Now Soliciting: Wolverine Noir

Coming in April: WOLVERINE NOIR, a four-issue miniseries by me and artist CP Smith.

The brief for the Noir line was to reimagine Marvel's characters as non-powered characters in a dark, crime-oriented setting. WIth Wolverine, that was easy. To me he's always been just a tough guy with knives; the only difference here is that the knives aren't built-in. Instead, he's a down-and-out P.I. in 1937, running the detective agency LOGAN & LOGAN with his partner, Dog. Everyone thinks they're brothers...but the truth is much more tangled than that. When Dog disappears on an errand for the beautiful Mariko Yashida, Logan's dark past comes bubbling back up in a paroxysm of guilt and violence.

CP Smith and I have worked on two Wolverine stories before, both collected in the trade paperback BLOOD AND SORROW. He's one of the most powerful stylists in comics right now, and this is probably his best work to date.



And check out the variant cover by Dennis Calero, artist of X-MEN NOIR:

This Week: With Iron Hands trade paperback

Wednesday, January 21st: The trade paperback collection of my recent IRON MAN storyline, WITH IRON HANDS, hits comic book stores. A terrorist from Tony Stark's past collides with a bizarre threat from his present, with chaotic results. Art by "top guns" Roerto de la Torre, Carlo Pagulayan, and Steve Kurth.

Man, I miss S.H.I.E.L.D. already.



And don't forget to visit our new SHADRACH STONE blog. Now with added sex!

Shadrach Stone - production blog

I've just done a "soft launch" of the production blog for SHADRACH STONE, a new miniseries by me and Jon Proctor. Go there now & let us know what you think. Both Jon and I should be posting frequently as the series rolls along.

I'll be promoting the book at the Penny-Farthing Press booth at New York Comicon, too. Details to follow.

Spider-Man: Fear Itself - out this week

Only $3.99, featuring Spider-Man and Man-Thing -- with 34 pages of story and 21st-century neo-animation art by the amazing Joe Suitor (see below).

This interview will tell you as much as you want to know without actually reading the comic.

Previous blog entries, with more sample art: here, here, and here.

Buy it! (Then let me know what you thought.)

Update: Eight-page preview here. (Nine, if you count the character-descriptions page.)

Much more Spider-Man: Fear art!

En francais.