Tuesday
Jul272010
Interview: Tom DeFalco and Ron Frenz Part 1
Tuesday, July 27, 2010 Filed in Interview ;)
A few months back Adam, Joel, and Tee of the Dollar Bin got together for their first two guest skypephonerview. Who were the lucky test subjects? Why none other that former Editor in Chief of Marvel comics, Tom DeFalco and his comics life partner and artist extraordinaire, Ron Frenz. Listen as they discuss their work with Spider-Girl, Marvel Team-Up, and a plethora of other greatnesses.
Runtime: 1 hour 18 minute 47 seconds
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Reader Comments (11)
Great interview so far. I like the Chris Priest section (I found it hilarious) and I am really looking forward to them talking about Thor.
I've read a little bit by Tom DeFalco & Ron Frenz but nothing recently. Still I enjoyed the interview. It got a little confusing trying to follow DeFalco's story of the life and death of the Spider-Girl comic, but maybe that's because I've never read it.
I also enjoyed the bit at the end where you asked them about their memories of working for Christopher Priest/Jim Owlsley. That's the sort of dirt that you probably couldn't get out of a creator during a convention panel, although if it was all covered in an issue of Back Issue magazine then maybe that made them a little less reluctant to discuss it.
Thank you for posting this interview. I look forward to part 2.
I enjoyed the way they came across as more like brothers than co-workers. The needling of each other and finishing each others thoughts. Just wait til part two, if I remember correctly Ron busts my chops pretty good.
As far as Spider-Girl, it was a one-shot, then they gave him 10 issues, then 7 more, and then kept on adding 6 more and then 6 more and then 6 more after which it would be cancelled until they got to issue 60, then cancelled it at 100, then it ran 30 more, and then was cancelled and ran 4 more, and then it was cancelled and was moved online, and then cancelled and now who knows. Those first 100 issues of Spider-Girl is just old-fashioned Marvel-style action book. It was a better Spider-man book than the Spider-man books and everyone should go pick up the back issues.
Word is Spider-Girl is coming back again in the near future, but with a different team.
It just leaked that Frenz and DeFalco are doing a new Thunderstrike mini at Marvel.
Their work on Thunderstrike was some of the best stuff Marvel put out in the 90's.
I enjoyed this interview. I love Tom and Ron's work on Spider-Girl. It is the most consistent, fun and entertaining Spider-Book for the past 13 years.
Unfortunately, Marvel has decided to cancelled the book after it's most recent relaunch because they want the name "Spider-Girl" for another character.
Again I enjoyed this interview and I can't wait for Part 2.
How come one one mentioned I forgot to cut off the intro loop? Oh well. Part 2 to is up. Listen as I save myself from certain death by using Joel as leverage to pull myself out of the way of an on coming bus. Unfortunately I had to sacrifice Joel to do it.
Unfortunately my hairy butt, you pushed me in front of that bus and cheerfully waved.
Spider-girl was absolutely the best comic I ever read. The characters were amazing (pardon the pun), the stories were inspiring, and the art was fantastic. Thanks to Tom, Ron, Pat and others for such an excellent journey.
I honestly think that if Marvel would have kept the title of the book more stable, it would have been a lot easier for fans to follow. It was challenging at times to let our comic shops know what we wanted to subscribe to. We wanted Spider-girl, but the name of the book kept changing.
The new Spider-girl, that isn't the same character at all, also caused confusion. I'd love to see the original Spider-girl come back some day, but either way, it was the most enjoyable series of books I ever had the pleasure to read.