Rage, Issue #1
Rage: Issue #1, March 2002 published by Red Cape Comics, 568
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[source: issue #1 of Rage]
Why Rage?
Daniel Lipman: There wouldn't be a Rage if we didn't
have to
be creative out of adversity. We had all the DC Comics characters in
the original pilot script because of our relationship with Warner
Brothers. We wanted to use likenesses of Superman, Batman, and all
those characters on the show. Anyone who has a valuable character is
going to be very protective, and DC was protective and they said no.
They wouldn't allow us to use their characters. So we had to invent
Captain Astro. If they had given us the rights to the
characters, there
wouldn't have been a Captain Astro and then probably wouldn't
have been
Rage.
We could do anything we wanted with Captain Astro. So we
invented the
character, and then, of course, his homophobic publishers decided to
kill him. That's how Rage was born. Because the triangle of
Brian/Michael/Justin was so important, we wanted to conncet Michael and
Justin. They had a creative relationship the way that Justin and Brian
had a sexual one, and Michael and Brian had an emotional one. So
they're all very much connected. Using Justin's ability as an artist,
it all seemed to take off from there.
[source: queer as folk - the book]
