Writer Paul Cornell has followed up his musings on the importance of Stormwatch with some thoughts on his other new book Demon Knights , also part of the September 2011 DC Comics Relaunch (both Cornell titles are on my Top 19).
Here are some highlights.
Maybe this period piece might be the way to make the Demon more accessible and fun?
Where Demon Knights #1 begins:
“For a start, we lead with the Demon Etrigan. This is Jack Kirby’s creation, which I’m amazed and pleased to get my hands on. And he’ll be leading others, including some classic DC characters, and including some new characters. It will be a setting I describe as “sword and sorcery superheroes in Medieval times.”
That’s really the heart of the concept. It’s kind of like the Magnificent Seven. And I think we’re looking to appeal to people who liked Dragon Age, who enjoy Game of Thrones — that really hardcore, gritty, bloodthirsty but also very passionate and very character-ful sword and sorcery fantasy…
…The team the Demon leads will be made up of both classic DC heroes and familiar faces.”
It will be an accessible multi-genre romp set in Medieval DC:
“and it’s amazing how easily the superhero thing just fits into the sword and sorcery thing. My problem with a lot of sword and sorcery books from the far distant past is they’re all brown-colored. You know? There’s mud and there’s brown fur loincloths. And everything’s either gray or brown.
This is going to be a lot more colorful than that. I think if there’s one thing Dragon Age has shown us is that sword and sorcery fantasy can be brightly colored…
It’s an epic that anybody can join at the ground floor. New readers can start here. You need no knowledge of these characters, of the DC Universe, of Medieval anything or anything else to enjoy #1, and that’s going to be our policy for the start of every arc as well.
It’s really a jumping-in comic. If you like this sort of thing, then you will like this.”
Source: Newsarama
