Ever wondered what a “created by” credit means? Do you just drop an idea in someone’s lap and yell “arrivederci, suckers!” In the case of Skybound’s Blood and Thunder #1, which is in stores today, Robert Kirkman’s credit is a little more hands-on than that.
“The initial idea I came up with, and I brought Benito and EJ in to help me develop it,” Kirkman told Comic Book Club. “I gave Benito some story ideas, and I helped with EJ doing some of the visual development and things like that. Developing how Blood’s hair would work, and various different things. But for the most part, I’ve helped them craft the world, and I’m credited as a co-creator and and I co-created the concept. I didn’t actually physically write the script, but a lot of the ideas from it are things that I developed with Benito.”
Kirkman elaborates in the back matter of the issue, but Blood and Thunder went through various iterations, including a title change, before it became the book you can read today. In the pages, you’ll meet Blood, a bounty hunter with a huge shock of red hair, and Thunder, her talking gun. Think Lethal Weapon if Riggs was a slightly less insane girl, and Murtaugh was a giant gun, and you get the gist.
“I’m overseeing the production of the book to a certain extent, and giving notes as we go here and there,” Kirkman continued. “It’s a project I guess I’m overseeing, if that’s the term. But yeah, it’s really just fun to be working with two very old friends. I’ve known both these guys for, like, twenty-five years, so it’s cool to be able to do another book with them.”
Blood and Thunder #1 is in stores now.
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