While at SDCC2023, Screen Rant spoke to the creative team of DefiantTheStoryofRobertSmall about the true story of Robert Small's heroism, their collaboration with LegionMOfficial, and their work on the comic:
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Defiant: The Story of Robert Smalls shares the incredible true story of a real-life American superhero. At the height of the Civil War, Robert Smalls, a slave working as a Charleston harbor pilot, stole a Confederate warship and sailed it across the naval blockade to freedom in the North.
And to make a long story short, this boat, he noticed that there were nights when the Confederate crew would leave, not to come back the next day. He was the pilot of the boat, so he knew how to sail it, knew all the ins and outs of the harbors. Knew that there was a United States blockade outside the mouth of Charleston Harbor, and that if he could get there, that he'd be free.
The other part of it was interesting that there were all these chapters of his life that the historians just kind of go like, well, this happened and this happened and this happened. One thing was when he was 10 years old, he had a job as... he would sell candy, loose candy to kids for money. He also sold small bags of tobacco to adults. And then he was busted for hanging out late at night with some of the white kids, and they took him to jail, whatever.
Rob Edwards: Well, for me, what I love is that Legion M is fans of movies and comic books and making products for themselves, for fans. And we're also involved with Kickstarter. Kickstarter is the same thing.
I'm a kind of a jokester... I like to have some fun with my storytelling, a little laugh for every tear Disney style. And in a story like this, there's enormous amounts of... In his humanity, there's humor and there's pathos, and there's all kinds of things that are going on. And you can get that across in a comic book, in a graphic novel. And fortunately we have Ray-Anthony Height, the OG, the man, cranking out pictures like nothing.
And we still haven't perfected it, but we do find ways in the comic book business to make it exciting. And Rob just said, "We'll see these autobiographical or historical comics, and they're pretty boring looking. Because what they want to do is bring the realism, but realism is exciting, life is exciting, and we should bring that and bring that attention." And I think the story of Captain Smalls deserves that type of excitement.
My wife is funny because she'll go like, "Did you see... whatever," because she's just clicking, clicking, clicking. Which is great because, for me, it's like if you build it, will they come? And you think maybe the reason why the story hasn't been told is that nobody wants to hear it. And you start to have those self-doubts, and then you just see the thing just clicking away and you go like, "Okay, good. Thank God, whatever.
And so I read it and I said, "Yes." It was about the taking of the Planter and that kind of thing, and I said... And then at the end, and again, wonderfully written, but at the end it was like, and then he did this and this and this and this, and whatever. He ran for Congress five times and whatever. And he had a publishing concern. He had a railroad, he did everything. He bought the house that he was enslaved in.
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