Over at The Collector Times, Jamie Coville chats with Dan Slott about song lyrics (really!), Spider-Man and She Hulk, among other topics. He also hints at where his Thing series was going before it was canceled:
Sometime I’d like to come back and do it, even if it’s in a mini. We had the next 6 issues planned out and it was going to build to some stuff. I think had it come out it would have been my best work. The first 7 issues of THING was very much a fun, retro, bronze age book. But with issue 8 this nasty, horrible moment was going to happen that would have kicked everything into a more modern style. It would have pulled the rug out from under everybody and freaked people out. Then every issue would have had a topper. The first 6 issue arc that I’m doing in Spider-Man has a structure like that. There’s a WTF moment in every issue.
Like the first issue of (Avengers) Initiative where everybody went “aahhh! you killed off the most popular character! How could you do that?” I was so happy with that.
January 2nd, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Nice interview.
January 2nd, 2008 at 7:39 pm
Guessing he was building toward killing Alicia after getting them back together?
January 2nd, 2008 at 7:41 pm
Thanks Dan.
January 2nd, 2008 at 10:36 pm
Like the first issue of (Avengers) Initiative where everybody went “aahhh! you killed off the most popular character! How could you do that?” I was so happy with that.
Yeah, because killing off popular characters is such a rare and unexpected move in modern superhero comics that it’s a mark of a really creative storytelling genius to come up with that shit.
Oh, wait. My mistake. I meant the exact opposite of all that.