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I think the storytelling style I’m using in Final Crisis is probably most influenced by what I was doing in JLA. It’s a much more rapidly cut style of straightforward epic, plot-driven storytelling. My big dream since the ’90s has been to tell a superhero story with all the boring bits taken out of it! And by boring bits, I don’t mean everything that isn’t action, I mean all the stuff that bores me about these things.
I think of it like dance music, and how they just took pop music to a place where there was nothing left but the bass and the drum and the build-up and release, and I kind of wanted a comic that would throw out all the boring conversations and fights and keep only the stuff I like to read. You know, to create the crack cocaine of superhero comics. [laughs]
So it’s more of that that I’ve been working towards, like I did with JLA, to try and make a pure dance comic with all the crap thrown out. And that may include some reason or plot detail [laughs], but I think spectacle and wonder are more important to superhero comics than plot or reason.
