“We had so much fun putting this together, with the in-jokes and the easter eggs,” Zub remembered, sharing with the crowd that the original plot was that Morty was trying to learn D&D to impress a “hot gamer girl,” but he was forced to learn it from Rick… who only remembered the first edition of the game. Well, him and author Patrick Rothfuss, with whom he co-wrote the first four-issue miniseries. And yet, both companies went for it, and Zub got the call to make it work. “You’re talking about the crown jewel of Adult Swim destroying the crown jewel of Wizards of the Coast,” he reasoned. Dungeons & Dragons was a suggestion that someone made as an example that wouldn’t work, but it was the suggestion that everyone kept returning to in the days after the meal, even as Zub tried to convince everyone that it would never happen. The way Zub described it, the idea first arose when staff from Oni Press and IDW went for dinner together during a convention and threw around ways in which the two companies could work together on a project. Indeed, the original version of the crossover was a joke about two properties that just wouldn’t fit together. A lifelong Dungeons & Dragons player, he said that the game is intrinsic to why I am who I am,” explaining, “it taught me to entertain people, be spontaneous, it made me good at teamwork. Zub opened the panel by giving some background to the crossover between two properties that he admits appear to be in direct opposition to each other. The packed room at the Seattle Conference Center was in good spirits as Jim Zub – who co-created the original comic book miniseries that combined the two franchises, and has been helming the pairing ever since as it’s headed into a second miniseries and a game in its own right – held court in front of a packed room eager to hear what he had to say about what he himself described as “this very, very bizarre project.” Dungeons & Dragons at Emerald City Comic Con for those who weren’t there. It is, I’ll admit, hard to properly describe the atmosphere inside Friday evening’s Rick and Morty vs.
0 kommentar(er)
