Newsarama has a couple of interviews up that intrigue me for one reason or another.
Versatile writer Andy Diggle talks about his thrilling, space based Adam Strange mini and drops an interesting nugget:
“Dan Didio said right at the outset that the whole thing was going to lead into this big Rann/Thanagar War crossover event,” Diggle said. “The only thing that wasn’t clear at the outset was whether I was supposed to actually start this war myself! I didn’t find out exactly how the war was supposed to get started until I was well into writing the series, which meant I had to do a certain amount of fancy footwork to get the ending of my story to work. But that’s just the nature of the job, you just have to roll with it.”
That sounds like a rather unsettling experience for a writer. Diggle doesn’t sound too perturbed about it, and surely no one walks into a gig at DC expecting too much autonomy of storytelling. Still… “Oh, and work this plot element in so we can do a big summer mini-series. Thanks!”
The interview with Tom Brevoort about Marvel’s upcoming House of M all but screams, “This time, we decided to use an editor.” Brevoort made some decidedly unenthusiastic remarks about Avengers: Disassembled, and he doesn’t seem to have revised his opinion much. He takes a tightrope approach this time out, saying that House of M was developed when Disassembled was well underway (avoiding tarring it with the same brush?), stressing that it won’t be the same kind of crossover story (the phrase “red skies” is never used), but stopping short of saying that every chapter will be necessary for comprehension.
This is going to be one of those projects where I’m more interested in what people are saying about it than the project itself. The actual plot – whatever are we to do with Wanda, now that bitch crazy? – doesn’t appeal to me at all, and I don’t have any faith in the way writer Brian Bendis handles this particular character set. But there should be some juicy on-line bitchery, and that’s free.
On the list of things about which I’m optimistic without qualification would be Seven Soldiers: Guardian, at least based on the preview from Pop Culture Shock. Subway… pirates? Grant Morrison is going to break my heart before all this is over, isn’t he? Just tell me. It will be easier in the long run.