City of Sorrows

 Posted on 6/21/1997 by J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com> to CIS


T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
> In the scene of William's death, the part where it begins "Where
> is the shuttle craft? Please tell me again how much you were
> involved with the story line; did you just say "let's do a story
> with Sinclair on Minbar" and Kathryn came up with all the
> threads?

I gave Kathryn a bare-bones stucture on the Marcus thing -- the
death of his brother, his trip first to B5 and then to Minbar -- but
she took on the rest on her own. The process was pretty much as I
describe it in the intro, asking what X meant, how A related to B, and
then her pulling all the threads together in a story that filled in all
the blanks. The credit is entirely hers on this. I consulted and
read, but she did all the creative work on this.

jms



City of Sorrows

 Posted on 6/22/1997 by J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com> to CIS


Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
> Why is this important?

I'll pass that along.

On the technical nit...you're right. Another fan brought this
up, and she couldn't believe she screwed it up, because she'd *done*
the research on this. So she went back and checked her research, and
she'd basically transposed the two, being tired and on deadline. She
plans to correct it in the next edition.

jms



City of Sorrows

 Posted on 6/24/1997 by J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com> to CIS


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The coming comic will deal with some of the situation after
Sinclair became Valen.

jms