American - Writer | January 28, 1973 -
The first big long-form work I did in comics was 'Scalped' for Vertigo, which ran for 60 issues.
Jason Aaron
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'Scalped' No. 1 was only the third comic script I'd ever written. I really learned a lot about writing on the fly with that series.
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You gotta trust your artist. I love writing pages without dialogue, which seems weird, I guess. But few things are as powerful in comics as a really strong silent page.
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For me, especially with the villain, it's not very interesting to write a guy who is just 100% bad.
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To me, the more interesting villains are the ones you can, in some sense, relate to or sympathize with at times. Maybe you sympathize with them one moment; the next moment, they do something truly atrocious, and you feel bad you ever sympathized with them in the first place.
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From the get-go, 'Original Sin' was always as much a Nick Fury story as anything else.
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I don't go back and read my own stuff too much, but there are times where I second-guess myself and said I could have done something different, like a line of dialogue.
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Overall, I'm happy how 'Original Sin' has come together. It's an amalgam of all I've done at Marvel, mixing the gritty, violent 'Punisher Max' stuff with the zany, light-hearted 'Wolverine & The X-Men' work.
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I'm just trying to create characters and tell stories.
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'Scalped' is representative of the kinds of stories I like to read and I like to watch.
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Plot-wise, there's nothing particularly groundbreaking about 'Scalped.' It starts off as something we've seen plenty of times before: the story of an undercover FBI agent infiltrating a criminal organization and the story of the guy at the head of that organization. The twist was always the setting: a modern-day Native American reservation.
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I've always been fascinated with the history of the Plains Indians and the history of the American Indian Movement in the '70s.
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