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sm: let talk about your works. I am really interested in knowing how you conceived Ex-Machina. I think you created a really original thing mixing superhero themes with politics in a post 9/11 world like the one we live in. But also you changed a bit your comics world in order to not reflect exactly our real world, and anyway the result is really "real"... How did it start? When and how you have the original idea?
BVK: I'm actually suffering in California now (long story), but I lived in New York City for the last ten years or so, and I watched the Twin Towers fall from the roof of my apartment in Brooklyn. Like every writer/artist/human who witnessed that moment, my world view was immediately broadened. I was hungry to
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do a book about how politics had changed in the States, and America's sudden desire for leaders who were also "heroes" (and is there even such a thing as a "hero"?). I thought superheroes would be the perfect metaphor to talk about this, and Ex Machina was born.
sm: I know this is a tough one, so you can't answer, no prob. Which is your opinion on today American government politics?
BVK: Yeah, I'm afraid I don't like to talk about my own politics. They're irrelevant to Ex Machina, anyway.
sm: Back to comics. Did you plan the whole development and a "end" for Ex-Machina, is it right?
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