John and I figured (how wrong can you be?) that CB would take off in Britain, too, and set out to create a series that would get there first. Well, we got there first, but nobody else ever followed.
My favourite character at the moment is Lobo (just finished a 75,000 word Lobo novel for Warner Books)
Whassis now? Can someone point me here?
I took pleasure in pointing out that, in economic terms, all politicians are parasites and destroy far more than they produce. I have some copies in Italian or Spanish someplace, but can't read them.
I knew Robin was going to die, and figured we'd need a replacement. I wanted a kid whose beliefs were not the same as Batman's, in fact whose beliefs would clash with Batman's. I didn't want any dead parents who needed to be revenged. I wanted a kid who could think.
What I didn't know, until the script arrived on my desk, is that Marv Wolfman had already created the new Robin. Bastard.
I imagine they're doing it for sales reasons. It doesn't seem to occur to them that the Bat-titles aren't selling well because they're shite (qualification--the ones I've seen).
The best thing that could happen to Batman would be for Bob Shreck to take the long walk.
I am the only man in the world who can say he spent an hour on his knees with Kevin, at noon in the Main Square of Santa Fe, puking green bile. Must have been something we drank.
Keith asked me to do the dialog on Lobo. Barry Kitson was up for being the artist, but Keith wanted a dirtier, more in-your-face style to revamp the character. We always used to say--Keith writes a loose plot, Bisley draws whatever he feels like, and I try to make coherent sense out of the result.
Fat Man Press published it, and had things worked out--i.e. had they not acquired the publisher's disease of dishonesty--there'd have been an annual Bogie release from then till kingdom come (not the Alex Ross version).
Evidently, under Britain's quaint obscenity laws, everybody from the retailer, wholesaler, distributor, printer, publisher, down to me, John and Bisley could be sued...presumably for depraving children by encouraging them to defecate.
Re: Shit the Dog, collab with the Biz. I gotta find that.
I love taking background characters and making them somehow worthwhile. It's what I'm good at doing. I don't waste time crying about the fact that none of my solo-created characters have been a hit.
That's why the world is doomed. Politicians, and elites in general, don't see that they are the problem. Leave folks alone, and we'll get on fine. Don't fucking bomb us.
BTW: the Penguin story I did with Sam Kieth was censored/changed by DC editors, who figured it would be too upsetting to their readers if, as I wrote, it was the penguins who pecked the informant to death. What's the point of smearing a guy with fish oil and forcing him to swallow whole herring, if you're going to let fucking tigers eat him?
Last Sons, an "adult" 76,000-word Lobo novel from Warner Books.
Again, gotta have it.
Man, that was cool to read. Thanks for posting it! I wish he woulda talked more about working with Biz, mostly I'm curious about Batman: Lobo. Since, y'know, it's my favorite comic of all time and all.
