- A congratulations to View Askew’s own Brian Lynch for landing a new writing gig on Unlimited Spider Man for Marvel! Fans know Lynch for having the only currently-unreleased and less seen (but incredibly funny) View Askew flick, “Big Helium Dog”. Of course, Brian’s been keeping busy doing a ton of scriptwriting and with his weekly Monkey Man column over at the ‘Shoot, as well.
MARVEL’S NEW ‘UNLIMITED’ CREATORS
…First up, a View Askew.com homeboy done good – Brian Lynch, who’s Monkey Man strip appears weekly on Newsarama’s sister site, www.moviepoopshoot.com.
“I had just finished writing a really good “stoned guy hits his head on something” joke for Scary Movie 3 when my managers called me to say Marvel Comics wanted to find screenwriters looking to also work in comics,” Lynch explained. “I did, and Marvel asked me to submit a treatment for a character they were looking to relaunch. I wrote this really goofy six-issue arc that I was really proud of, they read it and liked it but decided to go in a grittier direction with the book, but told me they’d be on the look out for anything I might click with. There were a couple more near-misses, and I was starting to worry nothing was clicking, but a few days later, Teresa contacted me and told me about the Unlimited books. I wrote up a list of ideas, Teresa picked her three favorites, I wrote two of them, one of them was the Spider-Man story that will appear in January. They like the other one too, hopefully it’ll pop up somewhere.”
…First up, a View Askew.com homeboy done good – Brian Lynch, who’s Monkey Man strip appears weekly on Newsarama’s sister site, www.moviepoopshoot.com.
“I had just finished writing a really good “stoned guy hits his head on something” joke for Scary Movie 3 when my managers called me to say Marvel Comics wanted to find screenwriters looking to also work in comics,” Lynch explained. “I did, and Marvel asked me to submit a treatment for a character they were looking to relaunch. I wrote this really goofy six-issue arc that I was really proud of, they read it and liked it but decided to go in a grittier direction with the book, but told me they’d be on the look out for anything I might click with. There were a couple more near-misses, and I was starting to worry nothing was clicking, but a few days later, Teresa contacted me and told me about the Unlimited books. I wrote up a list of ideas, Teresa picked her three favorites, I wrote two of them, one of them was the Spider-Man story that will appear in January. They like the other one too, hopefully it’ll pop up somewhere.”
Thanks to Newsarama for the story. Big Helium Dog, by the way, you’ll all finally be able to see. Soon.
