Steve wrote:
Did you really have nothing published between '02 and '07? Is that when you were working on the Superman novels? Did you pitch anything unsuccessfully during that time or had you figured you were done with comics?
Let's see ... there was the
Smallville novel, which Warners published in '02 ... and
Superman: The Never-Ending Battle came out from Pocket Books in '05.
I also wrote a Superman Multipath Adventure for DC's Website just before their Australian animation subcontractor suddenly went out of business, so that never appeared.
Likewise, I wrote an issue of JUSTICE LEAGUE ADVENTURES just before the format of the animated series changed, so that never saw print. (The upside there was that I got to work with Steve Wacker, who started giving me Spider-Man assignments after he landed at Marvel.)
Sometime around there, I wrote two PHANTOM stories for Egmont -- and apparently only one of them ever saw print. (Their editor suddenly-and-inexplicably stopped answering my emails.) I also wrote a few Spider-Man and Hulk stories for Panini UK's
Marvel Rampage magazine.
From '05 through '06, I plotted the JLA CLASSIFIED stories, co-plotted the DARKMAN vs THE ARMY OF DARKNESS miniseries, and started co-writing MARVELS: EYE OF THE CAMERA.
And throughout the first half of '07, I co-plotted a four-issue SUPERMAN arc with Kurt Busiek. As far as I know, it was never drawn.
Oh, and during those years, I also applied -- unsuccessfully -- for a couple of writing/editing gigs at Cornell University.
Other than that, I kept leaving messages with various editors who kept promising to get right back to me.
I wasn't unemployed, so much as I was drastically
under-employed. I could probably have written another 150-200 comics during that time, if there had just been an editor willing to give me the work.
-- Uncle Rog
Thanks Linda!
