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Radiation Interrogation: Christos Gage
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| Posted by: Jake Bell |
Wednesday, February 28, 2007 4:49 PM |
 We've just finished up Annihilation and now we learn we're getting Annihilation: Conquest. Why do we need Heralds of Galactus? What purpose does this title serve?
Believe it or not, there are many, many fanboys who are lying awake at night wondering what happened to Terrax and Paibok the Power Skrull. And I was one of them. So consider it therapy.
Give us the overview of Conquest as a whole and how your Nova series fits in.
Trying to get secret plot details out of me, huh? Sure...when you can get the name of my book right! It's QUASAR!! That's my sneaky way of saying "I can't really talk about it."
Interesting. So your contention is that there is a difference between Nova and Quasar? Nova is the one with the helmet, right?
Here's the difference: One's a hot lesbian babe, and the other's... uh... what were we talking about again? Oh yeah... Nova's got the helmet. Also, Quasar will be fighting the Super-Adaptoid! C'mon, you gotta love the Super-Adaptoid!
Your work is so varied both in genres and formats. How often do you find inspiration for one project while working on another? Did you ever find yourself writing Detective Stabler on SVU as Batman or scripting Union Jack like Judd Hirsch?
Not per se, but I do borrow ideas from one medium and use them in others. Believe it or not, clone sagas are considered a revolutionary idea in TV! In all seriousness, the premise for my ongoing STORMWATCH: PHD series came from researching real police work for SVU and realizing that most police departments struggle with very tight budgets. I applied that to a superhero universe and Wizard's latest Book of the Month was born!
Your comic work has mostly been for limited series or story arcs. If you could take on any project or character long term, what would it be and what would you do?
The Suicide Squad. And I'm not telling in case I ever get to do it!
Since you've scripted both, give me your pitch for a Batman/Law & Order:SVU crossover. Who would be the ideal artist for such a project?
The SVU crew investigate reports that a billionaire playboy is putting a teenage child at tremendous risk of injury or death and vow to take him down. Drawn by, oh, Dick Sprang...because how fun would that be?
Can you guess this film? The following words are all come from a certain film's Internet Movie Database profile:
Torture, Exploding Body, Softcore, Splatter, Decapitation, Heart In Hand, Sexploitation, Worst Film Ever Made
I'm going with "The Muppets Take Manhattan."
Perhaps, but I was going for Teenage Caveman, written by Christos Gage. What did you take away from the experience of writing Teenage Caveman that sticks with you still today?
Believe it or not, it was probably the most educational experience on filmmaking I could ever have had. Back in the day, folks like Peter Bogdanovich and Steven Spielberg got started on low-budget horror films shot in a hurry on a shoestring budget--the Roger Corman school of filmmaking where'd he'd hand you a circus set, three minutes of stock footage of atomic explosions, half a spaceship, and a mismatched cast of actors at the beginning or end of their career, and tell you to make a 90 minute movie out of it. That type of thing doesn't really exist today, but I got to experience it.
Making a movie for very little money on a rushed schedule, you learn a great deal about producing under pressure, doing the best you can with what you have, and not sweating the small stuff. There's a reason my editors all rave about my ability to hit deadlines. Without Teenage Caveman, there could not have been an Iron Man/Captain America Casualties of War Special. And I know exactly how many copies you sold of that. So Teenage Caveman is paying your rent, Mr. Snarkypants!
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