In an excerpt from the interview, Verheiden offers the following:
"Falling Skies the TV show was created Bob Rodat and Steven Spielberg. The comic proceeded from the thought that it'd be fun to do a comic. We all love comics, and it would be a chance for us, with the online comic, to explore the world of Falling Skies before we got into the [TV] series. The series begins six or seven months after the invasion devastated the world, so the comic goes back a month or two before the invasion and shows how the characters got to where they are. That was part of the fun of doing the comic. It lets us explore aspects of the series that went on before the show started.
"You will be able to see where they were a few months before the show starts. There will be some hints as to what the invasion will be like for these people. One of the conceits of the show, one of the things we don't do, is that you don't see the invasion happen. There are no flashbacks. During the invasion the military was taken out, mass communication was taken out. Things were taken out so the characters have their own take on what the invasion was like for them and we reference that a bit more and we also see how the characters meet-up.
"The show is a very visual show. Very visual storytelling. Obviously it's about an alien invasion. We have all the fun of having space ships, aliens, and action. There are some differences, though, between comics and television. The two are very different, you can get into peoples' heads a bit more in comics. But the fact that it's a sci-fi story gives people a lot of elements to enjoy in both."
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