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Radiation Interrogation: Jason Aaron
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Location: Blogs Atomic Fallout |
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| Posted by: Atomic Online |
Tuesday, January 26, 2010 9:05 AM |
Atomic Comics - So Jason, do you find it uncomfortable knowing that the owner of one of the largest comic book retail chains on the entire planet giggles like a little school girl every time one of your books comes out?
 Jason Aaron - Hold on, let me get a mental image of that…
Okay yeah, I’m pretty uncomfortable now.
AC - Like many people, your work on Scalped is what made us look at you and go “Holy Crap, this guy can write!” We were then happy to grab everything else from Ghost Rider to Wolverine. What’s it like having the adoration of so many fans?
JA - I’m still just a comic nerd who finds it surreal that I get to do this for a living. The fact that people are digging what I’m doing is icing on the cake. And I thank those people, especially the SCALPED fans, for taking a chance on someone new.
AC - This month Atomic Comics starts its new Monthly Book Club. The first book is Scalped v1 Indian Country. So far the response has been great. How would you describe Scalped to a new reader who knows nothing about it?
JA - It’s a dark and gritty, character-driven crime story set on a modern-day Indian reservation involving casino gambling, undercover feds, murder mysteries, nunchucks and heroin. It’s the type of story where it’s sometimes hard to tell the good guys from the bad. The bad guys do noble things. The good guys make horrible mistakes. And lots of people die.
AC - The realism in this book is amazing. How much research did you do as far as looking at life on a reservation?
JA - Lots of reading and listening to people’s stories really.
AC - Do you have any firsthand experience with brutal, gut-wrenching poverty, drug use, corruption and violence? Or are you like the Vanilla Ice of comic books, scribing the tough life while hailing from the suburbs? If the former, you’re a great writer to get that onto the page, if the latter you are an amazing writer to make it so real while never having lived it!
JA - I wasn’t born in the suburbs, but I wasn’t born into a life of gut-wrenching poverty and violence either. I grew up in the backwoods of Alabama. So no, I haven’t lived much of what I write about, though there’s always a bit of me in everything I write, one way or another, whether I’m writing about Native Americans or flaming skull-headed bikers or hairy little Canadians with claws.
AC - Is Scalped something that you plan to keep going for as long as you can, or do you have an ending in site?
JA - I do have a specific ending point in mind, but we’re not there yet.
AC - You are also currently working on Wolverine: Weapon X and Punishermax, but what’s next for Jason Aaron?
JA - Some as-yet-unannounced new gigs for Marvel and a year of big, intense new stories in SCALPED. This may be the most emotionally charged year yet for SCALPED fans.
AC - So would you rather work for Red Crow (from Scalped) who leads through fear and intimidation and murder, or Malve (who btw does the same thing in the comic industry)?
JA - Umm, can I just collect unemployment for a while? |
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