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The Rule of Death By Daniel Merlin Goodbrey & Douglas Noble
Surprisingly, this is actually the last page of the chapter. As always at this time, I’d like you to take this opportunity to read the whole thing in one go. It makes much more sense that way.
This week’s Elephant Words story is now up for you to take a look at – it’s called My Piranha. The image this week is the above picture that I took of comics superstar David Baillie. Pay him a visit right after you read the story. Priorities, after all…
The Rule of Death By Daniel Merlin Goodbrey & Douglas Noble
Over at his blog, CB Cebulski, who is writing the framing sequences for the Avengers Special, makes mention of the comic containing “fun stories by some truly talented up-and-coming comic creators“. Even if he doesn’t mean my story in particular, I’m going to bask in the momentary glow that being up and coming provides.
Look at me, ma! Up-and-coming!
…and then I look, and that’s my name up there at marvel.com.
So, yeah – I’ve got a Marvel comic coming out, which is terribly exciting, as you can imagine. For those of you who are wondering which part of the solicitation refers to my story, well, that’d be “…Jarvis the butler cleans house…after some robot Vikings drop by unexpectedly.” You’ll be wanting to rush to your local comic purveyor to order this one, because when December rolls around there’ll be nowhere else providing the same thrills – imagine, if you can, a grown man dusting!
It’s an historic moment, true believer!
GIANT-SIZE AVENGERS SPECIAL #1
Written by C.B. CEBULSKI, MATT YOCUM, DANIEL MERLIN GOODBREY, DOUGLAS NOBLE, T. CAMPBELL & SCOTT GRAY
Penciled by PAUL NEARY, BRIAN DENHAM, NELSON, DENIS MEDRI & ROGER LANGRIDGE
Cover by BRYAN HITCH
As the Avengers battle to take down the Serpent Society, the team recalls never-before-told tales of their past! Watch as:
Spider-Man tries to integrate into a team and learns a thing or two about history, Luke Cage and Wolverine go toe-to-toe against a terrifying cosmic foe, Henry Peter Gyrich becomes an unlikely hero on an unlikely world, and Jarvis the butler cleans house…after some robot Vikings drop by unexpectedly. On top of all that—it’s the return of the critically-acclaimed Fin Fang Four by Scott Grey and Roger Langridge! That’s 55 pages of all-new comics, PLUS classic reprints from Avengers history!
96 PGS./Rated A …$4.99
Out in December
Okay – playing catch-up on things now. Last week’s Elephant Words piece was writen in Las Vegas, and is called Timothy Thomas’s Incredible Story. Go on over and have a look!
This week’s Elephant Words story by me is now up. This time the above image by Nany Mata is the inspiration for a… a coming of age story called Learning To Ride A Bike. I hope you enjoy it.
Well, that’s it. Five years since the initial parts of The Silent Choir were printed in the pages of Strip For Me 11, the whole is finally available for you to read. Sorry about the wait.
The Silent Choir was directly inspired by a photograph. I wondered, on seeing it, what had happened to all of these happy, smiling faces. Where had their lives taken them? Was there something that kept them together or pushed them apart? The title suggested itself, and the title drove the rest of the story. As for the one hundred individual stories that make up and connect to form the story, well, who knows where they came from?
It’s been a long process, though it’s always been bubbling in the background while I’ve worked on other things. Parts of the story were written in Dundee, London, New York and at home. It was interesting to watch the story form about the names that I chose for the faces. Members of the choir made friends with each other where I hadn’t expected it, connections occurred where I wouldn’t have thought them possible. The Silent Choir was one of those things that took on a life of its own. Putting it up on the website let me putt all of those links in for other people to see. Please do have a play around with your mouse as you read – there’s plenty to discover hidden in the images.
Another thing I find interesting about seeing the completed story is the changes in art style that punctuate the piece. Now, I’ve never claimed to be the greatest artist in comics, not by a long way. I am pleased to see the difference between the earliest pieces and the last, though – it certainly seems as though there has been at least a little improvement (take a look at the page address – generally the early numbers are the ones that were done first, funnily enough). It’s certainly been important to me in the way that I approach writing, and I’ll miss having it around.
So anyway, the story is now complete, and there are mysteries for you to uncover. Please, I hope you enjoy The Silent Choir.
In the meantime, I’m going to have a bit of a holiday. Oh, you’ll still be able to find me at Elephant Words and The Rule of Death, but I won’t be updating the website until the start of October, when I‘ll be doing a bit of refurbishment. Write it in your diaries now.
I tell you one thing though. I’m not going to Paris.
Strip For Me 