With the recent trend toward hiring brand-name writers with Hollywood credentials, Marvel Comics and the comic book field in general is no longer a place where a rookie writer can get their foot in the door of the script-writing field.
Who can argue with the business side of such practices, really? I mean, if you had a choice of publishing a 12-issue run of the X-Men franchise penned by Joss Whedon or JJ Abrams, versus a 12-issue run of X-men written by Jay Nobody, who would you choose?
Still, it’s a sad day when a field that once was so low on the writing totem pole that it led a young Stanley Lieber to write all his superhero work under the now-famous pen name of Stan Lee, is now almost completely closed to fresh young talents like Lee, looking for their first big break.
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