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storytelling is based mostly in expect the “and more diffi cult “I was always more
characters’ actions. In my opinion, still!” highwire visuals. But I think
action is a big part of Star Wars, comics are like widescreen cinema, fascinated by Han Solo
but it isn’t the most important part. where people really expect to see an and Boba Fett than
Scale means a great deal. amazing movie.
For example, you need to know goody two-shoes Jedi!”
how big a Star Destroyer is to Duane, you’re known for
convey that sense of wonder. your hard-boiled crime novels.
Also, in Star Wars, there are no How did that prepare you for This is like telling the story about
nameless extras: every character a Star Wars comic? how Murtaugh met Riggs in
is important, which is kind of DS: I’m drawn to beaten-down Lethal Weapon. I focused on
a scale thing, too. detectives, spies, hitmen, and other one element of the screenplay
I think Star Wars demands nasty folks who operate in the that intrigued me: the idea that
a classic, neat storytelling style. shadows. I was always much more K-2SO had been reprogrammed
I’ve played a lot with how I tell fascinated by Han Solo and Boba by Cassian. When did that happen?
stories on the page—for me, it’s Fett than those goody two-shoes How did Cassian get close enough

the most enjoyable part of the Jedi! When I first heard about to him to pull off such a thing?
work process, and I take any chance Rogue One, I was excited. Finally,
I can to innovate pictorially. But here was a story that focuses on So what can you tell us about
Star Wars is not the same as the underbelly of the Star Wars the comic’s story?
[DC series] Midnighter and Apollo. universe! Never in my wildest DS: Cassian, along with twin alien
The reader doesn’t care about how dreams did I think I’d be asked to operatives—Kertas and Rismor—are
innovative you are in telling the tell a small part of that tale. on a longshot mission out in the
story: they just want to know the My mission was to tell a story Colonies. You know how spies will

story! Superhero comics are a about the first meeting between sometimes take a target’s garbage

three-ring circus, and people Cassian Andor and K-2SO. to figure out what he or she

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