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Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 at 01:53:13 pm EST (Viewed 405 times)

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Imagine that some of the great writers of the past were alive today and wanted to work in the comic-book industry. Which work-for-hire mainstream titles would you put them on? (And no, you canÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t put Robert E. Howard on Conan, for example, cool as that would be; it has to be something theyÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ve not done before)

HereÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s the talent pool to deploy. Say where youÃ¢â‚¬â„¢d place them and what their first story arc might be:

Dashiel Hammett (Sam Spade etc)

Howard Phillip Lovecraft (Call of Cthulhhu et al)

Edgar Allen Poe (Murders in the Rue Morgue et al)

Edgar Rice Burroughs (Tarzan, John Carter etc)

Frank Herbert (Dune etc)

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes, The Lost World etc)

Sheridan Le Fanu (Carmilla (the vampire) and lots of other ghost stories)

Robert E. Howard (Conan, Solomon Kane etc.)

Charles Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist et al)

J.R.R. Tolkein (The Lord of the Rings etc)

William Shakespeare (Macbeth, Hamlet etc)

And just to make it interesting, what other writer who was born before 1920 would you pick to write:

New Avengers

Captain America

Superman

Astro City

Star Wars

Buffy

Pet Avengers

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Classic writers on current comic books - the Survey · HH tries to get some chatter going and isn't going to dumb down the board · Mon Dec 07, 2009 at 06:53:34 am EST
- Henry James is the new Brian Michael Bendis. · Nats · Thu Dec 24, 2009 at 10:31:54 pm EST
  - That's a vicious thing to say. · HH · Fri Dec 25, 2009 at 09:39:27 am EST
- Joseph Conrad ('Heart of Darkness') on 'Black Panther'. (no text) · Messenger · Wed Dec 09, 2009 at 04:40:23 pm EST
  - He could certainly offer something. I'd hire him for the movie version. (no text) · HH · Sat Dec 12, 2009 at 04:29:37 am EST
  - Ha ha! Well-played. (no text) · Nitz the Bloody · Thu Dec 10, 2009 at 02:06:06 am EST
- That's a tough one... · Anime Jason · Tue Dec 08, 2009 at 08:53:59 am EST
  - On this · HH · Sat Dec 12, 2009 at 04:36:47 am EST
- I think Lovecraft could do a kick ass Dr. Strange or a Spectre book. · L! · Mon Dec 07, 2009 at 01:53:13 pm EST
  - But all the readers would go insane after reading it. (no text) · HH · Tue Dec 08, 2009 at 05:09:54 am EST
    - I think we already are a bit insane in the first place. :) · L! · Tue Dec 08, 2009 at 01:32:02 pm EST
      - I prefer the term "otherly sane". (no text) · HH will show them all. Oh yes. · Sat Dec 12, 2009 at 04:30:26 am EST
        
        Or "differently sane". · L! · Sat Dec 12, 2009 at 03:38:50 pm EST
- posting again after my first attempt was lost... · Visionary · Mon Dec 07, 2009 at 01:37:59 pm EST
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  - Re: posting again after my first attempt was lost... · Visionary · Mon Dec 07, 2009 at 05:55:02 pm EST
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- I want PG Wodehouse on the Avengers, specifically a story on the extended Pym family (no text) · killer shrike · Mon Dec 07, 2009 at 11:12:48 am EST
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