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Lee - A comic book Q&A

October 7th, 2008

Back in the day Marvel comics used to feature a little Q & A piece in each of their comics with an artist or writer.  I don’t think they do this anymore, maybe via the website etc but I thought it might be a cool way to talk comic books and I’m sending the question out to a bunch of you I know who are reading comics right now, maybe in the future I’ll do up a set of questions for those who used to read them

• Favourite regular series right Now?
  It’s always hard to play favourites because I think I’ve already culled a lot of comic books series simply because they weren’t exciting me each week when I knew they were ready to pick up.  So generally everything I read write now is my favourite.  But I have to pick one and so I’ll go with the one I probably most look forward to each month which is Runaways.  I’ve already talked about how much I love the series and why (picked up the hard cover collection the other week) so at present it is probably my favourite.
• Comic book character you only recently discovered/started reading?
  There have been a couple actually, digital comics make it so much easier to try out a character, Deadpool for one, when someone suggested drawing him (or I simply got the notion to) I started reading his new series that ties into Secret Invasion.  But the biggest discovery that I’ve made of recent times is The Immortal Iron Fist, knew vaguely of the character and I do mean vaguely but picked up the trade paperback The last Iron Fist Story.  The title was a bit misleading as it tells the origins of the character and certainly doesn’t appear to be the last story in the least but it is certainly strong enough to make me want to read more.
• If you could draw/write one character who would it be?
  If you ask me today it would probably be the Punisher, writing wise I think that the character can be full of a lot of depth and written really well he is extraordinarily interesting and horrifying.  I wouldn’t want to draw the book though as I don’t really like drawing guns, I think you have to know a bit about them and I know the basics of firing a rifle and that’s it.  I would probably want to draw Hellboy truth be told, but I’m probably happier enjoying Mignola’s work
• Are you a fan of the big multi issue crossover extravaganzas?
  I go back and forth with this, I think the storyline has to be really good and I prefer it to be removed from the normal comic series run, only because it’s unfair if you’re not interested in the whole thing but like reading one series.  I’ve generally hated the Batman extravaganzas the most especially RIP right now, he story is disjointed and basically turned me off the current run of Bat family comics.  I think Secret Invasion would be really good as a standalone comic series and left the regular series to only reference it, these aren’t real worlds so I think you can remove it from direct continuity and yet insert it after it’s all completed.  God knows what’s going on with Final Crisis, hopefully it will be the final one after all
• Last comic book series that you dropped and why?
  I think the last big one was Trinity, it was just weak and didn’t deliver on its promise.
• Favourite character?
  Can I say 90s Iron Man?
• Are you a DC or a Marvel?
  I used to be a DC and now I probably consider myself a Marvel.
• Do you remember your first comic/series?
  Batman, Breyfogle years which I mentioned in a previous post.
• Is Watchmen the movie going to be as good as the comic book?
  Yes, but a different kind of good.  From the scenes I’ve seen in the trailer it looks bloody impressive and lines up well with the imagery from the book.  The book is still the most amazing piece of comic book work though so it’s going to be hard for them to live up to that.
• Favourite comic book movie?
  Iron Man, daresay I better than the source material…  Dark Knight is brilliant but given the choice I would probably opt to watch Iron Man more.
• Worst comic book movie?
  I’m going to go with League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, not because it’s a really bad film, certainly not worse than Judge Dredd and Batman and Robin, but the source material is brilliant, beyond brilliant and they went and ruined it by poor casting and deviation from the stories.
  
• Character you’d like to see in a movie?
  Wonder Woman, done really well, with great care taken in preserving the dignity of the character.
• Series that you’d like to see on TV?
  I’ve talked BPRD in the past but I could also live with a Runaways TV show. 

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