>I believe I can write a screenplay as good (or nearly >as good!) as John Wagner.
>Hand on heart I do.
>A screenplay is a different beast to a comic script >you must understand.
Having been paid to write both kinds of scripts, I do indeed understand this. But hey, I'm always glad to pick up an few tips from another writer.
>John is a comic writer. I am a screenwriter.
I've been reading John's comics work for more than 25 years now. That's how he makes his living, and that's how I know he's a comics writer.
I don't know what it is you do for a living, scojo, but I'll tell you that when you really do make your living as a writer or anything similar, there's nothing you get sick of quicker than people telling you, "oh, I'm a bit of a writer too. Yes, I've written four screenplays/got an unpublished novel in a box under my bed/write poetry for the local parish newsletter."
Simply put: the world is full of people who say they're writers of some sort or another, but the only proof is in getting your work accepted, commissioned, published, filmed or whatever. When that happens, you're a writer; until then, you're just someone who's written a bunch of unseen screenplays and LA is full of waiters and barmen who can make the same claim.
>If Rebellion agree to read my screenplay I would >write one. If it is no good I will accept that.
Being a screenwriter, you'd probably already know that they're unlikely to look at any unsolicited scripts for a project already now in development, if only to legally protect themselves further down the line. The best way to pitch for the gig nmight be to get your agent (real screenwriters have agents, right?) to make a formal pitch-approach to the production company rather than Rebellion.
