And Juliet Landau is co-writing.
I posted the other day about James Marsters‘ experience writing comics, but I have to say I find this interesting. After all, other than the writers of the TV series, who knows the characters better than the people who played them? Amber Benson notably has gone on from playing Tara on Buffy to working on Buffy comics to writing other comics, as well as novels and screenplays. Why not more?
It could just be a gimmick to get more fans of the series reading the comics, but I don’t know how many people would honestly read a comic written by an actor if they weren’t already inclined to do so. I suppose we’ll have to wait and see if it’s any good.
April 25th, 2009 at 4:44 am
M*A*S*H is the best example I can think of when mentioning great examples of actors trying their hand at writing. Almost the entire cast wrote and even directed at least one episode.
In comics’ case, I’m betting her actual contribution will be about 25% or so. Her story idea (possibly only high-concept idea), but actually fleshed out and set on paper by a regular comics writer. But big deal, I’m sure it’ll please the Buffites.