Tell us about working with Amber Benson for the next Willow and Tara comics
You just don’t have enough time for me to say all the good things about Amber I need to say. I just adore her. We’ve talked about working on a number of other projects together. She’s just a joy. She’s just the most genuine person I’ve met who works in California. Or in the Los Angeles area. So anything she wants to work on, I’d definitely do.
We had a lot of fun working on a second Willow and Tara. She’s very fond of Michelle [Trachtenberg] so we wrote a story where Willow and Tara go on the road with Dawn. It’s nice, because with the first one, for foolish reasons, they wouldn’t let us write them as lovers. People complained about that because, as usually happens, by the time the comic came out, they’d already kissed on the show. She’s already told people she was gay. But at the time we were doing the comic, even though Joss knew and all the writers knew, and it had been patently obvious to most people watching the show, they wouldn’t let us say it. It was infuriating, because then people would yell at us. People gave us a hard time as if we were shying away from it.
So it was nice to be able to portray them as in love. What I find really interesting is, sometimes it feels saccharine to write romance. Sometimes when you’re writing romance between two characters, it doesn’t feel quite real. Or it’s a bit too much. And I feel almost like, you can make those two characters as dewey-eyed in love and it would never be too much. I just love their relationship. So I had a great time, and she is such a talented writer.
It has to do with Green Jack, the spirit of the wood, and it’s really fun.
