As soon as March comes, the new semester begins, and there are many young people missing on the bustling streets of Manhattan. Although they still appear on major commercial streets on weekends, on ordinary days, only adults, foreign tourists, office workers who travel to and from office buildings and homes every day, or business people from all over the world. New York is a city that never sleeps, and this sentence is aimed at the South Island of Manhattan.

As a world's first modern CBD that emerged as early as the 1930s, countless skyscrapers in Manhattan have the characteristics of the times, namely stone buildings with full British style, especially the Empire State Building. At least in terms of the term empire, it was originally the inspiration obtained by the builders of that year from Great Britain, and it could not be the concept of the United States.

DC Comics' headquarters is in a building in a row of buildings. Although it has still owned a headquarters in California since it was acquired by Warner Group in 1969, as far as the comics distribution center is concerned, it is the absolute core area.

John Merdel has been the editor-in-chief for five years. He used to be an ordinary senior editor at Marvel and worked for seven years until he had to resign for Canada due to family reasons. When he returned to Manhattan, he thought about it and no longer chose his old club as a place to continue working. Instead, he came to his "mortal enemy" and worked at DC, which split the American comics industry with Marvel, and directly served as editor-in-chief.

Today, because it was Monday, he waited three times on the subway before it was finally his turn. He walked into the office building, took the elevator to the corresponding floor, and finally stepped into the company gate, it was already nine o'clock in the morning.

Like many similar companies, the artists hired by DC Comics work upstairs, and the private space can ensure creative efficiency. However, for ordinary operators, ordinary editors who are responsible for receiving comments from outside, and other types of employees, they can only share an extremely spacious space.

In fact, for the convenience of actual work, even Merdel, who serves as editor-in-chief and some other senior editors, only enjoy a single room with transparent walls on this floor. The so-called secluded and elegant working environment is needed by only painters. Since they are doing hard work such as painting, they must of course enjoy the highest equipment.

"William," as soon as he walked into the door, Merdel felt suddenly a little sleepy and said to the employee sitting near the entrance: "Go downstairs to buy a cup of coffee, a large latte, I remember you just got a Starbucks membership card, right?"

William was an intern who joined the company last month. Strictly speaking, it was still during his internship in college. The editor-in-chief said something amazing. He immediately stood up and said, "Okay, Mr. Merdel, I'll be back in ten minutes!"

Of course it was too late to ten minutes, but seeing William running out of the door quickly, Merdel couldn't help laughing.

"Mr. Myrtle!" Joanna, who was sitting at the door, saw him and immediately said: "Miss Alice arrived at the company an hour ago and is waiting for you in the conference room."

"What?" The sudden sentence made Merdel, who was thinking about how to drink that cup of coffee slowly, suddenly stood there: "Miss Alice has arrived? It has been an hour! Didn't she say it was around 10 o'clock in the morning? Why was it so early in advance?"

The rotation is changing jobs. In the past few days, Joanna has been the first to arrive at the company and is responsible for opening the door. She said a little embarrassedly: "I arrived at the company at 8:30 this morning. She was already standing at the door and said she had been on this floor for about fifteen minutes..."

"Oh damn!" Mydel didn't know what to say: "Let William put the latte directly into my office, and Joanna, immediately notify Pris, Edward, Kennett and Moras, and let them all hurry to the conference room!"

He said the names of the four senior editors of the company in one breath. Mydel no longer had the calmness he had before. He looked nervous, clenched his fists with one hand, and used force on his feet, and immediately rushed towards the conference room like the wind.

Then soon, the door opened and he found the target in the first chair near the door.

"Oh, I guess you are Mr. John Murdle." Alice, who put down the DC comics in her hand, stood up in jeans and casual tops, and reached out and said, "I have seen the resume photos in Warner. I believe you are not his twin brother, right?"

Seeing that the other party was joking, Merdel couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and immediately grabbed Alice's hand and said, "I'm so sorry, Miss Alice, there are too many people taking the subway today. I waited until three times before I squeezed in."

"Understand, understand," Alice said sincerely: "I have also squeezed over the Tokyo Metro Line during peak hours. New York is still far from them."

"Come on, let's sit down first." Merdel calmed down, and the result of waiting for a long time was because of Alice's early departure. When they two sat in front of the seat, the four named editors also walked into the conference room and shook hands with Alice one by one to introduce themselves.

"Then, let's start talking about the serious business." After simply getting to know these supporting roles, Alice said to Editor-in-Chief: "I'm not the first to deal with someone like the 'Editor'. Don't worry about DC's current business in comics, I won't interfere with anything."

This sentence really made everyone feel much more relaxed immediately. Merdel's nervousness and caution were not without reason. He directly called the four core editors to create some momentum for himself. All his moods and actions were precisely because he didn't understand what the new boss who had just purchased this comic company from Warner Group had plans.

"I have a strong atmosphere in Silicon Valley, but it has been a day or two since I entered the entertainment industry. I believe you all know that I am a special screenwriter of DreamWorks and a shareholder."

Of course this Mydel knew, so he looked moved and asked, "Will our company be affiliated with DreamWorks?"

Alice nodded and said, "Mr. Merdel, I've read your resume. You've been editor for Marvel for seven years, right?"

"That's right," Mydel replied, and gave a brief introduction to the four colleagues: "Price worked in Vertigo for three years; Edward is our old man, who has worked in DC since he graduated from college; Kennett and Moras were poached from the dark horse by the former editor-in-chief."

Alice listened to him patiently and then said, "Since you have a lot of experience, you all know that Marvel and DC have changed their works into movies in the past few decades, but the number is very small. Right?"

"Yes," said the editor Edward. He had been working for nearly twenty years and had been bald at some point: "After all, our comics are almost all superheroes, and it is not an easy job to show them perfectly. As for our DC, the sale of the copyright of the ‘Superman’ is simply a miracle!"

Alice laughed first, and everyone else was smiling, and Kennett interrupted, "Flying Superman, Louis, who always loves falling from the building, how many times have he saved?"

This sentence caused more ridiculous laughter from everyone. After a moment, Alice waved her hand and said, "So, Superman who can fly, Spider-Man who can spin silk... Well, let's not mention Marvel, even if we DC started with detective comics, it would be difficult for film and television companies in the past to shoot superheroes with enough flavor, but now... it's different from the past, what do you think?"

The news that DC Comics was suddenly acquired by Alice came about half a month ago. It was enough time for every employee who received the news to think about it for a long time. At this moment, seeing her turn the topic to making a movie, why can't everyone think about the reason?

"The special effects of "Alien II" are really impressive," said Mydel sincerely. "I remember that when major newspapers explained the movie in detail, they repeatedly emphasized the role of computers, but computing power is one aspect, which definitely requires software support."

"The biggest difference between Warner and DreamWorks is that you Miss Alice," said Mundell, smiling, "Just think I'm talking nonsense, Miss Alice, you can buy us from Warner so quickly, Ms. Benick must have helped me?"

Merdel is just the editor-in-chief, just the most senior worker in the company. The owners of comics companies are always capitalists. The acquisition in 1969 was Warner bought the DC Entertainment Company behind it. And one of the major shareholders who had objections at the time, Merdel remembered clearly that it was Ms. Bennik, who was over 60 years old this year.

"That's right," Alice said: "Warners have limited strength and cannot carry forward DC's works. This is why Ms. Benick's objection to the acquisition behavior back then. But obviously, DreamWorks and I are very different from Warner, just talking about the skills of playing PS..."

Suddenly interrupting her, Mydel made a flattery: "A girl billionaire who invests in multiple industries has accumulated more than one billion in three years. A few days ago, Ms. Oles complained to me, saying that you have rejected another interview with Fortune?"

However, this topic obviously touched some pain points for Alice, and the girl immediately rolled her eyes: "Once again? The third time! Every time I make a fortune, those annoying editors want to make another report for me! Well, I know that these are indeed big news. Times wanted to interview me about the arbitrage of '87 Stock Market Crash' in January... But am I so idle!?"

What a child. When the new boss met the company's employees, she complained about other things: "You guys want to interview me if you want to interview? It's fine to ask me to write a book like a bantam, just delete the spam email directly. These magazine editors are all good. They just call to harass! I said, "Murdle, you DC have never done such harassing things, right? Has the phone harassment!"
Chapter completed!