Speaking with Marvel.com Tom Brevoort and Axel Alonso talk Avengers: Endless Wartime.
Marvel.com: Warren Ellis is enjoying the success of a NYT best-selling prose novel. Was he a hard sell to convince helping Marvel re-launch the original graphic novel line?
Tom Brevoort: Axel was the one who convinced Warren to sign on board, and I’m honestly not certain quite how he did it, given Warren’s massive workload. I suspect that it appealed to him to be the first one into this particular pool, and that the format of building a story that was constructed to be an OGN first and foremost rather than a serialized project was appealing to him. Reading over the work he’s done, he makes it all seem so natural and effortless; Warren understands how to pace a story with precision like few others do.
Axel Alonso: In the many years I've known Warren, one thing has become clear to me: He looks forward to the day when writers have the freedom to tell long-form stories that don't have to adhere to the constraints of the monthly comic book format. That said I figured Warren would appreciate the creative freedom of the OGN format, understand the significance of this moment, and perhaps want to help us start off with a bang—which he certainly has provided
Marvel.com: When editing a veteran creator like Ellis, is it vital to take a hands off attitude, or does he seek editorial input?
Tom Brevoort: I tend to treat each script in the same essential way, which is to approach it on its own terms regardless of who may have written it, and to offer suggestions and feedback based upon what I find upon reading it. The one real difference in this case is that, because of the length of the piece and the time needed to complete it, at several points I was going to be reading only a portion of the script. That’s where it’s good to have somebody as accomplished as Warren in the driver’s seat. Not only did he lay out his structure right at the outset, but he’s never deviated from it, and I can count on him to provide the necessary set-up/punch line construction to any plot elements he may be including in the tale. That all said, if I saw something that I didn’t think worked or which could be made better in some way, I wouldn’t hesitate to suggest it. Most of that heavy lifting was done at the very early stages, though, when Warren was first formulating the story he wanted to tell.
Marvel.com: The Avengers team is facing a “force of pure evil.” Was part of the appeal of garnering Ellis for this project the prospect of seeing what the writer can conjure up to effectively convey such darkness?
Tom Brevoort: Well, we didn’t have that darkness until Warren was on the project, since it’s his story that created it, so no, not in the sense that you mean. What was appealing was in seeing what Warren would do given the broad parameters of telling a modern, in-continuity Avengers story that was simultaneously new reader friendly and stand-alone, and functioned like a motion picture with an unlimited special effects budget. It’s not dissimilar to the kinds of stories that Warren wrote when he was working on The Authority a decade ago; very big, very brash adventures steeped in cutting edge science and completely inviting to a reader unfamiliar with the cast involved. He’s very, very good at doing this.
Marvel.com: Will AVENGERS: ENDLESS WARTIME be the sole graphic novel release for 2013, or are there plans for other titles?
Axel Alonso: This is just the beginning
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AVENGERS: ENDLESS WARTIME will be available October 2, 2013