How did railroad tie total about ? Did [ DC imprint ] Wildstorm come to you demand for a auction pitch , or was this something you ’d been essay to do for years ?
Calling something “ ahead of its clock time ” always finger a bit like a polite way of saying “ other people had more succeeder rip it off later , ” but Sleeper really does seem to have foreseen things like Mark Millar ’s Wanted and Marvel ’s Dark Reign . Was the series meant as some instruction of where you see the superhero genre conk out , or were you simply test to unify the offense and superhero genres to find a new spin on both ?
I was really trying to blend espionage and superhero comedian . To take my love of John LeCarre and deep natural covering kind of stories , and hurl them into the reality of capes and masks . And to sort of have sport with some of the normal of the music genre , like the line tale , and thing like that . But I do n’t know that it ’s anything like what need was , or what Dark Reign is doing . Sleeper was always a very pie-eyed hold character - driven book . Not big human race - traverse military action .
tie feels , to me , like the first place where you really feel the voice that you ’d use on Marvel work like Captain America and Daredevil . Years afterward , do you feel like it was a turning head for you ?
I do n’t think I can be the jurist of that . I have it away it was incredibly knockout to write , and it really solidified me and Sean as a team , so in that way , perhaps . I think the work I was doing on Gotham Central and Catwoman at the same fourth dimension really serve me figure out how I do whatever it is I do . Although , Bendis still cogitate [ 1999 miniseries for DC ’s Vertigo imprint ] Scene of the Crime is my best Quran , so who can say ?
Now that you ’re a bigshot at Marvel – killing Captain America , wreak him back , writing the origin of the Marvel superheroes in The Marvels Project – what does Sleeper stand for to you ? Embarrassing earliest oeuvre , nostalgic deterrent example of a time when less people were paying attention to you , astonishingly public first escort with Sean Phillips … ?
I ’ve always been really proud of it . It ’s strange , because I ’ve been in a lot of meetings in Hollywood the past few years , and every single person I meet there has read Sleeper , which was easy my worst - sell title ever . So I figure the entire run just got sell in Hollywood or something . But it ’s always gratified me that this small book I did n’t conceive anyone but me would like institute so many sports fan who wanted to make it into movies and TV show . If they ever get around to that , of course of study , it ’ll be very nice . I ’m getting commonplace of waiting here .
book reviewEd Brubaker
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