A thought.
Most of the entertainments which are sustaining you and your family right now were made by creatives whose modes of work are tacitly excluded from the government's aid, and who face months of opportunity-drought.
Tend to your needs, then - please - support the arts.
John Constantine's back.
He's keeping curious company.
He thinks he knows what he's getting into.
He's dead wrong.
HELLBLAZER's back. Dead In America, by Aaron Campbell and yours truly, drops early '24.
I see they've announced issue 12 will be the last in the current
#Hellblazer
run.
I have more to say about this. For now plz know:
> this was a case of Not Extending as opposed to Cancellating.
> blame Covid.
> we're fucking heartbroken.
Tell
@DCComics
you're gutted. Be polite.
On THE FLASH.
So - huge announcement, big heartburst pride. A lot to say, but not much I can share.
What must be mentioned is that the current run is spectacular. Whatever new realms & ideas we explore, we will do so with respect and a grateful eye on the treasures we inherit.
Discussions abound re: DC's Round Robin. I won't stir the pot with takes. Here are two facts:
1. The creative teams and editors involved are human beings, doing their best. Don't assign cynical or underhand actions to them.
2. We all got paid for our pitches.
#DCRoundRobin
Here's an easy fix, guys. Take all the comics that you hate - all this newfangled woke shit - right off your shelves. Fill 'em with the creators who're still doing what you think comics *should* be. EVS et al. Sit back as the crowds swarm and draft your "tolja so".
We'll wait.
Ahhh, good old Ethan Van Sciver, proving once more that you don't need talent to get attention, you just need to be a bloviating warthog slightly less tolerable than a shotglass full of week-old glans smegma mixed with the squeezings of a racist pustule.
So, listen, today is very much a Stay Off The Internet Si day, because when one releases big! humbling! stuff out into the horrorweb one can numbly expect hatred, abuse and the pissy diapers of deplorables, BUT -- X-Men Origins: Blue is out today. Wherein, among other things:
You jokers wanna stop getting sweaty for showboaters and glorified microwave-ovens. GENTLE CAN GET AS STRONG AS THE HULK *BUT HE CHOOSES NOT TO*. Unless he, y'know, really really has to. That's the sort of person you want on your team. Stop being silly and VOTE GENTLE.
#XMenVote
Tremble, realms of man, for indestructible miniwarrior
@TinyMaster
has created THUNDERQUEEN THE FIRST. Mine is the honour of genetic investment!
Meet Sylvie. She's brill.
There's a page in Hellblazer
#11
in which a British politician spouts a bunch of nakedly racist crap.
We had a conversation about whether we ought to tone it down -- until I pointed out these are all things our literal actual elected serving Prime Minister has said.
This October, the infamous John Constantine enters the
#SandmanUniverse
! Head here for the first details on the upcoming JOHN CONSTANTINE, HELLBLAZER series and more:
Legion of X drops May 20. Final orders due with your friendly local retailer by this coming Monday.
Art by
@Janbazaldua67
, WEAPONLESS ZSEN getting right to the goddam point by me.
#xspoilers
#xmen
#nightcrawler
"It's true what they say about you, Kurt. You're one of the kindly ones."
Issue
#1
drops 21st April. Final orders are due this weekend. Don't dally.
#WayOfX
#Xspoilers
#Xmen
#BAMF
Every time I read a critic citing a comic's conclusion after 10 or 12 issues as proof of its failure, I know I'm dealing someone who doesn't understand anything about the realities of the industry today.
A book that's extended past 5 issues is a miraculous, celebratory success.
He's back.
HELLBLAZER: DEAD IN AMERICA drops in January.
Final orders are due this Sunday. If you haven't told your retailer you need one of these by then - and, mate, you NEED one of these - you will not fucking get one.
#hellblazer
Basically the core element of my FLASH run will be the establishment of a new villainous team consisting of Captain Cold, Mister Freeze, Blue Snowman etc. They spend 100% of their time sitting around coming up with terrible snow puns and calling themselves "The Just Ice League. "
This is not merely a book about a guy who can run fast.
It's a book about a world that's forgotten how to stop.
Today is your last chance to preorder
#Flash
#1
at your local comic store. If you don't register your interest, you will very likely miss out.
All righty. Today's your last chance to let your local comic supplier know you want a copy of WAY OF X when it drops.
No preoder = no guarantee you'll get one. Which would be, y'know, sinful. And not in a good way.
#wayofx
#xmen
#xspoilers
Hi, I'm a character in film or TV, and whenever it's necessary to produce a small amount of blood I decide it makes perfect sense to slice into my palm, one of the most sensitive and frequently used parts of my body, while severing the tendons to all my fingers.
Got a positive plague result late last week. (So too my pregnant wife.) The symptoms suuuuck - we're exhausted and short of breath, amongst other things - but we're ridiculously lucky so far that it hasn't been worse. Plenty are less fortunate.
Take. It. Seriously.
THE RUSH is one of the best things I've ever made. A meditation on obsession, greed & parenthood disguised as a painstakingly-researched Period Horror, gorgeously rendered by Nathan Gooden.
Final Orders of the collected vol are due TODAY. Please, contact your LCS. You need this.
Unbelievably proud to announce that
#HELLBLAZER
Dead in America
#1
sold out at distributor level, and a second print run is in the offing with this glorious
@Jock4twenty
cover treatment.
Please help us spread the word to retailers and readers-in-waiting. It's a helluva book.
2023 has been the toughest year of my life, in terms of crushing production schedules (and other challenges). That being so, it's unbelievably gratifying to see such love for these projects in the end-of-year retrospectives. A grateful bow to my many incredible collaborators. 1/2
In comics, every visual and spatial cue is magically converted in the reader's mind into the passage of time, the flare of emotion, the connective gristle of cause and effect.
If you DON'T have a letterer as wildly, instintively inventive as Hass, your toolbox is only half open.
The first collected volume of
#HELLBLAZER
drops on Sept 29.
This is the run which has topped review aggregates for 4 solid months. It's also the book which is cancelled at issue
#12
.
If you want to
#SaveHellblazer
, strong tpb sales are our only hope.
The first collected vol of
#HELLBLAZER
drops Sept 29.
This is the run which has topped review aggregates for 4 solid months. It's also the book which just got cancelled.
#12
and out.
If you want to
#SaveHellblazer
, strong tpb sales are our only hope.
I for one welcome our new tiny drunken human overlord. โฆ
@TinyMaster
โฉ is a warrior goddess and holy shit now I have a perfect son to go with my perfect wife. Shut up, *youโre* a mess.
Can we just try to remember that when folks say "the comicbook medium" a pretty big chunk of them actually mean "the specific superhero comics that spoke to me as a boy"?
Might help us focus on what these fears of impending economic collapse are actually about.
I mention this as a gentle SHUT UP AND GET IN THE FIRE to those folks complaining about the "politicising" of their favourite character. If you think Constantine would put up with Bojo and Co, I humbly submit that your Favourite Character is, in fact, entirely your own invention.
If you thrilled to Immortal Hulk... if you look back fondly to the Saga of the Swamp Thing -- its Anatomy Lesson and American Gothic -- then you're going to dig on our curious kool aid. No prior knowledge necessary.
#flash
Our final issue of Hellblazer drops today. It is quite something.
If we'd had the chance, the next arc would've been called "Dead In America".
Make of that what you will.
Failing to stay off the Internet, because reviewing issue
#1
of the new! forthcoming! Hellblazer! series! and almost gasped at the unutterable perfection of this one panel. Aaron Campbell in understated godmode.
Yeah, this is a tonic. HELLBLAZER's been the best reviewed comic, bar none, for nine straight months and counting. We put the final touches on the last issue yesterday. What a team. What a run. What a loss.
Cancelled in its prime, because of this monstrous fucking year.
A few times in my career, Iโve had the opportunity to work on what turned out to be the best-selling book in the industry. And I canโt lie to you: itโs a real nice feeling. I really, really liked that.
But I *love* this.
The Black Knight rides again in a new comic series this March!
Writer Simon Spurrier (
@sispurrier
) and artist
@SergioDavila007
team up for "Black Knight: Curse of the Ebony Blade". Find out more:
If science fiction is right that a utopian human future will tend to be a moneyless culture, it follows that there must have been a day, on all those fictional worlds, where the 1%ers got told their money's suddenly absofuckinglutely worthless. I want to go to there.
Got a shitty letter from my son's school because they've fucked-up his attendance records, and it's almost visceral how excited I am to write an absolutely skinflayingly poisonous reply in the most exquisitely formal and polite tone.
If there were any doubt I was British, etc
Now under starter's orders.
Pistol fires tomorrow.
Join us on a race
Into stranger places.
#THEFLASH
- a brand new
#1
by Si Spurrier and
@mikedeodato
. Drops 9/26.
I notice
#BlackKnight
is trending, thanks to one Mr Kit Harrington and the
#Eternals
.
Those who'd like to know more, there's a perfectly-timed and critically-gilded series redefining the character on shelves right now. Seek ye the BLACK KNIGHT: CURSE OF THE EBONY BLADE.
@marvel
.
@sispurrier
โ
@LeeGarbett
As darkness overwhelms mutantkind, Nightcrawler embraces a new role as a classic New York City-bamfing hero!
Find out more about
#FallOfX
โs โUncanny Spider-Manโ series here:
So, yes. So much I could say about this and so much I shouldn't. Full team lineup is a looong way from being revealed... utterly massive beat at the end of
#1
... big clues already circulating... Beyond excited to be Walking The Way with you all.
The soul of Krakoa is at stake. Only Nightcrawler and his team can help mutants defeat their inner-darkness and find a new way to live. This is the "Way of X"!
See more from inside the newly announced
#ReignofX
series by
@sispurrier
and Bob Quinn here:
First four pages of Hellblazer
#9
, which drops tomorrow. Another easy-to-come-aboard oneshot, on the subject of 'orses.
...that is, 'orses with 'orns...
Art by
@matiasbergara
, colors Jordie Bellaire, letters
@adityab
. Words by yrstrly.
Agape at the news that CODA has won the prestigious Prix Comics de la Critique ACBD (Association of Bande Dessinee Critics and Journalists Award) 2021.
Hugest love to my artbrother
@matiasbergara
, and the wealth of talents who had a hand in this book.
We can say precisely nothing about this.
But after a year of hardship, isolation and struggle, the worst that can happen to creators is to vanish into invisibility while longhaul spinning gold.
This will be
@matiasbergara
's opus. Mark this moment. Watch closely.
SUICIDE SQUAD: BLAZE, from
@DCComics
.
A pure horror take on some purely horrible people.
Interior art by
@olmancampbell
and Jordie Bellaire. 3 double-sized chapters.
#1
drops Feb 9. Preorder a copy at your LCS today - final orders are due this week. Use code DEC213041.
Pro-tip for literally anyone in the world, ever ever ever, who is in the business of corresponding with creative freelancers: if the answer's "no", fucking say so. Your silence does not help Said Freelancer move on to the next thing.
These little bits of Rashomon storytelling are one of the many reasons the joined-up thinking of the X-office is such a breath of fresh air. The continuity-completist mentality should always be a bonus, never a hurdle.
#XSpoilers
Bad news/good news re: LEGION OF X.
#marvel
#xmen
#XSpoilers
Bad news: for Real World reasons that have nothing to do with creators, editorial or management, LOX
#1
will now drop on 25TH MAY.
Good news: this means we have a lil more time for Final Orders. So: ORDER! QUICK!
Out with my two year old son the other day, he stopped his tricycle and spent a while staring at an elderly couple as they ambled past holding hands. Then he turned to me and said, with great solemnity:
"They are monsters, in the dark."
Then rode off.
Awake to a creator mailout from a major comics publisher getting all steamy about the possibilities of NFT and saying not a single word about the literally planet-fucking energy costs.
5 years later, still laughing like an idiot who can't believe his luck.
Marry your best mate, chums. I can recommend it.
(Bonus points if she's an unstoppable warrior queen with a ridiculous brain and an excellent bum.) This is what is best in life, Conan.
cc
@TinyMaster
Tell you what's a giggle: all the chitchat on a ludicrously popular comicbook piracy site being about how dreadful it is that DC cancelled
#Hellblazer
. [headsplode deskspatter soulcrumble]