"This is a new serial?" Guo Pinyuan looked at the sketch handed to him and couldn't help asking.

Chen Nan nodded, but what made Guo Pinyuan care more was Tang Xuan, who was now standing next to Chen Nan, with his hands in his pockets and a confident smile.

Guo Pinyuan has long heard about the latter, and the editor in charge of him has criticized him more than once in public and non-public places.

"Tang Xuan, I admit that he is talented, but his self-righteous personality is not suitable for this line of work in the first place, to give an inappropriate example, your current heaven and earth, what Superman vs. Batman blockbuster can be filmed in the 7 and 80s, even if you can shoot, you have to consider the audience, whether the public's aesthetic taste can be accepted. Most geniuses are starving to death, and I'd rather have a painter who can sell for 500 francs at the beginning and is worth the price to please the market, than a Van Gogh who lives in poverty and sells his paintings for 100 million pounds after a hundred years of death. ”

Guo Pinyuan has always felt that this is very pertinent, although he does not fully agree with the editor's words, for example, cartoonists don't need geniuses or anything, but as an editor of Fantasy, he understands that Fantasy is a commercial comic magazine, the so-called business, in layman's terms, is to make money, in order to cater to the reader's market of publications, if this kind of magazine is too focused on itself, it can only go narrower and narrower, and finally become a dead end.

Not to mention others, there are many such guys among the newcomers and old people in charge of Guo Pinyuan, who insist that their works are right, and even surpass the works serialized in existing magazines, which belong to "god works", and readers and editors can't understand their talents. Such a person generally has two paths. Either you don't make mistakes anymore, repent of it, honestly follow the editor's guidance to replan your work, and get back on the right path, or you always believe that you are right, and then leave the path of comics. Went to work in the industry.

But now, Tang Xuan unexpectedly walked out of the third way.

Looking at the original manuscript in his hand, Guo Pinyuan's expression changed, he read it three times in a row, and I have to admit that Tang Xuan is a very thoughtful person, this setting belongs to the remake of the ability battle, if you look for it carefully, there is actually no shortage of similar or similar themes, but most of those works are based on ability and fighting. But it is not as interesting as the ups and downs of Tang Xuan's design, so that readers can find that the protagonist not only relies on luck and brute force, but also knows how to judge the situation and rely on his brain, set traps, and lure the enemy into the urn, or in the reader's feeling that the mountains and rivers are exhausted. When you can only rely on explosive seeds to win the battle, you can make reasonable use of the conditions. Even the ability of the other party to make themselves win.

It's like you're in a mystery novel, one link after another, one plot over another, and when you've read it all, you'll look back and be shocked to find it. It turns out that these are all clever arrangements in the big events, which will give the reader such a feeling of sudden enlightenment.

Guo Pinyuan knew that this was the setting of expectation and suspense, Tang Xuan was obviously very good at these, and he played very slippery.

However, as an editor, this genre is honestly not suitable for shonen manga. It may be better if it is placed on youth comics.,Because Fantasy The largest proportion of readers in this age group are junior high school students and high school students.,Some adults like things.,They won't be bored if they don't understand it.,Instead, the kind of comics like dragons and pigs that are fist-to-flesh.,A wave to a wave can destroy the earth without logic, they can read it with relish.。

Obviously, Tang Xuan himself realized this, so he found Chen Nan.

Chen Nan is a famous cartoonist in popularity and strength in the entire Fantasy and even the comic circle, although her last work was cut in half, but she still published a single book, and also published an illustration set, you can't imagine that she sold 10W copies of this illustration book alone, and reprinted 3 times, so much so that some editors even joked: "Teacher Chen Nan actually doesn't need to draw comics, draw a few illustrations a week, and then bind them up and sell them." ”

Of course, this is not necessarily a compliment, but it can also reflect the problem from the side.

As the editor-in-charge, Guo Pinyuan knows that it is unrealistic to let Chen Nan stop drawing comics and change careers to draw illustrations, just like Liang Yu will not stop her high-flying wings, Guo Pinyuan is actually looking for the original author who is compatible with Chen Nan recently, but there is such a precedent as Liang Yu here, which may not be easy to find, and he is afraid that Chen Nan will be arrogant and unwilling.

He never expected that the two most arrogant people in this Fantasy would get together in private, and even draw the original work, before Chen Nan and Tang Xuan took the original manuscript to find him, he didn't receive any news at all.

"How?" When Guo Pinyuan was about to look at it for the fourth time, Chen Nan finally couldn't hold his breath and asked.

Guo Pinyuan sighed: "If you want to ask me if this work is good, I will answer that you are good-looking, great, the plot is exciting, and the picture is relaxed, but if you ask me if this work can be popular and can be a big hit, I can only say that I don't know, because this is not a work that conforms to the Fantasy style, it is ......"

Without waiting for Guo Pinyuan to finish speaking, Tang Xuan, who was standing on the side, suddenly interjected: "As far as I know, the chess soul was not favored by the editorial department at the beginning, but it was a big sell." ”

When he said this, there was a silence for a while on both parties present.

Yes, at that time, the work of Chess Soul was not the mainstream of Fantasy, and some editors even predicted that it would die violently, but it turned out that it became one of the highest-grossing works in the history of Fantasy, ranking in the top 20 of the total sales list, which is a fact that no one can deny and shake, even if there was a conflict in the editorial department at the beginning, Liang Yu was blocked, and the status of Chess Soul has not changed.

However, Chen Nan knew what Guo Pinyuan was afraid of, now she had just suffered a defeat, coupled with the impact of the chess soul's forced end, now she is already fighting against the water, and she can't fail again. Guo Pinyuan meant to let her fight steadily and start over, but now this work with Tang Xuan is undoubtedly another attempt to go sideways, if it fails, maybe Fantasy will not have her place to stand.

"I've made up my mind." She didn't say the latter words, but Guo Pinyuan saw her stubborn appearance and understood that Chen Nan had already decided, and no matter how much he persuaded her, it was in vain.

With a sigh, Guo Pinyuan nodded, he didn't look at the manuscript anymore, and sealed the manuscript into the file bag: "I'll send this to the serialization meeting." ”

"I'm sorry for you." Chen Nan bowed.

And Tang Xuan showed a smile that he was determined to win. (To be continued.) )