Interviews Conducted by Robert J. Beck

On the other hand, there is a very intentional shout
out when you see the Think Tank travel from Egypt
to Israel by showing a caravan and a dotted line
superimposed on the map. I really want this series
to have the globetrotting feel of an Indiana Jones
or James Bond film.
Finally, the most subtle reference of all is the
ending itself. One of the most interesting things
about Raiders to me is that it works despite itself.
It breaks a very big rule of drama - that the main
character defeats the opponent at the climax - in
favour of a quite literal deus ex machina. SPOILER
for readers who haven't finished this issue yet, but
the attack is not directly stopped by Ripley and The Think Tank (although the people that do stop it wouldn't be able to without their help).
I'm no Steven Spielberg, George Lucas or Lawrence Kasdan, but I still hope I'll be able to get away with something similar.

At the end of this issue we see the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland which the team is planning to destroy, what is your personal view on the Large Hadron Collider?
 
I'm no physicist - I've never been able to make it through more than 10 or so pages of a Brief History of Time. That said, it seems that all the evidence points to it being perfectly safe. That said, I think it taps into the same fears that we had surrounding Chernobyl and Three Mile Island, only on a more cosmic scale.
 
What can we expect in the next issue?
 
The characters and the authorities believe that Ripley and The Think Tank were finally able to stop an attack so that will change how others view them and how they view themselves. But they'll also have to think about whether - in doing things like plotting to blow up the LHC - they are going actually becoming terrorists themselves.
 Issue Four will do for technology what Issue Three did for religion. There will be more globetrotting and the stakes for the remaining terror attacks will get higher and higher. Oh - and we'll finally learn who is behind all the attacks.