Comics Interview — Issue #136

Main Topics: The Mask (Film), Timecop (Film), Darkman II/III, Comics-to-Film Adaptations, Dark Horse Comics Movies

Contents
  1. Mark Verheiden
  2. "Up Front" (David Anthony Kraft)
  3. "The Kid Gloves Are Off" (Rhyan Scorpio-Rhys & Juanita Hicks, Visual Assault Comics Press)
interview Mark Verheiden
Interviewed by Jeff Gelb
Mark Verheiden Screenwriter / Comics Writer, Freelance (Dark Horse / Universal / Largo) Working on: Timecop (film), The Mask (screenplay), Darkman III rewrite
Verheiden discusses his path from comics writing (The American, Aliens, Predator for Dark Horse) to Hollywood screenwriting, detailing his credited work on The Mask for New Line Cinema and his sole screenplay credit on Timecop, the Jean-Claude Van Damme film due September 1994. He recounts the origins of Timecop as a concept developed with Dark Horse publisher Mike Richardson in 1989, the long road to production through Sam Raimi and Largo Entertainment, and his rewrite work on Darkman II and Darkman III for straight-to-video release.
article "Up Front" (David Anthony Kraft)
DAK shares early questionnaire results from the Comics Crisis roundtable in issue #134, noting that respondents are skeptical of the direct sales market's future and warns against the industry's drift toward a single-distributor system.
article "The Kid Gloves Are Off" (Rhyan Scorpio-Rhys & Juanita Hicks, Visual Assault Comics Press)
A letter arguing that Marvel's pulling of product from Comics Unlimited Distribution to force its sale to Diamond was a harmful act of corporate bullying, urging retailers to champion independent and alternative comics.