[quote] I just find that so many comics have a lot of redundancy, a lot of over-explaining, a lot of images of basically the same thing, so part of the approach is to just eliminate redundancy and just give you the things you need to move the narrative forward. I sort of crossed a point of no return with it, I think, and where that came from is that I wrote a script for a Transformers vs. GI Joe movie adaptation.
You know, the movie doesn’t exist yet, but I made a comic as though I was adapting a movie, and how movie adaptations are. There are chunks missing, and jumps because of the time it takes to take an hour and a half movie and put it into a comic, you’re going to have to cut some things out. I wrote something with that sort of style in mind, and after I did that, I realized that’s a tool I could use any time. It doesn’t have to be restricted to this particular conceit, it’s just a tool in my arsenal now. It was really effective in that script, which hasn’t come out yet, but it was just a really intense reading experience.p[/quote]
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[quote]I wrote a very long script, a very long outline, prior to working on the #0 issue. It had all kinds of stuff, it had vikings, it had tons of stuff, and then when it came time to make the actual issue, it was like “Okay, what can actually go in here?” When I mapped out this particular issue, the Vikings weren’t there, but then all of the sudden it came together. That happens a lot. It happened on pretty much every issue, where there’s something that finds its way in that was part of that old initial document.
But yeah, when I approached this series, I wanted to create a universe that rivals the Marvel Universe, that rivals whatever. I wanted there to be a deep, deep past, a deep, deep future, and however much of that makes its way to the actual comic is just a matter of luck. That was a little glimpse of something. That moment was a depiction of that deep past, but it did occur to me the other day that there’s nothing in the comic that says that took place a thousand years ago, so technically those Vikings in the rowboat could be heading their way to modern-day New York or something.[/quote]
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