Why don't the big two just do a pinup book monthly where

Comic fans don't appreciate the artists, it's all about characters and writers to them.

For example, when people talk about a Batman run, they say Snyder's Batman instead of Capullo's Batman.

>>91406238
The comics used to do pinup books once in a while in the summer when artists were pushed more than writers. I don't know how well they sold but it was definitely not good enough for an ongoing.

>>91406238
Because then what would they use for variant covers.

we were very close to another marvel swimsuit book

>>91406294
I'm gonna blow your mind right now: the writer tells the artist what to draw.

>>91407096
Not really. It's a collaboration.

The fact that artists tend to have to take breaks more is what keeps most runs from being called theirs. And even then there's still some, like Conner's Power Girl.

>>91407115
>Not really. It's a collaboration.
So the writer writes a story and the artist draws a different story?

>>91407182
Honestly it depends on the writer, Morrison and Quietly for example work together when they do a story and Quitely pitches him ideas on how he wants to compose a panel amd set up a scene and Morrison makes suggestions about it and sometimes he changes something in his writing to fit something Quitely is doing or Quitely will change on of his panels or something in his art if Morrison has a better idea.

That's how they collab.

Other writers like telling artists what to do and how the panels are composed or they tell them to set it up however they want to want and just write dialogue and tell them what's happening in a scene.

I think Priest said that while he was writing Gangster street Black Panther (Marvel editorial was being dumb and they forced him to write it) he mentioned that the artists he got didn't know shit about gangster culture or the streets and they would misinterpret certain things he wrote or totally disregard something he said and he felt that ruined his story.

So yeah artists are also important to comics and are crucial to the story depending the relationship, also if a writer gets a shitty artists some people won't read the comic no matter how good it is.

>>91406238
I wouldn't mind an Elseworld type of line from Marvel.

DC at least is doing the Multiverse thing.

Why don't they do a Shonen Jump-style book each month?

>>91408339
Morrison and Quitely are on a different plane.
I more meant your average monthly comic, where the writer just tells the artist how he wants the story to go.

>>91406757
Isn't there an artist at Marvel who has been begging Marvel to do another summer special? I remember hearing about that.

>>91406294
Nobody cares about pencil monkeys. They have little to no actual input on the stories.

Besides, good writing can elevate bad art, but good art can't save a bad story.

>>91409227
Tell that to the 90s.

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>>91407115
there's some good ones out there