Like many of her contemporaries, Varo fled Europe as war bore down on the continent, arriving in Mexico in 1941. Varo - full name María de los Remedios Alicia y Rodriga Varo y Uranga - was a Spanish emigre who joined the creative milieu that turned Mexico’s capital city into a flourishing center for surrealism, the movement founded in Paris by the writer André Breton in the 1930s and ’40s. It really gets into the question of, ‘Why are human beings violent?’ And it tells that story over time and space in a head-trippy way.In her Mexico City studio, the artist Remedios Varo - who painted meticulous, fantastical scenes in the mid-20th century - kept all her essentials nearby: paintbrushes, oil paints, graphite, hardboard and luminescent quartz crystals, which she charged by moonlight in hopes of harnessing an arcane energy. It isn’t a story that is violence for violence’s sake. “The meaning of violence and also the cost of it. “It is a meditation on violence,” Tomlin says of his first creator-owned work. He also made his comic writing debut in 2021 with Batman: The Imposter, a prestige miniseries for DC that was pitched and produced after he and Bermejo began working on Vicious Circle. Tomlin is now writing a film adaptation of Boom!’s hit comic BRZRKR that has Keanu Reeves attached to star (Reeves also co-created the comic) and is working with Reeves on the sequel to The Batman. Since then, both Tomlin’s and Bermejo’s stock has risen. It was off to the races, and we were pitching it to publishers within a month or two.” Boom! snapped it up. “I was shocked how quickly everything formed together. Once that clicked, Tomlin says, he wrote an outline from ideas they both came up with. “It was the most organic situation possible,” says Tomlin. “Going to ‘date,’ creatively, somebody new, there is always this feeling of, ‘Is this going to be a disaster? Do our tastes and value align?’ We both have this deep love for this movie I Saw the Devil and we said, ‘Let’s do something hard-hitting like that.’ And this was born out of that.” The book has been in the works in secret since the early meeting between the two back in 2020. And it will feature editions with cover art by Bermejo as well as illustrators such as Alex Garner ( Batman), Jae Lee ( Grim) and Rafael Grampá ( BRZRKR), among others. The comic will be published in an oversized format to really highlight the art. You’re going to see images that you would never have expected to come out of that guy.” “So on one hand it’s this high-octane action story, there is this other component that is a love letter to the medium. “The concept is one thing but we really wanted to harness the medium of comics, so Lee took it upon himself to change his art style every time we go to a new time and place,” Tomlin says. The story will take them men from 22nd century Tokyo to 1950s New Orleans to the Cretaceous Era and beyond, as they become locked in a battle of wills that spans millions of years.īermejo will at times diverge from his usual art style to take inspiration from the times and artists of the period in which the characters find themselves. Each hit they make forces them both to involuntarily travel between vastly different past and future eras. One of the men, named Shawn Thacker, is a trained assassin from the future who seeks revenge on the only other man with his affliction. The story centers on two men cursed to roam across time and space in a unending cycle of violence and revenge. The first issue will be published in December by Boom! Studios. Tomlin, who has since become one of the town’s big genre scribes as well as a burgeoning director, and Bermejo, an American illustrator who lives in Italy, have teamed up for A Vicious Circle, a three-issue prestige miniseries. Now, almost three years later, that book is ready to be unveiled. 'The Batman 2': Mattson Tomlin to Co-Write Script With Matt Reeves
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