

[jlmoor]

Inhumans is the book I give all of my snobby friends that roll their eyes at me for reading comics. Then they all apologize. I was wondering from fellow fans (as well as you sir) what other Jenkins work is highly recommend. If this is the wrong place to do that I apologize. I would also like to second the request for updates on future projects. Thanks!

[Paul Jenkins]

Howdy Paul! Welcome!

I love (some of) your work!

No sucking up. Two points to you. You are currently in the lead!

P

[Paul Jenkins]

Inhumans is the book I give all of my snobby friends that roll their eyes at me for reading comics. Then they all apologize. I was wondering from fellow fans (as well as you sir) what other Jenkins work is highly recommend. If this is the wrong place to do that I apologize. I would also like to second the request for updates on future projects. Thanks!

Hmm... it's hard to pick favorites. I think perhaps my early run on Peter Parker: Spider-Man with Bucky, and Revelations with Humberto Ramos. The first Sentry series with Jae (the one after Inhumans), and my recent run on Theater of War are ones that worked for me.

It's so subjective.

P

[bebopeva88]

Paul, if you don't snag Jae Lee the minute he's done with his last Dark Tower mini and force him to make darkly stunning pictures for your scripts again, I'll have to notify the One Armed Reservists of your past misdeeds, and lemme tell you, OAR is not a group you want to be on the bad side of.

[Paul Jenkins]

Paul, if you don't snag Jae Lee the minute he's done with his last Dark Tower mini and force him to make darkly stunning pictures for your scripts again, I'll have to notify the One Armed Reservists of your past misdeeds, and lemme tell you, OAR is not a group you want to be on the bad side of.

Don't you think it's a little late to be telling me that? I think the damage is already done.

[Chris N]

Have you ever written a comic you've later found yourself wanting to throw across a room? Or that you would approve of somebody throwing across the room?

[Paul Jenkins]

Have you ever written a comic you've later found yourself wanting to throw across a room? Or that you would approve of somebody throwing across the room?

Yup. I have always thought I messed up on that "organic webspinners" story. To be clear: this was not the fault of my editors -- they simply asked if I would do the story and I agreed. The problem was, I wanted to do something very different with the Queen character and only during the middle of the run did I realize these things were just not going to mix.

And bringing Captain Marvel back in nine pages was probably a bit iffy. I actually had plans for a limited series to follow that would address the issue of a "man out of time." The story was going to be pretty neat -- he would be alive, knowing he had cancer and knowing that eventually he would have to return to space and die, as in the original story. So at that point it would not go against established continuity. I wish I'd insisted that we do the story in at least a full issue. The problem was, I never got to write any of the follow up so it came across as if I just busted out a nine-pager completely reversing established continuity, and then skipped town. Cannot remember why I didn't push to write that next series -- I will have to ask Wacker. My memory of it is that I got really busy.

[David Walton]

PETER PARKER SPIDER-MAN V2 #34.



"IF THINE EYES OFFEND THEE..."

Not a bad issue, but here's the real question:

Why did you go with the King James Version language in the title? Do they not have the NIV, NKJV, or NLT in the UK???? Or is the KJV a source of national pride?

[Pól Rua]

"IF THINE EYES OFFEND THEE..."

Not a bad issue, but here's the real question:

Why did you go with the King James Version language in the title? Do they not have the NIV, NKJV, or NLT in the UK???? Or is the KJV a source of national pride?

Same reason Stan went with the King James Version of all of Thor's dialogue.

[David Walton]

Same reason Stan went with the King James Version of all of Thor's dialogue.

Yeah, that's what I kind of figured. I honestly wasn't taking my question all that seriously.

It also occurs to me that it's a cue the title came from the Bible.

I dig biblical titles, incidentally, so points for that! I really wasn't criticizing the decision so much as feeling silly.

[another_version]

Gotta say that I love Theater of War, and Mythos Paul, great job! Would love to see you on a Captain America: Confidential book.
(Was that enough of a suck up for you? Haha)