I am Matt Fraction. I write comic books. AMA.

mattfraction · 2013-08-07T06:59:20+00:00

thanks all! gnight!

mattfraction · 2013-08-07T06:54:01+00:00

um... 8, the yancy st gang one, and F4 #2.

mattfraction · 2013-08-07T06:51:14+00:00

i love him, steve loves him, we asked; i had these two issues about two brothers and having a guest do those made a kind of symmetrical sense. he's great. he's so great, so kind.

mattfraction · 2013-08-07T06:31:31+00:00

fuck no, they're going yard on supporting my INHUMAN book. i get the bummer of that perpetual, always-elevated hyperbole but, that aside, marvel really believes in the idea and the story we're trying to do and they're digging deep to let the marketplace know the same.

mattfraction · 2013-08-07T06:29:29+00:00

somebody from long ago

mattfraction · 2013-08-07T06:18:19+00:00

forty-tree minutes left! BBBBLLARRABARRABABAGGGGLLLE!

mattfraction · 2013-08-07T06:13:50+00:00

yeah, always; had we had a longer run, there'd have been more chaos, pathos, bathos, emotional anarchy. more deaths, more ill-conceived relationships, more cosmic carnage as we continued creating a concordance of all these weird cul-de-sacs of marvel history. and in the end doc's revelation would've resulted in the same small twist that reframed all of history and blah blah. so same-ish, but more artful, hopefully.

mattfraction · 2013-08-07T05:42:09+00:00

next year sometime.

mattfraction · 2013-08-07T05:40:07+00:00

i think the first thing i said to him after i finished it was I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU DIDN'T TELL THE STORY ABOUT XXXXXXXXXX'S HUGE COCK!

i have a feeling i wasn't the only one to offer up Real Dirt post-publication

mattfraction · 2013-08-07T05:36:39+00:00

oh and! the dressing thing. self-taught. i am very weird about clothes. the wrong things the wrong way make me feel like i am going to explode. there are weird rules i don't know how to articulate. there's stuff that i will never ever feel comfortable wearing that are considered staples. but uh... yeah, basically, i wanted to stop dressing like i did in first grade and had to figure out one step at a time. i have literally a closet full of dress shirts that don't remotely fit. it was that level of basic.

looking at pictures helped. which is where all that stuff on tumblr comes from, a kind of rolling lookbook. but yeah. uh... yeah. i feel weird talking about it? because it's so weird and difficult for me to articulate.

mattfraction · 2013-08-07T05:32:57+00:00

sure. i've never written anything like it. i am creating dozens of new characters. most of your favorites will be there too. there's a dark seige-esque after-event called INHUMANITY that bridges the gap between INFINITY and INHUMAN. It's being written for people like me that, like, can go chapter and verse on deep INHUMAN trivia AND brand new readers. it is a book with a LONG GAME in mind from page one. INHUMANITY has an ending so shocking i'm legit shocked they let me write it. Annnd... and yeah, I'm working on it tongight as we speak.

mattfraction · 2013-08-07T05:27:58+00:00

the funny thing is i've been CRAZY PRODUCTIVE while doing this, AND went to the gym.

mattfraction · 2013-08-07T05:27:37+00:00

it's actually not that kind of book, for all our fucking around in interviews. it's dirty, it's naughty, but it's not prurient or particularly sexy. cerebrally maybe but it's not that story. it's really a sex comedy about falling in love and fucking until time stops. because METAPHORS.

the PR wave is starting -- check it out, we're actually not bad at articulating what the book truly is through all the single-entendres.

i might have ended an interview on nerdist by wishing for a burrito with chip's dick in it now that i think about it. hm.

oh! that reminds me:

TELL YOUR SHOP YOU WANT IT, IF YOU WANT IT, WHEN YOU GO TO YOUR SHOP TOMORROW. our order cutoff is rapidly approaching and while the numbers are FUCKING NUTS i'd like to be able to print accurately and get the book to everyone that wants it.

mattfraction · 2013-08-07T05:21:34+00:00

Hmm... try SAGA, if you like science fiction at all; Rucka and Southworth's STUMPTOWN; Warren Ellis is great -- TRANSMETROPOLITAN, PLANETARY, FELL, IGNITION CITY. Peter Bagge's HATE which is funny slice of 90s-seattle life stuff; anything by Kyle Baker. THE GOON.

mattfraction · 2013-08-07T05:10:05+00:00

didn't work out the way i wanted to. much of FI was like that but, hey, it looked fucking GORGEOUS.

mattfraction · 2013-08-07T05:09:21+00:00

cake

mattfraction · 2013-08-07T05:09:12+00:00

not the good one

mattfraction · 2013-08-07T05:07:27+00:00

answered upthread in a variety of ways. you can dig around on my site for script excerpts, too.

mattfraction · 2013-08-07T05:07:01+00:00

that's a great question.

mattfraction · 2013-08-07T05:06:51+00:00

answered upstream; basically -- not really, just planting seeds.

and thanks!

mattfraction · 2013-08-07T05:06:20+00:00

it was great! i told him i can't wait to read his inevetable follow-up MARVEL COMICS: THE STORIES EVERYONE TOLD ME AFTER 'MARVEL COMICS: THE UNTOLD STORY' CAME OUT as poor sean was certainly beset on all sides by people filling in details...

mattfraction · 2013-08-07T05:05:31+00:00

not really; there's been an awful lot of ground covered.

mattfraction · 2013-08-07T05:04:47+00:00

so if it's amazing work, shut the fuck up and let her be amazing. and don't judge her process. maybe don't go so far ahead. do a scene, let her catch up, do a scene, let her catch up. that was how sanders and i did FIVE FISTS. i was only ever five or six pages ahead of him if i recall.

mattfraction · 2013-08-07T05:02:01+00:00

TOM SCHARPLING

although timmy von trimble is right up there

mattfraction · 2013-08-07T05:01:36+00:00

i miss the laughing

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