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My Comics July and Secret Six Intro
Some of you may have noticed that I have four, goodness, four, comics coming out in July. Two of these are: Captain Britain and MI-13 #15, the finale of the Vampire State arc, and Dark Reign: Young Avengers #3, which I'm in the middle of, and very excited about, at the moment. Here's my talking about it:
Until next time, Cheerio!
http://www.marvel.com/news/comicstories.7666.Young_Avengers~colon~_Children_at_Work
But the other two are new developments. Thor and Hercules: Encyclopedia Mythologica is a guidebook put together by Anthony Flamini, covering all of Marvel's mythological worlds, during which he consulted with myself, Fulsome Fred Van Lente and Gregarious Greg Pak. (Did I get those nicknames right?) My own contribution doesn't really deserve cover billing, since it just consisted of me looking at pages concerning Cap and saying they were awesome. But Dark X-Men: The Beginning #1 is me doing actual comics work. It's a miniseries anthology of Dark X-Men stories, covering how this team came together, and the plan at the moment is for me to have a story in every issue (or all but one, we're still working that out). Anyhow, I'm rather looking forward to July.
My good news related to comics for today, however, is on the DC side of the pond. I was delighted to accept Gail Simone's invitation to write the introduction for the first collection of Secret Six, which will be out later this year. Rather splendid of her to have asked me, I think, and all I had to do was wibble on about how much I enjoyed it.
And finally, not related to comics, I'm pleased to have been interviewed for Third Person, an academic but very accessible book about 'vast narratives', that is, comics, television and game universes, edited by Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin, in which I share chatter space with Kate Orman, Lance Parkin and Dave Sim, amongst many others. It's out now from the MIT Press. Do look out for it.
I must say, I'm really into a work groove at the moment. I'm notching up regular 2000 words of novel (about to hit the 100k mark) and five pages of comic days. And yesterday was possibly my best work day ever, with that, some small plotting stuff besides, and a dirty great dollop of good news leading me to indulge my new obsession with The Archies by dancing around the room. Okay, so the video for this, the best pop song ever, isn't as good as the video in our heads, but I thought I'd share. Altogether now, let's dance like Gary Russell!
Until next time, Cheerio!
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Looking forward to July and the conclusion to Vampire State and the Dark Reign Young Avengers.
Way to go Paul!
Thanks!
Looking forward to the Young Avengers series. Didn't even realize you were writing it - just vaguely remember the initial announcement and interview and sketches and thought it sounded great.
And the Vampire State story will be over by issue 15? I don't want it to end so soon. It has vampires and Union Jack both!
Lastly - I wish I could write that much in a single day. Maybe I can manage with the weekend off my regular job. I envy you professionals, for now.
Thanks. I feel really in need of a weekend off now!
Hey Paul, you mentioned on Twitter you were reading some old Daredevil.... might that be research for anything we should know about? Go on, spill the beans!! If, indeed, there are any beans to spill.. as opposed to an innocent serving of.. erm, something else. I'll stop now.
Best,
Rick
Hey Paul,
No mention of a death in the CB & MI13 solicts. Is that still happening? Also, let us know what you think of the new Star Trek movie. It doesn't open here until May 8, 2009.
Thanks.
I'm not writing Daredevil, or anything like it, Rick, I'm just reading for pleasure. And Gov, it's still happening. We're just not telling you when.