Silver Sable & the Wild Pack #36 One-Shot Creative Team Reveal

>>CBR: Christa, best known for your work as a prose novelist, though you recently broke into the world of comics with Peepland, a miniseries you co-wrote with Gary Phillips for Titan’s Hardcase Crime imprint. Now you’re sort of getting your feet wet in the Marvel Universe with Silver Sable and the Wild Pack #36. What’s that been like?

>Christa Faust: Even though this is only my second comic project, I’ve been writing tie-ins and novelizations for over a decade. I’ve written for a wide variety of film and television properties including Supernatural, Fringe, Nightmare on Elm Street and everybody’s favorite, Snakes on a Plane. I love being invited to play in established universes. It can be a challenge to find fresh and interesting ways to present preexisting characters while still staying true to the established cannon, but it’s the kind of challenge I really enjoy.

>And, yeah, of course writing comics is very different than prose. It’s distilled and ultra lean and far more visual than internal. It’s also a collaborative process and requires more of a team mindset than pecking away on a novel all by yourself in your writer-cave. Mostly I’m just working hard and trying to keep my eyes and ears open when I’m around people with more comic experience than I have so far. I’m lucky to have a lot of friends in the comic business who are willing to let a newbie like me pick their brains. I’ve been working with a great team at Marvel. Ultimately, I guess it will be up to the readers to judge whether or not I’ve made my bones, but in the meantime, I’m just trying to have fun with it.

>>What’s your sense of Silver Sable? Which aspects of her character were you especially interested in exploring?

>Silver Sable is the perfect character for me to dip my toes into the Marvel universe. While I’ve done work in other genres, I’m primarily a hardboiled crime writer. I’m particularly attracted to gritty, complex stories in which the line between good and evil isn’t always so clear. Silver Sable is nobody’s hero, but she’s not an evil villainess either. She has no superhuman powers, she’s just an extraordinarily tough woman trying to make her own way through a treacherous and violent world. She’s morally flexible when she needs to be, but still has a heart. And hey, I love a bad ass chick with silver hair, because my hair started going silver at a young age too. I’ve finally stopped dyeing it dark, and from now on I’m going to tell people I’m not getting older, I’m just cosplaying Silver Sable!

>>What can you tell us about the adventure Sable becomes embroiled in during your story? What kind of threat is she up against?

>I had originally pitched it as my take on Die Hard, but with a female lead. I don’t want to give away too much, but she’ll be going through a physically and mentally grueling ordeal that will require every drop of stamina and ingenuity she can muster. As for the threat, I’ll just say that she’ll be facing down a unique, all female terrorist group.

>>Will Sable’s Wild Pack have a significant role to play? Or will the spotlight be more on her?

>Because it’s a one-shot, the focus will be primarily on her. However I do plan to include a fun cameo or two.

>>Which artist will you be collaborating with on Silver Sable and the Wild Pack #36?

>Devin Lewis (Editor): Christa will be working with Paulo Siqueira on this issue! He’s been working with the Spider-Office for a couple of months now on Venom 154, and I couldn’t be more excited for him to transition to this Silver Sable adventure. Paulo’s a top-notch illustrator, and few people can draw the Marvel Universe with such detail, beauty, and awesome super hero action as him.

>>How would you describe the overall tone and feel of your story?

>It’ll be a gritty, grungy, two-fisted tale that isn’t afraid to get a little tarnish on that silver. I’m having a blast with this project and I hope that the fans enjoy reading it as much as I’ve enjoyed writing it.

>Finally, Silver Sable & the Wild Pack #36 is just a one-shot issue, but if the book resonates with fans would you be interested in returning for more stories with the character? Are there any other Marvel characters that you find especially interesting and would be up for exploring?

>I would absolutely love to continue on with this character if given the chance. She and the Wild Pack certainly have a lot of potential for future adventures. As far as other characters I’d like to write, part of the fun of playing in someone else’s universe is being forced to stretch out of your comfort zone and tackle any and every type of character that comes your way. That being said, I’m a big Film Noir fan and love mid-century pulp novels, so I wouldn’t mind taking a crack at Peggy Carter.


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>launching at #36
>one-shot
How are Marvel this fucking dumb?

Marvel seems to be doing a lot better waiting until the novel writers they target pick up a few other comics before grabbing them. Cautiously hopeful. I only read a few issues of Peepland but it was alright.

>>94712838
>Nightmare on Elm Street

I read that and her Friday the 13th novel.

Not great, though the fucking nonsensical 400+ page count mandate is at least partly to blame, crippling nearly that entire series from the outset.

>>94713305
Derailing the thread here but are any of the Elm St. or Friday comics any good?

>>94713820
Well, here's a download link. I hear they're mostly decent.

https://www.mediafire.com/folder/rfxx0kbqmjzek/Horror_Film_Comics

>>94713198
They're one-shots. What does it matter? The whole gimmick to Legacy is that the books are using Legacy numbering.