'Scalped' No. 1 was only the third comic script I'd ever written. I really learned a lot about writing on the fly with that series.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
'Scalped' is representative of the kinds of stories I like to read and I like to watch.
The first big long-form work I did in comics was 'Scalped' for Vertigo, which ran for 60 issues.
I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.
Plot-wise, there's nothing particularly groundbreaking about 'Scalped.' It starts off as something we've seen plenty of times before: the story of an undercover FBI agent infiltrating a criminal organization and the story of the guy at the head of that organization. The twist was always the setting: a modern-day Native American reservation.
Most comic scriptwriters are very bad. The artists are good, but the writers are so bad.
The first comic I can remember ever reading was a 'Fantastic Four' issue that my dad bought out of the drugstore once. The thing that struck me about it was that the ending wasn't an ending. It was essentially a cliffhanger. It was the first time I had ever read anything like that, where you read a book, but the book isn't the book.
Comic books were just the means for me to tell the story.
I really wasn't into comic books growing up.
I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!
I grew up as a fan of comic books, and I've been reading them for so long that I've never felt an affinity toward just one.