Hey, comic fans! With New York Comic Con underway, it seems this is my week to let you know about comic projects in which I’m involved.
On Monday, I told you all about Piko Interactive/Virtual Comics’ The Legend of Calamity Jane: Box-Set DVD and Comic Kickstarter campaign that launched on Monday, for which superstar artist Eliseu Gouveia (Lorelei: Sects and the City) and I will be collaborating on the one-shot comic The Legend of Calamity Jane: The Devil Herself that picks up the storyline from the cult-favorite animated series from 1997. (And it’s already over one-third funded, four days in with 26 to go!)
Today, it’s to spread the word that a comic I scripted a couple years back is making a return, sort of. Available right now from indie press Blue Moon Comics is Diversions #11, the latest issue of their flagship anthology series, and this one features a reprint of Oniric Comics’ Sideral: The Last Earthman #1, plotted and drawn by creator Chris Malgrain and scripted by yours truly.
Sideral: The Last Earthman is about a scientist who makes an astounding breakthrough guaranteed to change the world—just in time for the world to be destroyed when nuclear war breaks out. Caught in a unique combination of radiation and genetic transformation triggered by his experiments, he becomes Earth’s lone survivor as well as the cosmic entity called Sideral, sets out to find some meaning to his new existence, and hopes to prove that life does exist on other planets, if only so that he doesn’t spend eternity alone among the stars.
The series has a classic Stan Lee/Jack Kirby vibe, along the lines of their soul-searching Silver Surfer stories (holy alliteration!), which was Chris’s intention as he’s a major fan of both legends, so I did my best to channel “The Man” during his and Kirby’s Silver Age greatness. The fans certainly enjoyed it!
Diversions #11 is available for download from e-comic distributor DriveThru Comics. If you’re into “cosmic” superheroes like Marvel’s Silver Surfer and Captain Marvel, and you missed Sideral’s debut the first time around, then it’s definitely worth checking out!
