Wednesday, March 03, 2004

Mister green genes: PopImage talks to writer Andy Diggle about resurrecting Swamp Thing, and becoming DC's newest go-to guy for revamps:

"I seem to have become the 'Revamp Guy'! DC asked me to revamp The Losers, then they asked me to revamp Swamp Thing, and now I'm revamping something else for the DCU. That's fine by me - as I said, I enjoy 'fixing' things - but I'm also developing my own projects. It's all about getting the balance right. It's like how Martin Scorsese says he chooses his projects -- 'one for me, one for the studio.'"

Diggle also pauses to compare the US and UK comics markets.

"What UK market? If you exclude the kiddie comics, there's not much going on here beyond 2000AD and Warhammer. We all had high hopes for Com.X, but their output has been minuscule. It's a shame. Jock and I actually pitched them some ideas a couple of years ago, so we could have been making money for them right now instead of for DC. Way it goes, I suppose."