It totally makes sense for JB not to do interviews. Even after I posted the other day about being excited by an allegedly upcoming interview in DRAW! magazine, I can now comfortably say, who cares? What was I thinking? I can come here and ask the Man himself any question I want AND HE WILL ANSWER ME DIRECTLY!!! What could be better.

"Simple reason for that: I don't think my "process" would be at all informative or helpful to anyone. After 375 years in the Biz, the way I work is very much The Way / Work, and wouldn't be instructive to anyone trying to figure out their own approach".

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John, I totally understand that, but if it works only for you I'd like to hear about it .

Anyway, I think if there is one good thing about interviews is that you can answer questions at length, which is something you might not do here since you're interacting with a lot of posters at the same time, and to do so you can't spend a long time answering each question...

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I don't feel in any way limited in the length of my answers here. If I want to drone on and on and on, I can -- and do!

What this site also offers that no interview really can is the chance to make things ABSOLUTELY CLEAR. Some point that an interviewer might not pick up on, that could use additional detail, can be given that here, since anyone reading can ask direct questions.

The single greatest advantage, tho, is the elimination of transcription errors. When an interview is recorded and then typed up, there are almost always instances where the transcriber hears a word or two different from what I actually said. A "classic" example came when I was discussing DANGER UNLIMITED, before it came out, and the printed page had be saying the new series would be "more acceptable" than NEXT MEN.

What I'd actually said was "more accessible". Rather a dramatic difference, no?

It's true, but I think in interviews you can't simply ignore questions you don't like or you're not in the good mood to answer.
I'm not saying Mr. JB did anything like that: I can't, I don't read anything in the Forum!

For the records, my opinion is that this is a good decision.

• Threads expire.  Someone can't resurrect what JB was grousing about in 2006 (unless JB himself wants to)
• It's a perfect hybrid between a blog and a traditional fan forum.  Communication works both ways here.  Blogs are more one way where you have to wait for the blogger to speak before you can converse with them.  Few fan sites actually let you converse with someone famous and in a lot of cases you can never be sure you are actually talking with the real McCoy.  It's absolutely amazing (and thrilling) knowing that at any time JB can jump into a conversation here and say his .02.
• Free (as in beer).  Even if it ceased to be such in the future I would still come here.
  

[Edited to remove a pesky "is" that snuck in there...]

Edited by Wallace Sellars on 13 June 2011 at 3:10pm