bludd61:From Blackest Night: Suicide Squad #67.I once went...

bludd61:

From Blackest Night: Suicide Squad #67.

I once went to a huge video game company’s complex, ACCLAIM (makers of the Mortal Kombat games, among others) and while I spoke mostly with the story and art people there, I did speak with some of the people doing the actual programming, and I offered the opinion that it seemed like it would be a difficult job.

And one of them said yes, it was, but that there were rewards, and that, for example, ‘right now I am doing a piece of really fun coding.’ 

That always stuck with me, that there are bits of every job that people look forward to, even the ones I would have a hard time relating to, apparently.

This is like that…I knew the moment we were assigned a Suicide Squad/Secret Six crossover that this fight was going to happen, Bronze Tiger vs. Catman. I knew it HAD to happen. Even though there were two writers, I knew I wanted to write this bit. Even though the other writer, John Ostrander, was the guy who made the Tiger cool, I WAS DYING TO WRITE THIS.

There are lots of bits in every script that are what I call, ‘necessary choreography,’ that is to say, bits of stuff that need to be included because the story calls for it, and your job is to make it interesting and not purely expository. Character needs to get in a car and drive across town? You have to make that not boring.

But the bits like this, they are the most fun, because your job really is not to mess them up, to just let them be as fun as they obviously WANT to be.

Fight between Bronze Tiger and Catman? Yes. That’s for me, thanks.