Week 12 : Comics

This week I'd like to talk comics. The fact that Tell Tale Games sees the importance of comics for source material is a HUGE reason I want to work with them. I have read comics all of my life, aside from a small break from high school through my bachelors. Comics taught me to read, manage money and gave me my first feeling of independence. You see Mom couldn't leave the car in the parking lot next to the comic store or it would be towed, so I was given the money and freedom to buy whatever I wanted, quite a lot of responsibility for a seven year old.

In the beginning I was a die hard Marvel fan particularly the X-men, Captain America and Hawkeye. In actuality I loved the costumes, one enemy I really liked was Madcap, he had a clown like suit and could reattach his own limbs and make people crazy if they looked into his eyes. I favored the art so much it started me drawing. I had collected the Marvel Universe volumes, which had all the living and dead characters over the years.I would research any characters that had a sweet outfit and draw them.

My nephew re introduced me to comics with the 'Walking Dead' and Marvel's Ultimate series after college. So you see I was an avid 'Walking Dead' fan well before the show or the game. The writer Robert Kirkman is a fellow Kentuckian, as well as the original artist Tony Moore. I loved their work and wanted to support fellow local artists. At that time I took it upon myself to fill in the gaps in comic lore by reading 'The Watchmen', and 'The Sandman' series. But it was the newer comics that got me hooked again. I realized it wasn't the publisher that I liked it was the writers. So I expanded my Kirkman collection to include 'Invincible'. Next was Bill Willingham and 'Fables', I really like the concept and have read all of them as well as the off shoot comics like 'Jack the Fable'. Then I found Brian K Vaughn who wrote 'Y the Last man', 'Ex Machina' and most currently 'Saga' by far he is my favorite. I cannot stress enough how great Saga is, it is new so go read it.

This summer I chose to fill in the gaps of Marvel's cosmic story lines including; Adam Warlock, Captain Marvel, Thanos, The Eternals, Annihilation War, Guardians of the Galaxy, the Kree and Skrulls as well as catching up with the X-men story lines. As you can see from the image below I read quite a lot this summer. I was hooked again, but I knew I was headed to California and didn't want to lug around another huge box of books, I left most of my collection in Kentucky before I came here. So I switched to kindle, If you took that photo and multiplied it by three you would be close to what I have read since the summer began.

I would like to conclude by saying I have some thoughts on 'The Wolf Among Us' but will reserve them for our interview.

See you In Twenty Nine Weeks

AR