12/7/2023 0 Comments Download jeff lemire bloodshot![]() ![]() Tate came in and wrote the Black Hammer encyclopedia for me and then acted as my assistant while I was working on the Black Hammer TV show for Legendary. And he began to share his own writing with me and just really really impressed me, so we have been working together a lot since then. ![]() It became obvious very quickly that Tate and I really gelled and had a lot in common creatively and he sort of became my right-hand man while working on Essex. Some backstory here, to better explain…I had met Tate a few years ago while he fresh out of school and interning at First Generation Films, the production company that is producing the Essex County TV show with me. ![]() So I just tend to follow my gut and do the projects that speak to me or seem meaningful to me and when this idea came up to tell a part of Barbie's backstory against the HIV crisis, it was actually Tate who latched onto it and requested to explore it more. It's impossible to navigate the current cultural landscape as an artist and make decisions that please everyone. Well, I don't know what to make of the "current climate" to be honest. In the current climate, does Red Planet happen without an LGBTQIA+ creator attached to the project? While doing that and sort of grafting Barbalien's backstory against some real historical events in what would have been 1980's America, the HIV crisis came up and it seemed like a real opportunity to intertwine his story with those events and find something poignant and meaningful in it. The story itself felt right for a few reasons, first I had been diving deep into each Black Hammer character's history and backstory as part of the development work I was doing for the Legendary TV adaptation. Well, to be honest, the book was set to launch earlier before COVID, so I don't think the date has much significance, really. When it comes to Red Planet, what makes 2020 the ideal time to release this title? ![]()
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