This November, writer Charlie Huston (“Moon Knight”) and artist Lan Medina (“Foolkiller”) will reintroduce readers to “Deathlok” and his world in a seven issue mini-series from Marvel Comics
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Huston finished his last “Deathlok” script almost a year ago, and much of the planning and plotting for the series was done three to four years ago, so the writer drew much of his inspiration for the series’s setting from the current events of the time. “The stuff that was on my mind was a lot of what was going on in Iraq in 2005-2006. Things were at their hottest there, and Blackwater, military contractors, and mercenaries were very big in the news. So what I pitched to my editor, Axel Alonso, was a story taking military contractors 20 years down the road,” Huston explained. “Basically, national armies cease to exist and wars are fought entirely by proxy by corporately owned and run armies. Warfare has become a spectator sport as well as a business.
“The set up for this is basically that, in this world, Manning is a soldier’s soldier. He’s not a superstar, but he’s a respected professional and military thinker. He’s someone who gets results. Mike Travers is a rising superstar in the face of the game. Both are blown up simultaneously, and both end up incorporated into Deathlok. So the internal dialog the original stories had between Manning and Deathlok manifests in this version as an internal dialog between these two different personalities, Manning and Travers.”
Huston’s series is strictly a science fiction story. “This is science fiction in the broadest possible sense,” Huston stated. “It’s not ‘Hard Sci Fi,’ where you take a science concept and try to extrapolate it to its natural conclusion. It’s two-fisted, pulp-adventure, science fiction.”
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This post was written by Lobo on July 27, 2009
