Undiscovered Country #3

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"The pressure of this project was to create the best story that we could, that would live up to what Scott and I thought it could be when we first started kicking around the premise. The high concept of this, the United States sealing itself off for thirty years with an expedition coming in to see what its become, is enormous. It could be anything. It took all of what we had and are continuing to give to make it live up to that in a way that we both feel good about, and that Cammo feels good about. When you’re doing an artistic project, that’s the most important thing. Is it going to be like The Walking Dead? Is it going to have that kind of life? Is it going to sell those numbers? We wanted it to do well, we wanted to be able to tell the story we want to tell, and we didn’t want to lose a bunch of money on it. But in terms of are we gonna measure up to other successful Image projects, I don’t think that ever really crossed our mind. I’m not being disingenuous, I mean that. We really wanted to make the best book we could that felt like a good collaboration for me, Scott, and Cammo. We had no idea The Walking Dead was ending, and then when we found out it was gonna end right before Undiscovered Country #1 was gonna drop, and both books are about this travelogue through a vastly different America, we’re like, “Whoa, that’s some interesting timing.” But we weren’t gloating or gleeful, Robert [Kirkman] is amazing and did incredible things that changed the comic medium forever, specifically indie and Image Comics forever. We’re just proud to be putting out a book under the same banner as The Walking Dead, and we’ll see where it goes."

- Charles Soule




10 pages of 30

Comments

[bradygirl_12]

I dunno, if your explanation is longer than the text in the book, you're trying too hard.

[nyadnar17]

Well Props to this all being the governments fault instead of the private sector I guess.