Attn JMS: Writing comics v Writing TV episodes

[Darren Bayley]

How does the approach to writing comics differ to writing TV episodes?

With B5 you've said you had the 5 year arc before you started but didn't
write the individual episodes themselves until the budget for each season
was set.

If Rising Stars is to be in 24 parts - at what point do/did you write the
individual issues - are they all 80-90 percent done already or do you write
each one each month thereby allowing your ideas to change along the way?

[Jms at B5]

>How does the approach to writing comics differ to writing TV episodes?
>

In one, the pictures move; in the other, they don't. That seems like a flip
answer, but it was the hardest thing for me to adapt to when I started.

>If Rising Stars is to be in 24 parts - at what point do/did you write the
>individual issues - are they all 80-90 percent done already or do you write
>each one each month thereby allowing your ideas to change along the way?
>

No, I write one per month (I try to make it a bit less to help out the artists)
because it would be nearly impossible to write it all at once.

My scripts for a 22 page issue run about 30 or 35 typescript pages...so that's
between 800 and 840 pages, way too much to write ahead of time.

jms

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