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Radiation Interrogation: Ed Brubaker
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Location: Blogs Atomic FalloutRadiation Interrogation |
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| Posted by: Jake Bell |
Wednesday, March 07, 2007 12:06 PM |
 Is Cap really dead or just hanging out with Nick Fury in some undisclosed location?
Nick Fury? Undisclosed location? Hunh. That's not a bad idea. I wonder how Nick would feel sharing it with a corpse.
What will make this less lame than the death of Superman?
Well, hopefully because Captain America is intrinsically more interesting than Superman. But also, I hope because it's the beginning of a much larger mystery/tragedy storyline, and it grows organically out of the run we've been doing for over two years. I've been planning something along these lines ever since I brought back Bucky.
Mark Millar says Marvel wanted to kill off a major character in Civil War, but he refused--much to Goliath's detriment. Why are you doing Quesada's dirty work? Was this something you wanted to do or was it dictated from the higher-ups? Who is next on your hit list, you monster?!
Millar also said Eminem was going to star in Wanted, so I'd take that with a grain of salt. No version of Civil War I ever heard of had Cap or Iron Man dying in it, and I was in the room for three days while the last act of CW got hammered out.
The reason this is happening in the book now, right on the heels of Civil War, is because CW left me with a few options, but most of them I felt had been explored already in Cap or in other recent books - such as my own first arc of Daredevil. So, since I didn't want to do a "Cap gets on a motorcycle and finds America" story, or a "Cap behind bars" story, I decided to bump up the timeline on my big "Red Skull Strikes Back" story instead, and go straight for the jugular. The basic idea of this arc -- the Death of the Dream -- is something I've been building towards since issue 1. Some of the beats and the way it goes down, of course, have been altered since this follows Civil War's ending so closely.
With so many major characters having died and returned--some multiple times--how difficult is it to come up with a fresh way to resurrect dead iconic heroes? Do you go so far as to plan the return when you plot the death?
I didn't, no. But I've got the next two years of Cap plotted, if that says anything.
How long ago was the decision to kill Cap made and how has that affected the stories you've told in the meantime?
The final decision was made between me and Brevoort after the big CW summit meeting. I told him what I wanted to do, and how I wanted to do it, and then I began laying the groundwork for it in the CW tie-in issues of Cap.
Do editorial mandates require you to make Cap a big crybaby like Millar made him in the end of Civil War?
I don't think there are any editorial mandates. I think Millar just hates America. |
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