Wayoshi wrote:I feel like books are closer to TV eps than comics, but I could be wrong on that count
No, from a writer's perspective comics are much closer to TV episodes.
A comic book writer produces a script, which format-wise is very similar to a TV or movie script. It also hits the same two beats: dialogue and stage direction. The only thing the writer is literally "writing" in terms of what the audience will experience word-for-word is the dialogue. Everything else (story, gags, whether someone looks happy or pissed off) is up to the writer, but the writer knows they're just passing the baton. Storyboards, page layouts, all the artsy stuff happens after the writer is finished and hands the script off to the comic book artist or the animation department.
Writing a book is a whole nother thing, where the writer is responsible for
everything. There the writer can just think in words alone, not in how someone else is going to interpret those words into pictures.
So basically I think if Ted has comics experience he's better prepared than most to turn out a good episode script. Whether Hasbro thinks so is another matter.
(Entertainment industry stereotype goes movie writers > TV writers >>>> comics writers)