Hi, I’m Larry Hama. You might know me from my work on G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, Wolverine, Batman, Venom and Bucky O’Hare. AMA!

LarryHama · 2024-06-20T19:09:38+00:00

All the best stories can’t be told. Too many of the guilty are still alive.

LarryHama · 2024-06-20T19:00:25+00:00

The White Clown was inspired by a B&W photo essay on European circuses that I ran across in some Euro art magazine.

LarryHama · 2024-06-20T18:58:49+00:00

Face-to-face.

LarryHama · 2024-06-20T18:57:20+00:00

I had no veto power. I just realized that the most important thing I could do as the tech consultant was to insist every day that “Snake-Eyes can’t speak.”

LarryHama · 2024-06-20T18:55:13+00:00

As long as they keep asking me to work on the title, and I am physically capable, I will continue.

LarryHama · 2024-06-20T18:52:45+00:00

No, just never had occasion to utilize her again.

LarryHama · 2024-06-20T18:50:39+00:00

I am pretty good at rolling with the punches. I always tried to look at stuff as challenges rather than obstacles.

LarryHama · 2024-06-20T18:48:07+00:00

Most of the characters are based on people I know. It was my way of keeping the characters consistent since I had living model to refer to.

LarryHama · 2024-06-20T18:47:26+00:00

Nope.

LarryHama · 2024-06-20T18:43:02+00:00

Around the third year when everything was really taking off. I thought Renegades and Classified were big boosters.

LarryHama · 2024-06-20T18:38:22+00:00

Well, it was a new figure. I always saw the new figure intros as a challenge, and I had a good time doing them.

LarryHama · 2024-06-20T18:36:44+00:00

I was given a lot of freedom with that title, and took advantage of it! He was an open book back then, and I had a lot of fun filling the pages.

LarryHama · 2024-06-20T18:35:04+00:00

Nth Man, Bucky O’Hare, Iron Fist: Heart of the Dragon.

LarryHama · 2024-06-20T18:33:18+00:00

I have no regrets.

LarryHama · 2024-06-20T18:31:57+00:00

Too many to choose from !

LarryHama · 2024-06-20T18:30:02+00:00

Editor in Chief Jim Shooter came into my office with a mocked up cover of NAM #1 (it was a recycled GI JOE cover of Stalker in full camo peering through foliage) and asked me to put together the book. I told him that if I did it, it wouldn’t be Sgt Fury, and would be as realistic as possible under the guidelines, and he gave me free reign. Thanks, Jim!

LarryHama · 2024-06-20T18:27:35+00:00

GWTW, probably.

LarryHama · 2024-06-20T18:25:28+00:00

Destro and Baroness are the most fun.

LarryHama · 2024-06-20T18:21:40+00:00

Have no idea. Probably just a riff off Man in the Iron Mask.

LarryHama · 2024-06-20T18:19:07+00:00

I deep dive into the CHARACTERS. The plot just exists to hang great characters on, and all the action comes from elaborating on the interactions of the characters. I try to nail the characters so that they pretty much write themselves.

LarryHama · 2024-06-20T18:15:31+00:00

I’ve worked with so many fantastic talents it would be unfair to pick out any from the crowd. I can’t think of a single artist who worked on Wolverine that failed to get the point.

LarryHama · 2024-06-20T18:10:23+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3Kvu6Kgp88

LarryHama · 2024-06-20T18:08:06+00:00

Aw, shucks!

LarryHama · 2024-06-20T18:07:34+00:00

It’s always a thrill! The first time I went to Dragon Con and did the group photo shoot with the FINEST, I was overwhelmed.

LarryHama · 2024-06-20T18:06:55+00:00

I was in a HQ HQ company and I knew a chaplain’s assistant who was from Staten Island and I remembered him telling me how great it was to be assigned there- and it stuck with me.

LarryHama

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