07-25-2004, 09:38 AM
Independent: Dusten Nguyen Panel
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Dustin Nguyen, who is moving from his run on Batman to teaming with Ed Brubaker on The Authority: Revolution, said the new book is "really the same characters, but going in a different direction."
"We're going to explore a lot of their past," Nguyen said in a panel devoted to him -- and hosted by Jim Lee -- at Comic-Con International on Thursday.
"We're going to have the origin of the Carrier, which is one thing I was really interested in. We're going to explore its origin and the people that created it.
"It will be a pre-Authority story in some sense, but we'll balance that out. There will be back-and-forth with flashbacks and the future."
The book, written by Ed Brubaker, starts with "Come the Revolution," the first part of a 12-issue arc.
Here's how WildStorm describes the first issue, which hits stands on Oct. 27:
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"Following the dramatic events of Coup D'Etat, the Authority has settled into its role as governing body of the United States. The other major world powers have adjusted to the regime change and are slowly coming to terms with the meaning it has for the future. But many Americans are unhappy to lose their inalienable rights. Can a second American Revolution be far behind?"
This is Nguyen's second crack at The Authority, following a fill-in run with Tom Peyer, where he said he trying to maintain the widescreen approach of Bryan Hitch and the characterizations of Frank Quitely.
And now?
"I don't know how to compare," he said. "This time I'll certainly get to draw The Authority. And I've grown as an artist. Hopefully, it will be better."
Nguyen said his work on Authority will be more "mainstream super-hero" than his work on Batman.
It definitely won't be so dark and gloomy as Batman," he said. "And I'm always trying to better myself, and I hope that comes through."
Nguyen said during his Batman run he enjoyed drawing Robin so much that he's doing the covers for Robin #129-131 (#129 is shown here).
He also said that enjoyed working with Joe Casey on the recently discontinued Wildcats 3.0 and hopes to work with both the writer and the characters again. He said that he and Casey had 16 more Wildcats issues plotted -- "It's the first time I've had a hand in the plot," he said -- and that he would have like to have done with more with Zealot and that Grifter would have recovered and gotten out of the wheelchair.
Dustin Nguyen, who is moving from his run on Batman to teaming with Ed Brubaker on The Authority: Revolution, said the new book is "really the same characters, but going in a different direction.""We're going to explore a lot of their past," Nguyen said in a panel devoted to him -- and hosted by Jim Lee -- at Comic-Con International on Thursday.
"We're going to have the origin of the Carrier, which is one thing I was really interested in. We're going to explore its origin and the people that created it.
"It will be a pre-Authority story in some sense, but we'll balance that out. There will be back-and-forth with flashbacks and the future."
The book, written by Ed Brubaker, starts with "Come the Revolution," the first part of a 12-issue arc.
Here's how WildStorm describes the first issue, which hits stands on Oct. 27:
"Following the dramatic events of Coup D'Etat, the Authority has settled into its role as governing body of the United States. The other major world powers have adjusted to the regime change and are slowly coming to terms with the meaning it has for the future. But many Americans are unhappy to lose their inalienable rights. Can a second American Revolution be far behind?"This is Nguyen's second crack at The Authority, following a fill-in run with Tom Peyer, where he said he trying to maintain the widescreen approach of Bryan Hitch and the characterizations of Frank Quitely.
And now?
"I don't know how to compare," he said. "This time I'll certainly get to draw The Authority. And I've grown as an artist. Hopefully, it will be better."
Nguyen said his work on Authority will be more "mainstream super-hero" than his work on Batman.
It definitely won't be so dark and gloomy as Batman," he said. "And I'm always trying to better myself, and I hope that comes through."
Nguyen said during his Batman run he enjoyed drawing Robin so much that he's doing the covers for Robin #129-131 (#129 is shown here).
He also said that enjoyed working with Joe Casey on the recently discontinued Wildcats 3.0 and hopes to work with both the writer and the characters again. He said that he and Casey had 16 more Wildcats issues plotted -- "It's the first time I've had a hand in the plot," he said -- and that he would have like to have done with more with Zealot and that Grifter would have recovered and gotten out of the wheelchair.