An Interview with Green Hornet Comic Author Ron Fortier

Veteran comic book and fiction author Ron Fortier has worked for years writing in a number of formats-including comic books, stage-plays, novels, short stories, movies scripts, and the exciting and burgeoning format of online comics and pulp stories. Ron burdens himself with an impressive list of credits, but the burden is one he happily carries into the future. Notable among his credits are The Incredible Hulk, the excellent Green Hornet series of the early 1990s by NOW Comics, and the Terminator: The Burning Earth series. He is currently involved with the creation of online comics and pulp-styled stories.

KNO: Ron, you wrote the online series of pulp stories, The Brothers Grim (http:/www.supernaturalcrime.com and in paperback format at http://www.lulu.com/wildcatbooks). For the uninitiated, perhaps you could speak to the content of the stories and the specifics of the character.

Ron Fortier: Chris Mills invented Port Nocturne for his Supernatural Crime site and populated with an assortment of noirish pulp figures.  BROTHER GRIM  was his homage to the masked avengers ala THE SHADOW and THE SHADOW.  Then he invited me on board to help round out the character's origin and spin a few pulp yarns.   The basic idea is that Tony Grimaldi is an underworld assassin who tries to amend his life and go straight.  Before he can do so he is murdered and his soul trapped in between this world and the next.  A supernatural fate has given him the task of avenging the innocent to redeem his soul.  Thus, trapped in a zombie like existence, he battles the weird forces of evil in Port Nocturne until that time he can go to his eternal rest.  The pulp book, BROTHER GRIM, is a collection of the first six stories I did over a two year period.  They include Grim's battles with werewolves, immortals and a gorilla mob boss.  Just pure purple prose to the max.

What do you foresee as the future of online fiction in general and online pulp and comics in  specific? Is there a possibility of a pulp and comic renaissance on the internet?