24th August 2011 / Daredevil / Dead Space / Interviews
I’m smack in the middle of a whole bunch of projects, so a couple of quick notes before I dash off:
— If nominative determinism was real, “Alex Zalben” would stockpile nuclear weapons in his Pacific island volcano base while MI6 sent dashing but worryingly misogynistic agents to neutralise him.
Alas, such aptonymic fate is bullshit fodder for the tabloids. So instead Alex writes for MTV Geek, where he does equally exciting and world-threatening things like interview Wellinton Alves and I about DAREDEVIL: SEASON ONE. Contains some previously-unseen and very lovely artwork from the book, by the way.
— DEAD SPACE iOS (which is now also available for Blackberry and Android, so I guess it should from hereon be plain “DEAD SPACE Mobile”) has been nominated for Best Mobile Game in the 2011 Golden Joystick Awards. Voting is open to the public, hint hint.
20th July 2011 / Daredevil
So I’m away from my desk right now, about to hit San Diego, but quickly popping up here to mention…
Marvel have announced DAREDEVIL: SEASON ONE, a graphic novel, for a new line designed to retell the early days of some classic heroes from a modern perspective.
(This is the second of the two “secret Marvel projects” I mentioned earlier in the year, in case you were wondering.)
Handling art is Wellinton Alves, who regular readers will recognise from his great work on SHADOWLAND: BLOOD ON THE STREETS. It’s a pleasure to be working with him again, and he’s already producing some fantastic pages for this book.
18th February 2011 / Daredevil / On Sale
So apparently, the DAREDEVIL: SHADOWLAND collection went on sale this week. I haven’t seen a copy yet myself, but I’m assured it’s out there.
It’s a 140pp “premier hardcover”, whatever that means, and it collects DAREDEVIL #508-512, plus the epilogue SHADOWLAND: AFTER THE FALL. In other words, it contains everything you need to read alongside the main Shadowland event itself, right up to the end of the ongoing DD title.
If you’re wondering about a collection of BLOOD ON THE STREETS, that’s due at some point next month. Perhaps this time I might even remember to mention it before it hits the shelves…
8th December 2010 / Daredevil / On Sale / Shadowland
SHADOWLAND: AFTER THE FALL goes on sale this week, a final epilogue to the Shadowland event, and a coda to last week’s DAREDEVIL #512.
It’s illustrated by Roberto de la Torre and Marco Chechetto, with each artist taking on a separate strand of the story. Lovely stuff.
Here’s the solicit…
Shadowland Ends — but who is the victor? After the senses-shattering conclusion of Shadowland, can the people of Hell’s Kitchen rebuild without a champion to guide them? The future of Marvel’s street heroes begins here!
…Which doesn’t tell you much at all, so listen: AFTER THE FALL is a story about Ben Urich and Detective Kurtz, and the effect of Daredevil’s fall from grace on the city. Both men want to locate Matt Murdock; and both want to know what happened inside Shadowland, though for very different reasons. But the answers they get may not be what they want to hear.
The issue code is OCT100585, and you can read a five-page preview at Comic Book Resources.
1st December 2010 / Appearances / Daredevil / Shadowland / Videogames
DAREDEVIL #512 goes on sale this week — alongside SHADOWLAND #5, and together they round out the main storylines of the Shadowland event (All that remains is SHADOWLAND: AFTER THE FALL, an epilogue which goes on sale next week).
Years of acting as the Guardian Devil of Hell’s Kitchen have taken their toll on The Man Without Fear. Hell’s Kitchen lies in ruins, and it is up to the people of New York to start anew and begin rebuilding. In this last chapter of his story, will Matt Murdock at last find final redemption for the events of SHADOWLAND?
This was a hell of an issue to write, and even a little emotional at the end. The issue code is SEP100605, and I hope you all enjoy it.
A quick round-up of other news:
— Sega have announced BINARY DOMAIN, a new videogame from the creators of the Yakuza series, to be released in 2012. So now you can probably guess why I was in Tokyo earlier this year…
— While I was down in London for Thrilling Wonder Stories II, I made time to pop in and be interviewed for the We Are Words + Pictures show on London Fields Radio, talking to host Michael Leader about comics, games, writing, and heavy metal, though not necessarily in that order. It was a great show, with a fantastic playlist (biased, moi?) and some lovely coffee to boot. You can hear it online at Mixcloud, download it from the WAW+P site, and read Michael’s show notes at his own blog. You can also follow WAW+P on Twitter.
— Finally, the guys from Geek Syndicate filmed me hawking my wares at the recent Thought Bubble, all in the pursuit of naked capitalism. (Wish they’d told me one of my collar points was askew, but you can’t have everything…)
20th October 2010 / Daredevil / On Sale / Shadowland
DAREDEVIL #511 goes on sale today. Owing to vacation time and other deadlines, technically speaking I didn’t co-write this issue, so you won’t see my name on the cover. But of course it’s still part of the overall arc which Andy and I plotted together, and we did a joint dialogue pass before the issue went to press, so I doubt most people will notice.
This is the penultimate issue of ‘In The Shadows’, and of course the penultimate issue of DAREDEVIL itself, before everything changes at the start of next year. I’ll be back with Andy for the final issue, #512 — and then I’m writing an epilogue, SHADOWLAND: AFTER THE FALL (which is still under wraps, so no details to announce yet).
Back to this week’s issue, here’s the solicit text:
Hell’s Kitchen has exploded into rioting, looting, and all-out chaos, and Daredevil is responsible for it all. As the leader of the Hand and controller of Hell’s Kitchen, Matt Murdock knows that conquest of New York is within his grasp. But one of his oldest friends goes to Shadowland, to make one last attempt to save the Man Without Fear from walking the path from which there is no turning back.
The order code is AUG100584, and you can read a five-page preview at Comic Book Resources.
9th September 2010 / Daredevil / On Sale / Shadowland
A day late owing to labor day in the US, and as predicted last week, two of my books are now on sale.
First is DAREDEVIL #510, by Andy Diggle and myself:
As New York City crumbles under the weight of Matt Murdock’s new order, his former friends and allies struggle just to hold their lives and world together. But as the pressure builds, Foggy Nelson will make an alliance no one saw coming — while Black Tarantula takes a stand against Daredevil… and learns the consequences of crossing the Man without Fear.
Order code is JUL100568. You can read a preview here.
And next is the second issue of SHADOWLAND: BLOOD ON THE STREETS, the critically-acclaimed tie-in series.
Silver Sable… Paladin… Misty Knight… The Shroud! Four very different heroes, all ensnared in a mystery spinning out of Shadowland! Is Daredevil using The Hand to kill mobsters untouchable by the law? Or is something even more sinister spreading throughout the city? Each hero approaches the puzzle from a different angle, and now they must race to discover the truth… but The Hand has other ideas, and time is running out! Can this quartet of strange bedfellows put their differences aside and come together before death strikes again?
Order code is JUL100572. You can read a preview here.
And don’t forget that if you missed BOTS #1 (because it sold out), there’s a second printing on its way next week, order code JUL108023.
3rd September 2010 / Daredevil / Shadowland
Looking at this journal lately, you could be forgiven for thinking all I’m working on is DAREDEVIL. Not true at all — in the past few months I’ve written a videogame, a YA novel trilogy proposal (yes, that one, at last), plotted and begun scripting a new arc of WASTELAND, and pitched an entirely new series to Marvel. Oh, I also wrote a Shadowland epilogue called AFTER THE FALL, about which more later.
But I can’t talk about any of that other stuff yet, which kills me, because it’s all pretty cool stuff. DD and Shadowland, on the other hand, are in high gear right now.
Which is a long-winded way of saying, yes, it’s time for more previews: Newsarama has a big lettered preview of DAREDEVIL #510 and BLOOD ON THE STREETS #2, which both go on sale next week. Enjoy.
11th August 2010 / Daredevil / On Sale / Shadowland
No kidding. Today (tomorrow in Europe) sees the release of not one, not two, but three DAREDEVIL and SHADOWLAND-related books.
First up is DAREDEVIL #509, by Andy Diggle and myself:
As Daredevil’s Shadowland stronghold in Hell’s Kitchen grows, more heroes step forward to try to bring The Man Without Fear back to his senses. But any foe of Daredevil knows he is not a man easily stopped. The battle for New York continues!
Order code is JUN100577.
Next is the premiere issue of SHADOWLAND: BLOOD ON THE STREETS, a noir street-level miniseries by me:
Striking from the pages of Shadowland, four cult-favorite heroes rise into the spotlight: Silver Sable… Paladin… Misty Knight… The Shroud! Is a rogue faction of Daredevil’s ninjas secretly targeting the mafia? With DD’s dark castle looming over the city, has The Man Without Fear finally lost his mind? This twisted murder mystery ensnares a quartet of vastly different operatives–but will it unite them, or place them in each other’s crosshairs? Can this controversial crew put aside their differences before a war between The Hand and the mob sets New York ablaze?
Order code is JUN100581.
And finally, we have the latest DAREDEVIL paperback collection, THE DEVIL’S HAND, which contains issues #501-#507 (so all of Diggle’s run thus far, including the ‘Left Hand Path’ arc which I co-wrote) and the DARK REIGN: THE LIST one-shot. Essentially, everything you need to catch up on current Daredevil events, and Shadowland itself.
Order code is JUN100683, or ISBN 978-0785141136.
6th August 2010 / Daredevil / On Sale
The second issue of DAREDEVIL event SHADOWLAND, by Andy Diggle, went on sale this week. Now previews for two related books, both on sale next week, are available:
— DAREDEVIL #509, in which Izo and Elektra get an inkling of just how bad things are;
— SHADOWLAND: BLOOD ON THE STREETS #1, kicking off my solo-written noir story, about which you can read more here.
Enjoy.
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