My approach to drawing is “more is more”. When it comes to world-building and environment design, what are you going for with Justice Warriors?īC: I want Bubble city to feel like a real place, like Springfield. Justice Warriors isn’t just a world of might makes right, it’s a world of structures dictate outcomes, and we intentionally don’t offer easy answers.ĪIPT: Ben, not since Transmetropolitan have I been so captivated by a city and its people (and the refuse!). MB: I think it’s more true than the heroic narratives we’re bombarded with in movies and comics, which attempt to offer answers and model good behavior in trying circumstances.
EAGLE EYE DRAWING MOVIE
This is a product of putting our movie and comics-ravaged brains in a blender and painting pages with the results in an attempt to answer questions about our world.ĪIPT: Matt, in press materials you said this is a book about “nothing changes and how almost no one is a good guy.” How much do you believe this to be true of real life, and does Justice Warriors offer an answer? MB: One thing we’re very conscious of and embracing is the influences on this series, which come from things Ben mentioned and more. It’s a funky mix but we’re making it work. The story is pretty unique, it’s a cross between police procedurals, Ghost in the Shell, The Wire, and The Simpsons. A couple of places bit, but AHOY seemed like the right fit.ĪIPT: What were some of the influences on the story and design?īC: Design-wise it is Robert Crumb drawing a manga. MB: Yeah, Ben brought me on and we developed a comic pitch. He was hooked and we decided to do it as a comic, which we ended up pitching to AHOY.
EAGLE EYE DRAWING SERIES
I decided to try to get it off the ground as an animated series so I had reached out to Matt to see if he would be interested in writing on it if I got it off the ground. Matt has sent me a pile of great comics over the years that I am still picking through.ĪIPT: How did Justice Warriors get off the ground, and did you have this idea prior to getting this project set up at AHOY Comics?īC: Justice Warriors has been bubbling in my head for about ten years. I really fell in love with Love and Rockets recently. I decided a few years back that comics were a great way to tell stories and I have taken up reading them, as well as drawing them. Monthly comics were never a big part of my childhood, as much as movies. I read a lot of comics.īC: As a youth, I read a lot of the Far Side. My tastes have expanded greatly though, maybe too much, as I am equally obsessed with nonfiction comics, mainstream superheroes, and indie fiction from publishers like Fantagraphics. These days? Well, it’s X-Men, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Image comics. MB: I was big on X-Men and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Image comics–all things that in one way or another come back in Justice Warriors in the form of ultraviolence, big guns, urban crime, and weird mutants. It’s simply describing their employment situation.ĪIPT: To give readers a sense of your tastes, what were some comics you read as a kid, and what are some comics you read today? Matt Bors: They are warriors for justice. It tells you that the book, on one level, is an action cop story, and on another level a winking satire on Justice and society. AIPT: The elephant in the room has to be the title, right? Why is Justice Warriors the perfect fit for this title?īen Clarkson: The title is obviously a reference to the famous turn of phrase.
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