Q&A 28: A few short questions

John Smith asks:
"Just something I'm curious about: In a previous Q&A you mentioned that you had the opportunity to work on a few video games but it didn't fit into your schedule at the time. Are you at liberty to say what any of those games were?"

John, I am sorry to say that i can't remember what they were. They were narrative indie games from European studios. The people involved wanted my storytelling skills, and seemed very nice. Alas, I already have a full-time job working on my own stuff, so as much as I'd like to play in someone else's sandbox, it's not a very good idea in terms of my general wellbeing.

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Pierpaolo Di Camillo wants to know:
"Any hope of seeing the Solvers-Steeple crossover someday? The thought of poor, older Mrs. Clovis in prison waiting for someone to discharge her makes me very sad."

I have some notes for this story already. There were plans for more issues of Steeple before the OGN series was cancelled at Dark Horse. But I hope to at least do this one. I was going through the later Steeple stories recently after a long time not thinking about those characters, and felt very positive about the work I did. It seems obvious to me, and I suspect you too, that only Lottie can unpick the disasters that came in Steeple #20. Though this time I think Glenn and Claire should help too. So I will probably have a go at writing this at some point in the autumn.

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Alex Finch asks:
"Is there a mainstream US comics character that you'd like to write, and if so, what story would you like to tell?"

I think I did it with my X-Men story, and my Giant Days x Batman comic. The pleasure's more in writing and drawing those characters to fit my rules of what a comic should be, than satisfying the mainstream US comics industry, which is quite out of step with my reading taste and storytelling style. The pleasure I got out of drawing Wolverine and Kitty Pryde, over and over again, was not small. I thought a few years ago that I could do a good Spitfire & The Troubleshooters. That's a comic no one really cares about. But only for my own amusement, not for Marvel. Though when they were interested in me working for them, that's a title I asked about. The other thing I think I could turn up and just do is Superman. Which takes me onto the last of the short questions...

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KECG asks:
"Do you think the writers of the new Superman movie were referencing Bad Machinery when Lois referred to Mr Terrific's t-balls as 'circles'?"

I assume you are making a reference here to the cricket match in Giant Days #50 (below). I like to think that this could indeed be history's most oblique reference; I mean, it's not out of the realms of possibility. Calling any sports ball "the circle" is one of my more gnomic (and long-standing) bon mots. I don't think I stole it from anyone else.