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"No, no, it's not bad to want to kill Lex Luthor. The man constantly tries to take over the world. He's killed many, many, many people. He deserves to be in jail and he keeps getting out. -- Tom King

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I think a mistake that’s made in comics is writing an issue one or an issue two or issue three thinking “wow this is good but this is just a setup for our excellent issue nine.” Or, “once people read this in the trade man this is gonna really burn fire.” Like for me, every single issue has to be its own thing, has to stand alone, has to have a cliffhanger has to have a theme. -- Tom King

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laughing_tree

G'nort was super fun. I like doing him as the guy sitting in his trailer drinking too much beer, kind of like the big puppy dog. He's trying to do good, but he's just too lazy to do it. It was like the big sit out. -- Tom King

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laughing_tree

Each issue is devoted to one of the [JLI] members or two of the members. And in each issue, it's my job to — almost like an old DC Comics Presents or a Marvel Two-in-One — to present a hero in a new light and tell you what's interesting about this hero, and what's fundamentally flawed about them. Hopefully, I pull it off, but it's easy when each of these characters has so much depth. -- Tom King

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laughing_tree

It’s a different perspective on superheroes. He’s probably inspired by, you know Mark Waid’s Kingdom Come or Alex Ross’s Marvels where it’s like, take the whole superhero universe and twist it and look at it from someone who’s looking up at people flying. So in that way, it’s a look at the entire universe itself. -- Tom King

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laughing_tree

If you watch John Wick and you think he's justified after killing a puppy, I don't see how you could watch the DC universe and think Lex Luthor should be so high in mighty [...] So yeah, I don't think wanting Lex Luthor dead is bad. Now, aiming for Lex Luthor and hitting Human Target is just a uniquely JLI thing to do, so that's why I enjoyed it. -- Tom King

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laughing_tree

I don't think of any of my books as being out of continuity. I think of them -- it's like Born Again. You do not see Born Again immediately reflected in Avengers. You don't see Captain America all sad about the flag in Avengers 250 or whatever it was, the next day. But that had happened, right? -- Tom King

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laughing_tree

This is a sexy comic. In a nice adult way. There’s a deep romance, it’s the kind of comic that’ll turn some heads. I think DC is now finally embracing the sexiness of its characters with male and female. Way back in the day, Tim [Seeley] and I began working on Grayson for the first time. They were like, “DC Comics is not sexy in some ways. And in here Dick Grayson was a sex symbol. Can you take that out?” And finally, I feel like a decade later, people are finally making that the mantra so that this goes in that. -- Tom King

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laughing_tree

When I think of the DC universe I think of it wrong. I don’t think of it as it currently is, even though I’ve been writing in the universe, probably consistently longer than almost any other writer now. But I’m still thinking of the Justice League Unlimited, I still think of it as a bunch of guys and women who go into a satellite at the end of the day, and they get coffee, and they share their stories and five of them get picked for the mission. And I know none of that exists in continuity. But I will never erase that from my mind of what that’s what the DC universe is. And so to me, this is an exploration of that world from a guy who will get an invite to the satellite but can’t stay. -- Tom King

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laughing_tree

This is just a genre mystery story. This is a fun story. It's got a lot of humor in it. It's got a whole issue dedicated to Booster Gold, for God's sake. -- Tom King

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laughing_tree

My seven-year-old son, his favorite superhero is Ice. It's his favorite superhero in the whole world. Every day at dinner, throughout this whole pandemic, we talked about — I'm writing constantly, and what are you writing for the day? And my son always says, 'Why aren't you working with Ice? When are you going to do Ice? Please do Ice.' So when I came up with this premise, which involved a murder and suspects, I decided that the suspect should be part of the JLI, just so I could put Ice in the book... -- Tom King

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laughing_tree

I thought it was a joke. I did this joke tweet about Human Target and how I would write him as a guy staring out the window and then getting shot and saying, “Oh, I was the Human Target” and falling off dead. And an editor called, he’s like, “Do you really want to do a Human Target book?” -- Tom King

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superboyprime

"Any aggressive or hostile action towards Krakoans, or the impeding of their transit system will elicit a response. Don’t start none, won’t be none." - Gerry Duggan

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laughing_tree

The idea started life as a suggestion for what to do for Marvel Comics #1000, but clearly we went a different way. But I still thought it was a fun idea. What Amazing Spider-Man Full Circle is then is a Round Robin. Which is to say, the writers were assigned in random order and their goal was to tell a wild and outrageous Spider-Man story—with nothing planned beforehand. Nobody knew who would be writing when, nor even exactly who else was a part of the story. So the goal in each case was to pick up the cliffhanger that the last writer left and then carry the story forward. The final chapter was group-written by everybody. -- Tom Brevoort

We basically tried to sabotage each other. -- Nick Spencer

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The Human Target #12 - "Kill"

The Human Target #11 - "Kill Kill Kill Kill"

"BOO!"

The Human Target #10 - "Then Kill"

The Human Target #9 - "And When I Have Stol'n Upon These Sons-In-Law"

The Human Target #8 - "I'll Put 't In Proof"

The Human Target #7-8 - "To Shoe a Troop of Horse With Felt"

The Human Target #6 - "It Were a Delicate Stratagem"

The Human Target #5-6 - "This Is a Good Block"

The Human Target #4 - "To This Great Stage of Fools!"

The Human Target #3-4 - "That We Are Come"

The Human Target #2-3 - "We Cry"

The Human Target #1-2 - "When We Are Born"

Carnage: Black, White & Blood #3

Savage Avengers #0

The Amazing Spider-Man: Full Circle

Doctor Strange: The Best Defense #1

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