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Nov 11, 2025

Howdy.

A short one this week as I have little news and am a bit pressed for time.

SPIDER-MAN & WOLVERINE

Spider-Man & Wolverine #7 drops on Wednesday (11/12). This is the start of a new storyline and the introduction of a new villain who’s a mash-up of Spider-Man and Wolverine. It’s a ComicWatch Pick of the Week.

ComicWatch has a preview which you can find here or check out below:

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Jace Milam writes:

Oh man! You know I am a HUGE fan of Last Flight Out. It’s my favorite thing you’ve ever done. I know I am biased as the father of a little girl, it is all too easy to see myself and my daughter in Ben and Sara. Congrats on the news and I hope it bears fruit.

Thank you so much! That really means a lot.

Nandini Bapat writes:

Congrats on the deal, Marc!! It’s so nice to see at least SOME folks making things move around town, even if a lot of things aren’t. :) I did get booked as a co-star on a hit HBO show today, though, so maybe things are looking up?! (First job in 18 months, woohoo!)

Hey, Nandini! Great to hear from you.

Congratulations on the HBO gig. I’m definitely seeing the industry show some signs of life of late. Fingers crossed that the trend continues.

I like that the soft advice is to try to keep various ideas/projects on the slate as a backup if you can. I personally find that hard to do — I have ideas for days, but most of them are just jotted notes or quick outlines, nothing concrete. Is that enough or do you try to have an least an outline or a draft when bringing something in to your reps?

Actually, I don’t bring things to my reps before I start working on them. For better or worse, I’ve never included my reps in the early stages of the creative process. My reasoning is that I’m not paying my reps for development. I’m paying them to help sell the thing it is that I’m writing. I don’t need their creative buy-in for them to do that.

At least, that’s my philosophy. The truth is that the ability to give creative notes and the ability to sell a project or a client are two very different skill sets. I’m a big believer in using “the right tool for the right job.” While there are plenty of reps who possess both skills, they are by no means universal.

My thinking on this is probably informed by an experience I had early on in my career where my agents discouraged me from writing a pilot on spec with Greg Berlanti. They didn’t like the idea of me co-writing something and they “didn’t respond” to the concept of the show. Had I listened to them, I never would have been involved with what became Eli Stone, muy first produced series.

All that being said, in those instances where I have brought something to my reps early, I usually have at least a pitch developed. Anything more embryonic than that, I’ve found, and the rep is having a larger voice in the process than I’d like. To put this another way, I’ve seen a lot of agents acting as, essentially, gatekeepers that keep ideas from moving forward. There are more than enough gatekeepers in the development process that I don’t have to pay out of my own pocket for another one.

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