LB: If I Hadn’t Made It in Television, I Would’ve Been a Comic Book Writer

…Like my buddies Roy Thomas and Gerry Conway. (Although Gerry did a fine job of escaping that ghetto, didn’t he, by rising to Co-Executive Producer of LAW & ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT, among other TV shows?).

I’ve always thought that those working in the two media had a lot in common, and recently two writers still working in comic books have cemented that theory – John Ostrander and Martha Thomases. Here’s Martha’s take on soap opera, which coincidentally happens to be right in line with, yeah, you guessed it – mine.

Thomases Art 130111 Martha Thomases SoapSoap by Martha Thomases (ComicMix.Com) read article

Soap Opera Ratings Report

…Because (seriously) some of our best friends are soap writers:

Not written in Japanese

Soap Opera Ratings: ‘The Young & the Restless’ & ‘Bold and the Beautiful’ Rebound; ‘Days of Our Lives’ Ties Series Lows in Women 18-49
Written By Robert Seidman

Soap Opera Ratings for the week of June 25-29, 2012

Total Viewers
1. Y&R 4,543,000 (+272,000/+25,000)
2. B&B 3,338,000 (+198,000/+438,000)
3. DAYS 2,329,000 (-47,000)
4. GH 2,277,000 (-145,000/+78,000) read article