Andy Diggle on writing for the trade

Over at his blog, Silent Dragon and Losers writer Andy Diggle announced that entertainment gossip site, Ain't-it-Cool-News.com had named him the best action writer in comics. But the praise heaped on Diggle came with a footnote -- the AICN correspondent didn't think Diggle's latest, Silent Dragon was bringing enough of the moves and mayhem. This made the prolific writer muse a bit about "decompressed" storytelling:

It's funny - I've always tried to throw as much wall-to-wall action as possible into The Losers - and as a result, a few readers have said they'd like to see a bit more character development in there. With Silent Dragon, I spent most of the first issue setting up the characters and their relationships, and now people want more action. What's a poor writer to do... ?

But don't panic; the action is coming. Boy, is it ever. Silent Dragon has far and away the most dynamic action scenes I've ever written. You just don't see very much of them in the first issue, any more than the first twenty minutes of Die Hard or Aliens could be described as a 'white-knuckle thrill-ride'.