I know! He showed me the first few pages in pencil at a convention, and I said, "Shane, the key thing here is vomit. As much vomit as you can possibly draw." And he was keen to do it. Actually, I'm not sure he was keen to do it. He's a good fellow with good, wholesome, Midwestern values, and he was not thrilled about drawing devilish characters vomiting. But I convinced him it would help his career. And it has, I think.
But yeah, I was watching the 28 Days/Weeks Later movies. And I like the idea of getting some sort of virus and becoming rabid and having goo come out of your nose and eye sockets and your mouth. It would just make my day to happen to me. And it's a lot of fun to draw. So I thought, boy, if you put on this red ring, I think what would happen is that it would be like a case of the rabies. It would be like 28 Days Later, and you would start spitting out the red energy, instead of it being a controlled thing that you would exercise from your ring, it would be something uncontrollable, like rage is. It would come out of every orifice and would be a mess.
So I drew Abyssma vomiting all over Hal Jordan, and I said, "Hey, look, Geoff, they vomit!" And Geoff's reaction wasn't too keen at first. But then I think he thought about it a lot, and he thought it made sense and found a way to work it into the story.
