Riding on the NextWave

Sorry for the delay this morning -- err, afternoon. When it's your best friend' s birthday the night before, it's hard to wake too early.

Anyway, over at Newsarama, Warren Ellis talks to Chris Arrant about his new Marvel ongoing, NextWave (with bigtime artist Stuart Immonen):

“I think it started with an interview with Brian Michael Bendis I read someplace, wherein he stated he'd hoped that his Avengers Disassembled/New Avengers work would trip off a conversation about team books, approaches to them, their place in commercial comics right now, etc. Which I'm not sure ever happened, but still. I got to thinking about this in the pub one day.”

“Obviously, it couldn't be done with Big Name characters, because they were all under someone else's control. It could be done with original characters as a creator-owned work, but, really, something like that should be done through a big company. I didn't want to do Authority Part Two -- although Authority was, of course, populated by B-list characters, B-list locations.”