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@Jarkes  
I just can’t support them with how their practices are.
 
@The Smiling Pony  
@K_A  
Really, even though pony sells so much for them?
 
I’m still fucking pissed that Curnow misses the point of why so many people read comics, or more importantly, why people like MLP.
 
@soundtea  
Once he said that a story starring Little Strongheart got axed because she wasn’t popular enough. And the Rarity/Cakes micro was originally announced as Maud/Cakes I believe.

@The Smiling Pony  
Well the staff apparently says he gives the okay for things and helps them.
 
If he actually does reject things, I’d hate to see what didnt get greenlit.

@Jarkes  
Given how the dialog reads so far in the preview, I don’t think any editors really did anything.
 
IDW has fat, and the time will soon come that it needs to be cut.

@Itsthinking  
From what I can tell, he forwards a story proposal from the writers (ie. artist tools) to Hasbro, then forwards the feedback back.
 
His job could be done better by an Outlook inbox rule.

@Itsthinking
 
Even the people on the non-MLP comics? Most of the folks on the Transformers comics and some of the others seem to be decent people. Key word being “most.” Heck, some of the folks on the various Transformers comics have actually APOLOGIZED for mistakes they’ve made in the past.

I’ll be honest, I have nothing nice to say about IDW as a company. Mainly because of the people they hire.

@Itsthinking
 
And to be perfectly honest, Curnow probably doesn’t even have all that much power. He’s only a simple editor on the MLP comic, the Godzilla comic, and one other comic that I can’t remember. He’s not exactly the Editor-In-Chief or CEO, which is the kind of position I was referring to when talking about editors that force writers to do certain things or write things a certain way (which is sadly still rampant at Marvel and DC). …In fact, I don’t even KNOW who the Editor-In-Chief or CEO at IDW is.

@Jarkes  
I’ve heard rumors that the writers/artists complain about Hasbro themselves, not Curnow. Honestly, I’m not sure if he does much.

@Itsthinking
 
I’m not even sure anymore. I once said that at least he only edits things and doesn’t try to force writers to write things a certain way like many other editors in the comics industry, but now it seems like he doesn’t even do that.

Curious, what exactly is it that Bobby Curnow does? Is it just like a spellchecker or does he give criticism to artists and writers?

@ice1517  
Sorry, we were both doing so simultaneously.

@K_A  
It was a much different time, show was kinda gettin rocky, everyone was all wide eyed at the comics…
 
That table sure got turned.

looks back on his earliest posts on the original IDW thread and sighs wistfully
 
Good times.
 
Good times….

@cheezedoodle
 
damn it, I just made a discussion for that :(

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