Who is your favourite comic
book character?
Truth be
told, I am more of a creator guy these days. I tend to follow them from book to
book rather than reading a particular characters.
Although
as a kid I loved Gambit in the X-Men animated series a ton!
What is your favourite
comic?
Fell and
The Umbrella Academy are the two series that instantly come to mind. They are
the single issues I will pull out every few weeks and re read and just get
pumped to make comics.
Who is your favourite comic
writer?
Robert
Kirkman, it’s as simply as that. If it wasn’t for Invincible and The Walking
Dead starting at Image I wouldn’t have gotten back into comics and wouldn’t be
writing them today.
Who has been the most fun
to write so far?
Jonah
Hex for me was a hoot to write. I’m a sucker for all those old western
tropes and loved getting a chance to play with some of them.
Which character do you most
dread having to write?
Honestly,
any that I like to much. It’s the characters I know inside and out that always
prove the hardest to work with I’ve found. When you know all of a characters
stories, finding your own tale can be daunting.
Which non-comics character
would you most like to write?
I’d
personally love to write a Fast and The Furious comic. I have a strange love
for the franchise and think the over the top action and crazy car plots could
make for one hell of a comic series.
Also as a
kid I was a huge fan of the 3 Ninjas series of films and my inner child would
jump at the chance to write an old ages comic set in that universe.
Which script do you think
has been your best so far?
Two
scripts stand out in my mind, Rainbow
Dash and Peanuts.
They both came one after another and at the time seemed like subjects I thought
so far from my wheel house that I could never come up with a story for them
worth telling. Perhaps because of this, the fact I found my in, so to speak and
managed to write something I could be proud of makes them stand out.
Which script do you think
has been the best on the site?
I have pulled out the script that
stands out for me as the best for all my fellow current tenured writers.
Ben’s Starship
Troopers still stands out as one of his best for me. Its tightly written
and perfectly paced. It captures the source material just right as well.
Dan has
written so many scripts that I wish I had written but I’ve picked the script
that I never could have written, Dan’s Krypto
script. Mr Hill came at the week from an angle I never would have and ended up
with a truly powerful and emotional script, that even now, just rereading had
me touched.
Grant
wrote a clinic during the Planet
of the Apes week. In one page he introduced us to, and fleshed out two
strong and fully formed characters, whilst having them explore the themes at the
very heart of the material, a wonderful piece of writing.
J.D used
some elegant time changing and minimal, yet powerful captions to craft one hell
of a page during our Alfred
week. J.D really showed how much you could do from a craft point of view with a
single page. It’s the kind of writing that I want to deconstruct so I could
learn from it.
MK showed
a skill during the Top
Cow Talent Hunt Week that I am still very jealous of. The dude can write
one hell of an action scene. He creates drama and movement in each panel that
makes the combat and action feel fast and brutal in a way I can still only
dream of achieving.
Looking
back at Niel’s work I thought I’d found my pick for him a dozen times, the guys
written so many wildly different and brilliant pages. But then I hit this script
with a beat boxing rap battlin’ Etrigan
and it couldn’t not be my pick. I remember reading this for the first time and
with each new panel loving it more and more. That’s good comics!
Ray’s
ongoing tale of redemption hit a crazy new high with his Electro
page. This tale of one man trying to become more than he was for his family,
set to the back drop of some of the craziest characters in the Marvel universe
truly makes for a sage that is as big and bold as any of the great comic book
adventures.
Did you ever read Ellis's scripts for Fell? Stark as hell.
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Great to read about your favourites & influences.
Looking forward to your future scripts!