Erik Larsen wants you to know that his problem isn’t a lack of ideas, it’s indecision:
Not all solutions are good ones. They don’t all follow logically or even make sense. The fact that some time has passed makes things more difficult because now I not only have to come up with “what happened?” but I also need to come up with a “and where has she been hiding all this time?”
It bothers people, sometimes, to think that I’m just winging it — that I didn’t have this whole story mapped out from day one — but how could I? How could I know that I’d still be doing this book 15 years later and know everything beforehand? Sure, I keep track of it all and make every effort to have it make sense. Sure, I know the resolution to most mysteries when they’re introduced, but I couldn’t possibly have everything all figured out! And what if I had and Image Comics fell apart the way all of our critics predicted it would? What then? I’d have a couple hundred stories all worked out and nowhere to use them!
In any case — that’s not the problem.
Mysteries suck anyway. With the advent of the Internet, fans are able to compare notes and discuss things in an open forum and figure stuff out and spoil everything! It really makes life difficult, I tell you.
