Post by HoM on Feb 16, 2006 6:57:58 GMT -5
CBR: But what if you and Rob Liefeld worked on a comic book together? Would the universe implode?
Austen: It would. Wouldn't that be great? [laughs] It would be like the end of "Poltergeist" when the house gets sucked into the black hole, except it would keep going and going like the Energizer bunny, and everything would keep getting sucked in, except me and Rob.
CBR: He's someone who's been hated and vilified for many years and it makes you wonder if the hate ever ends.
Austen: I don't know and I don't care. The hate affects me not at all, anymore. My career is completely separate from that, and when I run into people who cross from that world into the world I write in now, they always say how much they liked my work in comics, how the inventiveness and the heart I brought to my super hero projects make me very desirable in this world, moreso than in that one. That's why I don't plan to come back. Really, what's the point? People don't want me writing superhero comics, people do want me writing novels and screenplays, and I'd rather be writing this stuff anyway, so why can't we all just be happy for each other?
Excerpt from CBR interview:
www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=6679
I like Chuck Austen!
Austen: It would. Wouldn't that be great? [laughs] It would be like the end of "Poltergeist" when the house gets sucked into the black hole, except it would keep going and going like the Energizer bunny, and everything would keep getting sucked in, except me and Rob.
CBR: He's someone who's been hated and vilified for many years and it makes you wonder if the hate ever ends.
Austen: I don't know and I don't care. The hate affects me not at all, anymore. My career is completely separate from that, and when I run into people who cross from that world into the world I write in now, they always say how much they liked my work in comics, how the inventiveness and the heart I brought to my super hero projects make me very desirable in this world, moreso than in that one. That's why I don't plan to come back. Really, what's the point? People don't want me writing superhero comics, people do want me writing novels and screenplays, and I'd rather be writing this stuff anyway, so why can't we all just be happy for each other?
Excerpt from CBR interview:
www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=6679
I like Chuck Austen!
