Scryptic Studios talks to The Other Side‘s Jason Aaron about pitching the series, the creative process and how he got his start by winning Marvel’s talent contest a few years back:
4) In 2002, you won a Marvel Comics Talent Search and got to write a Wolverine story that saw print in the pages of his monthly title. What was that experience like?
It was incredibly exciting. For the contest, you had to write a short outline for an eight page Wolverine story. My first impulse was to do a fight scene or something set in a bar. But then I figured I’d go for something more offbeat and set my story on a dirt road in the middle of the woods, like the Flannery O’Connor short story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find.” I dropped my outline in a big box at Wizard World Chicago that summer and months later, I had a message on my phone from an editor at Marvel. Turns out I was about the only person whose story wasn’t a fight scene or something set in a bar. The whole experience was a huge thrill. I got to write “SNIKT” in a script, and then they sent me a check with Spider-Man on it.
They also included parts of his Other Side script at the end, along with the corresponding pages.
