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THE
COTTON CLUB: HURRICANE WARNING
By
Mike Cotton
Current
WWE superstar Hurricane sits down to rap about comics, his
Green Lantern tattoo and the verta-breaker!
Being
one of the smallest guys on your high school football team
might be tough, but just try being one of the smallest men
in the WWE. Hurricane rocketed to wrestling superstardom with
his trademark maneuver the Verta-Breaker, but after the move
was banned, Hurricane reinvented himself as every fanboys'
dream: a real-life superhero.
MIKE
COTTON: Did you grow up a comic fan, Hurricane?
HURRICANE: Oh yeah, I grew up a big comic book fan.
Since I was five or six, I read everything. I read everything
my uncle and grandfather had-it was early '70s and '80s stuff.
COTTON:
So is that what lead to getting a Green Lantern tattoo? HURRICANE:
You know, the story behind Green Lantern has always been 'willpower'-Hal
Jordan had the willpower to control the ring and no one had
the power to take it from him. Growing up, I was the smallest
kid on the wrestling team and the smallest kid on the football
team. Despite being a big guy compared to normal people, I'm
a small guy compared to wrestlers. I just liked the willpower
idea behind Green Lantern's history. It meant a lot to me.
COTTON:
How did you shape that thought into an entire wrestling persona?
HURRICANE: The idea was spawned from doing a skit on
television and we started talking about my tattoo. I just
started talking about Green Lantern like he was a real person.
That came out funny and eventually that idea evolved into
me thinking I was a superhero. That idea came along and everything
went on from there.
COTTON:
You work a pretty tight schedule.
HURRICANE: This schedule wears me down. When I come
home, it's hard to get me out of the house. When I fly in
on a Tuesday, that's a sleep day for me. I'm like a hobbit.
You can't get me out of here.
COTTON:
How did you feel about your move, the Verta-Breaker being
banned?
HURRICANE: The guys I worked with in the WCW, we always
killed each other anyway. I can't count the number of times
I was dumped on my head. I mean, that move was dangerous but
no more so than the other moves out there. I don't think it's
right that it was banned. I have faith that I could do that
move without hurting anybody.
COTTON:
I heard you recently went to visit DC Comics.
HURRICANE: I've actually been there a couple of times.
Having the Green Lantern tattoo on national television got
someone's attention and I got invited up for a tour. It's
a great place with tons of great people. Just as a fan it
was fun to see behind the curtain.
COTTON:
Any plans to venture into comic writing or publishing? HURRICANE:
I have a big interest in doing my own comics. I'm actively
interested in doing a comic about Hurricane. Initially I'd
like to do a Hurricane thing to get it out there. That's a
dream, but I'd also love to play around with some of the other
established characters.
COTTON:
What are you favorite comics right now?
HURRICANE: Let me look around for some inspiration.
I'm a big fan of Alias. I love JSA, I'm a big fan of [Geoff]
Johns. Pretty much anything Johns and [Brian Michael] Bendis
are writing, I'm reading. Those are my two favorite writers.
COTTON:
Do you like more realistic or superhero themed comics? HURRICANE:
I'm still a big superhero fan. You know, I've read a lot of
good realistic stuff like Bendis' Jinx and Goldfish, but I
live in reality. I don't always want to read about reality.
Reality or real life TV shows? I got a real life, I don't
want to see that. I want to see something fantastic, something
I've never seen before. Something I can't see anywhere else.
I want stuff I can't see everyday.
COTTON:
Whose art do you dig?
HURRICANE: I'd have to say Jim Lee. I've always been
a Jim Lee fan and now with him back on Batman, it looks amazing.
He's spectacular. I also met Jae Lee recently and I love his
stuff. I used to love his Hellshock. He's got a great style.
I love [Todd] McFarlane's stuff from when he was doing comics.
And I like Mark Bagley on Ultimate Spider-Man. He hits the
nail on the head.
COTTON:
Are you into the comic book films? The one thing about Hollywood
is that it goes on cycles. Westerns will be hot, then horror
movies then superheroes. But as long as the films are good,
I'll be happy. Usually they deteriorate into bad movies though.
I hope that the current films can stay as good as they have
been. You need the right people working on them. Like Sam
Raimi for Spider-Man, he knows comics. He gets that character.
Mike
Cotton is a staff writer for Wizard Magazine. For all the
comic book news fit to print, check out Wizard on sale every
month at comic book specialty shops and newsstands everywhere.
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The
Cotton Club Archive |
- August
7 , 2003 - HOLLYWOOD RUN DOWN
- July
31, 2003 - SPIDER-MAN 2
- July
24, 2003 - BAG MAN
- July
17, 2003 - Moore or Less
- July
10, 2003 - Ink Test
- July
2, 2003 - HURRICANE WARNING
- June
25, 2003 - BANNER BANTER
- June
10, 2003 - PETER DAVID
- June
3 , 2003 - PAUL JENKINS
- May
28 , 2003 - GEOFF JOHNS
- May
21 , 2003 - BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS
- May
14 , 2003 - PHIL JIMENEZ
- May
9 , 2003 - Don't F[l]inch
- April
29 , 2003 - The X-Factors
- April
17 , 2003 - X2 Reviewed
- January
13, 2003 - Game Boy - WizKid’s HeroClix
- January
3, 2003- 2003 Bigger than 2002?
- December
20 , 2002 - Ring Bearer - A two-bit tour for ‘Two Towers’
novices
- December
13 , 2002 - ‘Sine of the Times
- December
6 , 2002 - Killer Read
- November
30, 2002 - Lex's World
- November
23, 2002 - Truth and Consequences
- November
15, 2002 - Triple X
- November
8 , 2002 - Giving the Devil his Due
- October
31, 2002 - Superhero DVD Preview
- October
25, 2002 - Mad Cow
- October
18 , 2002 - 80's a Go-GO
- October
11 , 2002 - Best Bets on Bats
- October
4, 2002 - Hunters & Pray
- September
27 , 2002 - The War Within
- September
19 , 2002 - Lee-Der of the pack.
- September
13 , 2002 - The Next Generation.
- September
6 , 2002 - Marvel Melee.
- August
30, 2002 - Breaking In. Joe Quesada reveals the ins and outs of getting
work at Marvel.
- August
23, 2002 - Painted Into a Corner. An Interview with Greg Hildebrandt.
- August
16, 2002 - X-citing News on X-Men 2!
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