It's Always Better To Go Personal And

When You're Writing Tv Or Movies Your Vernacular Is Time, It's All Based On Rhythms, A Character Takes A Beat Or Two Characters Have A Moment, Like Everything Is About Time. And When You're Writing A Comic, Everything Is About Space. It's How Many Panels To Put On A Page, When Should You Do A Full Page Splash, What Is The Detail That You See In Any Particular Image.

I'm Kind Of A Comic Book Geek, But I'm Not Really A Super Hero Comic Book Geek.

When I Am Kicking Around Show Ideas, Or Really Any Idea, Usually An Image Comes To Me. I Don't Really Start With A Character Or A Logline Like, "what If The Electricity Turned Off?"

What I Think Networks Do So Well Are Big, Fun, Accessible, Invite Everybody Into The Tent Kinds Of Storytelling, Akin To An Early Spielberg Movie Or A Michael Crichton Novel. That's Not To Say That There Aren't Scary Parts 'cause There Are, And That There Aren't Sexy Parts And Edgy Parts, Just Like Early Spielberg Would Have, But There's A Lot Of Heart, A Lot Of Emotion And Complicated Characters.

We Say It’s A Modern American Western - Two Gunslingers Who Ride Into Town, Fight The Bad Guys, Kiss The Girl And Ride Out Into The Sunset Again. And We Were Always Talking From The Very Beginning That If You’re Going To Have Cowboys, They Need A Trusty Horse. —eric Kripke On The Decision To Add The Impala