1 Same [first] question – what’s your elevator pitch to get people to read HORUS?
You’re a gifted college athlete, and you wake up one morning with a
tattoo on your arm, a tattoo that allows you to change into a freaking SUPERHERO!
Crazy-awesome insanity ensues!
2 What inspired you to have twins as your main characters? And what kind of tension did you have in mind by having only one of them get the powers?
I’ve long been fascinated by the Beloved Executioner motif; the idea of
betrayal coming from a loved one, like a brother, or more pointedly, a twin.
It’s an idea I revisited in BATHALA, where I took it to some dark conclusions.
My end point for the Daly twins in HORUS is certainly not as dark as
what we see unfold in BATHALA, but it would have hopefully been a torturous
emotional wringer for both brothers to undergo before emerging on the other
side.
Some of the bones of contention between the brothers begin to rear their
ugly heads in the published HORUS stories, one seed in particular foregrounded
in the story reprinted [in ALAMAT: ORIGINS], while the static of growing up unable to escape
the shadow of a more popular sibling (a twin! So why aren’t we exactly alike?!) plays constantly
through the narrative background.
3 Which version of Superman inspired you in your writing of HORUS?
Definitely Superman: The Animated
Series, from the second half of the ‘90’s. (I’m also really enjoying My Adventures
with Superman, BTW.)
The fact that I gave the main character the last name Daly (after STAS Superman voice actor Tim Daly) is a
dead giveaway.
For those of you who were with Alamat from the early days, you may note
that HORUS is really TATTOOED, but filtered through an Egyptian myth/STAS lens.
I loved the foundational idea of TATTOOED so much that I thought it
would be interesting to take that core concept and apply it to a more all-ages
title, and thus, we have HORUS.
Given the STAS influence,
definitely Superman, who has become, over the decades, the comic book/spandex archetype
of the Solar Hero (among many other things, of course).
They’d settle into a mentor/mentee set-up (one of the many things I
frequently return to in my comic writing) and battle some
darkness/shadow-themed villain, probably Set…
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