Fake Marvel Editor
Updated @ 7:50 p.m.: Lame. Didn't get it. I think I sent my email in too late. I’m applying to be a fake Marvel Editor. Tom B. of Marvel cooked up this idea in his blog and I’m about to email him a cover letter and resume’. I’m sure he will get a thousand of emails, but hey, I figure I might as well try. Keep reading to read Tom B.'s full post from his blog:
I've got a notion for what would hopefully be a way to make this column interactive for about a two week period. But in order to do it, I'm going to need a very specific volunteer.
You see it online all the time: every few weeks, fans gather together to play the "If I was an Editor", wherein they cast their creative picks for assorted titles and so forth. But from the perspective of somebody who's inside the industry, and who knows the very real difficulties involved in managing a fleet of titles, these games are often completley unrealistic. It's easy to say that you'd put Alan Moore and Art Adams on AVENGERS when you've got absolute godlike power. But that's seldom the case in the real world.
So what I propose is that we take about two weeks out here at the Blah-Blah-Blog and we run a "Marvel Editor Simulator." I'll select one person to hire, to be a new editor at Marvel, and give them a fleet of books to edit. And then every day, that person will post his moves, and I'll follow up with the results of those moves, throwing in the sorts of events one would be likely to encounter if one were actually doing the job. So it's like editing without any actual editing.
What I need, though, is an applicant for the position of fictitious editor. I'm going to need somebody who'll be diligent about reading this blog for a two-week period and posting his appropriate moves and reactions in the simulator. And it'll need to be somebody with a lot of pluck and tough skin--there's no win or lose in this thing, it's just an experiment, but I'm absolutely going to be stacking the deck against you, piling up appropriate problems along the way in a much shorter span of time than they might naturally occur in.
If this sounds of interest to you, you can "apply" for the job by dropping me at e-mail at mheroes@marvel.com. I figure we'll maybe try to start the simulation as early as Friday, if I can get the right candidate in place--this'll give them until Monday morning to post their first set of decisions.
More later.
Tom B
Comments
After this Civil War fiasco, along with Ultimate Wolv vs Hulk nightmare, I think Marvel could use a new editor. Forget this fake editor crap. Apply for REAL!
Posted by: Lisa | August 16, 2006 08:00 PM
Marvel requires all editors and assistants to work out of their office in NYC.
Posted by: Scott | August 16, 2006 09:14 PM
So, if you were offered an editorial position with Marvel, you would turn it down because you don't want to live in NYC? NYC is cool! Expensive, but cool.
Posted by: Lisa | August 17, 2006 12:20 PM
I don't leave grad school for three years. I can't move to NYC because of AU.
Posted by: Scott | August 17, 2006 12:40 PM
You wouldn't scrap grad school to have a high-paying, prestigous job as an editor at a major comic publishing house? I'd bet they even pay for schooling for employees, so you could probably work on your masters (just not at AU) on Marvel's dime. Sure, it's not actually on the table, but don't you think that the experience of this kind of job is more important than a master's degree?
Posted by: Lisa | August 17, 2006 04:39 PM
Grad school is more important to me. Like... "college" was something I did because people do that after high school. It's what you are supposed to do. But getting my masters is something I'm doing for me. It's something I've wanted for as long as I can remember. I'm not going to risk not getting that for anyone.
Plus as long as I'm in school I don't have to pay back my undergard or grad school loans so I'm trying to stall as long as possible.
Posted by: Scott | August 18, 2006 01:36 PM