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03/28/2014 2:45pm

‘These Have To Be Stories About People We Care About’: Kelly Sue Deconnick On Dark Horse’s New ‘Prometheus’ Comics

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Kelly Sue Deconnick On Dark Horse’s New ‘Prometheus’ Comics

By Matt D. Wilson

Dark Horse Comics is bringing back its Alien comics franchise in a big way this year with a set of four mini-series set immediately after the most recent movie, Prometheus. The company has revealed the names of the four series writers: Aliens will be by Chris Roberson, Predators will be written by Joshua Williamson, Paul Tobin will write the Prometheus series, and Aliens vs. Predator will be by Christopher Sebela.

The company’s been teasing a “fifth writer” on the franchise, and she’s actually holding down the position you might call head writer: Kelly Sue DeConnick. DeConnick will be writing a double-sized “wrap-up” issue to close out the initial run of books, and she oversaw a lot of the goings-on in the writers’ room as the series were being put together. We chatted with her by phone to find out how that experience was different from other comics writing jobs, and just what readers can expect from the first full-on Aliens/Predator/Prometheus comics crossover.

ComicsAlliance: To start, I wanted to ask what got you interested in doing a comic about Prometheus. Licensed comics aren’t always something that you hear about a creator doing at the stage where you are in your career, where you’re established and doing a lot of creator-owned work. So what attracted you to this property, this licensed project?

Kelly Sue DeConnick: I went to my council of consigliere. I went to [Matt] Fraction and [Brian Michael] Bendis and Warren Ellis about the gig. I was really dismissive of licensed properties. Ellis particular was like, oh contraire. “The guys who did the Alien comics for Dark Horse, [Mark Verheiden] made his bones doing the Alien comic.”

There was that, and the thing about it that was super tempting for me on a personal level was they were doing it—the Alien, Prometheus, AVP, and Predator books—were all going to be done in a writers’ room. They were offering me a semi-editorial position in that writers’ room. And I had been jealous, frankly, of Matt [Fraction]’s room experiences. Both at Marvel and in the TV work that he’d done. I wanted to see, what’s that like? Can I do it? I think I’d be good at it! Let’s find out.

Read the rest of the interview at Comics Alliance!

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