I discovered 'The Shield' back around 2010, when the Archie superheroes were licensed to DC Comics. From there, I went back into the archives and discovered this whole universe of characters, and I was hooked.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you name it.
Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.
I read the 'Deadpool' series back in the '90s. I'm not, like, a huge comic book reader, per say, though. I'll check out 'Archie' when I'm in the grocery line, but that's about it.
I guess my journey with comics began with stuff like Spider-Man and Batman. I started off with mainstream superhero stuff, which I've never abandoned.
When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.
I'm a huge comic book collector. When I was a kid, I had both Marvel and DC. I was my own librarian. I made card files. I had origin stories of all the characters, and cross-referenced when they appeared in other comic books. I was full on.
I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an art student and I was drawing a lot as a kid.
There are fantastic stories yet to be told featuring Marvel's characters, old and new, and I'm thrilled to be part of them.
I was a Marvel guy. I started reading comics when I was a kid.
Then is when I decided to take it to Archie to see if they could do it as a comic book. I showed it to Richard Goldwater, and he showed it to his father, and a day or two later I got the OK to do it as a comic book.