Writers Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente give a behind-the-scenes analysis of the first six pages of “Incredible Hercules” at BrokenFrontier.com. Here’s an excerpt from the discussion of Page 6:
GP: I know it’s a cheap gag, but God help me, I love having Amadeus pull the Bugs Bunny trick on Herc here. I tend to throw in a lot of these goofball moments into the scripts. Fred likes cutting about half of ‘em out, which is probably a good example of just why we’re so well matched on this book — unhesitantly saving each other from each other’s own foibles! Heeey… kinda like Amadeus and Herc, huh?
FVL: I think I’m as smart as Amadeus, but I also drink as much as Herc, so I’m not sure which one I would be.
GP: All we say for sure is that if Fred and I weren’t co-writing this book, one of us would be a super-villain.
FVL: Or we’d both be “co-super-villains.”