Walt Simonson on Misleading Readers

Walt Simonson is a brilliant comics writer, and easily one of my favorites.

I've spoken to him before about writing (you can read that here). And I saw this clip pop up on Bleeding Cool with Walt Simonson discussing the origin of Beta Rey Bill, one of my favorite characters in the Marvel Universe.

During the video, he drops this nugget of wisdom:

"You want to play fair with the reader but you want to mislead them in stories. You'd like them not to get the end and go, 'Oh yeah, this is goin...