Interview Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Creator Talks Return To Original Comic
Interview: Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Creator Talks Return To Original Comic
The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina comic was paused for a Netflix TV show, but writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa is finally picking up where he left off.
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The comic book series Chilling Adventures of Sabrina launched an entire Netflix TV series, but after years of leaving fans on the edge of their seats, the creative team is finally returning to Sabrina’s toughest trial so far: taking a life… in order to save her beloved Harvey.
The return arrives this October, with the long awaited continuation of the “Witch War” story arc: Part 3, “The Sacrificial Lamb.” With Harvey risen from the grave–but host to the soul of Sabrina’s father, not her boyfriend–the stakes couldn’t be higher. And now that series creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa is finished as showrunner (and is continuing the Netflix Sabrina story in another comic), he is reuniting with artist Robert Hack, picking up exactly where they left off. Still, to find out more about the series’ return and how the years away may have impacted the story readers have in store, Screen Rant spoke with Aguirre-Sacasa directly. Readers can find our full interview and preview of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina #9 below.
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Screen Rant: First of all, how great is it to be talking about Sabrina comic books again?
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa: Oh, my God. It feels like being a kid again, and it’s so fun. Comic books were my first true love before I even knew such a thing as television writers existed. I loved comic books, and I always dreamed of being a comic book writer. So, getting back to that is just so much fun. It’s so amazing.
SR: What has that been like, getting back to working with Robert Hack after a few years away?
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa: It’s funny. Robert and I, obviously, have stayed in touch. But I shot him an email, and I was like, “Hey, are you ready to go back to Sabrina?” and Robert was like, “Am I ready? Yeah, I’ve been waiting!” So, it was pretty seamless.
We picked up right where we left off. Robert was in the middle of a page, and he’s gotten only better. We both were trying to rediscover who we were when we were working on this series. I’m not gonna lie, it was super seamless, and he’s just one of my favorite artists. He’s still one of my favorite artists, and his art captures the essence of this story. It’s been great. And nothing makes me happier than waking up and getting an email from Robert with new pages. It’s like Christmas morning, you know what I mean?
SR: What is that experience like for you as a writer, to come back to part way through this exact story after a few years away, and try to get your headspace back to where you were originally?
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa: Yeah, it was a process, for sure. I definitely had to get my head back in the comic book game. I re-read everything that I’d written for Archie, I re-read stuff that I wrote for Marvel, and I started increasing my comic book reading list. Because I followed some books, but had stopped following a bunch of them. And then I went back and started doing sketches, like little drawings that I used to do when I would work on my comic books, to be able to describe the panel.
I would say it was a good week of the gears being de-rusted to get back into that into that groove. And then it was doing what I used to do, which is when I write an issue of a comic, I almost write it as a letter to the artist. And it was like picking up a conversation, or picking up a book that I set aside.
SR: I would imagine you have no choice but to bring things back to it, that weren’t there the first time. Even if you’re picking up where you left off, are you aware of any intentions or ideas changing, or is that something where you would be the last person to know?
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa: When I picked up and went back to the issue that I was outlining – and when Sabrina the TV show happened, it really was all hands on deck, and I immediately pivoted to the TV show. But when I went back to the outline that I was working on, I got a few pages in and was like, “Wait, what the hell did I think was going to happen next?”
I had no idea what the Roberto of four or five years ago was thinking, so I did have to go back to square one and try to figure out what story I was telling. Then it was sort of like, “Okay, if I’m having this… both deja vu and disorientation, let me put my head, myself, in the headspace of a reader who picked up Issue #8 three or four years ago, and now is expected to pick up Issue #9.” I felt like Chris Ware, or Dan Clowes, or someone who takes years between issues.
I’m like, “Okay, we better include a summary in the issue, so that people know where we’re picking up.” It’s been a little bit of a crazy trip, but it’s been great. I’m not gonna lie, it’s been a blast.
SR: Some writers enjoy seeing what the audience and the reader responds to and react to. You have that with the Sabrina comic, the reaction to it halting publication, and the TV show playing out a different version of that. Do you try to remove that from your mind when you’re writing the story, or do you let everything in?
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa: I think things often creep in. It’s funny, because I remember everyone was so bummed that the comic wasn’t coming out. But I was like, “Hey, I’m working on the TV show, so hopefully that will be enough for people to understand.”
But the truth of it is, as a comic fan, when a comic I love stops publication for seemingly no reason other than the writer’s not working on it – I don’t think of the context of what the writer’s doing in their life. All I think is that this comic book I love isn’t coming out, and I’m supposed to like this other thing. But what I really want is to go to the comic book shop and pick up an issue of this comic book to read. So, I’m the same way.
I understand the frustration that people have had, and I’m sure there’s some skepticism as we restart this. But I hope that they can reconnect with this comic book, or revisit it with open arms.
SR: This is a bit of a “careful what you wish for” too. We’re going back to the story… and now Sabrina needs to kill somebody.
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa: Exactly. We’re right back in it, and I’m thinking that people who are now fans of the TV show are going to be like, “What the hell is this story about?” On the TV show: Nick is dead, and Sabrina’s dead. In the comic book: Harvey is dead, and Edward has taken over his body. It’s funny, because there’s a lot of mythology to unpack in both versions. We’ve made it as challenging as we can for the audience.
SR: You have a comic book that is returning to that original story and one continuing the show. Does that make it easier to divide in your mind?
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa: Yeah, it’s definitely freeing to not have to try to tell both stories in one comic. That that has been freeing, and it’s kind of fun to discovered the commonality between the two stories as well explore the differences – like the different versions of Ambrose, for instance, or the different versions of Harvey and Edward.
In that way, it’s really freeing, because I don’t have to thread an impossible needle.
SR: You said that a crossover between these two Sabrina multiverse stories has been talked about, and I wish to have been a fly on the wall in that room.
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa: Yeah, we’ve definitely talked about that being one of the fun things that we can do. And there’s a real meta way to do that. but the first order of business feels like it’s finishing the story that the TV show started and finishing the story that the comic book started.
SR: Obviously, you don’t want to spoil a comic. But if you were going to send a message for the readers who are coming back after all these years, what would it be?
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa: Going back to it, I think we were in the middle of a story called “The Witch War,” and we’ve been telling all of these different strands over the first eight issues – starting with learning about Sabrina’s mom and dad, and the witches in Riverdale. Madam Satan coming back for revenge – that’s been an interesting character too, the two different versions of Madam Satan.
But I will say that in issue nine, partly because it has been so long since since issue eight, one of the things that we very consciously decided to do is to start drawing all of these disparate threads together. We made sure that it isn’t a filler issue. And, by the way, I love those issues that are special issues I love how Chilling Adventures of Sabrina issue 2 is sort of a Madam Satan origin story, and issue six is an issue that focuses almost completely on Salem.
I love those stories, but I think one of the conscious decisions we made is to re-engage with the story we were telling and start pushing that story forward in a pretty muscular way; to start understanding the big story that started in issue one. I would say this issue is, as people always say in comic books, a great place to jump back in. But it also serves to really focus and telescope that the bigger stories we’ve been telling into one coherent narrative.
The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina #9 will return to comic book shops both physical and digital on October 13, 2021.
Link Source : https://screenrant.com/chilling-adventures-sabrina-comic-9-return-preview/
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