Brian Wood Talks The Massive

The Massive It reminds me, a bit, of something like Y: The Last Man. In that vein, do you have an arc planned out so that this ongoing series is really “ongoing for forty issues,” or is this a true ongoing in that you don’t necessarily go into it with an end in sight? The Massive DMZ The bit with the tuna, as you’re recounting the history of the disasters in The Massive #1, it kind of reminds me of all those mass bird deaths and all that last year. Did that play into the book at all in terms of being something in the air (no pun intended) while you were writing? Four Fish At this stage, working on creator-owned books for smaller publishers most of the time, do you feel like you have to worry more or less from political blowback from a project like this, with some right-wingers insisting they’ll never buy something like The Massive? DMZ DMZ The Massive Mary seems to have her own philosophy and kind of march to hte beat of whatever drum occurs to her to march to; is that something that will be a problem for her in interacting with the rest of the characters, long-term? Her comments on “the luxury of a moral code” really sound to me like something you’d usually hear from a book like The Walking Dead. What do you think are the similarities and differences between your end-of-the-world disaster and the zombie/supervillain variety that comic fans are more used to seeing? The Walking Dead The Massive Why “The Ninth Wave”? It sounds a bit like a cult or a terrorist organization. I keep thinking of Mandarin’s Ten Rings. Are the end notes going to be in every edition or only for print, like what Matt Kindt is doing with Mind MGMT? Demo Is it kind of cool to be at the forefront of what Dark Horse is doing right now? It seems like every month all summer long they’ve got at least one new book coming out that makes me soil myself. Conan The Massive