Whilce Portacio on creating Wetworks

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Omar: Where did the idea for Wetworks come from? Because you’re the one who created Wetworks, where did that come from?

Whilce: Well, I'm a military brat, my dad was in the Navy. Before my dad retired, I spent four years in Hawaii, and before that, four years in a place called Midway Island, which is at the very, very far western tip of the Hawaiian Islands, okay? It’s one mile, like two miles island, and big battle there in World War II and there've been Navy Barrage battle. And so, one-eighth of the island was sea men, and that's where the housing was, that's where the exchange was and stuff, and the rest of it was forest restricted area, but it was a preteen.

Omar: Yeah, so you wanted to go and get in trouble?

Whilce: Yeah. So, that whole area was our kingdom to explore. In fact, to get to my club, you had to dig around all over our Island and if you found your own bayonet shovel, you could join my team. But that's where I started playing because, I mean, seriously, you could walk a mile into the forest and there's a pill box. I mean, a full pristine pill box that they didn't get hit at the time and they just left it out there. There were big huge artillery installation things. There were warehouses full of stuff. There were empty amour shell casings this big and stuff. I mean, so as a little kid, you could imagine yourself…

Omar: In that world and now using all that stuff that's around you and experimenting with it and having fun with it.

Whilce: So, all my dream, not all my dream, all my fantasies as a little bratty kid was developed there. And then, so when it came time to Image, where; okay, we're going to do this, and; oh no, we've got to actually create something first before we try it, you know, this is our own stuff, we're not working for somebody like Marvel. And so, of course, we were all practical enough, okay, do what you’re always told as a writer, right?

Omar: Yeah.

Whilce: Do what you know and that's what I knew, I knew military guys. And then, Brandon Choi, who wrote both Wildcats and Wetworks, we locked up because he was in San Diego, other than being Jim's best friend, he was in San Diego because he was trying out for the Seals. But he, I think sprained his ankle on the course, and so, was thinking about what to do; whether go back into law or join up with us. And it turns out he, obviously, he was going to join the Seal, he wanted to be a Navy Seal. So, we got together and hit it out for a while and he then brought into the mix; oh, Classic Monsters, the copyright’s up, it's free now, it's open, we can use it. And so, of course, we needed an enemy.

Omar: So, you got it.