The Goddess Shines on America

As soon as March arrives and the new semester begins, many teenagers are suddenly absent from the bustling streets of Manhattan. Although they still haunt the main commercial streets on weekends, on normal days, only adults of all kinds, or tourists from abroad, or people who commute between office buildings and homes every day, can come and go here. Office workers, or various business people from all over the world. New York is a city that never sleeps. This sentence is aimed at the South Island of Manhattan.

As the world's first modern CBD that emerged as early as the 1930s, Manhattan's countless skyscrapers all have the characteristics of the times, that is, British-style stone buildings, especially the Empire State Building. At least as far as the term empire is concerned, it was originally the inspiration that the builders got from Great Britain, and it cannot be the concept of the United States.

The headquarters of DC Comics is in one of these row upon row of buildings. Although it has a headquarters in California since it was acquired by Warner Group in 1969, as far as the comic distribution center is concerned, it is absolutely heartland.

John Mordel has been the editor-in-chief for five years. He previously served as an ordinary senior editor at Marvel and worked for seven years until he had to resign and go to Canada due to family reasons. When he returned to Manhattan, after much deliberation, he no longer chose his old club as a place to continue working. Instead, he came to its "rival" to work at DC, which shares the American comics industry equally with Marvel, and directly served as the editor-in-chief. post.

Today, because it was Monday, he waited three times on the subway before finally it was his turn. Walking into the office building, taking the elevator to the corresponding floor, and finally stepping into the company's gate, it was already a quarter past nine in the morning.

Like many companies of the same type, the artists hired by DC Comics all work upstairs, and the private space can ensure creative efficiency. But for ordinary operating personnel, ordinary editors responsible for accepting and criticizing outside manuscripts, and other types of employees, they can only share an extremely spacious space.

In fact, for the convenience of practical work, even the editor-in-chief Model and some other senior editors only share a single room with transparent walls on this floor. The so-called secluded and elegant working environment is only needed by painters. Since they are doing hard work such as painting, of course they must enjoy the highest equipment.

"William," just as he walked in the door, Mordel felt a little sleepy suddenly, and said to the staff sitting near the entrance: "Go downstairs to buy a cup of coffee, a large latte with strong, I remember you just made Got a Starbucks membership card, right?"

William is an intern who only joined the company last month. Strictly speaking, he is still an intern at the university. The editor-in-chief was terrible, and he immediately got up and said, "Okay, Mr. Model, I'll be back in ten minutes!"

Ten minutes is of course too late, but seeing William running out of the gate quickly, Merdel still couldn't help laughing.

"Mr. Merdel!" Joanna who was sitting at the door saw him and immediately said, "Miss Alice arrived at the company an hour ago and is waiting for you in the meeting room."

"What?" The sudden sentence made Merdel, who was thinking about how to drink the cup of coffee slowly, froze in place: "Miss Alice has arrived? It's been an hour!? Didn't she say that at ten o'clock in the morning? Is it around 1:00? Why is it so early?"

In the past few days, Joanna was the first to arrive at the company and was responsible for opening the door. She said with some embarrassment: "I arrived at the company at 8:30 this morning. She was already standing at the door and said that she had been on this floor for about fifteen minutes..."

"Oh damn!" Merdel didn't know what to say: "Let William put the latte directly in my office, and Joanna, immediately notify Puliss, Edward, Kennett and Moras, Get them all to the meeting room!"

After saying the names of the company's four senior editors in one breath, Mordel was no longer as calm and calm as before. He looked nervous, clenched his fist with one hand, and pushed hard on the soles of his feet, and immediately rushed towards the meeting room like the wind.

Then quickly, the door opened and he spotted his target on the first chair near the door.

"Oh, you must be Mr. John Mordel." Putting down the DC comics in her hand, Alice stood up in jeans and a casual top, and stretched out her hand: "I have seen the resume photos at Warner, I believe you should Not his twin brother?"

Seeing that the other party was joking, Merdel couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, and immediately held Alice's hand and said, "I'm so sorry, Miss Alice, there are too many people taking the subway today, I didn't squeeze in until three times."

"Understand, understand." Alice said very sincerely: "I also squeezed through the Tokyo subway line during peak hours, and New York is far from their level."

"Come on, let's sit down first." Merdel also calmed down. After all, the result of the long wait was due to Alice's early departure. When the two of them took their seats in front of them, the four editors who were named Walked into the meeting room, and shook hands with Alice one by one to introduce themselves.

"Then, let's get down to business." After getting acquainted with these few tricks, Alice said to Editor-in-Chief Moder: "I'm not the first to deal with someone with the title of 'Editor-in-Chief'. Don’t worry about the comic business, I won’t interfere in any way.”

This sentence really made everyone relax a lot immediately. Mordel's nervousness and caution are not without reason. It is more meaningful to call in the four most core editors directly to create some momentum for himself. All his moods and actions are precisely because he does not understand. What are the plans of the new owner of the comic company?

"I have a strong sense of Silicon Valley, but it's not been a day or two since I set foot in the entertainment industry. I believe you all know that I am a special screenwriter of DreamWorks and also a shareholder of it."

Of course this Mordel knew it well, so he changed his expression and asked, "Will our company belong to DreamWorks again?"

Alice nodded and said, "Mr. Mordel, I have read your resume. You have been the editor of Marvel for seven years, is that right?"

"That's right," Mordel replied, and also made a brief introduction for the four colleagues: "Pliss has worked in Vertigo Comics for three years; Edward is our old man, and he has worked in DC since he graduated from college. ; Kennett and Moraes were poached from dark horses by the former editor-in-chief."

Alice patiently listened to him, and then said: "Since you have a lot of experience, then you all know that Marvel and DC have changed their works into movies in the past few decades. It's just that there are very few of them. Right?"

"Yeah," said the editor Edward, who has worked for nearly 20 years, and he didn't know when he was gone: "After all, almost all of our comics are superheroes, and it is not easy to express them perfectly. Work. As far as we at DC are concerned, the sale of the 'Superman' rights is nothing short of a miracle!"

Alice was the first to laugh, and everyone else was also smiling. Kennett interjected, "Flying Superman, Louis, who always loves to fall from buildings, how many times has he saved him?"

This sentence aroused even more hilarious laughter from everyone. After a while, Alice waved her hands and said: "So, Superman who can fly, Spiderman who can spin silk... well, let's not mention Marvel, even if we DC started out as detective comics, and it was difficult for film and television companies in the past to make enough flavors for superheroes, but now...it’s different from the past, what do you think?”

The news that DC Comics was suddenly acquired by Alice came about half a month ago, and the time was enough for every employee who got the news to think about it for a long time. At this moment, seeing that she has changed the topic to making movies, why can't everyone think of the reason?

"The special effects of "Alien 2" are really impressive," Merdel said sincerely: "I remember that when the major newspapers explained the movie in detail, they repeatedly emphasized the role of computers, but computing power is one aspect, and it definitely needs more information. software support."

"The biggest difference between Warner and DreamWorks lies in you, Miss Alice," said Moder with a smile, "Just treat it as my nonsense, Miss Alice, you can buy us from Warner so quickly. Come down, Ms. Bennik must be helpful, right?"

Mordel is just the editor-in-chief, the company's most senior wage earner, and the owner of the comic company will always be a capitalist. In the acquisition in 1969, Warner bought DC Entertainment, which was behind it, and one of the major shareholders who held objections at the time, Mordel clearly remembered, was Ms. Bennick, who was over 60 years old this year.

"That's right," Alice said, "The Warner family has limited strength, and it is impossible to carry forward DC's works. Ms. Benick's opposition to the acquisition was the reason. But obviously, DreamWorks and I are very different from Warner. Yes, let’s talk about playing PS skills..."

Suddenly interrupting her, Merdel flattered her appropriately: "A girl billionaire who invests in multiple industries has accumulated more than one billion in wealth in three years. A few days ago, Ms. I complained that you turned down another interview with Fortune?"

However, this topic obviously touched some pain point of Alice, and the girl immediately rolled her eyes: "Again? The third time! Every time I make a fortune, those annoying editors want to write me another article." Reporting! Well, I know this is really big news, Time wanted to interview me about the '87 stock market crash' arbitrage in January...but am I that idle!?"

What a child, just when the new boss got to know the employees of the company, she complained about other things on her own: "If you want to interview, just interview? Just beg me to write a book like a bantam, that's all. You can just delete the spam emails, these magazine editors are so good, they just call to harass people! I said, Mordel, you DC has never done this kind of harassing thing, right? Phone harassment!?”

"Don't worry, don't worry, you can definitely rest assured about this." Hearing the cheerful laughter of the attendants and seeing Alice's look of "I'm so sick", Mordel laughed loudly: "In DC, Folk cartoonists have always contributed to us, there is absolutely no time when we take the initiative to invite people!"