INTERVIEW
Spencer LammWW W.SCI FI N OW.CO.U K |^073
The comics never went away completely and
The Matrix is very personal to me. I can’t
even imagine not wanting to put [the stories]
out there.
Because we had decided to do Doc
Frankenstein as an oversized book, we
thought it would be cool to also do The
Matrix as a slightly oversized book and just
put everything that we’d done in the past in
there. There was a lot of stuff and I was just
excited to put together a single collection. I’m
looking at it now and I’m ecstatic that this
thing fi nally exists in a physical form.
I’m glad the opportunity came about to be
able to do it. When it fi rst came out it was
paid for to be a marketing tool, but I like
to think we created something that people
actually wanted and would have a life.
Can you tell us more about the Doc
Frankenstein collection? What made
you come back to it?
We put out a trade paperback of some of
the Doc Frankenstein issues in 2014 and
then we thought we would come out with
a second volume soon thereafter. However,
various things got in the way, be it pulls to
other fi lms or artist Steve Skroce needing to
draw more, but we always wanted to get Doc
Frankenstein out there.
Doc Frankenstein has quite
controversial subjects, did you ever
question on whether to include some
of those themes?
No, there was never a discussion about
pulling back. If anything, it was how far can
we go. The idea of any form of limitation
wasn’t there. Doc Frankenstein defi nitely hits
hot buttons, there’s like an orgy with a priest
and a fairy; that’s taking it to next levels and
I love it. I think it’s great. And in the printed
book it’s even bigger!What are you working on now?
Now The Matrix and Doc Frankenstein areout, it is making me think of going back
to [another thing from my past] and doing
something with Expressions Of Dread. I’m
not sure how/what I’m going to do but that’s
kind of exciting. I like the idea of doing
things that are personal and that is the very
fi rst thing that I did that led me to all these
other incredible things. I’m not sure in what
form but I’m dusting off those fi les now...The Matrix Comics: 20th Anniversary Edition
and Doc Frankenstein will both be released
on 6 March in the UK.