Over at The Beat, Heidi talks to Garth Ennis (exclusively!) about The Boys, from DC to Dynamite:
I think if I were to sum it up in one line, it would be that you can have comics where people do awful things to each other, like Preacher, but you can’t have a comic where super people do awful things to each other, like The Boys, and I think that rather than any specific instances—panels or pages or lines in the story—that was really the problem in a nutshell. When you have comics that—even superficially—look a bit too much like the company’s regular output, and the characters in them are doing the most ghastly things and behaving in the most awful way, and blaspheming and swearing and so on, that creates a real problem. That just will not fly. And that, more than anything else, was what brought an end to The Boys time at DC.
February 9th, 2007 at 2:29 pm
That was a pretty good interview. Judging from the preview pages I guess they’re pointing out what Tech Knight’s problem is.
On another note, I expected that you’d have brought up the Bendis board thread about Luke Cage kicking Elektra in the crotch by now.
February 9th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
Graeme, you didn’t capitalize EXCLUSIVELY!
February 9th, 2007 at 3:06 pm
Graeme, you didn’t capitalize EXCLUSIVELY!
Reason number 23 why this whole “Journalism” thing eludes me.
Reason number 24: My offputting personal body odor.
February 11th, 2007 at 7:13 am
“When you have comics that—even superficially—look a bit too much like the company’s regular output, and the characters in them are doing the most ghastly things and behaving in the most awful way, and blaspheming and swearing and so on, that creates a real problem.”
Hence, you know, DC refusing to publish WATCHMEN…
January 17th, 2011 at 3:32 pm
Great artical, I unfortunately had some problems printing this artcle out, The print formating looks a little screwed over, something you might want to look into.