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CBR News: You've been relatively quiet of late on the comic book side with only a four-issue arc on "Batman" and a few issues of "Titans" released in 2009. Now all of sudden – whammo! – four major projects. So where have you been? And with one of those being a bi-weekly, how will you find the time?
Judd Winick: In all honesty, especially in the last year-and-a-half or so, I've been taking on a much lighter load with the mainstream superhero stuff. My wife and I had another baby and I was doing a lot of TV development. And now the baby is a little bit older and a little bit more self-sufficient and things have stabilized a little bit with the TV development that I was doing, so I wanted to dive back into hero comics.
I'm used to juggling three-and-a-half to four comics at a time, so a big load is not new to me/us – a lot of us do a lot of titles at once.
"Justice League: Generation Lost" is bi-weekly and it's a very specific story that's like a map. It's very much one foot in front of another. It's very, very episodic. It's one of the things that I think will be a draw to the book. We're not doing arcs. Each full issue is a wrap-up storyline. Every issue, you get a full story – beginning, middle and end but it is truly an ongoing. It's a 26-issue adventure. So that makes one kind of story.
And "Power Girl" is a totally different other story. It's a straight-up superhero, fight the bad guys kind of stuff. And gosh, what else is in there?
There's "Lost Days," which I'm done with actually. All six issues are done. We finished that way ahead of time. We were waiting for our artist to be free and he's free, so we're good to go. Also, timing wise, it worked out. It was just serendipity that we're releasing the DVD right when it comes out. The miniseries functions as a kind of prequel to not only the original Red Hood run that we did, but also to the DVD.
How did these two new Red Hood stories come about? Did you have more Jason Todd stories to tell, or did DC come to you with the idea?
Well, starting with the miniseries, I had that story in my back pocket for a long time. When we first did Jason Todd's origin in the "Batman" annual way back when, there was maybe four...I don't even know if there were four panels devoted to it. So this is kind of what happened in between – after Jason's resurrection and before he donned the Red Hood.
Originally, we really just blasted through it, and I knew full-well that there was a longer story that I could tell. I had a lot of ideas in mind. I joked with Dan [DiDio] and my editor at the time, Bob Schreck, that "I can do 75 pages with this issue. Easy." And even then it would have felt like it was getting short-shifted. They said, "That story will have to wait for another day then."
So we're kind of bridging the gaps here. If you go back and read the annual, for me, it feels a lot like that. Those were kind of like highlights. This adds depth to a lot of the stuff we were touching on there.
I basically had this idea in my head, too, that after Jason was resurrected and before he became the Red Hood, what led to him becoming the Red Hood? And that's what this series grew out of. What happened in those "lost days?"
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