Two years ago, Kieron Gillen asked his friends the question that has plagued many of us for decades: what happened to the kids from the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon? In the 1983 adventure, six kids got onto a fair ride and ended up in the realm of D&D. Their journey continued for three seasons, but was…
The Wicked + The Divine Volume 7 Builds to the Final Performance
The Wicked + The Divine, Volume 7 Clayton Cowles (letterer), Dee Cunniffe (flatter), Kieron Gillen (writer), Jamie McKelvie (artist), Sergio Serrano (designer), Chrissy Williams (editor), Matthew Wilson (colourist) Image Comics 9 October 2018 As we move closer and closer to the finale of The Wicked + The Divine, the “Mothering Invention“ arc throws in revelation…
The Wicked + The Divine Christmas Annual is Ho-Ho-Hot
The Wicked + The Divine: Christmas Annual Kieron Gillen (Writer and Creator), Jamie McKelvie (Creator), Clayton Cowles (Letterer) Image Comics December 13, 2017 Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie’s The Wicked + The Divine started with the story in progress, and already steering towards the depths of sadness and pain that this series would bring. Most…
London Super Comic Con Interview – Kieron Gillen
The last of my LSCC interviews is with Kieron Gillen: comics playlist compiler, prolific Tweeter, author of Über, Young Avengers, the Phonogram series, Three, that run of Journey into Mystery, the upcoming The Wicked and the Divine (and much more), and, of course, 2014 GLAAD award recipient (for Young Avengers). I had originally intended to conduct…
Keiron Gillen On the Treatment of Rape In His Alt-WW2 Comic Über
From our upcoming feature interview with Kieron Gillen: This is World War II, and there were over one million rapes in central Berlin, and the fact is this was just really how it is. I’ve never written a page more carefully than that third page, because this cannot be exploitative, this cannot be titillating. In…
London Super Comic Con: Day 1 Diary
London Super Comic Con: Day 1 Diary–The Rundown Panels: We are BOOM!, IDW Invades! Signings: Kieron Gillen, Si Spurrier, Al Ewing, Lee Garbett Geek wear: Judge Dredd cardigan (custom order) Free stuff: Preview comic of Disenchanted, by Si Spurrier and German Erramouspe I arrive at the Excel Centre feeling more tired than I should. This morning I woke up terribly early and…
News & Things: Vampire Adventure Academy Time
Kickstarter of the Week Maple Key Comics, a new, independent, bi-monthly anthology, is looking for your help! The 300 page!) anthologies will be available in print or digital, on a subscription basis. Stories will be serialized, Shonen Jump style, and a year of stories will complete each arc. To anchor each issue, an established indie…
Thought Bubble: TB Leeds to the future (har har)
An intro to, and con diary of, Thought Bubble comics convention, Leeds, 2013
News & Things: Anyone else approaching comic book movie exhaustion?
News Don Cheadle Will be in the Avengers Sequel In an interview with USA Today, Cheadle confirmed that he would be appearing in Age of Ultron. No word yet on Falcon. (He got short shrift in that Winter Soldier trailer, I tell you. Short shrift). Janice Valleau Winkleman / Drew for Archie comics, painted for…
News & Things: Mad Science Throwdown
Welcome back to News & Things! Tonight we have the Young Avengers season finale, Rachel Maddow on March, Princess Bubblegum vs. Frankenstein, and more! Read of the Week The Dissolve talks about what Marvel’s shared universe means for movies: “But the longer the MCU continues, the more I’m struck by the sameness of all the…
News & Things: Are you a girl? Are you a lobster? A sexy lobster?
Kickstarter of the Week Do you want more Bee and PuppyCat? Of course you do. Wait, you don’t know what Bee and PuppyCat is? Shame. Shaaaame. So, it’s a popular cartoon short created by Natasha Allegri, and produced by Frederator/Cartoon Hangover. They’re the lovely souls responsible for Fairly Odd Parents and Adventure Time, respectively. In…