CBR: Nick Spencer Talks Marvel Exclusivity

[CBR News]

The writer of "Iron Man 2.0" and soon "Secret Avengers," Nick Spencer discusses how the collaboration of Marvel's fabled creative summits helped sway his decision to sign exclusively with the publisher while continuing his current ongoings.


Full article here.

[DonC]

Couldn't care less about Iron Man or the Avengers. I'm just glad he's still writing T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents.

[Professor Arkham]

Couldn't care less about Iron Man or the Avengers. I'm just glad he's still writing T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents.

Ditto

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[Ari Gold]

I dunno, I got the sense that he has some internal pressure to get off THUNDER Agents sooner rather than later.
Might just be paranoid though.

[Schnitzy Pretzelpants]

I have to pick up T.H.U.N.D.E.R. agents as I really love his writing.

Have to say though that it doesn't surprise me that Marvel was able to grab him.

I can't help but feel that DC editorial has really been a style cramp for the guy.

I don't know how true it is - always a suspect way of beginning a statement, but... - I think he was really screwed on Supergirl.

Basically, my reading of it is, DC Editorial didn't like what he was doing/his direction, brought in a stringer as co-writer, then saw that the readers really liked what he was doing with Supergirl, offered him sole-authorship again, by which time Marvel had snapped him up.

I realize that whether at DC or Marvel, if you are a writer, you are playing with other peoples toys, but the trick of editors - and I think Marvel knows this, while DC does not - is to make a writer feel some sense of ownership and latitude.

DC seems way too constrictive right now to anyone not named Geoff Johns or Grant Morrison.

I have no issues with either of those writers - at least none germane to this post - but they need to open up the field a bit. They are in serious danger of returning many of their properties into the blandness that many of them were before the first Crisis. I know not all of them were, but many were.

[Scud]

Couldn't care less about Iron Man or the Avengers. I'm just glad he's still writing T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents.

Same here, times a thousand.

[RolandJP]

SO has anyone read Iron Man 2.0 or is stuff being pulled from collective behinds.

[Monty_Cristo]

SO has anyone read Iron Man 2.0 or is stuff being pulled from collective behinds.

i read the first issue. it wasn't very exciting. but it wasn't bad. i'll give him another issue.

[darkxmen]

i am glad he is here can't wait to see what he does on secret avengers, and hopefully he gets a chance to do some xmen stuff.

[RolandJP]

Man, Iron Man 2.0 is getting seriously dissed.

[kwas]

I don't know how true it is - always a suspect way of beginning a statement, but... - I think he was really screwed on Supergirl.

Basically, my reading of it is, DC Editorial didn't like what he was doing/his direction, brought in a stringer as co-writer, then saw that the readers really liked what he was doing with Supergirl, offered him sole-authorship again, by which time Marvel had snapped him up.

I realize that whether at DC or Marvel, if you are a writer, you are playing with other peoples toys, but the trick of editors - and I think Marvel knows this, while DC does not - is to make a writer feel some sense of ownership and latitude.

I don't know how true this is... but I think you're a marvel fan sending false rumors to bleeding cool.

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/03/...and-supergirl/

It just sounds so familiar..., except this "source" says they heard it from Spencers mouth... which I'm starting to think is false!

[Ziza9]

As others have stated, I'm just glad that he's sticking with T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents.

[Schnitzy Pretzelpants]

I don't know how true this is... but I think you're a marvel fan sending false rumors to bleeding cool.

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/03/...and-supergirl/

It just sounds so familiar..., except this "source" says they heard it from Spencers mouth... which I'm starting to think is false!

Are you serious - that you think I am some dork on a disinformation trip?

I hope that is a joke, because it's pretty out-there conspiracy stuff.

I can tell you that, no, I am not some leak or 'disinformant'.

I say this only if you were being serious in your accusation: don't you think the simpler explanation would be that I read that same Bleeding Cool post, and that knowing how much bullshit is on the internet, qualified my post with the 'I don't know how true this is?' - or whatever the hell I said in my post.

Again, only if you were serious: can you not accept that there are some of us that - left to our own devices - don't have a predisposition to one company or the other, and merely react to the like or dislike of what they are reading from one or both of the two big companies?

I've said it before in now ancient posts, but what drives me batty is anyone that identifies themselves with a company - because I think that makes them sheeple.

If I am going to identify myself as anything, it is as a reader of fiction. My money goes towards purchasing the stories that I like, and that usually means following authors that I like.

[Sighphi]

His first book was Existence 2.0 and now he is doing Iron Man2.0 ?
Oh ho, ho, ho, MARKETING!

[paulski]

I can't help but feel that DC editorial has really been a style cramp for the guy.

I don't know how true it is - always a suspect way of beginning a statement, but... - I think he was really screwed on Supergirl.

Basically, my reading of it is, DC Editorial didn't like what he was doing/his direction, brought in a stringer as co-writer, then saw that the readers really liked what he was doing with Supergirl, offered him sole-authorship again, by which time Marvel had snapped him up.

Uh, no. The Supergirl readers hadn't even seen his first issue before he announced that he'd quit the book because his workload was too great. And then, of course, we all found out why.

Trust me, DC had nothing to do with it. If he wanted to write Supergirl solo, I'm sure he could have done so. I actually suspect he asked for Peaty there in order to help him get that book done (in addition to everything else he was doing). If anything, I feel he screwed DC on that title, not the other way around.