Minor Threats the Brood Featured Dark Horse
For the last two years, Dark Horse Comics has been delivering a brand-new comic book universe that shows a different side of superhero storytelling. The Minor Threats franchise has taken readers into a dangerous, experimental, and incredibly funny world that focuses less on the heroes and more on the underdogs.
Jordan Blum: And I think when we were looking to expand it, the only two parameters were like, Minor Threats is about the C and D, as Pat was saying, the C list, villains who we never really get to see, show us another perspective that we rarely get to see in superhero comics. And you know, something that's very character focused, and those are really the only two things that we look for.
That's actually a good segue to my next question, with Jordan talking about The Brood and the Lex Luthor aspect of it. I'm a huge DC fan, so I have to ask about the inspiration of your characters, the Continuum, the Alternates, these characters who really are, I don't want to say pastiches, but very, very similar figures to Justice League and others.
When you look at the main Minor Threats book, we've seen this big narrative build around Frankie Follis and her daughter, while spin-offs, like Barfly, The Alternates, The Brood are all helping flesh out the rest of the world. It's been kind of like a back and forth. Like we get some of Frankie's story, and then it's"Oh, here's what the Alternates are up to. Here's what's going on with S***eater right now.
Patton Oswalt: We have an artist, Scott Hepburn, who we're like"Fill in the details. This is a super villain bar, okay?". Like he drew that guy at the bar, and it sparked someone else's interest, and it became"Oh, there's a whole story right there." It's kind of interesting, when you read The Brood, because now we're in the upper echelons of Meteor Falls in Twilight City, it is a very sterile, stark, clean background.
Patton, you kind of touched on this a little bit, talking about the disparity between the upper echelon of Twilight City and the lower classes. This does kind of veer into more of a DC thing, with them doing more fictional cities, like Gotham or Metropolis, Central City. Talk a little bit about building a new city environment. Because you could have easily just made it so it feels just like Gotham or Metropolis. Talk about building up a fully fleshed-out world with a history.
Heath Corson: We wanted to pick up where Jordan and Patton had given us this sort of lived-in feeling. So we're not stopping and like, explaining this and this. We're just going, like, yeah"These guys know each other. They've known each other for 30 years." .Like,we're running, just keep up. Patton Oswalt: But it's such a key to the character in a weird way, Archimedes' world vision like, literally infected the look of the world. He wants clean, spare, simple lines, because he is a scientist and mathematician at heart and that has affected his kids, the way that the core is and the way the world is. I mean, it's, it's amazing. You understand the characters the minute you look at the art.
Ian Culberd: That's the thing I quite like about this, because things like Barfly and going back to earlier discussions, about the way that it can be anything, it can go off and try something new in this universe, it's great. I really like the idea of that. Jordan Blum: With The Brood, it's about the in-between moments that wouldn't be in a Marvel for DC Comic. Like the DC comic would be about the big fight between Superman and Lex Luthor, not the moment with Luthor comes home and has a quiet moment with his kid who discovers, you know.
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