KLANG!: A Writer's Commentary
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| Rating | : | 4.17 (505 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B014RP35KU |
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| Number of Pages | : | 110 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-13 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Disappointing." according to Kevin M. Bastos. I wanted to love this. I struggled mightily over the last year with it. I dug back and forth between the complete acceptance of blame, and the willingness to drop failures on others' doors. The reading of scripts from projects I found disinteresting.. "A mostly honest open letter from a writer" according to Adam Adiment. If you're interested in collaborative art projects like film, tv, etc, Klang! is a pretty good view into the pitfalls of how all this stuff can go comically off course. By the end of this book, I was pretty much sure everyone was a little bit to blam. "Interesting behind the scenes rant after a falling out betwen a comic book writer and artist" according to Amazon Customer. This is a fascination insider view on what Priest thinks went wrong with the comic book Q2: The Return of Quantum and Woody.The main theme seems to be that Priest was trying to create a work of brilliance, and due to issues with editorial and his col
The commentary includes The Apocrypha—the six unpublished “lost” scripts from the critically-lauded Acclaim Comics series—as well as the six unpublished original drafts from Q2: The Return of Quantum & Woody, published by Valiant Entertainment. KLANG! is a writer’s commentary by Christopher James Priest, a critically-acclaimed comics writer for major publishers Marvel and DC Comics (Black Panther, Green Lantern: Sleepers, Quantum & Woody), discussing the hit comic book series, Quantum & Woody, which Priest co-created with artist M.D. Priest’s sardonic, no-holds-barred narrative also broadly canvasses the creative process in general, including the art of graphic storytelling and the challenges of being creative within the high-pressure and often politicized constraints of commercial publishing environments. 26 Chapters, 89,000 words.. Priest’s commentary examines the origin of the series, its original run and untimely demise at Acclaim Comics, as well as the series’ resurgence under the new Valiant Entertainment imprint and the at-times combative development of Q2, wherein Quantum & Woody (and Priest and Bright) reunite for an all-new adventure after more than a decade. Bright