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Newsarama has interviewed Bruce Wayne: The Road Home and Red Robin writer Fabian Nicieza:Newsarama: Fabian, how did you get involved in The Road Home, and what was the original idea behind the event?
Fabian Nicieza: The Bat Gang, Mike Marts, Janelle Siegel and at that time, Michael Siglain, plied me with burgers and beers (OK, beer singular) during lunch and discussed their desire to have me structure an October one-shot event. I know that it's a good part of the overall publishing program to have these kinds of "one shot" months, and the Bat-family has used them very well to tell some good stories about secondary characters or villains, as well as giving a great opportunity for some new talent to hone their craft.
So, anyway, the basic idea was, Bruce is back but before he starts his own endeavor in Grant's new book, we want him to take stock of where many of the other characters are to see if they can fit into his plans.
Mike gave me the list of the titles/characters they wanted to spotlight, many of which were ongoing series titles, so even though the regular monthly was taking a break for October, their fans would still have a new book out featuring the characters. Bruce would reveal himself to some characters, or have had that revelation occur in story events Grant had planned, but he didn't have to "come out" to everyone in every issue. We played nicely with that, in that there are some coy acknowledgements between some characters or outright revelations to others.
We discussed different thoughts on the overall storyline, and knowing we all wanted to include the ongoing Vicki Vale subplot that had started in Gotham Gazette a year ago into the story flow, created a great opportunity for a solid story through-line that worked by starting off as a subplot and then becoming the main thrust of the action halfway through the month.
I took all my notes and hammered out an 8-issue outline, some issues far more heavily detailed then others (especially the ones I knew I would be writing). Then the other writers involved — Bryan Miller, Mike Barr, Adam Beechen, Derek Fridolfs, and Marc Andreyko — took those notes and had the hard jobs of making them work into good, self-contained stories that also serviced a larger, overall storyline. I think they all did a great job.
Nrama: There are two issues per week — is there a certain order to how these should be read?
Nicieza: If a reader wants to buy individual issues, they should feel free to do so, and hopefully enjoy a solid self-contained issue, but if they want to read all 8, then yes, there is definitely an order:
1) Batman & Robin
2) Red Robin
3) Outsiders
4) Batgirl
5) Catwoman
6) Gordon
7) Oracle
8) Ra's al Ghul
Check out the entire interview here.
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