The Greatest Pod Writers vs Artists

When it comes to who’s responsible for a comic book’s success, who is “The Greatest: Writers or Artists?” It’s an age-old debate and one we don’t resolve on this broadcast but I do think we make some salient points about how necessary each of their contributions are. Each tribe has certain limitations and only through their combined powers do we get the best stuff.  There’s some discussion of the “comic book auteur” as well and how these rare cartoonists who can truly do both jobs well are less plentiful than we think, thus deserving of all the accolades they get. But when it comes to work-for-hire comics created by teams placed together under editorial direction there needs to be some sort of revision of credits when these things are adapted into television and movies. As we note in this conversation there’s no morally defensible reason Matt Fraction got a producer credit on the Hawkeye series on Disney Plus while the artist David Aja didn’t.

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