We sit down for the SIXTH time with writer Erica Schultz in advance of the release of Rat City. Get comfy, folks, this is our longest creator interview yet – almost TWO HOURS LONG!
- Intro
- Background
- What would it take to get you on a Marvel ongoing?
- Dream character & artist/team?
- X-23: Deadly Regenesis
- Why go back to this period of Laura’s life?
- Created Haymaker, a transmasc non-binary MMA fighter, as the main villain – how did that come about? (21:20)
- Hallows Eve (28:31)
- New evolution for Janine Godbe/Elizabeth Tyne/Mary Bailey/Sarah Porter
- Powered masks: did you come up with the masks first and then their impact on story, or was it “what’s the story?” and then work the masks in?
- What If: Dark Moon Knight (34:08)
- How did you select this particular jumping off point? Moon Knight vs. Bushman happens so many times, why this one?
- Nice to see Marlene take an active role in a MK story, even if it’s not necessarily clean
- Daredevil: Gang War (50:06)
- Previously written Matt as Daredevil, now Elektra: how to write legacy characters with different voices
- What’s it like working on an event tie-in? How much freedom do you have for story you want to tell within obvious constraints, how much editorial oversight, etc?
- Rat City (77:15)
- How did you get this gig?
- Spawn cover for Deadliest Bouquet, now an actual Spawn book!
- What led to this expansion of the Spawn universe?
- How much do you have to understand Spawn to follow this story?
- Love the commentary on soldiers being chewed up & spit out, flaws of capitalism, etc.
- Any new stories coming up?
- Blood Hunters & Darth Maul Black White & Red: – more Marvel mini/tie-ins
- Ending
- Plugs for social
References:
- Erica’s website
- Erica’s interview on ITK – Anthony (34:19)
- Key & Peele – Text Message Confusion – Erica (57:10)
- Dirty Dancing “I carried a watermelon” – Erica (65:17)
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