Not Waving

Interview with Paul O'Connell creator of the superb Sound of Drowning now on Dogmatika.

DA: There’s been a trend for British and Irish writers/artists to be let loose on traditional US comic characters and reinvent/deconstruct them. If you could take on any beloved comic character who would it be and what direction do you think you’d take them in?

PO’C: I’m afraid I think of superheroes as a bit like the colourful and sometimes vaguely entertaining population of a retirement-home cum psycho-geriatric ward. So that’s probably where I’d put them all, losing their marbles and fighting incontinence. Nothing would ever really happen beyond an endless routine of feeding, washing and toileting. It wouldn’t be very interesting or meaningful but then I reckon that’s pretty much keeping things true to the genre. When people start talking about superheroes in any depth it’s like a part of my soul freezes over...