Fred Van Lente

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Comic Industry Insiders · Fred Van Lente on Setbacks, Second Chances, and Surviving as a Comic Book Writer · 19 Mar 2026 podcast

Alright, well that's good.

Yeah.

Larry all the time.

Larry is one of the most inter he he really is the most interesting man in the world.

He should be in those doing those Doseekis commercials.

So Marvel sort of sp uh specialize in sending me on suicide missions.

Like they're like, okay, you're writing the Hulk book, great.

But Hercules is starring in it.

All right.

And and there's a fun story about that vis a vis Valiant, which we can get to later.

So uh

Okay, great.

So I but but the problem with suic the problem when your publisher sends you on suicide missions is they don't want you to come back.

And you keep coming back, they start getting annoyed.

Like they're like, Okay, you're now we're gonna give you Marvel zombies.

Awesome.

But you can't use but we want to be bought by Disney, so you can't use Spider Man, Wolverine, Captain America, Hulk, Iron Man, anyone who could possibly be in the movie.

Alright, and so it sounds like gangbusters.

Great!

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