THE POWER FANTASY
Myself, Caspar and Clayton.
Image Comics August 2024
Hollywood Reporter has the scoop, but the two page teaser gives you all your need to know. This is very much the new big swing book. I think you'll love it.
Big News! Io9 have just announced WE CALLED THEM GIANTS, Stephanie and my OGN. It's out in November. It's a story of communication across a chasm at the end of the world. More details in the article. Also, below.
Immortal X-men 13, out today. Last issue before Fall of X. Either the end of year 1 or year 2 of the run, depending on how you count. Either way, a big one, and a beautiful Doug on the cover from Mark.
Immortal X-men
#16
out today. Another killer Mark cover. Lucas' last issue on Immortal, and it's a great one to go out on. Big reveals, so avoid the tags if you don't want it spoiled.
IMMORTAL X-MEN
#18
FOREVER CHANGES!
Being immortal means nothing when you've run out of time. There's no future. There's no past. There's no way out.
December solicits:
I'm not on here properly, but I just came on to post the X preview pages, the algorithm showed me someone's shit take on Aliens, so I blocked their patronising ass just on principle before I head out the door. Social Media was a mistake. Everything was a mistake.
Big News! Io9 have just announced WE CALLED THEM GIANTS, Stephanie and my OGN. It's out in November. It's a story of communication across a chasm at the end of the world. More details in the article. Also, below.
First preview pages of Rise of the Powers of X. RB Silva and David Curiel, bringing it. +10 years from Fall of the House of X and things are going terribly. At least we're pretty.
All eyes are on the Gala of the year. ❌
Rasputin IV accepts her invite to the
#XMenHellfireGala
in a new variant cover by Jamie
@McKelvie
, on sale this July!
Here's four unlettered preview pages from Stephanie to give a taste of its vibe. It's a complete, stand alone story that's been an amazing canvas for Stephanie to play with. There's some astounding stuff and it's hard to not just show you the whole thing.
Big News! Io9 have just announced WE CALLED THEM GIANTS, Stephanie and my OGN. It's out in November. It's a story of communication across a chasm at the end of the world. More details in the article. Also, below.
Hey! Pre-orders for the first DIE supplement are live!
DIE SCENARIOS: BIZARRE LOVE TRIANGLES includes 3 scenarios for DIE. Mine is a Hex crawl of a group of folk obsessed over past partners. Big emotions, big set-pieces, fun!
#dierpg
#ttrpg
THE POWER FANTASY
Myself, Caspar and Clayton.
Image Comics August 2024
Hollywood Reporter has the scoop, but the two page teaser gives you all your need to know. This is very much the new big swing book. I think you'll love it.
Oh - here's the work in progress THE POWER FANTASY playlist. Still early days on it. The gimmick is that it's chronological, across the period the book covers... well, except the obvious exception.
THE POWER FANTASY
Myself, Caspar and Clayton.
Image Comics August 2024
Hollywood Reporter has the scoop, but the two page teaser gives you all your need to know. This is very much the new big swing book. I think you'll love it.
Hey, in RRD's latest newsletter they've properly announced the first DIE RPG supplement. Here's the early cover from Stephanie.
Here's a form with more information and letting folks sign up for updates.
#dierpg
I'm guest on this week's Off Panel talking about everything - from the end of Krakoan age to my plans for The Power Fantasy and a bunch more. Also, over-use of the word "Begat".
My gencon stuff! Less than usual - mainly hard copies of stuff I already own in pdf plus a hardcore single player historical Viking game from the stand by rrd, as the con = maybe I like historical games 🤔 is very real.
Working with
@kierongillen
was a true honor, in 16 issues I learned a lot and I'm very happy with everything about the work we did, I'm sad that I won't finish this arc, but I'm happy and excited about what's to come in
#FallofX
#ImmortalXmen
Thank you very much, it was an honor.
Comic writer, editor and promoter Jo Heeley (The77, Pandora, This Comic Is Haunted) is in hospital, after she broke her neck in a fall during the Thought Bubble Festival last weekend. Funds to cover Jo's expenses and medical needs
"Luddite" is used a lot unthinkingly.
@TomHumberstone
does the thinking here, with a great history of the Luddites, progress and wrecking tactics across 2 centuries. Go read here 1st, as you'll be seeing the panels out of context sooner rather than later
The first interview about The Power Fantasy, done in the corridor of the con, so delightfully casual. I'm still feeling out my angles to talk about it. Here's an example quote...
THE POWER FANTASY
Myself, Caspar and Clayton.
Image Comics August 2024
Hollywood Reporter has the scoop, but the two page teaser gives you all your need to know. This is very much the new big swing book. I think you'll love it.
It would be terrible for Dagger In The Heart to reach its next goal, and with less than 10k to go, it's dangerously close to doing so. Then someone you know will have to run a Heart Actual Play, and so have more work for him. Save this nameless person.
I'm reprising my comic writing Masterclass on June 6th. Tickets for sale here. It'll be an updated version of my previous masterclass, primarily with more context on pacing's importance.
Dunno, but I'm told that XMF will have a 5 on the side to signal it's part of Immortal X-men's sequence, so I'd hope if they ever do it they'll include it.
This week's newsletter: X-Men Forever, my plans for Thought Bubble, the Majestic Toilets anthology and quite a lot of words on the Beatles and their somewhat strained relation with my work. Also, jokes, probably.
An experiment. I posted the same standard thing here as BS, with the same 1 RT and 1 QRT, and compared the amount of interaction they got.
Twitter got a total of 12 RT and 58 likes.
BS got 17 RT and 43 likes.
I have 12.5x more followers on twitter.
The bird is cooked.
This week's newsletter! Rise of the Powers of X
#4
and X-men Forever
#2
! Why you should back Who Killed Nessie?! Links! Stuff! Things! Floating an idea for a paid for newsletter option!
Quinns takes on HEART, which is well timed for anyone who has to reacquaint themselves with Heart so they can run an actual play because some bastards wouldn't stop backing it before it hit 150k.
#ttrpg
Hugely excited by this series, great players going at the game, in an exciting, atmospheric package. Plus as well as the game, also doing interviews with Grant and me about all things DIE. Kicks off April 7th.
Comics Watch with the preview for next week's The Sinister 4. More details and covers in the link. It's very much an Immortal X-men annual, and we go deep on Mother Righteous and our narrator, Stasis.
The rest of the Sins of SInister: Dominion preview. You'll note we've dialed back the timeline slightly to about half way through Nightcrawlers
#3
, which does mean we get Paco's take on the second headshot of that particular bullet's trajectory.
I'm contributing to this, and will be writing adventure prompts inspired by...
Doolittle - the Pixies
What's Going on? - Marvin Gaye
At the Club - Kenickie
Body Talk - Robyn
Launched my most ambitious Kickstarter yet today, an attempt to take something that's only existed in the zine space and give it a real commercial go. The list of contributors is really something. For a start, look at this cover by
@HackinTimSeeley
!
Seeing
@lianakangas
's pin up for the SECRETS OF MAJESTIC anthology delights me. A whole anthology about a fancy toilet at a con. How can you not back this?
Andy did some editorial work in the process of development, so he's one of the people who've seen behind the curtain on this one. I think he's right - at least, I hope he is.
Heh! It looks like we’ve got 3 non shows at this DIE game. We’re going to give them a few more minutes but if anyone wants to get to meeting room 1 in the stadium and jump in if they don’t, please do so. I’ll tweet if we get a full table
We're running a 36-person megagame of DIE RPG at Dragonmeet with
@kierongillen
playing "Kieron Gillen," dimension-hopping narrative warlock, moving between tables and causing problems for everyone.
It was entirely his idea.
Book tickets here:
I reached out to Marvel about this, and Amazon are apparently fixing it.
The first is after the sequence with narrative captions - a line leads off the page's final caption and onto it. The second is after someone goes off to tell "the rest of the team", or words akin to that.
@kierongillen
Where are the data pages supposed to be placed in Rise of the Powers of X
#1
? Digital version thru Amazon just lumps them in the back. Same for Fall of House of X
#1
and neither Marvel or Amazon seems to be able to correct the issue. Any help is appreciated!
This week's newsletter! Immoral X-men
#3
, a bunch of Q&A, my thoughts on page turns, and my latest escalation in my neverending battle against dignity.
This week's newsletter! Rise of the Powers of X
#1
! Pre-orders on the first DIE Scenarios! Rambling about social media and terrible student life hacks! More! No, really!
I'm at MCM today! I'm signing at the Rowan Rook & Decard booth (S1618) from 2-4 which is in the Side Quest area, NOT artist alley. Then I'll be doing a panel at 4pm on the Creators Stage. Come say Hi.
I'll be spending the day doing tweaks on my slides for my reprise of the Masterclass tonight, from 6pm-8:30pm GMT. Tickets still available if you wanna join. Includes a recording for 2 weeks if you can't make it live.
MID-CON IS ON! Very excited to share with you that
@kierongillen
is making his return with a cohort of music spinning guests to get you dancing at The Majestic Hotel.
We will have a hang out space again, this year a little bigger than last as we know how busy it got!
Oh - and of course, being an OGN, it's already available to pre-order from wherever you get books from. Your local shop comic shop should be able to help, but it's in your online retailer too. Here's a Barnes and Noble one, just to put one in.
Pre-orders are especially important for RPG supplements, to help judge demand for this and future ones, so do consider doing so if you're interested. I think we have some neat stuff for you.
Hey! Pre-orders for the first DIE supplement are live!
DIE SCENARIOS: BIZARRE LOVE TRIANGLES includes 3 scenarios for DIE. Mine is a Hex crawl of a group of folk obsessed over past partners. Big emotions, big set-pieces, fun!
#dierpg
#ttrpg