Entertainment Weekly’s website has the complete back-up tale from the upcoming first issue of Oni’s Tek Jansen series. They also interviewed the story’s writer, Jim Massey, who talks about the back-up story, Horn Like Me!, which features aliens that sport, naturally, horns:
I was just looking for some physical characteristic that I could apply to this alien race that had no intrinsic worth to the value of a person, but was just an excuse for bias and prejudice. Originally, it was gonna be Green Like Me!, and it was going to be like green skin versus blue skin. And my editor and I talked about it, and we felt like it was a little too on the nose. So we took it away from skin color, and just made it the horns. And honestly, the inspiration for the story itself is Dr. Seuss’ Sneetches book, where they’ve got the Star-Belly Sneetches and the Plain-Belly Sneetches and they hate other because one has stars and the other doesn’t. One of the shops in the background of a scene [in Horn Like Me!] is even named Sneetch & Sons. The title Horn Like Me! is lifted from the famous Black Like Me book, where the white journalist [John Howard Griffin] goes undercover in the South as a black man and gets a firsthand experience of racism. I wanted to echo that in the title, just to point out the ridiculousness of it all.
They also spoke to John Layman about what it’s like working with Stephen Colbert:
If that sounds like a Colbert-ian zinger, it should: Colbert went through the script line by line. Says Layman, ”We’d get notes, like ‘Oh, you know, I was rereading this on my porch Saturday…’ I’ve had editors who don’t pay that close attention. There’s quite a bit of back-and-forth because I think Stephen Colbert is a geek.”
June 28th, 2007 at 1:05 pm
“There’s quite a bit of back-and-forth because I think Stephen Colbert is a geek.”
Ever see the episode of the Daily Show with Viggo Mortensen? Colbert is a *huge* Tolkien fanatic. Through his own show he’s gotten Captain America’s shield on his wall and now his own comic book. He’s not a geek, he’s the uber-geek, come to lead us all!
June 28th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
Colbert knew that Cap’s shield was made of indestructable Wakandan vibranium. I didn’t even know that.
June 28th, 2007 at 4:34 pm
Well, that only proves (as his show has frequently proven) that he or somebody on his staff knows how to use Wikipedia.
June 28th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
There might have been some kind of research for the info on Cap’s shield. He definitely knows a lot of geek-lore, though. He can just rattle off D&D stuff if someone asks him about it in an interview.
He’s actually the same way about bible stuff, since he teaches Sunday school. Apparently, he misunderstood the memo about D&D making you worship the antichrist.
June 28th, 2007 at 6:45 pm
I would pay cash money to attend one of his Sunday school classes…..And I generally have no use for that type of nonesense.
June 29th, 2007 at 9:15 am
Apparently, his lessons include dancing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz2aE6DvHDc&mode=related&search=
I saw him do a bit of this in an interview while talking about teaching Sunday School. So it’s not just for the camera, he actually does that for Sunday School.
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