Writing Daken...

[fajrdrako]

An interview from USA Today with Daniel Way and Marjorie Liu, the writers of Daken: Dark Wolverine. This satisfies me that the writers are deliberately doing what I hoped they were doing; using Daken's point of view to keep up the ambiguity; making us doubt Daken's badness, or at least, unable to take it for granted; making the character evolve.

"It's hard to tell what he's going to do next, and that's where a lot of the popularity of the character has come from," Way says. "It's tough when you're writing these books. People don't really root for the villain, at least in this medium. At their core, all fans want their villains to be equal and opposite to their heroes, just because that makes it balanced and makes it satisfying.

"In Daken, they kinda get both, so they find that it's OK to cheer for him. You can watch him just being an utter bastard and enjoy it, because he may make up for it later. Or he may not."