{"id":15688,"date":"2012-02-29T17:35:31","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T01:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/?p=15688"},"modified":"2012-03-17T17:41:24","modified_gmt":"2012-03-18T00:41:24","slug":"comic-book-day-getting-closure-with-garth-ennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/?p=15688","title":{"rendered":"Comic Book Day: Getting Closure with Garth Ennis"},"content":{"rendered":"

From The Nerdist<\/a><\/p>\n

If you’ve read a comic with hard drinking, heavy cursing and a staggering body count, there’s a good chance Garth Ennis was behind it. His twisted take on the superhero genre,\u00a0The Boys<\/a><\/em>, may be coming to an end, but\u00a0the Irish writer has plenty to say<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0about tackling an iconic comic property, Hollywood, and why he hates superheroes so much.<\/p>\n

Nerdist News:<\/strong>\u00a0You seem to have something of a penchant for turning the superhero paradigm on its head, especially with\u00a0The Boys<\/em>. What is it about the genre that makes you want to approach it from this angle?
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\nGarth Ennis:<\/strong>\u00a0A total lack of respect.<\/p>\n

NN: After a powerhouse run,\u00a0The Boys<\/em>\u00a0is coming to a close. Do you feel a sense of relief, an eagerness to move on to the next project or are you sad to see it go?
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\nGE:\u00a0<\/strong>In this instance, I’m a little sad because I know I’ll never write Butcher and Hughie again. When I finished\u00a0Preacher<\/em>\u00a0I was happy to walk away, job done, nothing more to be said- and everyone got their happy ending. This time… you’ll have to wait and see<\/p>\n

NN: Next up, you\u2019ll be taking on a comics legend,\u00a0The Shadow<\/em>. Is it a challenge to tackle such an enduring character? What do you think gives a character like this staying power?
\n<\/strong>
\nGE:\u00a0<\/strong>It’s no more of a challenge than anything else, because I never really consider that side of things. He survives because he’s a great-looking, mysterious, slightly sinister – and occasionally lethal – character.<\/p>\n

Be sure to click through to read\u00a0our full interview with Garth Ennis<\/strong><\/a>, in which truth bombs are dropped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From The Nerdist If you’ve read a comic with hard drinking, heavy cursing and a staggering body count, there’s a good chance Garth Ennis was behind it. His twisted take on the superhero genre,\u00a0The Boys, may be coming to an end, but\u00a0the Irish writer has plenty to say\u00a0about tackling an iconic comic property, Hollywood, and … Continue reading “Comic Book Day: Getting Closure with Garth Ennis”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20,22,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-arts-culture","category-comics","category-interviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}