Road to ‘Bitter Root:’ An Interview with David Walker

The third and final interview with the Bitter Root creative team is here. This one is with David Walker. You may know him from his work on Cyborg, Luke Cage, and Power Man & Iron Fist with Bitter Root artist Sanford Greene. He’s also got a book with Brian Michael Bendis coming out for DC in 2019 called Naomi. I did a broad interview with David about Bitter Root back in July for San Diego Comic Con. Check it out here if you’d like a wider look at what the series is about, and read my interviews with co-creators Sanford Greene and Chuck Brown here. Black Nerd Problems: With Bitter Root being a week away from the hands of consumers, what’s an aspect of the book you’re really eager to engage with fans about? David Walker: You know, that’s an amazing question. I don’t know if I’m—I’m ready to engage with fans. I don’t know if I’m ready to engage with the other people. The thing I’m most eager to engage with fans about is what I’m hoping will be the way they respond to, for lack of a better term, this new mythology. And it’s not necessarily new mythology. It’s just our mythology. I think that there’s a feeling and there’s a response that audiences have been having to certain types of material. The Black Panther movie is one of them. Get Out is one of them. And in comics, there’s been some examples too of, “Oh wow okay we can have heroes who aren’t your standard white guys.” And that’s the thing I’m looking most forward to. One of the main heroes of the series is Ma Etta, and sh…