Years ago, Starlin injured his drawing hand in an accident, but Dreadstar Returns has become a triumphant return for the artist as he quite literally went back to the drawing board for 100 pages — and has more to come.
“I finally sat down after this one convention and drew it and found that the hand didn’t cramp up afterwards, which it had been doing,” Starlin exlained.
By the sounds of it, Starlin and Jameson have become quite close on this Dreadstar Returns endeavor, igniting a new creative spark in Starlin but also a tremendous and deep creative connection which came with a scare from 2020’s pandemic.
The Dreadstar Returns book is available online now in hardcover and digital addition, and Starlin promises they are looking into getting it out into comic shops with physical copies as well.
It’s like walking into a video game, first person shooter video game.
The crowdfund campaign and the effort you’re putting in to make Dreadstar Returns and beyond happen is an indication you really believe in this character and story.
The Ominus people, sort of Rob Mars, we had already been doing Dreadstar Omnibus, which was a big help on me working with a stylist to get my hand going, and had met Jamie Jameson, a Thanos sketch, Dr.
I finally sat down after this one convention and drew it and found that the hand didn’t cramp up afterwards, which it had been doing.
I saw a quote that you said we’re getting your best work with Dreadstar, with Vanth this time.
Warlock got a little bit better because I had taken an anatomy class at the Art Students League in New York after that.
Later on there was a job called Pawns that ended up in the back of Dreadstar, which I did some really fine line pen work.
It was a record there for a while until Keanu Reeves came along and made it impossible for anyone who’s not been in a movie to raise that much money.
CB: With how some of the bigger publishers, I’ve heard you don’t get as much freedom as when you’re working with Epic Comics.
One of the lawyers up at Marvel wanted that line grabbed because they thought it was a jab at Trump, where it had nothing to do with Trump in my story or in my head.
I had a lot of freedom because Roy Thomas, who’s the editor, the only editor, just didn’t have time to supervise and he had the sense that a good editor back then did, ‘If it ain’t broken, don’t mess with it.’ Archie Goodwin was another great editor along those lines with Dreadstar.
I still have to know how to draw, but it has made it easier for me to do a dramatic figure without going through reams and reams of tracing paper to make the construction ahead of time.
You look at people and you see that eyebrows don’t go to quite the way you think they have all these years and you make a remedy, make a change that way.
There’s another one that is getting solidly in my head, and then there’s two more after that that are results of the two following stories.
Endgame the other night while I was working, and I’ve met him a couple times too, and he does grow a good beard like you.
His wife at the time, whose name is escaping me at this point, and I apologize to her for it, she was Juliette.
I do want to talk Marvel with you.
Because I worked on other things with a couple of novels they had adapted that never go to the screen, so I didn’t come in there with any heavy expectations.
So, I thought, “That’s pretty cool.” Then I was on a plane and I watched the Justice League movie, and they just sort of threw Steppenwolf in there at the end, and he does his thing.
He had made a pretty good deal that others hadn’t, so I imagined him having to go on interviews and saying, “I love it.” I thought, “I’m going to be in the same damn position.
I love it.” Three minutes into the movie, even before the Hulk shows up, I’m going, “Hey, I’m not going to have any trouble with this at all.
Drax is probably the most diverse from them, but I just love what Bautista and Gunn did with him.
It didn’t work out that way because big movies have their own scheduling and routine, and that whole thing with Gunn after the second movie popped up, and so it complicated everything.
Most of them top-notch and up to the top level of what they’ve been doing, what anybody can do with those particular genres.