Jane Austen the Vampire Slayer comes to a new comics collection

When Joss told us about Tales of the Slayer, we each got to pick a historical period of style that we wanted to do our slayer in.

Without thinking about it, I just said "I want to do a Jane Austen slayer," and then realised Jane Austin’s the opposite of comic books. It’s all talk, it’s no action, it’s very interior. How do you even maintain the Jane Austen-style voices in a story that has a vampire?

I realised I’d given myself this enormous challenge which actually turned out to be a lot of fun, and I’m really pleased with how it turned out. A great artist, Pete Craig Russell did the art for my story and he added so much to it, little details. He would zoom in on a little detail that I hadn’t even thought about, that added so much to it and I think I created a really interesting slayer that I would love to see again.

I think we’re going to do another Tales of the Slayer and maybe we’ll see her [again] and maybe I’ll come up with another one.