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"Ernie Is Probably The Least Evil Person In It…" – Justin Jordan Talks Evil Ernie: Godeater

Published Thu, 22 Sep 2016 15:00:30 -0500

Justin Jordan talks with Byron Brewer about Evil Ernie: Godeater #4, on sale in November from Dynamite. Covers by Lucio Parrillo and Kyle Strahm.

BYRON BREWER: Justin, not only have you had to deal with Heaven and Hell in this limited series, but your hero is … well, his first name is "Evil." How would you say you've met those challenges, given the circumstances?

JUSTIN JORDAN: In this particular story, Ernie is probably the least evil person in it, except for The Host. And that's by design. At the current point in his story, Ernie is not yet the megadeath level he could be, and the original version was. But I think he still fairly generally lives up to the name.

BB: As we reach this series' penultimate issue, #4, in November, what has been the one thing that has been an absolute blast for you as a writer working with the Chaos Comics characters?

JJ: Oh, just writing Ernie and Smiley has been super-rad. They were, in their original incarnation, part of my introduction to what comics could be. Until then, it was just the newsstand stuff, but Evil Ernie showed me comics could be, as the nineties loved to say, extreme.

So frankly, it's been super-fun to write them both.

BB: When the last page has turned on issue #5, the grand finale, can you tell us (non-spoilery) what effects this horrific battle may or may not have had on Ernie? Will we see those changes, if any, reflected in the future?

JJ: I hope so. And if I write more Ernie, definitely so. Certainly, now that Ernie has been exposed to the Godeater and seen what Hell's true plan for him was and is, he's been given a taste of something that will change him forever. And probably not for the better.

BB: Any hints about Ernie's grand finale you can give us?

JJ: Heaven, Hell and Valhalla are all going up against the Godeater. It ain't enough.

BB: We're almost to the end, so I will ask this: Where did the concept of the Godeater character come from?

JJ: They introduced the character of Mistress Hel, an aspect of Hel in Norse mythology, and I got to wondering where the rest of the gods in the Chaos universe went. And as is usually the case with these things, that sort of spiraled into the concept of something having eaten them. And so…..

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