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Newsarama: Hunter, one of your recent announcements was the launch of the NacelleVerse.
How did that project come about?
What made this such an interesting project to take on?
What are some of the creative opportunities here?
Joe - truly impressive work - we all know that if Optimus Prime dies, he’s coming back.
There’s a safety in that.
But a lot of the characters in the NacelleVerse have not been defined in that way yet.
We’re defining their personalities, certainly in comics, for the first time with these series.
And the comics will work in tandem with the shows?
Our first proper miniseries is RoboForce.
It’s a rare opportunity with a licensed partnership.
It’s taking a ‘bend it, don’t break it’ approach to creative development.
How do you feel about the way nostalgia is driving comics at the moment?
I mean, comics have always been hugely driven by nostalgia.
People often look at it as a negative but I see it as a foundational thing.
But now he’s going to beBarry Allen and not Jay Garrick."
Sometimes I think of it not as nostalgia, but as a long memory.
And that’s a wonderful thing.
I think it’s the latter.
Can you talk about the SpectreVision line at all and what’s happening there just yet?
The books will be coming in 2025.
We do have some really cool, ambitious stuff planned.
And that’s a good vibe for this.
Oni also produces a lot of graphic novels and collections.
Are there any in particular you want to draw attention to here?
There’ll be at least two more volumes of that over the course of the next year or two.
I should say this is all done in collaboration with our editor-in-chief Sierra Hahn who previously worked at BOOM!
Studios and prior to that Dark Horse.
The vision we have is very simple.
It is: make cool shit.
For the first 50 to 60 years of their existence they operated on the periphery of mainstream culture.
