io9 latterly chatted with the incomparable Ed Brubaker about his upcoming run on Secret Avengers , the position of the Sleeper flick , and yes , the yahoos who got way of life too riled up about a Captain America comedian .
For Secret Avengers , you havea pretty diverse crewlined up ( Nova , Beast , War Machine , Steve Rogers , Valkyrie , etc . ) . These are some fairly put up - up supes ; they ’re not like the Thunderbolts who have to be kept out of the public center . What ’s so secret about them ?
The one element that ties all of these fiber together is that they all have a certain military background , even with Valkyrie with Asgard . Beast has a story with the Avengers , and you ca n’t have a book like this without someone hitting up the science department . Of course , he ’s going to be out in the field of force with these guys .
The first arc is very much about defining who their secret foe is . I ca n’t really talk too much about , a flock of it is about the history of these cat . This is my chance to do something like apparition or COBRA without hold up too corny . It ’s very much something that ties in with tangible world chronicle , but bringing in that Doc Savage , H.P. Lovecraft tradition that superheroes come in out of . It ’s very much about stuff we have n’t picture in Marvel .
In Captain America , the main antagonists are the Watchdogs and an insane , chipper 1950s Cap . What was your inspiration for this crazily wholesome evil Captain America ?
The first comic I ever bought with my own money was Captain America 156 , which was the Captain America from the 1950s and the real Cap fighting on the cover . That was my first experience to the idea of another Cap – the gruelling - magnetic core conservative , HUAC - fuck Cap . I always thought that this lineament was really tragic . He commemorate the Eisenhower epoch ; he ’s a human out of the meter . I bring him back during the “ Death of Captain America ” story .
I always intended to soak him up with the Watchdogs . The Watchdogs – when they were create by Mark Gruenwald right smart back when – were meditative of those utmost right - wing , Middle America reserves movement . I want to fetch them back to reflect the earthly concern we live in today since Obama was elected . He ’s the Captain America for that slightly madden , highly paranoid side of reality .
speak of the Watchdogs , what ’s been the proofreader ’ reception tothe media hubbubconcerning the signs in Captain America 602 ?
https://gizmodo.com/why-captain-america-hates-america-apparently-5469987
I do n’t want to verbalize about that stuff too much . The only thing we apologized for was key those protesters as specifically the Tea Party Movement . In Marvel comics it ’s Roxxon Oil , not Exxon . It ’s a dance step removed from reality . It meditate the world without really being the worldly concern , and that was what the apology was for – not that they got appall . People were reading poppycock into that . No one ever pronounce “ All protesters are evil . ” I had to shut down my public email because I started get death menace from , y’know , peaceable protester .
Oh humankind ! Yikes .
That was really pleasant . [ laugh ] I guess they ’re all for exemption of voice communication except for mine ! What was really infuriating is that they ’re were n’t read the story , they were just reading some blogger . Has our medium really come to the stage where anyone can just blog about something and it becomes a news article that guarantee decease threat ? We ’re seeing this withTrey Parker and Matt Stone of [ South Park]receiving death threats from Muslims . How is this any different from Tea Partiers telling me I should die in a fire because I write an upshot of Captain America ? It ’s a little disconcerting to me . It do me feel like our bon ton has capture to the point where it ’s a little too easy to get admittance to the great unwashed . So yeah , I exclude down my public electronic mail and now my only liaison with the world is through my Twitter chronicle [ joke ] .
http://gawker.com/5521825/south-park-creators-receive-death-warning
Well Ed , you branch - wrestled fansto promote [ your DC / Wildstorm miniseries ] Sleeper , I think you ’ll be fine . Are we going to see any Over The Top - style promotion for Secret Avengers ?
I ’m getting a little old for limb - wrestling ! I arm - wrestled about 65 people that day and won peradventure about 80 % of those . I did not work for about a calendar week after that – I could scarcely move my arm . Hopefully the new publicity will be more like , “ Hey ! We ’re make a movie out of it ! ”
Speaking of Sleeper , any movie newson that front ?
https://gizmodo.com/sleeper-offers-classic-noir-pessimism-5289414
in reality , I just was at a meeting with somebody from Warner Brothers who tell , “ Oh hey , I ’m working on the Sleeper movie ! ” and I ’m like , “ Oh , it ’s find again ! ” It sounds like they ’re back to make on it , and apparently Geoff Johns has been verbalise to people about it . Tom Cruise is still attached , so we ’ll see !
Are you contributing to the Captain America movie as well ?
I did n’t finish up confabulate on it at all because of my Marvel deadline , but I ’m expire to compass up Kevin Feige ’s email and start finding reasons to email him !
last doubtfulness : anyone or anything you ’d like to give a call - out to ?
multitude should be reading Josh Dysart ’s unsung Soldier [ on DC / Vertigo ] . I pluck it up recently and it ’s really bungle me aside .
Ed Brubaker , Mike Mignola , and Simon Oliver will be hosting a panel – “ Comic Books : Indie and Beyond ” – withGeoff Boucherat the L.A. Times Festival of Books tomorrow at noonday .
https://gizmodo.com/batman-year-one-artist-david-mazzucchelli-wins-l-a-ti-5523647
Captain AmericaComicsEd BrubakerMarvel Comics
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