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99c/69p Comixology Sale Today
(The idea of a photo of me PEERING at everyone on Comixology’s mailing list is kinda scary)
Well, of Journey Into Mystery and my Uncanny X-men V2 run, anyway, and one issue of Rob Rodi that has got mixed in.
(I’m tagging this YA, as I know a bunch of people have expressed interest in reading the backstory to Kid Loki.)
Comxiology purchases can either be read on Android, Apple, Kindle Fire or Windows 8 devices. They can also be read online in a browser, for those who stay away from tablets and similar.
For those who don’t follow comics or my Marvel stuff, and just want to try a few issues, I’d recommend these ones specifically out of context.
UNCANNY X-MEN 4: A standalone issue from the perspective of an alien creature the X-men end up fighting, with me playing with alien perception and the horrors you can do with juxtaposition. Brandon Peterson really leaned into the bio-organic horror of it all, and does incredible Phalanx. It’s basically the themes of my X-men run in a single issue.
UNCANNY X-MEN 14: While this is embedded deep into Avengers Versus X-men, it’s also its own creature. Basically, it’s an extended pastiche of Notes From Underground in a Steampunk-critique city buried beneath the Earth, and about determinism and society. Even if you don’t read it, it’s worth coming to see what Dustin Weaver does with the cityscapes. It’s virtuoso stuff. I think this may be the best issue I did during Uncanny, and certainly in the top five of what I’ve done for Marvel. Here’s Colin TooBusyThinkingAboutComics writing about it.
JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY 632: While the final issue is JIM’s high point, this is my favourite single issue. It’s a Christmas story based around Loki having to find homes for seven hellhounds. It’s cute and funny, but has a mass of doom and darkness bubbling beneath the surface – which is basically the core of what JIM does. The Breitweisers make it all look like a seasonal card too. I think the panel with Leah holding up her skirt when she chases around the hellhounds may be my favourite image of the Hel-maid in the entire run.
JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY: THE MANCHESTER GODS 639, 640,641: I’d recommend reading it out of contest primarily for people who aren’t actually going to read the rest of JIM. It’s got a fairly serious position in the larger story, in terms of various reveals. However, as its own thing, it’s me writing about the concept of Britain and firing it through a half-dozen fantasy filters. It’s as mad as the maddest parts of Phonogram. For example, it features a Tony Wilson analogue as a urban druid. I still can’t believe I got away with most of this stuff.
And a few things I’d say before buying either run.
UNCANNY X-MEN
This stands alone. However, it is embedded in Avengers VersusX-men, the major crossover event of the year it was published. The information you need to know is worked in, and AvX was always where the run was ending at – and my themes aimed to dovetail with i ts – but it’s worth noting. The first 10 issues are by themselves, but do feature a lot of foreshadowing of where it’s going.
There’s a sort-of postscript to my run in the form of AVX Consequences, which you can also buy, though it’s full price.
JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY
Journey Into Mystery is basically a closed novel. However due to existing in the modern superhero comics mainstream, it subverted a bunch of crossovers it was involved with to tell it – namely the EXILED crossover with NEW MUTANTS and the EVERYTHING BURNS crossover with Thor. It was also launched out of the FEAR ITSELF crossover, though include any important beats you need to know in JIM. I usually say FEAR ITSELF is WW2, and we’re a story about the Enigma code.
Anyway – if you buy the first 14 issues, and 539-541, they stand alone. The issue of Thor and New Mutants you would need to buy to get the complete thing are…
EXILED NEW MUTANTS 42 NEW MUTANTS 43 THE MIGHTY THOR 18 THE MIGHTY THOR 19 THE MIGHTY THOR 20 THE MIGHTY THOR 21
The Exiled/New Mutants issues are now a couple of dollars, but The Might Thor ones are full price.
I suspect it’s still worth throwing down for all the JIM issues. You won’t get them cheaper, and you can always come back and get the others. And to state the obvious, for anyone who pirates comics as they think they’re too expensive, now would be a good time to show that they would purchase at a lower price.
You can buy here. And it’s a sale just for today, so – er – buy today? That sounds about right.
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COMMISSION SALE!
As I have a bunch of slots left open for the rest of May, I’ve decided to do a SALE on COMMISSIONS!
It’ll be just like the one I had before - I’ll do you an A4, black and white drawing for £15 only (plus P&P)! Only until the end of May!
Email me at julia.scheele [at] gmail [dot] com if you’re interested.
Cheers!](http://25.media.tumblr.com/9395cded78402870249a4d9a1fbffad5/tumblr_mn34g6QTCT1r85pqvo1_500.jpg)
COMMISSION SALE!
As I have a bunch of slots left open for the rest of May, I’ve decided to do a SALE on COMMISSIONS!
It’ll be just like the one I had before - I’ll do you an A4, black and white drawing for £15 only (plus P&P)! Only until the end of May!
Email me at julia.scheele [at] gmail [dot] com if you’re interested.
Cheers!
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‘Giorgio by Moroder (feat. Giorgio Moroder)’ by Daft Punk
Officially good getting in the shower and starting the week music. Everything follows the click.
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The Fictional Man
I started reading Al Ewing’s novel while waiting for the last train back from Gamecamp and immediately decided I had to devote a chunk of Sunday to consuming the whole thing.
Garth Marenghi dropped into a Phillip K Dick novel, this uses its science fiction conceit of cloned humans with programmed personalities of fictional characters to act in Hollywood movies as a device to illustrate its points as its lead goes down the rabbit-hole of where a story comes from. Smart, funny and wise, I recommend this highly.
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Hey look I did a thing. Still not fully recovered from JiM 645, but Flapper dresses make everything better… right?
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How to be Awesome by Diplomatic Ensign Noh-Varr, age 23 1/3 (possibly) →
I’ve finally got around to writing another thing for Freaky Trigger about Young Avengers, this time addressing whether anyone around here is cool or what. (yes)
Also Noh-Varr’s butt. Quuuiiite a lot about Noh-Varr’s butt.
This is fun. That all the cast - bar America - are pretty goofy is a big part how the book works, for me.
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