It’s an opportunity for me to show what I have learned over the last 25-30 years."Strange Adventures #207 (DC, 1967) CGC NM- 9.2 Off-white to white pages. We can do a comic book that’s more modern, cooler than even what we see on film if we pay attention to these elements. I’m picking these things up from what’s happening today. You see all of the elements of the action and then you go to a new scene. Why are we taking our camera and moving it around in all of these different places when in a film, there is a certain point – like when you see a martial arts film – where you see all of the action happen at once. Telling your story in a motion picture type of way so you see this happen, this happen, this happen now you turn the page and see a new scene instead of saying that every panel is a new scene.
For example, borrowing from the best of the colorists out there, keeping your coloring clearer and better. There are things that you don’t see in comic books that you need to see. Well, this Deadman series is a jump-ahead to everything that is out there now. And a lot of that stuff was borrowed from me because I did it within the genre. I think those characters that you mentioned have done well, and I had something to do with that. When we did it, Deadman was ahead of his time, and I think he’s ahead of his time again. We just sort of started and now I am getting the chance – so many years later – to continue it. Nobody had any idea what this story was about. All of this comes together and makes a big Deadman story, which nobody has ever seen. There is also a lot of friction between Deadman and his parents – big friction – that has to do with the League of Assassins and Ra’s al Ghul, who I created with Julius Schwartz and Denny O’Neil a few years later. He has a mother and father who are still alive and they have their own circus. Not because I was selfish but because one day, I intended to go back and let people discover it. When I finished the series at the time that I was doing it, I actually never told anybody else about the ongoing story of Deadman.
That is paramount in my thinking because most comic books are stories about the characters that are amongst the living like Batman and Superman. I also got a chance to do a character that was unlike any other character in comics because he’s dead.
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