Like any comic creator, I grew up reading comics and fell in love with those characters I was reading about. I came of age in comics during the Image Comics boom of the early 90s, which was all about NEW characters and NEW stories, and that’s what drove me to create my own characters and stories.
However, there are a handful of characters I would love to write stories about, and because this is my blog, I’m going to write them here and you’re going to read it, by God! (Or don’t, whatever.)
There’s a couple of Marvel characters I’d love to take a crack at (editors take note!):
Doctor Nemesis – a member of the X-Men’s science team (if that’s even a thing any more, I don’t know), a guy who artificially increased his own intelligence and fights Nazis by shooting them with hypodermic needles? He’s the snarkiest motherfucker in comics and I’d love to write a story or two.
Nomad – yes, I know when they first introduced the Winter Soldier in Captain America, they had him kill Nomad and stuff him in a trunk or something, but I know a way to bring him back (it’s comics) and I would love to write about this damaged nutjob who has a faulty super-soldier serum running through his veins and was trained to fight by Captain America. And those disks! Imagine getting one of those thrown into your face really, really hard.
DC has one character I’d give my left arm to write (although my hand would go with it and that would definitely impede my writing.)
The Question – far and away one of my favorite characters ever. The late-80s run by Dennis O’Neill and Denys Cowan is one of my favorite runs on a character ever. But I would be writing this particular Question, the Vic Sage version. Not that I dislike the Renee Montoya version, but she never really needed to be The Question, she was an established character in her own right. But I love old No-Face here, and I even know the exact story I would write.
And the last one is this ugly dude:
Three-Willie Seth, the Six Billion Dollar Bastard – from the later Authority run, written by Mark Millar. I fucking LOVE Seth. He’s a monster created out of a scrawny hillbilly and given 1001 superpowers. He single-handedly dismantles the Authority and crashes the Carrier. I’ve had discussions with my buddy, artist Justin Adcock, about what we would do if we could create a Seth miniseries. It would be totally over-the-top and gonzo, as befitting of such a messed up character.
Alright, so if anyone reading this (either of you) can hook me up with a job writing one of these characters…then, you know, I’m not hard to find.
(Look at that, two blog posts in 2 weeks, that’s something!)
Until next time.
markbertolini 