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Chris Metzen: How did you get into the comic characters had their personalities, and you had
this epic, far-reaching backstory. I looked at that
book business?
whole vast canvas, and then I searched for the
Simon Furman: Well, like a lot of people, I smaller stories within, the fine detail you
started out on the editorial side of things, work- just cant get with that big a brush. You cant
ing on comics from behind the scenes. Comics possibly cover everything, even in the most
were something l'd grown up with and loved as comprehensive style guide in the world or the
a kid, but l'd grown away from them a little bit in absolute best series bible. The great thing about
my teens. Then I started working for a big UK Transformers was that there were so many
publishing company called IPC Magazines. places to go with it and broaden it out. The thing
It had a whole bunch of general-interest l've become quite well known for, especially in
magazines and a dedicated comics division, and Transformers, is taking somewhat non-entities
it was in that comics divisionkind of by and building personality onto them and
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doing little one-shots, dropping in where a comics: building disparate characters into
writer had dropped out. I found I had a wee bit of (hopefully) great stories.
a talent for it and also loved doing it. The idea
that you could actually make a living as a
CM: What are some examples of your favorite
comics writer was something that had never characters that you've put a spin on and gotten
really occurred to me before, but suddenly it the most kick out of?
was a very real possibility.
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called
Death's Head, whom I created back in the
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1980s
for
Marvel UK. We started off needing just
a story differently if it's serial (e.g.,
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throwaway
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bounty
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wide tableau to work with? Is your approach
when
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different for smaller projects?
artist Geoff Seniorstarted dropping on our
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pretty much the same whatever l'm doing: I "There's no way we can just throw this character
always try to look at the bigger picture first so I out after maybe one or two stories." So, we did
know exactly where we're setting something, this emergency retrofitting where I just layered
what the larger ground rules are, and then boii it all these extra quirks and eccentricities and preall the way down to an individual character or pared a special one-page story so that Marvel
three, which I still believe underpins so much of could duly copyrightthe character. Death's Head
good, solid storytelling. So I tend to want to just took off from there!

The following is an excerpt of an interview

with Simon Furman that was conducted by Chris
Metzen, Blizzard Entertainment's Senior Vice
President of Creative Development, on July
28th, 2009.

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ough more in the works of your pure imaginari because you've done a lot of licensed stuff
ke StarCraft)? Clearly you'd have more fun
irking on something like StarCraft.
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lagination and licensed projects having more
saning to you at the end of the day?
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wherever with them. What I liked about

CM: Over the years, we

(Blizzard
Entertainment) have done comics, manga,
novels, and short stories in addition to our
games. We've always liked the idea of trying to
meld a lot of those mediums together. So you
might see characters pop into the game who are
from a unique manga story. What's your take on
that kind of stuff?
SF: To me that's the meat and potatoes of
storytelling, that everything interacts and that
an action over here has repercussions way over
there. It's like a big picture that you don't
necessarily need to see all of, but you can
go over there and have a look at that, and
ultimately everything matters. I Iove the fact

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