Is it true that JB drew BLOOD OF THE DEMON #1 twice?
JB: I have been pitching a Demon series every couple of years or so since I first went to work for DC “full time” in the days of MAN OF STEEL. With a “new regime” in the form of Dan DiDio, I decided it was time to try again, but this time, knowing Dan comes from a Hollywood background, I decided to take a slightly different approach. To this end, I sat down and “shot the pilot”, drawing, completely on spec, the whole 22 pages of my “first issue”. This I turned in to Dan, along with a script. He liked it — but there was a problem. DC has a new policy (DC seems to be in love with new policies, just at the nonce) which requires that all work done with existing characters be vouchered before the work is done. (Smart, I suppose — prevents people popping up later and trying to say work-made-for-hire was not, in fact, work-made-for-hire.) This meant they could not use the “pilot” — but they did want a Demon series from me.
JB: I have been pitching a Demon series every couple of years or so since I first went to work for DC “full time” in the days of MAN OF STEEL. With a “new regime” in the form of Dan DiDio, I decided it was time to try again, but this time, knowing Dan comes from a Hollywood background, I decided to take a slightly different approach. To this end, I sat down and “shot the pilot”, drawing, completely on spec, the whole 22 pages of my “first issue”. This I turned in to Dan, along with a script. He liked it — but there was a problem. DC has a new policy (DC seems to be in love with new policies, just at the nonce) which requires that all work done with existing characters be vouchered before the work is done. (Smart, I suppose — prevents people popping up later and trying to say work-made-for-hire was not, in fact, work-made-for-hire.) This meant they could not use the “pilot” — but they did want a Demon series from me. So, with echoes of STAR TREK in my brain, I wrote up vouchers for t
