James Harvey
12-18-2001, 12:39 AM
The comic website <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com">Comic Book Resources</a> scored an interview with current Batman and Catwoman scribe Ed Brubaker. Keith Giles talked to the comic writer about his plans for the comics. Below is an excerpt:
KG: You're big on characters, are there things left to tell about Batman? How many hundreds of stories have been written about this guy?
EB: The idea is to find new things. I'm pretty sure I'm the first guy who's ever shown Bruce Wayne's first kiss. There may have been something in the fifties. But, I just try to look at the comics that have gone before and I say, "For me, this is the way to take this character", and the problem is that there's so many people working on Batman every month. Three books a month have Batman as the main character and then there's every member of the supporting cast with their own books where he appears as a supporting cast member and then Batman is in the JLA and half the time he's in Superman or some other comics too.
I hate to sound like I'm grousing about Batman. But, it's the one book that I work on where I have to worry about that stuff and cross-overs. Especially when we're in the middle of a big storyline where everyone takes part in a bigger story. Usually we just get a big bag every month with xeroxes of everyone's issues after they've been inked and lettered, but now we're at the stage where we're reading each others scripts to make sure we don't overlap.
To read the whole interview, go <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=714">HERE</a>.
KG: You're big on characters, are there things left to tell about Batman? How many hundreds of stories have been written about this guy?
EB: The idea is to find new things. I'm pretty sure I'm the first guy who's ever shown Bruce Wayne's first kiss. There may have been something in the fifties. But, I just try to look at the comics that have gone before and I say, "For me, this is the way to take this character", and the problem is that there's so many people working on Batman every month. Three books a month have Batman as the main character and then there's every member of the supporting cast with their own books where he appears as a supporting cast member and then Batman is in the JLA and half the time he's in Superman or some other comics too.
I hate to sound like I'm grousing about Batman. But, it's the one book that I work on where I have to worry about that stuff and cross-overs. Especially when we're in the middle of a big storyline where everyone takes part in a bigger story. Usually we just get a big bag every month with xeroxes of everyone's issues after they've been inked and lettered, but now we're at the stage where we're reading each others scripts to make sure we don't overlap.
To read the whole interview, go <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=714">HERE</a>.