The Comic World
AS: What comics are you currently reading? Everything Marvel man. I read just about everything Marvel puts out. My favorites at this point are anything that Brian Bendis is writing. High on my list is all the Uncanny X-Men, Guardians of the Galaxy, Im enjoying Cullen Bunns Magneto book, Im enjoying the Moonight book when it was Warren Ellis and now that Brian Wood is taking over. Im really enjoying the Nightcrawler book that Chris Claremont and Todd Nauck are doing. I really think that the new Secret Avengers book is really interesting and really cool. Alex Kot is writing that. Ive really gotten into Rick Remenders Uncanny Avengers over the time period that John Cassaday was drawing it and then Daniel Acuna. That last two years of Uncanny Avengers has been really, really interesting, so theres a lot of stuff to get excited about with Marvel right now.
AS: Just not much of a DC guy? CD: I dabble in DC, but I just never had the connection with DC that I have with Marvel. I follow Justice League right now, and I really enjoy the new Constantine series. Im just not as big into DC as I am into Marvel.
AS: Youre the Fallen Angel, during your career youve been a darker character, but your comic book is very light-hearted and fun. Do you have any desire to write a mature one in the future? CD: I think its a matter of a path I have. I dabbled in it. I have some ideas in the holster. Its just a matter of fleshing them out. Some of them are more mature, some are meant for an older audience. In my mind Im still trying to appeal to that younger audience and it fits in well with Art and Francos sensibilities and their art style. But I havent ruled anything out in terms of what I want to write in the future.
AS: Youre a big Chris Claremont fan, what did you think of Grant Morrisons run with the X-Men? CD: I dug it as well. One of my favorite things was the big storyline with Xorn and the big reveal at the end. I think Grants really, really good. Another run I was very appreciate of was Joss Whedon doing The Astonishing X-Men for the first 25 issues. I thought that was a really well thought out run and interesting with the different relationships with the characters that they introduced, reintroduced. So you get really good, I feel like the X-Men has such a high profile assignment, and usually these writers that get into it bring their A-game, even to the point of Brian Bendis right now doing all new X-Men. I feel its really, really good. Just when you think hes examined all the relationships that are affected by what the concept is, you know, theres another character coming in theres more characters coming in who are affected and reacting to the status quo of the X-Men.
On WCW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWKCYkak7-w
AS: You mentioned that in WCW you had a potential storyline with Daphne and Crowbar that you pitched. Do you remember where that was headed? Yeah, at the time they didnt have a whole lot planned for me, and I suggested a storyline that was with David Flair, and Daphne was infatuated with David and David was infatuated with Stacy Keibler. So I pitched a storyline where Daphne had been an ex-girlfriend of mine, and she asked me to leave her alone to go pursue her wrestling and then she fell in love with David Flair. And I pitched the idea to come in and wrestle David to sort of protect her honor and then getting back with Daphne, and then doing sort of a Randy Savage deal where her relationship with Crowbar is something that upset me and then I would be the over protective boyfriend with Daphne despite the fact that Crowbars intentions were honorable the whole time. So it was a plan where I would wrestle David Flair for awhile and interact with him and Stacy and Daphne and then go off and be with Daphne as an act, and Crowbar, and then go off and do an angle with Crowbar as well.
AS: Was Bischoff in charge at that time? I think it was Russo. None of that ever really materialized. There were some things that were hinted that I was going to do, and then it never worked out.
CD: Had WWE picked up your contract after The Invasion angle how do you think you would have been used in that company? Maybe a tag guy? A comedy figure? I dont know man, Ive done all that in the years since. But you know, I just would have gone in there with an open mind and that they would have given me an opportunity to do something and then taken that opportunity and made the best of it. I could have easily have seen myself in a tag situation, or doing the stuff I did as Curry Man. But thats all speculation. It would have depended in what they saw in me or what they felt my strengths were or anything like that. If something jogged their memory or inspired a character. So who knows? It could have been any a myriad of possibilities.