rone | crisper sighting

Via ait_planetlar:

AiT: Tell us about working with Dan Curtis Johnson.

Jeff Johns: MOONSHINE is crazy fun. It's a big drug-induced-Clint-Eastwood-Lovecraftian-werewolf-reptile-manimatronic- serial-killing casserole. But it's baked with love. Oh, and there's a Fancy Train.

I've always thought that a story really only needs two things to be successful--werewolves and eye patches. This one's got the werewolves, but Dan keeps vetoing the eye patch. I'm a little afraid that my need to draw eye patches is just going to fester until I end up doing something Garth Ennis-like and drawing someone with TWO eye patches.

It's been great working with Dan. He's been very supportive of trying to bring a newbie along. I'm slower than cold tar, so I think he's being just encouraging enough to make sure I keep producing. You know -- like a good pimp. His script for MOONSHINE kicks big man-sized ass, and now it's my job to make sure the book still kicks at least a little toddler-sized ass once it's been subjected to my art. I know it's been billed as a western version of "They Live", but personally, I think it's going to be a lot better. Carpenter should have cast Junk Yard Dog instead of Rowdy Roddy Piper. Or Brutus the Barber Beefcake.

Dan and I are having dinner Saturday, so I guess I'll find out then if I'm fired.

Mimi at AiT/PlanetLar says that Moonshine will be out in the fall. Can't wait.