It was a small step to start writing the odd story for them – and it was this tiny beginning that eventually led to Wasted. I’d been sporadically involved with the Scottish dope humour comic Northern Lightz, and became friendly with its production crew. Humour has always been an essential part of almost every story I’ve ever written…so it wasn’t really much of a leap from DC or 2000AD to Wasted. Both books enabled me to not only have a laugh, but often to have a laugh at established superhero characters. If anything, characters like Lobo and Etrigan the Demon are supervillains – but I couldn’t have written them at all if DC had asked me to NOT make them funny. Anyone could emulate what Bruce Wayne did, if they had the necessary motivation and endurance, without the need for radioactive spider bites, birth under a red sun, being splashed with unknown chemicals or being given an alien magic lantern that’s powerless against the colour yellow. On my DC titles, I never considered Batman to be a superhero – my take on him was always that he was an ordinary man who made himself into something extraordinary. None of our 2000AD or other UK comics were about superheroes – Judge Dredd, Ace Trucking, Strontium Dog etc…all were peculiarly British, and all involved liberal doses of humour. If you look at the genre stories I’ve written, very few of them could be classed as “superhero”. I’ve never been what you’d call a “superhero fan”. What was the catalyst to make you change your focus from superheroes to the more comedic Wasted stories? 2008’s Wasted find Grant re-committing to the black humour that hall-marked the best of his Dredd output, and DoG was lucky enough to have a chat by e-mail with him recently…
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