Writing for The Escapist, comics creator and video-game journalist Kieron Gillen talks with Matt Fraction about how he and Ed Brubaker collaborated on The Immortal Iron Fist using Xbox Live:
It’s not at all uncommon. There’s a loose social group of Marvel writers who get together to play, gossip and insult each other. To Matt Fraction, a newcomer to mainstream comics living in the Midwest, this was a terribly attractive idea. “I know it was Ed who convinced me to get the Xbox,” explains Fraction. “Maybe it’s because I knew it was something some of the guys did. I know I blame Ed for it. And my own neurotic insecurity of not living in New York, to work for Marvel, feeling as if I needed some social engagement with them.” It became something more than just a way to chat, however. “It really did end up being super beneficial to Ed and my working procedure, as we really did break out a lot of Iron Fist to videogames,” says Fraction.
The “loose social group” also includes writers Brian Reed, Brian Michael Bendis and Rick Remender, and G4 employee Gerry Duggan.
