5/8/2023 0 Comments Sláine by Pat Mills![]() ![]() This must be on fans’ minds and perhaps editors, too. ![]() But what happens to non-house characters like Slaine, ABC Warriors and more when we creators retire/move on to new projects/ fall under a bus/go ga ga It obviously doesn’t apply to ‘house characters’, like the Judge Dredd universe with its myriad writers and artists where I assume everyone is happy enough with the current arrangements. So this opens up the subject of whether comic characters like Dan Dare should end when their creators part company with them. SF purist Joy says it’s morally wrong to revive Dan, but Dave and Greg are tempted by its huge potential appeal that could make all the difference to their new 1977 comic Space Warp. This is a subject I pursue in my novel Goodnight, John-Boy, where my three central editorial characters – basically three shards of my own personality – argue bitterly about bringing back a similar series: Dan Darwin and the Voyage of the Spaceship Beagle. But I realised later that, ethically, I was wrong. The story, whatever its faults, was very popular with readers. ![]() ![]() When I brought back Frank Hampson’s Dan Dare in 2000AD it turned out to be the right decision commercially. More articles like this are part of the Comic Club Membership here – and where to get Pat’s books, referenced in this article, are below. In his first article for ComicScene Magazine he explored the rights of creators and their comic characters. Pat Mills is very much alive but with Slaine and ABC Warriors coming to an end he seems adamant that the characters will not be revisited by other writers. ![]()
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