Zdarsky: Ha! That was my only design! I felt pretty free since I was the artist AND the customer, since I was ordering all of these for my Substack! I approved my own illustration! I know a lot of writers are a bit looser and shorter-term with their outlines (and for good reason since nobody knows when they’re getting cancelled!), but I wanted to make this a full story right from the start and pray we didn’t get cancelled. And the upcoming year was pitched a year ago, so we’ve got a lot of story beats locked in. So, yeah, almost everything was planned out early on. I didn’t land on the memory beat until around issue 20, I think. With Fisk, I wanted him to settle into happiness with Mary and pull the rug out. I knew I wanted Mike Murdock in there somewhere, but I found it hard to introduce him while referring to his Inhuman-based not-a-real-boy origin, so I eventually landed on cleaning up that origin a bit with the Norn Stone Annual, at least so we could just refer to him as Matt's brother without all the caveats. Butch was always intended to rise to be Kingpin from his first panel. I knew Matt would be going to prison and Elektra would be trying to tempt him to help her, but the idea of her taking the mantle didn’t land until I was maybe an arc or two in. Before issue one came out I knew most of the beats leading up to issue 20, which felt like the first chapter. Zdarsky: I can’t recall when it all “clicked,” but it was pretty early on.
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