Shi...William Tucci at Megacon
Bill said he hadn't been drawing many comics the last year, as he has been on other projects. But he is going to draw eight books for the month of August (in connection with the Battlebooks for Marvel). Naturally, he'll be drawing seven Marvel characters, and one Shi! In the Battlebooks, everybody has weakness, and everyone is vulnerable.
Bill said he especially liked Captain America. He always wanted to be like Captain America when he grew up, as he has a right wing philosophy and served in the Rangers in the U. S. Army.
Bill says that these will support the industry, because you need to know the characters. The Battlebooks seem to be comic book sized And they are comic books, and there will be gorgeous art. And it's very simple to play, but you can play on line, via CD-ROMs, and there will be promotions to explain how to play in the near future.
Bill said he thought he would have a bimonthly comic book of Shi. The story line of Shi will be that she has to get out of Japan, and starts in Hong Kong and she will be going place to place in Asia, and she will be perusing the Demon Samurai, and thinks she's being perused by other folks. He said he would like the Marvel character Electra to be in his book, but not in deference to Frank Miller, just because it's a cool character. Also Bill says they will be no swimsuit issue.
I asked Bill how he would manage his time between drawing a bimonthly comic and producing a movie, as producing takes a tremendous amount of time, and if the thought about executive producing instead. Bill definitely wanted to produce, and not executive produce, as he wants to be on the set every day. Bill said he could do both, because he used to work 18 hours a day, I can do it again. Plus he said he could draw a page in two hours. Bill contrasted his style to the artist of X-Men/WildCATs, and it shows. Bill mentioned that his company is now big enough that he has his own colorists, and that his colorists now work only for him and not for anyone else. A few years ago he was farming out his color work.
The unique thing about Bill at MegaCon, was that Bill had made up some special Shi comics, and
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