I think I like Elizabeth Genco’s brief interview with Brian Wood at The Chemistry Set because it doesn’t focus much on comics. Instead, it’s a breezy chat between friends, mostly about childhood, fort-building, reading lists and Marion Zimmer Bradley:

So your new (just announced) project is about Vikings. Have you always had a thing for Vikings? I’ve always had a thing for Celts, personally…

Yeah.. Vikings, Celts, you name it. Since I was little. We were raised on it, it seems. I was a very early reader as a kid, and before everyone else my age caught up, I was placed in these sort of silly “advanced reading classes”, which was just me and a few of my fellow early readers sitting in the empty cafeteria for last period reading different books. I remember reading KING ARTHUR and as a counterpoint, THE MISTS OF AVALON.

Dude. Marion Zimmer Bradley!

Did you ever see that Mists of Avalon film? Kinda funny.

I’m a little disturbed by Wood’s Lord of the Flies-style photo, though.

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