How did you form your professional relationship with DC?īrian Keene: Liz Gehrlein and Keith Giffen, who were editing and writing Doom Patrol at the time, respectively, asked me if I'd like to guest-write an issue. Hilton Collins: You've written Doom Patrol #16 and DCU Halloween Special in the past, and you were originally to be part of Futures End. Keene had interesting news about why he isn't part of the creative team for DC's current Futures End weekly series and how he almost wrote Animal Man and Booster Gold projects. Keene's an expert at delivering dark fiction with tough protagonists who know how to fight, whether it's with swords, automatic weapons, superpowers, or their own hands and feet.īleeding Cool interviewed him about his impressive career. It's no wonder that the comic book characters he's written include the Doom Patrol, DC's outcast superheroes who are often portrayed as monstrous outsiders, and a story in the DCU Halloween Special, an anthology featuring stories about the publisher's biggest characters during the scariest night of the year. Keene's comic book action, however, often comes with a horrific or violent bent. Keene's comfort with action is probably why he's had no problem crossing over into comic books, since the world of superheroes is famous for fantastical, larger-than-life fight scenes and adventures. It has a bloody, fatalistic tone you'll find in most horror-whether it's in a book or a film-but the characters battle so fiercely and are so heavily armed that it veers into the same testosterone-fueled territory that action movies embody. City of the Dead, for example, is a fast-paced, intense reading experience with non-stop action that pulls no punches with its gore and harshness. His 2003 novel The Rising and its 2005 sequel City of the Dead-arguably his most popular works-are the reason he's earned a reputation as a master of horror with a visceral edge. The series is an intense tale about humanity's fate post-zombie apocalypse and exemplifies Keene's taste for darker, action-oriented tales. He's penned comic books for various publishers, including Marvel and DC, but his 25-issue series The Last Zombie for Antarctic Press symbolizes his legacy as a storyteller. Brian Keene is a prolific writer who's written more than 40 books, mostly in the horror, fantasy, and science fiction genres, but his fertile imagination has planted seeds in other media.
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