Over the weekend, I went to a book fair in LA where Flint Dille had a panel and signing. Of course, I had to bring the Transformers movie to sign.It was really cool to meet him. While talking to him, Mark Evanier (Flint's friend, animation historian, writer of Groo and the current Spirit comics) arrived. He pointed out there isn't Hanna Barbera 50th anniversary celebration.
What really captured my imagination was that he knew Steve Gerber in the early 80s. While creating the story for the Transformers movie, Steve brought in his friend Frank Miller, who was developing Dark Knight Returns at the time. Flint and Frank became friends.
Of course, I knew 1986 was the grim & gritty years for comics because of Watchmen and Dark Knight Returns. But I didn't know that grittiness was in the air for Transformers: The Movie. (To be clear, Frank did not have anything to do with the movie)
Frank even named Dillios, the surviving Spartan in 300, after Flint.
It's kinda messy but Flint wrote "Starscream, you failed me again.
Good times
