Li Jie opened the folder provided by Ivy. The drawings inside didn't seem to be as simple as Ivy had said.
It seemed like Ivy had put a lot of effort into this new publication that she had submitted. Whether it was the storyboards, the script, or the close-ups of the characters, she had put in a lot of effort.
Because it was for her boss, Li Jie, the album that Ivy had drawn wasn't the kind of album that was directly aimed at readers.
In the album, Ivy had made annotations on the bottom left corner of each big storyboard to indicate her intentions. Although Li Jie didn't need these annotations to understand what Ivy meant.
But this was a process, so Ivy still had to do it.
She also made many annotations on the entire album, explaining the concept of the entire comic and the foreshadowing narrative structure.
Because what Ivy was doing now was equivalent to starting a new comic publication, and it seemed like she was going to be the main writer.
This wasn't as simple as being an artist. It was different from some cartoonists in Japanese comics who would go off-script for years and only come out to draw a few chapters when they had no money to play mahjong to earn some money.
As an industrial production line, there was no such thing as delayed updates, because every publication had several artists and scriptwriters.
Take Spider-man's personal comic publication that Ivy was currently in charge of. This publication consisted of three artists and one scriptwriter, and there was also a main writer.
American comics were basically full color, and most of the time, they were closer to the direction of oil painting. This kind of painting required more control of color, light, and shadows.
Compared to the style of Japanese comics, which relied more on lines, it was a completely different concept. In addition, American comics had a lot of dialogue lines, which was different from Japanese comics, which might only have a few hundred or a thousand words in a sentence.
In American comics, there were as many as thousands of words in a sentence, and sometimes even tens of thousands of words. Moreover, in American comics, the lines were the key to driving the plot. It took a lot of time for the scriptwriters and artists to arrange and design the lines.
The workload of American comics wasn't something that a cartoonist could handle on their own.
Especially when it was sold in the form of a weekly magazine. But because of the large number of artists, in order to maintain a relatively stable consistency in the style of the publication, each team would have a main writer.
Therefore, every group would have a chief writer who would be responsible for finalizing the manuscript and confirming the style of the publication. Finally, it would be handed over to the chief editor of the company.
The editor-in-chief would conduct the final review. After confirming that there were no problems with the comic, they would hand it over to the printing department for publication and sale.
Now, Ai Wei had submitted a brand new theme, which was completely designed by herself. It was obvious that if Li Jie approved and approved the project, it would be impossible.
In that case, the chief writer of this new independent journal must be Ivy.
Li Jie did not object to Ai Wei being the lead writer. This girl's foundation proved that she had the ability in this area.
The only thing that made Li Jie hesitate was the new draft that Ai Wei had submitted. The theme of the new album was a little sensitive, especially during this period.
"Why do you want to draw the story of the Mutants?" Li Jie asked after skimming through all the thirty-plus pages of the comic.
This was the new story provided by Ivy. It revolved around the mutants, and it was a story about a mutant hero.
"Because Mutants also have heroes, right?" Ai Wei replied immediately. She was ready to answer this question.
"During this time, we also saw through the news and online media that some Mutants did cause some damage when they went out of control, but there were also many Mutants who stood up and prevented the damage caused by the Mutants out of control."
Ai Wei was talking about what the professor and his students had been doing during this time. After listening to Li Jie's opinion, the professor organized the school's capable personnel to form a Mutant Squad.
At present, the name of X-Men had not been called out, but they did do a lot of things during this time.
Some Mutants caused chain damage after they went out of control, and even caused a huge disaster.
There were a lot of emergencies here. The Night Watchers or S.H.E.L.D. couldn't be counted on to keep an eye on the Mutants all day long.
The professor seemed to have put a lot of effort in this area. At least every time something happened to the Mutants, he could always send his students out immediately.
They acted as firefighters on various occasions and saved the lives of many ordinary people.
It had to be said that there were benefits to doing this. At least those who were saved by them would feel less resentful toward the Mutants, and their families would not hate the Mutants so much.
At least by doing this, as long as the losses from the incidents that went out of control were controlled, then this matter was quite positive.
"So I think we can also change the hero story of the Mutants into a comic and launch a brand new story about Mutants!" Ai Wei seemed very enthusiastic about this matter.
Li Jie didn't see that this little girl was an ambitious person.
"I'm not very opposed to this, but publishing a publication about Mutants is risky. You know, the market's evaluation of Mutants isn't very good right now." Li Jie was speaking the truth.
Especially after the attack on Stark's new energy plant, there was a theory that Mutants were hindering the progress of human society.
Anyway, fanning the flames and spreading rumors were almost common to humans.
"That's why we have to do this. Aren't we drawing these hero comics to spread their beliefs?" Ai Wei's tone was a little excited.
"Jason, do you remember the words you wrote on the first issue? Isn't the spirit of the Night Watchers what those heroes want to spread to us? "
"Mutants who do bad things should be punished, but mutants who do good should also be praised. Only then can people understand that Mutants are just like normal people. "
"There are good and evil in any group. We can't discriminate against the entire group just because of certain individuals."
Li Jie felt that this little girl was a little too excited and seemed to be very interested in the Mutants.
Although he had some doubts about Ai Wei and even had some speculations, Li Jie didn't say it out loud. After all, it was best not to ask what the person involved didn't want to say. Also, Ai Wei looked like a harmless girl.
"Sorry, I was a little too excited just now." Ai Wei also realized that her tone was a little too excited.
"It's okay. Everyone who is ambitious and wants to put their great ideals into reality will be like this. I'm no exception." Li Jie shook his head to show that he understood Ai Wei's thoughts.
"So, can this publication be approved?" Ai Wei asked anxiously.
"I need to talk to the investors about the specifics." Although Li Jie was the legal representative and the boss of this company. "Also, we need to get the copyright of these Mutant Vigilantes."
One of the sources of funding for this company was five million US dollars invested in the Night Watchers, and the other was five million US dollars invested by Harry.
Although everyone had given Li Jie full authority over the use of the money, and they trusted him very much, Li Jie was not the only one who was in charge of it.
But because of this trust, Li Jie became more cautious. There was no doubt that the publication of the Mutants would definitely cause controversy in society.
It was unknown how much of an impact it would have on the company. Whether this should be done or not had to be approved by everyone.
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