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Stan Lee’s Starborn
Chris Roberson is the writer of such comics as iZombie, Cinderella: From Fabletown With Love, as well as Do Androids dream of electric Sheep?: dust To Dust. This month, he composes BOOM!’s new Stan Lee’s Starborn. Westfield’s Roger Ash contacted Roberson to discover more about this new series.
Westfield: exactly how did you ended up being included with Stan Lee’s Starborn?
Chris Roberson: I satisfied the gang at BOOM! Studios at the 2009 SDCC, as well as managing editor Matt Gagnon as well as I ended up speaking late into the little hours about our preferred science fiction writers on the last night of the convention. That lead to me composing the prequel to Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids dream Of electric Sheep, in addition to to one more job that’s still in advancement as well as as well hush-hush to discuss.
I’d heard about the line of books they were doing with Stan Lee a while back, as well as understood that mark Waid was going to be composing one of the books as well as overseeing the line. then I heard that one of my good friends (and fellow member of the Clockwork Storybook composing group), Paul Cornell, was going to be doing the second book, so I *knew* it was shaping as much as be something quite darned cool. A few months ago, Matt contacted me as well as asked if I’d be thinking about composing the third book. I didn’t hesitate for a second, however *jumped* at the chance. who *wouldn’t*, for a possibility to work with Stan Lee, as well as to compose together with talents like Waid as well as Cornell?!
Westfield: exactly how much get in touch with do you have with Stan?
Roberson: getting to satisfy Stan in person (and have breakfast with him, no less!) was one of the highlights of this year’s SDCC. however on Starborn most of my communication has been with mark Waid, who is editing the line as well as has been satisfying with Stan regularly. (The simple truth that mark Waid is calling *me* to tell me what Stan Lee believes of *my* concepts is something that my fanboy brain is still having a bit difficulty wrapping itself around…)
Westfield: who are the primary characters in the book?
Roberson: Benjamin Warner is a dreamer. He works in a mind-numbing office job, however his thoughts are always somewhere else. since he was a kid, he’s been making up stories about an extraterrestrial civilization far across the galaxy, called the “Human Civilization.” He’s tried to turn his concepts in novels, however so far he hasn’t had any type of success convincing publishers to buy them. however he hasn’t provided up hope yet.
Then his whole world falls apart when things that seem to be directly out of his made-up stories begin attacking him in the genuine world, as well as Benjamin is entrusted to only two choices—either his stories are somehow *real*, or he’s gone crazy.
Complicating matters is the unforeseen arrival of his youth sweetheart, Tara Takamoto, the girl-next-door. however *she* is quickly exposed to be a shape-shifting extraterrestrial warrior, who understands *far* more about what’s truly going on that Benjamin might have ever imagined. as well as that’s when things get even *more* complicated.
Westfield: are there any type of teasers you can share about the story?
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Roberson: In the stories that Benjamin writes, there are different alien types on the different planets of a far-off solar system, however they are collectively understood as the “Human Civilization” since it is the humans of the world “Homeworld” that are the ruling class.
The aliens who have come hunting for Benjamin as our story opens, though, refer to their solar system just as the “Civilization,” as well as humans are now relegated to an oppressed underclass on one isolated planet.
What occurred in the interim, as well as the reason why the humans are no longer in charge, is much of the driving thrust of the very first few story arcs.
Westfield: You’re working with artist Khary Randolph on the book. What can you tell us about your partnership with him?
Roberson: We’re in the extremely early stages, as well as so far the only stuff of Khary’s I’ve seen for the series yet has been rough layouts, however I was already familiar with his work as well as was *delighted* when they told me we’d be working together on the book. I can’t *wait* to see what he comes up with!
Westfield: are there any type of other jobs you’re working on that you’d like to mention?
Roberson: I’m still difficult at work on my creator-owned series with Mike Allred for Vertigo, iZombie, the very first arc of which just wrapped up. It’s about a zombie woman detective as well as her good friends in the far-flung land of Eugene, Oregon.
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I’m likewise completing work on Do Androids dream Of electric Sheep?: dust To Dust, the prequel to Do Androids dream Of electric Sheep? for BOOM! Studios, as well as have just started scripting the second Cinderella miniseries spinning out of expense Willingham’s Fables, Cinderella: Fables Are Forever. At this extremely moment, though, I’m satisfying a youth aspiration by composing a two-part arc on DC’s Superman/Batman (featuring the “DC One Million” versions of the characters from the line-wide crossover that grant Morrison orchestrated years ago), the very first part of which comes out in December of this year.
Westfield: any type of closing comments?
Roberson: working with people like mark Waid, Stan Lee, as well as Mike Allred, as well as complying with in the footsteps of Philip K. Dick, expense Willingham, as well as everybody who ever worked on World’s Finest? Seriously, I’m the luckiest youngster in comics!