Archive for April 27th, 2010

Ed Brubaker Talks Secret Avengers, Receiving Death Threats For Writing Captain America

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

Cyriaque Lamar had an interview with Ed Brubaker about his current and upcoming projects as well as the media – and public – reaction to making elements of his Captain America book a little “too real,” so to speak:

io9 recently chatted with the incomparable Ed Brubaker about his upcoming run onSecret Avengers, the status of the Sleeper movie, and yes, the yahoos who got way too riled up about a Captain America comic.

The one element that ties all of these characters together is that they all have a certain military background, even with Valkyrie with Asgard. Beast has a history with the Avengers, and you can’t have a book like this without someone hitting up the science department. Of course, he’s going to be out in the field with these guys.

The real crux of what I’m trying to do is a team book that feels somehow different from how we’ve seen team books up to this point. This is very much about taking that pulpy espionage flavor, mixing it with a Mission Impossible vibe, and doing it with superheroes. It’s a new starting point. I’m not walking on to the X-Men or the Authority.

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