Francavilla's "The Black Beetle" Finds "No Way Out" of the Shadows

[CBR News]

Eisner Award-winning artist Francesco Francavilla spoke with CBR News about writing and drawing the upcoming "The Black Beetle" miniseries at Dark Horse and his pulp fiction influences.


Full article here.

[davidfrankel]

So DC are waiving their rights to the character name?

[emb021]

So DC are waiving their rights to the character name?

Their rights to what character name?

AFAIK, they have no rights to the name "Black Beetle". They do own the "Blue Beetle". Different color.

[Ed Love]

Their rights to what character name?

AFAIK, they have no rights to the name "Black Beetle". They do own the "Blue Beetle". Different color.

They do have a Black Beetle who was a villain counterpart to the newer Blue Beetle. However, names cannot be copyrighted, only trademarked and I think the two characters debuted about the same time. There are quite a few characters with duplicate names at the various companies: Nighthawk, Black Cat, Guardian, Sandman, Sentinel (Alan Scott and mutant hunting robots) to name a few. So, unless this interfered with DC's plans on releasing a Black Beetle title themselves, don't see a problem.

[the goddamn batman]

it's also The Black Beetle, but anyway...

I'm super pumped for this. can't come out soon enough.

[MajorHoy]

This looks good . . . I may have to invest in both this and Masks.
(Too bad DC decided to flush it's history down the toilet with the Nu 52. )

[Middenway]

I am really looking forward to this. Francesco Francavilla drawing his own material... I'm sold.

[YouthofToday]

I wanted to pick up those issues of DHP for the BB story, but I didn't fell like spending that much for 1 story. Glad its all being collected in 1 issue. If its good, I'll pick up the mini as well.
Franceso is quickly becoming one of my favorite artists. Still love to see him on a Black Widow solo book.