This is Comic Geeks Speak episode 1413, Fan Expo Canada 2013.

Creator Spotlight Panel, Walt and Louise Simonson.

Welcome to the show, I'm Brian Christman.

It was my distinct pleasure this past weekend at Fan Expo Canada

to be the moderator of the Spotlight Panel on Walter and Louise Simonson.

The panel was only scheduled for a half an hour, so I opened it up to audience questions pretty much right away.

Now, there was not a microphone set up for audience questions, so you won't be able to hear them very clearly.

So I'm probably going to jump in and say what was asked

so you can understand the response is given by Walter and Louise.

So we start out with an audience question about Beta Ray Bill.

Bill was, let me see, it's really fast.

When I took over Thor, one of the things I like about doing books, when I was doing

a lot of mainstream stuff, is if I'm writing it, I'd like to not tell stories we've already

read like a million times.

I mean, and that's just the way comics are.

The stories kind of come in and out and they rotate.

In Thor, for example, anybody who does Thor for more than three seconds has to do a Ragnarok story because the actual story is so cool in Norse myths. You've got

to do it somewhere. I did it twice in my own run, so you just do it. But I thought about

what I could do that felt like it hadn't been done before, and ultimately I began thinking,

well, no one's ever really picked up the hammer. If you read the inscription on the hammer, whosoever holds

this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess

the power of Thor. Now, Loki

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