The Goddess Shines on America

　　 As soon as March arrives, the new semester begins, and many young people are suddenly missing on the busy streets of Manhattan. Although they still appear on the main commercial streets on weekends, in normal days, only adults of all kinds, or tourists from abroad, or those who commute between office buildings and homes every day Office workers, or 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 a risen as early as the 1930s, the world's first modern cbd, the countless skyscrapers in Manhattan all have the characteristics of the times, that is, full of British style stone buildings, especially the Empire State Building as a typical example. At least as far as the term empire is concerned, it was originally the inspiration that the builders of the year got from Great Britain, and it could not be the concept of the United States.

The headquarters of dc comics is in a certain building in this cluster of buildings. Although it has a headquarters in California since it was acquired by Warner Group in 1969, as far as the comics distribution center is concerned, this is absolute. The core area.

　　 John Merdel has been the editor-in-chief for five years. He was an ordinary senior editor at Marvel and worked for seven years until he had to resign and go to Canada because of his family. When he returned to Manhattan again, he thought about going and he no longer chose his old club as a place to continue his work. Instead, he came to its "dead enemy", shared the American comics dc with Marvel to work, and served directly as the editor-in-chief. A post.

　　 Today, because it was Monday, he waited three times on the subway before finally his turn. When I walked into the office building, took the elevator to the corresponding floor, and finally stepped into the company gate, it was already 9:15 in the morning.

　　Like many companies of the same type, the artists hired by dc Comics work upstairs, and the private space can ensure the efficiency of creation. But for ordinary operation staff, ordinary editors who are responsible for receiving comments from outsiders, and other types of employees, they can only share an extremely spacious space.

　　 In fact, for the convenience of practical work, even Merdel and other senior editors, who are the editor-in-chief, are just sharing a single room with a transparent wall 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, they must of course enjoy the highest equipment.

"William," Just as he walked in the door, Merdel felt that he was suddenly a little tired, and said to the employee sitting near the entrance: "Go downstairs and buy a cup of coffee and make a big latte thicker. I remember you just did it. Got a Starbucks membership card, right?"

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

　　 Ten minutes is of course too late, but Merdel couldn't help laughing as William rushed out of the gate.

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

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

　　 Changing of the guard, Joanna has been the first to arrive at the company in the past few days and is responsible for opening the door. She said embarrassingly: "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 **** it!" Merdel didn't know what to say: "Let William put the latte directly into my office, and Joanna, immediately inform Pulis, Edward, Kennett and Moras, Let them all hurry to the meeting room!"

　　 said the names of the four senior editors of the company in one breath. Merdel no longer had the calmness he had before. He looked tense, clenched a fist with one hand, and slammed into the conference room like the wind.

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

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

　　 Seeing the other party joking and laughing, Merdel couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and immediately took Alice's hand and said: "I'm sorry, Miss Alice, there are too many people on the subway today. I waited three times before squeezing in."

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

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

"Then, let's start talking about business." After getting to know these tactics briefly, Alice said to the editor-in-chief of Merdel: "I am not the first to deal with people in the position of "editor-in-chief". Don’t worry about the business in comics, I won’t interfere in any way."

　　 This sentence really made everyone relax a lot at once. Merdel’s nervousness and caution are not entirely unreasonable. He directly called the four core editors to make some sense for himself. All his feelings and actions were precisely because he didn’t understand that this newcomer from Warner What are the plans for the new boss purchased by the comic company?

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

　　 Of course this Merdel knows, so he changed his expression and asked, "Will our company belong to DreamWorks again?"

　　 Alice nodded and said, "Mr. Merdel, I have read your resume. You have been an editor at Marvel for seven years, right?"

"That's it," Merdel replied, and he also gave a brief introduction to the four colleagues: "Pulis worked in Vertigo Comics for three years; Edward is our old man and has been working in DC since graduating from college. ; Kennett and Moras were poached from the dark horse by the former editor-in-chief."

Alice listened to him patiently, and then said: “Since you have a lot of experience, it’s clear to you that both Marvel and DC have changed their works into movies in the past few decades. It’s just very scarce. Right?"

"Yes," the editor, Edward, who had been working for nearly 20 years, would have died for a long time: "After all, almost all of our comics are superheroes. It is not easy to show them perfectly. As far as dc is concerned, the sale of the copyright of'Superman' is simply a miracle!"

　　 Alice laughed first, everyone else was smiling, Kennett interrupted: "Superman who can fly, Louis, who always loves falling, how many times has he saved?"

This sentence drew even more hilarious laughter from everyone. After a while, Alice waved her hand and said: "So, Superman who can fly, Spiderman who can spin silk...Well, not to mention Marvel, even if we DC started with detective comics. In the past, it was difficult for film and television companies to photograph the superheroes enough, 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. Time has been enough for every employee who received the news to ponder for a long time. At this moment, seeing her turn the topic to making a movie, how could everyone still not think of the reason?

"The special effects of "Alien II" are really impressive," Merdel said sincerely: "I remember that when major newspapers explained the movie in detail, they repeatedly emphasized the role of computers, but computing power is one aspect, and this must be necessary. Software support."

"The biggest difference between Warner and DreamWorks lies in you, Miss Alice." At this point, Merdel smiled: "Just take it as my nonsense, Miss Alice, you can buy us from Warner so quickly. Come down, Ms. Bennick must be helpful, right?"

　　 Merdel is just the editor-in-chief, the company's top-ranking wage earners, and the owner of the comic company can always be a capitalist. The acquisition in 1969 was when Warner bought the dc entertainment company behind it. At that time, one of the major shareholders who opposed it, Merdel remembers clearly that it was Ms. Bennick, who was over 60 this year.

　　" It’s exactly like this ~www.readwn.com~ Alice said: "The Warner family is limited and it is impossible to carry forward DC's work. Ms. Bennick's opposition to the acquisition was for this reason. But obviously, DreamWorks and I are very different from Warner, just talk about the skills of playing PS..."

Suddenly interrupting her words, Merdel appropriately slapped a flattery: "A teenage billionaire who invests in multiple industries has accumulated more than one billion fortunes in three years. A few days ago, Ms. Oles also asked I complained, saying that you rejected another interview with Fortune?"

However, this topic obviously touched some of Alice’s pain points, and the girl immediately rolled her eyes: “Again? The third time! Every time I make a lot of money, those annoying editors want to give me another post. Report! Well, I know this is indeed big news. "Time" wanted to interview me about the arbitrage of the '87 stock disaster' in January... But am I so idle!?"

What a kid, it was when the new boss met the employees of the company, she complained to herself about other things: "You guys want to do an interview? Just ask me to write a book like a bantam. Just delete the spam emails directly. This group of magazine editors is fine. They are all directly calling to harass! I said Merdel, you dc have never done this kind of harassment, right? Phone harassment!?"

"Don't worry, don't worry, you can definitely rest assured of this." Listening to the cheerful laughter of the seated companions, and watching Alice look like "I'm so painful", Merdel laughed loudly: "At dc, Folk cartoonists have always contributed to us. There is absolutely no time when we take the initiative to invite people!" (To be continued.)