Broken Frontier interviewed Andy Schmidt of IDW recently, and talked about the newest GI Joe Comic, GI Joe Future Noir.
BROKEN FRONTIER: What’s the significance of the title Future Noir beyond just sounding cool?ANDY SCHMIDT: Honestly, it’s mostly that it sounds cool. This is one project where I just let my gut go and had as much fun as possible. Kind of went in some crazy directions for a G.I. Joe story. Of course I made sure that the story makes sense and flows and that there are good character arcs and such, but this is a let’s-just-have-fun kind of project. Keison (the artist with many names), Carlos the editor and I just had a blast putting this together. And we didn’t have a title. We’d been calling it G.I. Joe: Manga, but that wasn’t exactly what the book was, and so we just hit on Future Noir as sounding cool and evoking what the book is. It’s not true noir, but it is set in the future.
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