Bryan Hitch's Mavel comics

[Paul Nolan]

Bryan Hitch's words from CBR

On Age of Ultron: "It was originally a one-shot that became 12.1 and expanded constantly... I only found out it had become a ten-issue series when I saw the recent announcements."

On Marvel's Creative process: "Since "Ultimates" ended, I'd been less and less involved in a collaborative process at Marvel. They now had their various brains-trusts, architects or whatever the gang was calling themselves, and that was what led their creative process. It seemed a very closed shop and not what it was like when I signed up to do "Ultimates" at all. I felt like they wanted an illustrator not a creator, and that was very frustrating to me."

On Working with Bendis: "It wasn't really a collaboration between myself and Bendis; not in the way it had been with Warren on "Authority" and especially Mark on "Ultimates." I didn't really have any involvement in creating the story or developing the concept for it. As I said, I'd actually no idea how long the series was and it's possible nobody else did either as despite asking, I couldn't get any information about any of it. Essentially, I was "just" the illustrator for the series. On books like "Authority," "AGP" and especially "Ultimates," it went far, far beyond that and all are genuine co-creations and collaborations"

On Costumes in Age of Ultron: "I was encouraged to have costumes torn, changed, beaten, broken, etc from the get-go, and then I wasn't sure if it was an alternate reality, timeline or whole other dimension."
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