This novelist-to-comic-writer moonlighting gig is becoming a trend.

From the Times (via Bookglutton):

Rankin was introduced to DC bosses by Denise Mina, a fellow Scottish crime-writer who wrote the most recent Hellblazer issues.

“She broke the barrier,” he said. “This New York-based industry started looking outside its normal area for writers. I pitched the idea for a storyline, but I haven’t fleshed it out yet.”

He said that the discipline needed for writing comics was very different from conventional books. Some writers, such as Moore, can write pages of text for one panel. “You never know what will happen,” he said. “I may not be any good at it.”

Wow.  Someday, maybe the general public might even see comic books as a legitimate form of literature.

Okay, okay.  I must be in some sort of hallucinatory state due to my empty belly.