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Newsarama: Pete said he called you immediately to work with him on this book. What did you think when you heard about it?
Pat Gleason: Well, when he first brought it up, I was deeply entrenched in Blackest Night. My first thought was, "Wow! that would be really cool! Let me think about it." I was probably on a string of sleepless nights and up to my eyeballs in zombies and Green Lanterns. The real sad fact for me at the time was that I would have to leave my beloved Corps, and be dropped into unknown territory on Batman & Robin. It took some time to make the decision, but ultimately I felt good that I had left some sort of a mark on Green Lantern Corps, and it was time to move on to a new challenge and a new frontier. After that, I pretty much just geeked out.
Nrama: Do you use a different artistic "muscle" to draw something like Batman when you've been drawing space-based characters for a while? Have you had to change up your style at all?
Gleason: Yeah, whenever I start something new, my style will change a bit. I try to leave it open enough to do that. But I really try to keep the storytelling and emotionally grounding things constant.
I've been in space for a long time. And before that, working on Aquaman, my time was spent mostly deep down in the ocean. So now I've got a backlog of those little normal, everyday, Earthy kind of details, backgrounds and people that I've been storing up and putting down in my sketchbooks.
Nrama: Have you looked at the Batman & Robin book and the style of the comic that's been used by artists over the last year?
Gleason: I had been really immersed in the Green Lantern stories and characters earlier on, but I had also kept a peripheral view on what was going on with Batman. Even back through Final Crisis and on into Grant [Morrison]'s work on Batman & Robin. Since then, I've done a lot of reading and soaking in of the style the book has had over the last year or so
Check out the entire interview here.
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