Q&A With Matt Wayne

Sonic_Gamer wrote:1. Which episode "Ben 10" episode did you write that was your favorite and your least favorite?

2. Can Will Harangue blackmail people?

Why are the quotes messed up? The stuff below is me (Matt):


1. I think I've said elsewhere that "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" is a favorite, although I thought "Store 23" was great. My least favorite was probably "Kevin's Big Score," not because of the end result--it's a really good episode--but because I had to redo the first act to make the action more to the point.

2. Sure. He's on TV, that's a big lever.

mace23 wrote:Did you need a story meeting to write "Good Copy, Bad Copy" or did you just run with it based on the outline?

Were there any noticeable differences between how your AF episodes came out versus your UA episodes(such as the directors surprising you, voicing)?

Is Marty Isenberg just reserved to write the finales or is he going to write a one off episode soon?

How important is it to give the fanbase what they don't want or except?

This is just my opinion, but I find OV too linear and tell all, like I know too much about the aliens rather then imagining what I don't know, there's not much mystery in world or stories from the episodes I did see.


Also, thank you for all the questions you have answered, don't feel like I've said this enough, you've been very generous with your time

FutureFighter wrote:Mr. Wayne, I heard you and the other writers finally found a way to incorporate Charmcaster in to Omniverse.  Derrick Wyatt seems to claim that her backstory and motives that Dwayne established for her will be "ignored" and yet not erased, while a tweet by Khary Payton indicates she's "crazy" now.  

So my question is will she be still kept a gray-shaded, developing character with a story arc, with her being crazy treated sympathetically, and with an endgame for her in mind....or are you going to throw all that out and make this another black-and-white kiddie show issue and have her as a 1-note psycho villain to get beat up by the heroes, with no help from any of them in getting back to sanity (some heroes!) and no hope of a better future despite her freaking name being Hope?  

I really hope it's not the latter, or you'll have officially written "Where the Magic Happens" for nothing and destroyed Dwayne's favorite character, not to mention written what amounts to an innocent child growing up experiencing parental death, loss of home, guardian abuse, emotional turmoil, and being used for a one-night stand, then being blamed for it all when she snaps. I don't know about you, but I don't find that fun.  I find it depressing.  I don't watch cartoons for that. 

Primus10 wrote:Is true that Ben have two Big Chills in the Omnitrix?
Is true the "Upgrade OV"? http://images.wikia.com/ben10/es/images/3/31/Ultra_T_OV%21%21.png



Okay, this is Matt again, having trouble with the quote function:

1. No
2. Watch and see

Solo28 wrote:1. I've been wondering...Earth has several cultures, so are there any other planets with multiple cultures?

waffles wrote:Are Ben and Julie truly over? (I was rather disappointed with their "break-up" -- getting Julie, who had put up with Ben's ego and flings, out of the way for more romantic interests. Sort of like Gwen Stacy's death in the Spiderman comics, to make room for Mary Jane. It takes Ben all but five seconds to get over it and start flirting with Ester LOL.) 

Anyway I loved Julie, hopefully this won't be the last we see of the Japanese-American.

mace23 wrote:at the end credits of AF/UA there are usually 3 storyboard artists credited, does that mean each artist was assigned 1 act or are they assigned specific scenes?

mace23 wrote:Was your work on Superhero Squad done before being asked to work on UA ?

When writing your episode of Scooby Doo, were you working with George Doty IV or Jim Kreig?

Any chance you'll be writing for Beware The Batman?

Favorite season of Cheers and MASH?

Sonic_Gamer wrote:Can Elena Valdius turn into her insect formation maybe perhaps her spiderlike formation?

mace23 wrote:How do you feel about flashbacks in Ben 10 canon? I believe it's a mistake to reconcile any of the continuities, it doesn't satisfy any fanbase, same goes for the cameos

How do you feel generally about the flashbacks done so far in Ben 10 canon (ex Solitary Alignment, Ben 10,000 Returns, Vendetta)?

Have you ever seen The Batman ? if so your opinion on it

Favorite Looney Tunes short?

Is story editing OV a comparable to your experience story editing SHS, considering your aiming for a similar demographic?

Did you ever ask Dwayne to take a crack at writing Superhero Squad?

AF/UA had a couple of weird Scooby Doo references, the Meddling Kids line, The abandoned circus and scattered appearances of background characters that look suspiciously like Shaggy and Scooby throughout the show, was this an in joke by the crew or is it just me thinking too hard?

Sonic_Gamer wrote:Is there a possibility that Ship is going to get a new owner, since Ben and Julie are broke up now?

Matt Wayne wrote:
2. Just fine. Moonstruck too.

4. Probably Rabbit Fire, but I'm not the Chuck Jones fan I was once. I've seen a lot of the Chuck Jones Tom and Jerry shorts now, and seeing his style misfire so much makes me more aware of it when it works. I'm kind of surprised these days at my affection for the Friz Freleng Bugs/Yosemite Sam shorts, Knighty Knight Bugs and the Revolutionary War one.


7. (2 beyond the new limit) Both, actually. The Scooby references will only get more obvious in coming months. But you are giving the subject more thought then I'd expect.

ultraalien wrote:1. How did elena turn into nanochips and turn villain?

Matt Wayne wrote:

Sonic_Gamer wrote:Is there a possibility that Ship is going to get a new owner, since Ben and Julie are broke up now?

Maybe, but we've had enough mechamorphs for a while.