SDCC 2022 Interview - Sean Gordon Murphy & Clay McCormack
The Murphyverse is one of the most exciting takes on Batman in recent memory, so we sat down with Batman White Knight Presents: Red Hood writers Sean Gordon Murphy and Clay McCormack at this year's San Diego Comic-Con to discuss the upcoming reinterpretation of Red Hood.
Beginning in 2017 with Batman: White Knight, the Murphyverse is an alternate take on Batman where the Joker is briefly cured of his mental illness and starts becoming a force for good, just as Batman loses the public's trust. The first book was so successful and critically acclaimed that it instantly earned a sequel with Curse of the White Knight before getting two spinoffs. The series' most recent entry, Batman: Beyond the White Knight takes the series into the future and also is the premier of Jason Todd's Red Hood, who was actually this universe's first Robin.
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With the release of Batman White Knight Presents: Red Hood being imminent, Screen Rant spoke to writers Sean Gordon Murphy and Clay McCormack about the comic as well as the Murphyverse in general.
How is returning to Comic-Con after the two-year hiatus?
Clay McCormack: You know, it's funny. A friend of mine who had never come to the convention before came with me. And he's like, «How do you usually do these things?» I said, «Well, I usually like to walk around the perimeter and kind of zigzag through the floor.» The first day, we tried to do that and we didn't even finish getting around the entire place because it was like a mile or something to walk the whole floor. Yeah, it was a shock to the system.
The Murphyverse is such a radical departure from what readers expect from a Batman story. Were there any restrictions
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