‘Naomi’ Creative Team Talks Small Town Urban Legends and a New Journey in DC Universe

The term murderer’s row was used to describe just how skilled the 1927’s Yankee batting line up was. In 1992 the U.S. Men’s Olympic basketball team is referred to as the dream team. That being said, when the new comic Naomi announced and I found out the writers would be David Walker and Brian Michael Bendis, with Jamal Campbell on art? Already knew this is a creative team that’s going to leave a memorable impact. Luckily enough we got to speak to this team about their latest collaboration in order to find out more about the main character of this new series who also happens to be a girl named Naomi. Black Nerd Problems: David and Brian you guys are comic veterans (like Leon from The Professional) when it comes to comics. What’s it like working together to create storylines and dialogue for this series? David F. Walker: In a lot of ways it was like, its about time. Now it seems there was an inevitability to it, that we were going to collaborate in this capacity. I think we’re getting more and more comfortable in not worry about stepping on each other’s toes or anything like that. Brian Michael Bendis: We teach together and as a veteran, you look across the classroom to your fellow teacher like we should be doing this together, right now.

Black Nerd Problems: Jamal, your grind has been immaculate from doing your own web series Nadia Greene then breaking into comics and having your art have such a specific look and style. What’s it like for you to now be working on a charact…