Showrunners Promise Not To Pick Up Their Pencils Until The WGA Has A New Deal
The pencil, it seems, has become the dominant image of the looming™ writers strike (mushroom clouds are so two weeks ago): previously, THR incorporated it in an evocative tug-of-war logo for its contract talks coverage; today, over a hundred WGA showrunners have placed their names (not pictured due to space constraints) below a trusty No. 2 in an ad appearing in both Variety and the Reporter, promising the Guild membership they'll plunge its dangerously sharp point into the jugular vein of any network executive who asks them to secretly break stories, write scripts, or perform any other strike-verboten duty while their brothers and sisters are out on the picket line, trying to dodge the rubber-bullet fire of overzealous studio security guards.
