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Demon Seeds
How one screenwriter's life of crime led to the reinvention of comic book movies--and Starz's new series Da Vinci's Demons.
My path to creating the TV show Da Vinci's Demons began with petty larceny. It was 1975--I was 9--and my meager allowance allowed me to purchase just a single comic book a week. I got around that limit by shoplifting. Shameful, yes, but one of the first items I stole set my entire career in motion. It was an issue of Marvel Preview, a secondary line that showcased characters who were too violent for mainstream comics. The one I swiped featured a vampire hunter named Blade. That first exposure piqued my interest in Dracula; as a child, I even wrote a story in which Batman and Blade teamed up against the bloodsucker.
Eventually I grew up--at least a little. After trying and failing...