UPCOMING PRODUCT
EVERYTHING STAN LEE!
INCENTIVES
THIS JUST IN!
COMIC BOOKS
TRADE PAPERBACKS
HARDCOVERS
3D SCULPTURES
CGC GRADED COMICS
LITHOGRAPHS AND POSTERS
TRADING CARDS
PRODUCT ARCHIVE
DF DAILY SPECIAL
CONTEST
The All-New Comicon.com! from comicon.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Waiting For Tommy XXXIV
By Richard Johnston 
RICHARD: Is Doncaster known for robots? How would a massive influx of robots improve town planning?

NICK: Doncaster, my fabled birthplace. It could only be improved by a massive influx of death robots, really.

RICHARD: Okay then, a robot stands for Prime Minister - would you vote for him? What policies should he bring in?

NICK: Without question. He should bring in a policy to get rid of all the weirdoes.

RICHARD: Ah. Um. Moving on, something nicely uncontroversial, Robocop vs Schindler's List. What happens?

NICK: "Oh mein Gott! Es ist ein sodding Todesroboter!"

*RATATATATATAT*

No need for poor oppressed Jewish folk to be hounded like dogs, local Rabbis ride ED-209's into Berlin. FIN.

RICHARD: I'm sure there was a reason I started this thing. Oh yes. So this bloke you're writing. Robocop. He's a bit hard isn't he? What would he do if you spilled his pint?

NICK: It'd depend how it related to his directives, I should think. Protect The Innocent Pint is one of them, as I recall. All said and done, I think he'd just glass you. "Stitch that - creep."

RICHARD: Murphy... just how similar is Robocop to a wannabe Guinness anyway? And would the original film have differed if he'd been called Stella?

NICK: The Robocop musical, "An ED-209 Named Desire", coming soon to a theatre near you.

RICHARD: Right up Avatar's street. And yes, Avatar? Don't they just do porn? Will there be any Roboporn in your Robocop comic?

NICK: That depends how you define Roboporn. Big robots blowing things up - porn? You be the judge. It's probably best I not be the judge.

RICHARD: Sophisticated political satire steeped in irony disguised as the very genre it sought to destroy, or really cool robots with guns?

NICK: I see no reason at all why something can't very happily be both.


TRANSFORMERS #1 GENERATION ONE (VOL.2) EXCLUSIVE ALT. COVER

RICHARD: Talking of which, what about Frank Miller eh? You'll be following his work on the book. Think you can take him?

NICK: It's daunting to say the least, following on from two respected masters of the form like Frank Miller and Steven Grant, but I'm optimistic. People may well say 'That Nick Locking run on Robocop wasn't quite as awesome as the Miller and Grant series', but I'm hoping they follow it up with 'but by god, there was some hardcore robotic carnage to behold.' I'm aided of course by the fantastic Jeremy Rock, who is astoundingly talented and will surely knock everyone's robotic socks off.

RICHARD: So what did you think of Dark Knight Strikes Again?

NICK: I liked it quite a bit. At first, I was disappointed, because I was expecting The Dark Knight Returns Returns, but really, it'd be boring if it was just a dull retread. I like the sense of ecstatic joy present on every page, and the sheer kinetic energy of it. It very much reminded me of Grant Morrison's Flex Mentallo, in a way -they both say to me, to an extent, that well, superheroes are just a lot of big old stupid fun, and they're great for that very reason.

RICHARD: So, all this malarky about 'servicing trademarks'. It's a good thing, isn't it?

NICK: It depends, on a lot of things. There's been a lot of talk recently about any comic that consists of 'servicing a trademark' being a waste of time, or an automatic artistic failure, which I reject out of hand. As long as everyone understands the situation, there's no problem. Some of the medium's best works consist of 'trademark servicing', like the aforementioned The Dark Knight Returns or Brian Michael Bendis' run on Daredevil, which I'm enjoying tremendously. Conversely, I tend to despair at anyone whose ambitions are nothing more than 'servicing trademarks' for the rest of their career. Of course, it's a person's own business if they want to do nothing but pump out assembly-line heavy continuity superhero books for the rest of their life, but that's definitely not for me.

RICHARD: What's your favourite gun?

NICK: That one, you know, that destroys stuff the best.

RICHARD: What would you be doing right now if you'd never heard of Warren Ellis?

NICK: In all honesty, I'd be sitting in Sydney, Australia, bored out of my mind. That forum of his on that electronic interweb thing was a bit of a blessing. Having a bunch of mates in England I'd met through the forum made travelling around the globe and settling into London a piece of piss.

Nick Locking can be found at Ninth Art sometimes, at the V Forum too much and you can read more on the upcoming Robocop series at Avatar. Rich Johnston still writes Lying In the Gutters every Monday.

Pages: 1 | 2 | 3

The Waiting For Tommy Archive

Latest News
Updated: 05/02/24 @ 10:59 pm

1. JENNIFER ZHANG SET TO DIRECT SCI-FI FEATURE 'TRüEBADOUR'

2. ‘FAST X’ DIRECTOR LOUIS LETERRIER TO HELM ‘11817’ SCI-FI PIC

3. 'FANTASTIC FOUR' CASTS PAUL WALTER HAUSER

4. 'SPAWNY' ATTENDS COMIC CON IN ACTION-PACKED 'SPAWN KILLS EVERY SPAWN'

5. 'COBRA KAI' FINAL SEASON TO BE RELEASED IN 3 PARTS; WATCH TEASER VID


DF Interviews
JESSE KELLERMAN & OWEN KING


CNI Podcast
EPISODE 1058 - CNI-PIERCER!
Reviews: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Willow #1, Empyre #0: Avengers, Empyre #0: Fantastic Four, Snowpiercer season finale, The Old Guard film 
Newsletter Sign-up


Dynamic Forces & The Dynamic Forces logo ® and © Dynamic Forces, Inc.
All other books, titles, characters, character names, slogans, logos and related indicia are ™ and © their respective creators.
Privacy Policy