028: don't worry, it's not that, serious, etc.
Hullo.
A quick one this week, as I'm under the weather. Don't have too much sympathy for me. It's just a standard low-level cold. I'm working at about 80%, but the 20% I'm leaving is the newsletter.
Contents!
Joke about my Bond comic.
Joke about WicDiv.
Joke about Sample of Covenant.
Joke about SMASH panel, perhaps a NWONW one?
Byeeeeeeeeeee!
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One book out this week, namely...
Here's a page of the preview...
...and the rest here. For a bit more chat, here's an interview. It was written shortly after the Brexit referendum, and is a short terse one off Bond story that looks at the period, the historical framing and all of that. I hope you find it interesting.
I'm also doing a signing at Forbidden Planet London today. At 6pm. I've presently decided I'm not going to shave my beard into a vague sense of orderliness, to make sure everyone knows how bad I feel.
(Which I don't, as this is a very minor cold, as I've mentioned. I'm not sure if “I'm sick, but not that sick” is now the newsletter running joke.)
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The August Image solicits are live!
Here's Jamie's cover...
Here's Meredith McClaren's cover...
Here's the solicit...
THE WICKED + THE DIVINE #30
STORY: KIERON GILLEN
ART / COVER: JAMIE MCKELVIE, MATT WILSON
VARIANT COVER: MEREDITH MCCLAREN
AUGUST 09 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
Wherein Dionysus sits in the darkness for most of an issue, but in an awesome way. Honestly, you’ll love it. Also: other stuff.
It's definitely going into a Kieron Is Being Playful With Solicits period.
I'm actually back to working on new WicDiv scripts now. Jamie handed me the pencils for 29 this morning, so I could do a lettering draft. Hopefully I'll march through to the end of Imperial Phase II now - I'm half way through 31 as of now, and will have the whole thing done in a couple of weeks, I suspect.
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I was going to write a little about Alien Covenant, but - as said – I'm being sick. I did have some notes towards it though. Here's the first line...
“Say what you like about Prometheus – as I have, and will continue to do so – at least it had the courage of its convictions.”
..which certainly gives the taste of where my head's at.
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Oh, this is on this weekend...
...which should be fun.
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I'm stopping now due to sickness and laziness colliding into a COCKTAIL OF STOPPING.
Don't worry, it's not that, serious, etc.
Kieron Gillen
London
5.24.2017