Joe Quinones: Of course! I really loved working with Chip on HOWARD. So, writing for Joe, I tend to do more scenes where I push those abilities, by writing scenes like “okay, he’s sad, but not too sad, more wistful, but there’s also an underlying anger.” Adam is the king of big action scenes, Joe is the king of facial expressions and body language. Does working with each other again make you feeling free to take risks that you might have been more hesitant to do with someone you were less familiar with? If so, where might readers notice that in the book?Ĭhip Zdarsky: I think it’s less about taking risks and more about knowing your co-creator’s strengths and being able to play to them.

: To rejoin with someone you already had an established relationship with must, I imagine, carry a fair amount of comfort to it. Joe’s work is really fun and light, so we also needed to make sure the story being told would suit his style, while being decidedly more serious than a standard HOWARD issue.

Chip’s Spider-Man is very self-aware and funny but it’s delivered with some amount of restraint, offset by more drama and super-heroic flair.Ĭhip Zdarsky: I mean the big thing is having more eyeballs on a Spider-Man book than you would a Howard the Duck book! So, there’s some pressure there.

The jokes are there, but where with Howard the gags were more front and center, here we pull the punches a little. Joe Quinones: Well so far he doesn’t cry nearly as much.Ĭertainly there are through-lines with both series in Chip’s writing style, which balances a combination of humor and heart, but it’s a question of degrees. : How different is it to collaborate with each other on a book like SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN versus HOWARD THE DUCK? What unique challenges did PETER PARKER present you both with? In PETER PARKER: THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN #301, we all get our wish as the duo reconnect for the three-issue arc “Amazing Fantasy.” We pulled them away from planning their new treehouse just long enough for them to talk about how happy it makes them to be together again. But, come on, we all knew we needed more of Zdarsky’s words and Quinone’s lines bringing sweet comic book storytelling to our eyes. When they concluded their collaboration on HOWARD THE DUCK, the timing proved perfect. Writer Chip Zdarsky and artist Joe Quinones have become the rare team that exists as both. Some team-ups end at just the right time.

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