Manic
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2000$ a script? That's 2000 a month. For writing ~20 pages of script/dialog. Considering how short or easy a lot of the stories are to write (bad thing A happens, good guys stumped, bad guy A comes out and goes gwafufufu im evil! good guy finds way to fix problem and subdue badguy), you'd think that 2,000$ a book would be a ****load.
It's not like these guys are working 40 hours a week for an entire month just to finish the script for one issue. ****, I should start mailing all sorts of crazy ****ed up plots and scripts into Marvel/DC and hope they go "damn this just has something here" and get the paychecks a coming.
$2,000 a month is fine, so long as your expenses aren't too high. I'm used to living in an expensive area where $1,000 will get you a studio apartment, so $1,000-$2,000 will barely get you by with a family.
All that aside, one of the biggest problems you'd probably face with Marvel is getting the chance to write more than one comic. Between Bendis, Fraction, and Brubaker, you'd have a hard time finding an open writing job at that company. And they only take submissions from previously published writers.