![]() When all the words are in the bubbles, I read the words out loud so that it sounds like something a human would say. Then, I go back through and revise the thumbnails and tweak the script. The character design happened as the same time that the outline was being written, and as I started writing the script, I do really rough page thumbnails to gauge how the book is gonna be paced. MUF: Did the story come first or the art? What does that process look like?ĭB: When I was working on this book, I was writing the outline to the story, but also in my sketchbook, I started trying to figure out who these characters were and what they looked like. ![]() So, it was a much more intense art session. Like no one has ever seen a cat flying a spaceship, but when there’s a kid climbing out of their window, you have a very specific image of what that looks like. So, I had to remind myself how to draw humans, and just because you are drawing a person, there’s a lot more attention you have to pay to the artwork to make it feel more natural. ![]() So, that was exciting to dip my toes into.Īnd the other thing that I wasn’t prepared for that I should have been was that this was a book with humans as opposed to cats like in Catstronauts. It’s a scene where Sonia is doing research on the, and there’s a story by Lois Lane, and it’s as I was writing those lines, I was like “Oh yeah, this in the universe.” So, then I went back and mined the DC Universe for those nuggets to pull in to make it feel like it’s part of the same world, but it’s a new part of a map that you haven’t explored yet. But there was this point where I was working on it that I realized that they existed in that same universe. What was it like going into an already established world?ĭB: That was a little daunting, and part of the reason of me taking it out of Metropolis and putting it in the suburbs gave me the blank slate so that I could build that world. You’ve already created these wildly popular characters and worlds. MUF: I’ve already talked about how much I love Catstronauts and Hangry. So, I liked this idea that he’d just broken out of the clone facility and had the idea that he was a hero, but he didn’t know how to go about it. I really liked his origin that he was a Superman clone that wasn’t finished and escaped. I came across Bizarro in the animated series, and I remembered him from Superman comics from when I was a kid. They wanted to dig a little deeper into their universe of characters. Did you choose to write about Bizarro or how did that work?ĭB: DC really wanted a story that was not another little Bruce Wayne story or Wonder Woman growing up on the island. MUF: Kind of going back to Metropolis Grove, Sonia’s fish-out-of- water story dovetails nicely with Bizarro’s. I remember my brother teaching my how to draw 3-D so that the characters weren’t just flat on the horizon. Back then, I don’t know if the term was fan art, but I was just drawing in my spiral notebook. I was getting more into the Turtles and learning how to draw them.ĭB: Haha, yeah I guess. I was really into the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as well. I was definitely a fan of Batman and Superman growing up. Did you have any favorite superheroes growing up?ĭB: Growing up, we had a big collection of the old Super Powers action figures. MUF: That leads right into my next question. Sonia, having seen Superman, isn’t so sure, but she doesn’t want to mess up her new friendships. They see Bizarro out in the woods, and everybody assumes that he’s Superman. She tries to teach them about how cool superheroes are, and they try to teach her about living in the suburbs, exploring the woods, and building a clubhouse. So, when Sonia moves from Metropolis to their neighborhood, they’re instant friends, but with Sonia being from the city and having seen Superman, she’s like Superman’s number one fan. It all happens in the big city, and all they see is all this superhero stuff happening online or in the news. Nothing happens in their small, quiet suburb. The two kids that live there, Duncan and Alex, they’re really skeptical about superheroes. MUF: Hi Drew! I’m really excited to talk to you today because I’m actually a really big fan of Catstronauts and Hangry, which I’ll ask you about in a bit, but first, can you tell us a little bit about Metropolis Grove.ĭB: It’s about these three kids who become instant friends in a suburb of Metropolis, Metropolis Grove. We sat down with Drew Brockington to talk Catstronauts, comics, cheese, and his new graphic novel, Metropolis Grove, available from DC Comics for Kids on May 4th.
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