Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2018 0:11:34 GMT -5
Coming in December, but announced this week is a new book from Kieron Gillen & Stephanie Hans...
Gillen has been talking about this project (using the code name spangly new thing) in his weekly newsletter for a while, but the title, premise, and collaborators were kept under wraps until this week's announcement. That announcement has me very intrigued. They designed a comic trailer for the book...
Kieron talked about the genesis of the idea for the book (excerpted from his newsletter excerpting an interview with the Hollywood Reporter)
I am kind of excited for this book; combining tabletop rpgs with comics by a writer I generally like (and I like his musings on rpgs and game theory in his newsletters a lot too) and an artist whose stuff I dig is a good way to get me to buy in at the single issue level rather than trade wait (as I do with Gillen's Wicked & Divine).
First issue drops in December and should be available to pre-order soon if anyone is interested.
-M
Gillen has been talking about this project (using the code name spangly new thing) in his weekly newsletter for a while, but the title, premise, and collaborators were kept under wraps until this week's announcement. That announcement has me very intrigued. They designed a comic trailer for the book...
Kieron talked about the genesis of the idea for the book (excerpted from his newsletter excerpting an interview with the Hollywood Reporter)
The specific idea came at San Diego 2016. Jamie [McKelvie, Gillen’s creative partner on Phonogram and The Wicked + The Divine], Ray Fawkes and I were wandering around buying ice cream and just riffing. I said “I wonder what ever happened to those kids in the 1980s D&D cartoon?” We joked around it a bit — historically, they escaped in the last episode which they never recorded — and just thought of these people who'd survived a D&D game gone wild, now well into their adulthood. So we made some jokes, and carried on eating our ice cream.
It stuck in my head all day, and I chewed it over, had some more ideas, and by 8 p.m. I spontaneously burst into tears during dinner when I realized what the story was about, and it instantly jumped up to the top of the list of stories I had to tell immediately. I threw the other story in the bin, pitched DIE at Stephanie, and started all the research I needed to do.
It stuck in my head all day, and I chewed it over, had some more ideas, and by 8 p.m. I spontaneously burst into tears during dinner when I realized what the story was about, and it instantly jumped up to the top of the list of stories I had to tell immediately. I threw the other story in the bin, pitched DIE at Stephanie, and started all the research I needed to do.
I am kind of excited for this book; combining tabletop rpgs with comics by a writer I generally like (and I like his musings on rpgs and game theory in his newsletters a lot too) and an artist whose stuff I dig is a good way to get me to buy in at the single issue level rather than trade wait (as I do with Gillen's Wicked & Divine).
First issue drops in December and should be available to pre-order soon if anyone is interested.
-M