J. Michael Straczynski
Writer/producer. Babylon 5, Sense8, Changeling, Thor. Amazing Spider-Man, Captain America. Together We Will Go, The Glass Box. DO NOT POST STORY IDEAS.
Scripts, behind the scenes posts and a lot of conversation at patreon.com/thejoepage
- My work as JMS has been passable at best. If you can improve upon the performance the role is yours.
- Actually, it's there to get people to cross the street to the other side as much as possible, using the crosswalk, so there's a ramp right there to accommodate folks. It's just visually very funny.
- No, because you can literally just go around it.
- At last we have a winner in the World's Most Pointless Gate competition.
- I own all the episodes of Hour 25 I did, and have been sharing them with my Patrons (patreon.com/thejoepage) in the same Friday 10pm-Midnight window as the original broadcasts, with folks like Wes Craven, Ray Bradbury, John Carpenter, George RR Martin and many others. (Also sharing tons of scripts.)
- That's generally how TV contracts work except for a very few exceptions here and there, if the show is big enough to muscle the studio into parting with some of this.
- Not really. Didn't want to do that to people. So there's a decent ending to it.
- According to a very quick Google search, November 10, 1977.
- I've always had mixed feelings about JEREMIAH, which I wrote/produced for Showtime, because of the behind-the-scenes hassles. But we still managed to tell some good stories, and now for the first time Amazon Prime has *both* seasons available free on Prime. Might be worth a look.
- I honestly think it's one of the best television series ever made.
- Have they found the body yet?
- Nothing changes, I can do everything from the UK just as well as in the US, and I'll be going back and forth as needed, especially for the Estate.
- The preceding panel, where he gives attribution, is the quote from Twain; this was me.
- Yes. As noted, this has been a lifelong dream.
- For followers of my work, I have some very exciting news, both personally and professionally. A new challenge. A new beginning. I'm going back up on the high wire, to see what happens next. Details below.
- The ridiculously talented Juan Ferreyra.
- After the Hulk/Dr. Strange pairup coming out May 20th in my 6 issue Marvel Mini-Event, the next one up will feature an epic throwdown between Ghost Rider and Galactus. Herewith, then, four unlettered preview pages from that issue....
- ....oh god he found me again....
- But wait, there's more! My Hulk/Strange team up issue (being published in trade in October as MARVEL TALES) also has a backup feature pairing up Agatha Harkness and Aunt May entitled "What Happens In The Book Club, Stays In The Book Club."
- Two interior pages and two covers for "Grey Dawn on Bleeker Street," the next issue of my Marvel Mini-Event, featuring the Hulk and Doctor Strange, hitting comic shops May 21st.
- When I was in Catholic grade school we had these kid's dictionaries small enough to fit in your back pocket. If you misbehaved or were impertinent, you had to transcribe 5-10 pages per incident for punishment. By the time they booted me out I was up to the M's.
- Have you tried Costco?
- Just realized that's supposed to be "SIGHS" and groans, not Signs. Typo.
- Some that have not been used: O gull, o dolt, as ignorant as dirt False of heart, light of ear, bloody of hand Infinite and endless liar An hourly promise-breaker Anointed sovereign of signs and groans Canker-blossom Poisonous bunch-backed toad Beetle headed flat-eared knave Lump of foul deformity
- Greece, actually. Not everything I write is in space.
- No, I've never received a dime from any licensing on any show I've ever done.
- They could, but generally speaking they like to keep the creator of a show happy (as long as there's no money involved) by letting them coordinate the licensing (and that way they don't have to assign anybody in-house to do it, which also saves them money). So I would likely be given that task.
- There are at least 2 Star Trek projects that are also still in limbo.
- Corporation A pays Studio B to license the production of merchandise they'll make to promote movie C because they think it'll D make them a lot of money. The studio supports that with publicity, but a studio never pays the licensor, it's about the studio making money via ancillary revenue streams.
- I can't announce which one I'm doing, but what I can say is that I'm writing roughly half of this big book in iambic pentameter, because apparently I enjoy hurting myself....
- That's not how it works. A publishing company has to come to WB, make a licensing deal for novels, and then it can go on from there. It's not in my hands.
- As has been said here many many times, Warners owns all the other rights to the show, I can't do anything on my own.
- It's a very long, very complicated answer, far too much so to even try to post. If you do a search on the subject of why Hollywood is dysfunctional right now, you'll find a ton.
- It was in one of my posts where I put up all the covers. Though to be fair, it isn't really the Sinister Sixteen, either, it's...kind of hard to explain. You'll understand why when you get there.
- The CEO of Sony said in an article recently that he expects the combination of chaos and overall shutdown to continue into 2026.
- The town has been largely frozen for the last four years, only doing a few very safe things or which were already committed to; very few shows in active development. We're waiting it out same as everybody else.
- Trust me, that's nothing like what this issue is about.
- Yes, that's now...the poster used for my note was done before the first book came out. So I clarified.
- Actually, that poster (from the original release) is kind of a deliberate fake-out. Doc Ock and Spidey have been paired up a lot. He's *in* the last issue but it's not about those two, it's...well, it's a lot bigger than that, but we wanted to keep a lid on the story until closer to the pub date.
- For those who missed some of the first installments of my Marvel mini-event (three down, three to go), or want to have them all in one place, all six issues will be published in trade on October 28th under the banner of MARVEL TALES. Available for pre-order now.
- You and @alonlevy.bsky.social are right, in the middle of writing I did not stop to work out exactly what date Hanukkah would fall on 262 years in the future and may have been off a few days though even the original post noted it took place somewhere "around" Christmas. I am dust beneath thy feet.
- Typo. The first page meant to have a locator caption "October 1941." Somehow it ended up October 1940 and I missed it in the proofing. October '41 is two months before December '41 (per the last pages) when Pearl Harbor happened and America entered the war which, yes, had been going on for a while
- Totally depends. But that's why the Doom/Rocket issue had nothing to do with the big Doom event going on, it was written long before that was on the boards.
- Definitely not the latter, because the script was finalized on 4/19/2023. (This has been in the works for a long time.) We wanted to keep this under wraps, so yes, Doc Ock is *in* it but it's not him and Spidey as a pair-up, it's a veritable ton of characters. Spidey versus the World.
