Big massive fun talk about CASANOVA up over at NEWSARAMA today, with some publically debuting art samples and stuff:

Newsarama: First off, what was the seed for Casanova? Was it something that you came up with relatively recently, or was it something that had been on a back burner, looking for away to get out, and this was the first, best exit door?

Matt Fraction: I think, honestly, Casanova is the comic that’s been cooking in my head my whole life.

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It has all the trappings of the superspy genre but the world we’ve built it into allows the tale to go places that Bond or Flint never could, because they were too tethered to Earth.

I mean, who doesn’t want to see James Bond and Barbarella hook up and then team up to rule the world with ice-cold cool and white-hot, yet tastefully presented, sex?