Redwolf's Journal (continued)

I've shared at least one of these before with friends this week, but as I love some in-the-trenches/behind-the-scenes perspective, here are a couple things that have caught my eye recently. A presentation by a major Bioware writer on sexism and sexuality in video games and industry perceptions about it. A DC writer's insight into how major comic contracts often work , and the royalties that do and don't exist there. He also speaks some in general about corporations from a perspective that is often overlooked, especially online.

I was chattng last night about the current state of movie properties for the two major comic companies. With The Avengers, Marvel's definitely still on a hot streak of movies that are "reasonably good" to "great." The X-Men and Spiderman trilogies started well, but faded as they went on. Still, since about Iron Man, they've all (or nearly so) done really well, especially considering that Iron Man and Thor weren't really (at least in my estimation) flagship characters to the non-comic-reader audience. It's quite impressive. We'll have to see if sequelitis bites Iron Man 3. In contrast, DC has... well, a Batman trilogy coming to a close. Superman Returns did reasonably well. Green Lantern not so much. And what else have they got? Well... Man of Steel next year perhaps, which is another Superman reboot as far as I know. But it seems to me there aren't a lot more big names in the DC universe to put forth. Wonder Woman? The TV series that was in...