JAMES ROBINSON HABLA DE SUS FANTASTIC FOUR Y ALL-NEW INVADERS

Ha pasado antes, con Millar, que sus entrevistas resultaron más interesantes que su trabajo en la serie.

Pero ciertamente Robinson suena apasionado, y eso es un muy buen augurio sobre su próxima etapa.

Destaco algunos fragmentos de esta entrevista, comenzando por su lógica crítica a los autores que llegan a una serie y olvidan todo lo que ha pasado antes:

"However, one of the things I hate is when a writer comes on a book and refuses to acknowledge anything that happened before and ignores or gets rid of the prior continuity. I think FANTASTIC FOUR has had a tremendous run of amazingly talented writers and artists. It’s almost insane how good. You had Matt Fraction and Mike Allred, you had Jonathan Hickman’s epic run. You also had Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch, and Mark Waid and Mike Wieringo; [Walt] Simonson, [John] Byrne, [Steve] Englehart, [Gerry] Conway, Roy Thomas, of course then back to [Stan] Lee and [Jack] Kirby."

"I know I’m missing a load of people but they’re the ones that spring to mind from the immediate past. Mine and Leonard's storyline is a pretty big epic, that picks up on and ties into the story arcs and runs from all those writer/artists all the way back to Lee and Kirby. Think of it like a series that will take the Fantastic Four into the future with an exciting new storyline and new interactions with different things and characters and danger and drama. It will also not forget what’s come before and the work that’s been done by all the amazing writers and artists that have come before."

"I won’t be using the Torch a little bit; I'm going to make him a major character. I’m going to be using all of the characters, obviously. The core group will be Captain America, Namor, the Winter Solider, and Jim Hammond, the Human Torch. And for anyone that reads this and worries that they’re not going to see Spitfire, Union Jack, Blazing Skull, or whoever, you will get to see these characters. I just want to refocus on this core group first; but having said that, Captain America has his own book. Namor has always been a well-defined character. Winter Soldier is obviously coming back into the spotlight, being one of the main aspects of the new Captain America movie."

"The one less developed core member of the Invaders is the original Human Torch. I’m really going to focus on Jim Hammond and making him into a great Marvel hero. He is the first Marvel super hero after all and the fact that he’s always been blown up or deactivated, killed off or depowered is a shocking way to treat him. [Laughs] You should add that I say that I said that with a chuckle of humor. I’m always fearful whenever I do these interviews, that when there’s a little bit of sarcasm or humor in what you say, it can come across as arrogant or angry. But anyway, I’m trying to turn him into this great hero and I’m already having a lot of fun doing it. For instance yesterday I was at the gym and I had this brainwave. I think when you go to the gym and exercise, all the blood that’s being pumped into your brain really kind of gets it going and I had this amazing twist that no one will see coming for him that I’m going to put in Invaders down the line."

"In comic books especially, if you adhere too much to how characters will be in the future, it can straightjacket you. If everybody was completely obsessed with Old Man Logan or Future Imperfect, or for that matter, you have the Thing’s future in the Hickman run and you have an old Invisible Woman in the Millar run; you have these things that sometimes butt heads with each other and conflict with each other. When you consider there’s Kang and Immortus and all these other elements in time, you have to just write the story you want to tell."

"But having said that, the story that I’m doing is set in the present. I’m not touching time travel, I want to be upfront about that now. I think between Jonathan Hickman's run, and all the time travel in the Matt Fraction run too, we’ve had enough of that for now and I want to focus on Ben Grimm in the here and now, which will involve the reigniting of the romance with Alicia Masters and also his trial for murder."

"One of the things that’s happened over the years when you look at a lot of the Marvel characters, and this isn’t a criticism, just an observation, as characters are drawn into conflict with the Avengers or this character or that character, they stop being a particular character’s villains and just become a villain in the Marvel Universe. For instance, I was just reading some of Dan Slott’s Spider-Man, which of course is excellent, and he has that one where the Sinister Six is fighting the Intelligencia, where you have the Red Ghost and the Mad Thinker. Now they're there in a Spider-Man comic, yet they are both definitely Fantastic Four villains. And you know, the Wizard, and all these other characters."

"One of the things you’re going to be seeing from the person who is pulling the strings of the Fantastic Four’s downfall, is basically going to be sending different combinations/versions of the Frightful Four at the FF. It’s my way of basically bringing in every single Fantastic Four villain I can find as well as stealing some villains from other heroes that haven’t been used lately. You’ll be surprised, if you think about, how many villains were Fantastic Four villains originally, and I will hopefully remind people of that."