Ain't It Cool News interview with Dan Slott

[Phoney Bone]

God Dan Slott is so great.

The comic industry really needs more people like him working in it.

 

[Darthphere]

Or clone him.

 

[PWN3R]

Clones. Marvel's favorite word.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Great interview. It looks like Mr. Slott grew up on the same stuff I did. I was definately one of the Byrne 50. I wish the interviewer would've pushed a little more about one of his old-time faves. I would've loved to have heard his take on the current MTU.

Can't wait to see what '07 brings!

When Dan started raving about Byrne, I immediately wished for a new Avengers West Coast. That was my favorite Byrne stuff. Man, that'd be great with Dan at the helm.

 

[Lactophiliac]

Yeah I would love to see Slott on the second Avengers book, instead of Bendis. For the Benis style Avengers we already have New Avengers. I just hope whatever this 2007 book is it's something interesting.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

It will be. The prospects that a return to Slott's darker roots imply pretty much ensure that all on their own. What I'm wondering is who the artist's gonna be. Even on the darker fare of some of the Great Lakes Avengers/X-Men stuff, he had fairly traditional or cartoony artists like Paul Pelletier. It'd blow me away if he suddenly had a new book with someone like Leonardo Manco.

 

[Kool-Aid]

I hope Thing comes out in hardcover. I think his new book is going to be a Alpha Flight book.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

A dark Alpha Flight book? That'd be weird.

 

[Lactophiliac]

A dark Alpha Flight book? That'd be weird.

Well Marvel thinks Alpha Flight needs a new hook, it could work out I guess, but I doubt it'll be Alpha Flight.

As for an artist as I think he's the best right now (Canada represent) I'll say Steve McNiven, he'll be done Civil War by that time, so it would work out.

 

[GNR]

Screw Alpha Flight.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

No, tell us, what do you really think of Alpha Flight?

 

[Harlekin]

IMO,Hulk's rampages have killed.Not Hulk.

Guns don't kill people, people kill people.

 

[iloveclones]

When Dan started raving about Byrne, I immediately wished for a new Avengers West Coast. That was my favorite Byrne stuff. Man, that'd be great with Dan at the helm.

Couldn't agree more. People forget all the great stuff Mr. Byrne did: X-Men, FF, Alpha Flight, West Coast Avengers, She-Hulk. He certainly had stinkers along the way, but those certainly are Hall-of-Famers. I betcha DS was reading MTU (like me) when Byrne was on it. That was my first subscription, and I loved it.

As for DS's '07 project, I couldn't even hazard a guess. I loved his Arkham Asylum story, and GLA, so I have no worries that his darker stuff is some kind of new ground for him. But Dan, if you're peeking in here: We know you can't tell us what the project is, but how about the artist? I mean, throw us a bone here. Let us talk up a frenzy here, so you get off to a good start.

 

[Doc Destruction]

Byrne was two very important things: CONSISTENT and ON TIME.

His She-Hulk was HOT, too.

 

[Darthphere]

Keyword: Was.

 

[Rambo, John J]

"And maintaining the INTEGRITY of those characters is, at times, more important than maintaining the reality of that world."

Rock and Roll, Slott. Rock and Roll.

 

[iloveclones]

Byrne was two very important things: CONSISTENT and ON TIME.

His She-Hulk was HOT, too.

True, but most of them were back then. Mostly, it's another artifact of TPBs. Back then, if the issue was going to be late, they would just put use a fill-in issue that they had on file. You can't really do that today and have one six-issue run to fill a TPB.

And she was. I had zero interest in that character until he started drawing her.

 

[Willowhugger]

IMO,Hulk's rampages have killed.Not Hulk.

Except that guts the character. The Hulk isn't supposed to be a nice guy. Bruce BANNER is the nice guy. The Hulk is a monster that isn't likeable, friendly, or fun.

I thought it was poignant when Bendis said that Bruce would kill himself if he'd cost an innocent life but HE CAN'T.

Dan's utter lack of understanding of what the Hulk is about ruined him for me. What a guy who misses the point. As for Iron Man and thor, they don't kill people because their alter ego isn't someone whose supposed to be FEARED.

And if people ARE killed because of Iron Man (which they are because plenty of issues deal with the villains killing people during the fight) its because he's trying to prevent further causalties.

 

[Harlekin]

Except that guts the character. The Hulk isn't supposed to be a nice guy. Bruce BANNER is the nice guy. The Hulk is a monster that isn't likeable, friendly, or fun.

I thought it was poignant when Bendis said that Bruce would kill himself if he'd cost an innocent life but HE CAN'T.

That was Slott, actually. And the Hulk has been characterized since the beginning as a character that just wants to be left alone. The Hulk, in most incarnations is just a guy that's looking for peace. The whole thing about the Hulk is the fact that the guy's a monster when he gets angry, but is pretty much a docile child when he isn't enraged. That's the whole tragedy of the character, because the ignorant always enrage him.

Dan's utter lack of understanding of what the Hulk is about ruined him for me. What a guy who misses the point. As for Iron Man and thor, they don't kill people because their alter ego isn't someone whose supposed to be FEARED.

And if people ARE killed because of Iron Man (which they are because plenty of issues deal with the villains killing people during the fight) its because he's trying to prevent further causalties.

I think Dan has an excellent idea of what the Hulk is, and his comments are spot on. If the Hulk is a mass murderer, so are Iron Man and Thor. That isn't justifiable with: "They were trying to do the right thing". Because, after all, then Speedball isn't accountable for anything either.

 

[Willowhugger]

I think Dan has an excellent idea of what the Hulk is, and his comments are spot on. If the Hulk is a mass murderer, so are Iron Man and Thor. That isn't justifiable with: "They were trying to do the right thing". Because, after all, then Speedball isn't accountable for anything either.

I don't see how. I've never seen Iron Man or Thor throw a building at someone. Of course, I admit sometimes there are ridiculous moments in comics.

If we're going to APPROACH realism, I doubt the Juggernaut ever knocked over one of the Twin Towers and killed ten thousand people. It doesn't fit his character.

 

[Harlekin]

I don't see how. I've never seen Iron Man or Thor throw a building at someone. Of course, I admit sometimes there are ridiculous moments in comics.

If we're going to APPROACH realism, I doubt the Juggernaut ever knocked over one of the Twin Towers and killed ten thousand people. It doesn't fit his character.

Iron Man/Thor have slammed people like Absorbing Man into buildings dozens of times. The collateral damage to the city is usually quite insane, and it's impossible for those buildings to be empty on the exact moment that fight breaks out. They are just as much massmurders as the Hulk.

 

[Darthphere]

Yup, Dan Slott and Harlekin are correct.


EDIT: Im a Harlekin fanboy.

 

[Harlekin]

Yup, Dan Slott and Harlekin are correct.


EDIT: Im a Harlekin fanboy.

With good reason.

 

[Not Jake]

why does everyone fear the hulk if he never kills anyone

he's not much of a monster then

 

[Darthphere]

why does everyone fear the hulk if he never kills anyone

he's not much of a monster then

I dont nkow, I can see where a ****ing huge guy is destroying everything in its path might get people frightened.