 If there's
a common theme n Adam Warren's artwork and stories, whether it's Gen 13,
Magical Queen Roxy, Dirty Pair or Bubble Gum Crisis, it's that the stories
are based in the future. Warren may not want to live in the future, but
he'd rather draw there. When Warren was asked about a pending Wildstorm
project, he said "There are some directions I might go that could cause
some objections. It will be set in the future because I can make up everything.
It the present, I have to do reference...it took years off my life to draw
real malls." |
 The closest
that Warren has come to drawing objections to his work in recent years
was in a 1995 Dirty Pair series where Yuri died and replaced her with a
vat-grown clone. "I got a lot of mail for killing off Yuri," he said. "Had
I not had the good Yuri die, it would have had a real `Star Trek Next Generation'
ending to it. Warren still sometimes has to explain to fans that his version
of the pair is different than the original TV version because he didn't
get the rights to draw that version created by Nippon Sunrise. And when
fans say that his Pair aren't "manga," he replies "It's not. So what?" |
 Part of the
futuristic flavor of Warren's work is the use of foreign languages in signs
and labels, especially Japanese. Warren admitted that those signs are more
to create the atmosphere of his stories, and they don't always mean anything.
Sometimes the kanji signs are just the names of artists. "I feel I'm repaying
for the real weird use of English in manga," Warren said to laughs from
the audience. |
