Hi CJP,

You’ve mentioned how colourists can sometimes mess up and not colour scenes the way the writer or artist intended (Klang, for instance). How is this possible? Do they not have notes to ensure scenes are coloured correctly? And if the notes are ignored, why hasn’t the editor picked up on it? In this day and age with computers is it not easy to correct mistakes before they go to print?

Speaking of computers. I personally feel that modern colouring has made comic books too glossy looking and it’s lost it’s ‘cheap’ but stylised look. I especially like the sort of pastel tones of the books from the early 80s.

Modern comic colouring veers towards very muted tones where it’s hard to actually see what’s going on. I don’t know why this is because surely the idea of comics is to make everything easy to follow.

I’m just wondering what your views on modern colouring are?

Thanks in advance.

The final segment of October 11th’s Melissa Harris-Perry Show was about inclusiveness in comics.  Generally a positive, “things are getting better” take on the matter, rather than dwelling too much on the remaining bad stuff (i.e. little to no mention of the sexual harassement problems currently being brought back into the spotlight).

Opening piece.

The panel discussion that followed was more interesting, but as of 75 minutes after airing they haven’t posted it.  It’ll get edited into this post if it does appear.

Priest: which books would you have liked to work on which you haven’t done so before? Personally, I’d like to see you on Batman, Daredevil and The Avengers.

I’d be interested to know which books other posters would like to see Mr Priest write that he hasn’t had written before or had an extended run on.