DCA: Who is Jamie Primas and is he more than just a drunk who passes out in gutters during Mardi Gras and drink all of their friends Jameson?

Jamie: Jamie Primas is a 32 year old male of relatively tall and mildly slim physique. He is an Inventory Control Supervisor for Echostar Communications in real life. He is quite a lady’s man due mostly to the fact that he is ravishingly handsome. He also has a very nice beard.

Which city and state is proud to call you an upstanding citizen of?

J: I live in Edwardsville, Illinois in my spare time; roughly 20 minutes away from St. Louis, Missouri in the middle of the U.S. of A.

What’s your background?

J: I have no background, no fingerprints nor DNA.

What inspired you to start writing?

J: Knowing that the truth is out there. I needed to know what happened to my sister, who was abducted by aliens when I was a boy. Wait, that’s why Fox Mulder worked the X-Files.

What were the first stories you wrote? Where they for English class back in school or something you decided to do for yourself?

J: A friend and I wrote over 4000 pages chronicling the adventures of a marsupial racquetball champion and his abnormal friends. From 1992 through 2001, the chronicles of Francis Zazowski have become that of legend. I’m currently working on “Business Mummy” about the racial discrimination that mummy’s face in the modern workplace.

What’s your approach to writing?

J: I sneak up on it from behind.

Do you have any influences in fiction that have affected this approach?

J: Ninjas, mostly. Maybe ghosts to a lesser extent.

Why fanfiction and how long have you been writing it?

J: It’s fun and low stress. Fanfiction’s a good way to write something without having to feel like you need to sell it. It’s writing for writing’s sake. I’ve been doing it for six years or so, all of it for DCA.

What brought you to DC Anthology? What was the first title you read at DCA?

J: The DC message board is where I found the link. Tobias Christopher pimped the page for a while there. Not really sure where I started reading but I read it all back then, from the first few chapters of Titans West through the first failed attempt at a Wonder Woman title. Good to bad.

Do you have any work at another site?

J: Not a lick.

What was behind your decision to pitch DR. FATE as your first title at DCA? Given the amount of history, character changes and the potential for just about anything to happen how’d you decide on the direction for the book?

J: Dr. Fate has always been one of my favorite characters and it never seemed that he got any of the attention that the character deserves. So I did what I could to give it to him. Hector Hall was barely developed in the actual stories and I really wanted to see him out in the open, as a central protagonist and a powerhouse not to be messed with.

Dr. Fate is a pretty brutal, gory book with wonderful descriptions and vivid settings. Where is the line that you won’t cross for this book? Do you feel that DR. FATE has more leeway in going to darker places than say, your other books, JSA and OUTSIDERS?

J: Most of the time, the book does that on its own, I have little control over how brutal and graphic it gets. It just happens. I try to make things a little uneasy.

DR. FATE is one of the most critically acclaimed books at DCA. Can you give us an insight into why you think it is?

J: It’s different than most things out there, close enough to the actual character but far enough away to be something completely different. It’s superhero horror, which you don’t get a lot of these days.

Any hints about what the future holds for DR. FATE?

J: Big things and big changes. Keep your eyes on the Big Event for huge revelations.

You’ve just started both JSA and OUTSIDERS. Even though your work on JSA is done after 7 more issues what are your plans for the book? Any plans to continue with any of the characters in your other books?

J: The eight issue arc I have for JSA concerns the creation of an alternate timeline by Johnny Sorrow after he travelled through time and killed Adolph Hitler’s father before Adolph was conceived. As you might imagine, that changes quite a few things throughout the course of the last 100 years. After that, I may stay on the title if a co-writer becomes available as I really like the characters and believe they have a heap of potential in the DCA universe.

With OUTSIDERS only 2 issues in its pretty clear that the direction you’re taking is drastically different than any other OUTSIDERS from DC Comics. You’ve got The Bleed, time travel, Robby Reed…and Clock King?

J: Yes, we have all of those things. The basic modus operandi of this incarnation of the Outsiders is that they operate between the folds of realities. There are dozens of members and most of them have either not met most of the others or have not yet realize that they are affiliated with the team. We’ll see Elongated Man, Duela Dent and the Omega Men soon.

Is your favorite character Clock King? What’s so special about him?

J: Yes, Clock King has become a favorite of mine from his days on the old and thankfully defunct JLX title. The thing that makes him so special is that he’s not special whatsoever, no matter how much you might think otherwise. He’s such an idiot.

Any other characters out there that you’d love to get your hands on? Do you have plans on doing that any time soon?

J: At this point, I’ve gotten to work on almost everyone that I have the desire to write, and those that I haven’t gotten to yet will factor into play with the Big Event. All of the characters I can ram into it will be there.

Let’s talk about ORIGINAL SIN. What is it and what makes it different from your other titles?

J: Original Sin is the prologue to the Big Event. It concerns Dr. Fate, Aquaman and a new character named Nicholas Onokentauros doing something very bad, which leads to some terrible things that will theoretically affect the entire DCA universe. This will cover everything and everywhere.

With only 1 issue released so far are you happy with the response it’s gotten?

J: So far, so good, I suppose.

Nicholas Onokentauros seems to have generated a lot of positive interest in his first ever appearance. What’s so special about him?

J: He has a cool name and he has two independent faces on the same head. You had to ask?

When is ORIGINAL SIN scheduled to end and ‘The Big Event’ start?

J: Original Sin will be four issues which lead into the Big Event directly.

In DCA’s 7 year history the site never had a massive ‘event’ like most other fanfic sites have to either create a unique history for themselves or as a way to promote to the masses. Why now?

J: This thing has been on the pot for about 3 years now, growing from story fetus into a healthy newborn infant. It’s about to hit its toddler stage. If it didn’t get done now, it never will so there’s no point in not doing it.

What went into brainstorming the plot for ‘The Big Event’? What kind of plot did you feel worthy enough and necessary to tell to be turned into this ‘Big Event’?

J: There were quite a few, possibly several, discussions within the group of editors some years back about the basic premises that are being used for this Event. It’s mostly a combination of what that Event would have become and what I think an Event needs to be.

Why did you decide to handle the bulk of the writing for ‘The Big Event’? Or did you just get saddled with it by a bunch of lazy jerks?

J: I think it was my decision to take it upon myself, but I don’t completely recall. At least somebody’s doing it, right?

Interesting, I hope this all works out like you wish.

Slightly over a year ago, now, you jumped in your car for what you fondly call the ‘The DCA Traveling Roadshow’. You traveled from St. Louis to Buffalo and back to meet a few of your fellow authors and friends. Did you have any reservations about whom you were going to finally meet? Serial Murderers, Sexual Deviants, Mimes and freaks who enjoy dressing up as their favorite characters and post pictures of themselves posing on the internet?

J: It was quite a good time and I avoided all forms of murder and deviance. I’m glad I got the chance to meet some of the guys here and talk shop with them face to face.

So did the people you met live up to your image of them?

J: No. Joe Grunenwald was too tall, Clayton Tooley was too short and Erik Fromme had sideburns that were too pointy. Other than that, they were jolly fine gents, all with adequate facial hair.

Anybody you didn’t meet that you wish you did?

J: I didn’t get to meet up with TC, Kelen Conley or Damned Brashear, but there’s always next time.

Is there anybody on site you’d assassinate so you could write their book?

J: There are some I’d like to assassinate but not so I could write their book.

Any author you’d like to see do a fill-in issue on any of your titles to see what they’d bring to the table?

J: I wouldn’t mind seeing anyone take on Dr. Fate.

What are some of your favorite titles or characters at DCA (besides your own of course) and why?

J: I’m a big fan of Joe Grunenwald’s Flash and Ed Ainsworth’s Wonder Woman. Tooley’s Supergirl is a favorite as well, once I got to reading all the back issues a week ago. Ha! I also enjoy Cazuro’s Flash, Lopez’s Justice Society, BPP’s Wonder Woman, the list goes on and on….

Well, thanks for your time Jamie, do you have anything to say or plug before you go?

J: I look forward to the next interview to go over some of the things that we’ll be seeing in the Big Event. We’ll also have a name for it by then, hopefully.