Comics Interview — Issue #071

Main Topics: She-Hulk, The Avengers / West Coast Avengers, Superman/DC continuity, Wolverine

Contents
  1. John Byrne
  2. "Up Front" (David Anthony Kraft)
interview John Byrne
Interviewed by Dwight Jon Zimmerman
John Byrne Writer/Artist, Marvel Working on: *She-Hulk*, *Avengers*, *West Coast Avengers*, *Wolverine* (#17 onward, art only)
Wide-ranging interview covering Byrne's approach to She-Hulk (fourth-wall-breaking humor, Blonde Phantom revival, her role as a DA), his plans for both Avengers titles (treating all Avengers as one unified roster, dismantling the Vision, a "Dark Scarlet Witch" arc with Magneto), and his departure from and return to Marvel after his Superman run at DC. He discusses his work on Star Brand and the New Universe, his views on the industry's drift toward "psychotic" anti-heroes versus true super-heroes, critiques of DC's mature-readers content, the Comics Code and creativity under restriction, his new penciling assignment on Wolverine (written by Archie Goodwin, inked by Al Williamson), and his broader ambitions to write novels and his preference for the Excalibur print format.
article "Up Front" (David Anthony Kraft)
Editorial recounting how Kraft first encountered John Byrne at Marvel in the early days, writing the script for Byrne's first ever Marvel story ("Dark Asylum" in Giant-Size Dracula #5), used as context for welcoming Byrne back to Comics Interview for this in-depth follow-up to the all-Byrne issue #25.