Studios editorI’m in Susina Bakery on Beverly Boulevard, enjoying one Los Angeles’s best cups of coffee. Well, not exactly. I’m physically there, sure. Mentally, I’m standing before the Temples of Syrinx. Rush’s classic “2112” is blaring in my earbuds for the umpteenth—no, sorry, the umpteenth and fifth—time. A thought stretches itself out over the galloping rhythms, “Why isn’t there a comic book inspired by Rush?”This was in 2011. By then I had edited some of the comics based on Coheed & Cambria’s Amory Wars saga. I had been nominated for a Harvey Award for editing the CBGB comic book anthology, a collection of stories inspired by the legendary Bowery Club. I loved the experiences. But to bring a band like Rush to comics would be the next level. This is band with multiple platinum albums, they sell out arenas on every tour, and somewhere in the world a classic rock station is playing “Limelight” RIGHT NOW. It would be great to bring them to comics. But they’re way too big…right?In late 2013 Jasmine Amiri, one of my assistant editors, and I were told by Managing Editor Bryce Carlson that there’s going to be a Rush comic book.
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