Working on Tales of the Slayer
Tales of the Slayer is one of the most exciting things I’ve ever been a part of. Going back to Fool for Love, when they said Tales of the Slayer I immediately said, "Let me do Nikki, the Vampire Slayer and let’s see a story of cool seventies Nikki in her long black coat just being in the "Shaft" of Slayers. No one put up a fight, so I got to do Nikki.
The best news for me personally is that there is a great, great comic book artist named Gene Colan, and to fans of Marvel comics of the seventies, they’ll know his name. He’s legitimately one of the giants of the industry. He’s one of the greats of comic book illustration and he’s about 70 years old now and still doing his thing.
On a whim I called Scott Allie [Buffy editor at Dark Horse Comics] and said "Do you think we can get Gene Colan out of wherever he’s at and have him illustrate this story?" Scott Allie pulled it off, so Gene Colan illustrated the story I wrote called Nicky Goes Down.
It’s some of the best work I’ve ever seen Gene Colan produce, it was thrilling to see. It’s very, very exciting and I’m proud of the story I wrote but really give it up for Gene Colan. I just wrote a story but Gene - they used to call him Gene the Dean Colan - produced some gorgeous, gorgeous art.
I’m very excited to see that Gene the Dean Colan in is fine form and as good as he ever was, if not better. I can’t wait to work with him again, so for me personally Tales of the Slayer is all about the triumphant and long overdue return of Gene Colan to comic books.
