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isn’t out yet. It sounds awful but they’re not supposed to be deep characters. They’re meant to be people that are there, doing that, right now and they’re just in this situation. We don’t need to know their back stories. We don’t need to know their desires or lusts or fears. There’s no need for it because in a B-movie they didn’t do that. Every now and again they might go “back, during the war”, but half the time you’re lucky to get an explanation of how they even know each other. They’re just there. Writing at the beginning and trying to figure it out and it was like I said about the thing with Quatermass, mind control aliens and it was getting far too much like, well how do they know each other? How does this fit? The bizarre thing is that generally when you’re writing a story this is all stuff that you have to figure out, but I had to not figure this out because it’s for a B-movie; it’s unimportant. I don’t mean that to sound like it was lazy because it wasn’t, it still was tricky to write, but because of that like the thing when you meet the Colonel bloke, I’ve got to say they know each other a bit GS: I think he says “I haven’t heard from you in a year”? DB: Yeah at the space conference, and that’s so you can get the word “space” in front of things, like “Space scientist”. It’s kind of weird because all I keep thinking about now is that bad review and “these are such unlikeable characters”. I don’t think they’re unlikeable. It’s difficult. They each have their own character but there’s a lot of me in this book, a lot of my humour, basically because I’m the one writing it but it is very, what I would find funny, and the things they say are the things that I would find funny if
Image © Titan Comics, 2013 One of the promotional materials for the It Came! film. I mean Comic. ...

but, originally her Dad was going to be in it and he knew him from years back and it was all complicated and an over complicated Bmovie? You don’t want to do it. It’s a simple story. One person said “it’s a series of things that happen so that things in B-movies can happen” and that’s exactly what it is. The concept is that it is a B-movie. That is it. There’s no message. You could sort of say with the misogyny aspect of it that there is a message by the end of it but it’s not really a message, it’s more like a culmination I suppose. I’m not going to say too much because it obviously

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