Check that out below, along with a brief excerpt fromNoble#1.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What excited you guys about working onNoble?
I didn’t want to write a book about a black character protecting the neighborhood.
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I wanted this to be a book that didn’t have any limits.
you might see in the first issue.
A lot of the perspectives we get from comic and movies, they’re very boxed-in.
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ROGER ROBINSON:I almost feel emotional about it.
I definitely feel a huge responsibility on this book, because we need this in the mainstream.
I spent a lot of effort on this book.
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They are a product of the times they were created in.
In this day and age, superhero and science-fiction comics deserve to look like the world.
What is David’s wife Astrid’s role in this series?
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THOMAS:I’m so excited to talk about Astrid.
The more I write her, the more I love writing her.
Astrid’s journey parallels David’s in many ways.
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She’s learned David’s alive during this lost year, which we’ll explore a bit.
She’s on his trail, she’s tracking him down.
There are certain elements of her past that will help her in this quest.
It was important to me that Astrid was not just the heartbroken, affectionate wife.
ROBINSON:I feel that in the writing, the way he’s writing her character.
The majority of the first issue is an epic fight scene.
What are your action inspirations?
ROBINSON:It just plays like a movie for me.
The way Brandon writes, it was easy for me to visualize.
TEMOFONTE:I generally feed off the art.
I ask myself, what’s the story of the panel?
Then I might cover over a part of the art that doesn’t deliver the story.
ROBINSON:I think people don’t realize how much lettering and sound effects are part of the storytelling.
Sometimes there’s dialogue on the page, but a sound effect helps.
Lettering helps readers stay on the page for another few seconds.
What is the advantage of creating new characters and universes?
When you create new characters and new worlds, you create your own expectations.
When Sam Wilson becomes Captain America, you know it’s temporary.
When you work with new worlds, you don’t know where the goalposts are.
You don’t know how far they’re going to go.
There’s a lot of excitement and anxiety in that, because people are sometimes resistant to new things.
