CBR: Mike Carey on Reigniting The Torch

[CBR News]

One of Marvel's original heroes returns in "The Torch," a miniseries that forces the Golden Ager to confront foes both old & new, as well as lingering questions about his past. CBR spoke with co-writer Mike Carey about the book.


Full article here (http://comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=21905).

[Hypestyle]

hopefully there will be more jim hammond adventures to come.. I am curious, though.. it seems like the last invaders series was short-circuited due to higher-ups editorial/publishing mandates about "brand confusion", which is why Jim was killed (again) to make sure that Johnny Storm was the one and only Torch by the time the Fantastic Four films came out.. :frown:

[Somebody]

And what about his "daughter", Tara, from New Invaders? Given that he blew himself up in trying to save her, you'd think that she would be a major concern of his since it would be the last thing he'd remember - short of him coming back with severe amnesia, of course - after all.

[Sighphi]

And what about his "daughter", Tara, from New Invaders? Given that he blew himself up in trying to save her, you'd think that she would be a major concern of his since it would be the last thing he'd remember - short of him coming back with severe amnesia, of course - after all.

Yeah the New Invaders came and went and everyone seems to have forgotten about it.

Too bad cause i really liked it.

[md62]

I am very excited for this series. I have always liked the original Torch. I loved John Bryne's "revival" of the character back in West Coast Avengers. This time we have the return of Toro along with Jim Hammond.

I also liked the writing on the New Invaders series but the "cartoony" style of art & the coloring turned me off.

[mdg1]

My biggest concern is the hint of a "secret in his past" plot. Those always seem to be more trouble than they are worth... remember how messed up his connection to the Vision became?

[Somebody]

I also liked the writing on the New Invaders series but the "cartoony" style of art & the coloring turned me off.
The art was fine. The colouring... was not. It may have been the first book ever to be sunk by the colouring.

My biggest concern is the hint of a "secret in his past" plot. Those always seem to be more trouble than they are worth... remember how messed up his connection to the Vision became?
Oh yes.... thank you John Byrne and Kurt Busiek. Thank you SO VERY MUCH....

[Sighphi]

My biggest concern is the hint of a "secret in his past" plot. Those always seem to be more trouble than they are worth... remember how messed up his connection to the Vision became?


Another retcon in that weird history is just going to make it funnier.

[Xero]

So Marvel's Trinity is Captain America, the Golden Age Human Torch and Namor?

[pariah-1972]

Was anyone really clamoring for this?

[steve2275]

i dont really care

[pariah-1972]

i dont really careAmen man this is just another golden age vanity project from Alex Ross and Dynamite.

[DeadXMan]

So Marvel's Trinity is Captain America, the Golden Age Human Torch and Namor?

Originally, yeah.

Followed by the Destroyer and The Angel.

[arp2008]

So Marvel's Trinity is Captain America, the Golden Age Human Torch and Namor?Lame. The general public doesn't know who two of the 3 are in faintest.

[Simon Garth]

Amen man this is just another golden age vanity project from Alex Ross and Dynamite.

QFT - I could not be less interested in this.

[pharoahe22]

Seems like a good creative team, but does Marvel need 3 characters that light on fire? I know they all have different personalities but still...

[Roquefort Raider]

So Toro is going to pull a Bucky too?

[dkostus]

Lame. The general public doesn't know who two of the 3 are in faintest.


The general public knows who Namor is, and they know there has always been a human torch, they just think its Johnny Storm because of cartoons and movies.

Just because you're not old enough to remember stuff doesn't make it less important. Lots of people will get this, especially written by Mike Carey.

[Sanity or Madness?]

Seems like a good creative team, but does Marvel need 3 characters that light on fire? I know they all have different personalities but still...
Oh, there's easily more than three. Even before you count borderline cases like Firestar (whose powers technically don't involve flame, but that doesn't stop 90% of artists...)

[Simon Garth]

The general public knows who Namor is, and they know there has always been a human torch, they just think its Johnny Storm because of cartoons and movies.

The general public? Do you mean the comics buying public? Because there is no way on earth that 99.9999% of the public know who Namor is, and any non-comic reader who knows the Torch knows the Johnny Storm version, either from cartoons or the F4 films.

[Hrist]

So Toro is going to pull a Bucky too?

Toro was revived (by Bucky) at the end of Avengers/Invaders.

[christoph68]

i'm looking forward to this!
i always liked the original human torch more so than jonny storm.
now with toro back i'm interested in what will happen with him and the original torch.
i wonder if one will be in an avengers book and maybe the other just going solo or a team up of the two in an avengers book; either way i'm pumped about it!
jonny storm will always be the human torch for thr fantastic four and spider-mans buddy so i don't think having toro and jim will take too much away from jonny.

[Charles01]

Now that I can safely say I will definitively buy the collected hardcover (hopefully oversize) edition

Finally some real flame going on.