Arvid @ reddit, Sonja Time
A little late notice (aheh), but I'll be on "IAMA" on reddit in a half-hour, talkin' and jawin' about Red Sonja. I'll be lurking all day.
Direct link to the reddit post right here.
Thanks to comixology for putting it all together. They're doing a Red Sonja sale right now, check it out!
Out: Dejah Thoris #3 and Queen Sonja #16
The first installment of my latest Queen Sonja arc is out in the wild. The return of Thulsa Doom! I wrote this exactly a year ago, so weird people only get to read it now. Edgar Salazar is the artist, and he's just great – I wish he had his own Web site. Page 8 is my favorite thing about this issue, when Thulsa makes a big discovery. Potentially a spoiler, so click on the deliberately vague thumbnail below to check it out. If you dare.
Also out this week: Dejah Thoris #3. This one seems to be really burnin' up the stands; thanks to everyone who gives it such rave reviews! Plus, two of my favorite covers by Joe Jusko and Paul Renaud so far.
Carlos keeps slaying the interiors – page 4 is my favorite from this issue. Also a little bit of a spoiler, another "big reveal", heh...
Blizzarvid
It's weird. I'll write a couple of issues over six months or so, and then they all hit the stands at the same time. For some reason. This is one of those months.
Dejah Thoris #2 came out yesterday. Carlos Rafael is doing a bang-up job on the art, and what a terrific chap! I managed to track him down through email, which made my month. The great Paul Renaud is blowing me away with his front covers for this series.
Next week it's Queen Sonja #16 (I think, I hope), and Warlord of Mars #6. Joe Jusko is doing amazing wrap-around front covers for Warlord. Every single one is a fresco on the Sistine Chapel of my heart. I love the Lynda Carter look he gives Dejah.
Sales of all the above are really strong. Reviews are great. What can I say? For the first time in my "professional" life, I feel like I'm on top of the tiger. I am so grateful to Joe and Nicky at Dynamite for pulling together so many fantastic cover artists, for committing so fully to Mars. No wonder they're burning up the market share. They were smart enough to hire me!
I’m Dynamite!
The second issue of my adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs's Mars novels hits stores today. It's only $1, same as Issue 1. Things from Another World is selling them both for 80 cents a piece. That's far less than the cost of your favorite premium caffeinated beverage from from Starbucks™, and ZERO CALORIES.
Can you afford not to buy them? At the very worst, you can use the paper as inexpensive kindling, or packaging. But you won't want to. You'll want to build a gigantic, hermetically sealed underground vault and store these issues there for your great grandchildren.
And I'm back for more Queen Sonja – a new five-issue story arc by moi debuts in January. The return of Thulsa Doom! I really love the front cover for the first issue; Fabiano Neves is the artist. You just can't beat Brazil when it comes to heavy metal music, no-holds-barred fighting and comics. Really happy with how this series is shaping up.
Queen Sonja #7 in stores
The second installment of my five-issue run on Queen Sonja hits stores today. Come and get it! We're trying to show another side of Sonja – not a "kinder, gentler" she-devil, that would suck, but definitely more human. Whether or not we succeeded, the art by Jackson Herbert is worth the price of admission alone.
Check out the ax in Lucio Parillo's front cover to the left – the reflection of the face. I love little details like that.
And a little correction: the credits for the previous issue listed Joshua Ortega as the writer. Josh is a great writer, but #6 was all me, bay-bee.
Arvid Nelson (me!) is a comic book writer, responsible for Rex Mundi and Zero Killer, among other things. I live in Northampton, Massachusetts with my lovely wife. more...Coming Up
- Feb. 15: Dejah Thoris #10