Can you also give some updates on your other announced projects like if Ludocrats will be a 2017 or 2018 book etc? What's your total book list for 2016/2017(if you have another Star Wars book just write "Marvel Project")?

Okay. Here’s a complete overview of what I’m working on, including unannounced stuff.

THE WICKED + THE DIVINE - We’re at the half-way point, though probably slightly less than half way including the specials. I’ll be finishing off issue 26 in first draft form today.

UBER: INVASION - Kickstarter ongoing. I’ve written up to issue 7 of Invasion, and Daniel’s on issue 5. The whole of invasion will probably be about the same size as the first volume of Uber. Perhaps slightly less. We’ll see. Issue 7 was a strange one to write - it was a key episode that I wrote into the series over-view all the way back in 2008.

MODDED - I’m up to… episode 9, I think? I’ve got a few episodes in draft that I’ve yet to polish and hand in. The first trade will probably collect the first 18 issues, so that’s still a long way away.

UNANNOUNCED MARVEL THING - Two issues written. Inks arriving for the first issue, which are an utter delight. I think people will love it. It’s an ongoing.

Now, for future projects…

THE LUDOCRATS - for a book that is basically about the joys of imagination and the fight against normalisation, that this was basically delayed by paperwork seems like a plot out of Brazil. David has commitments at Valiant, and is onto Ludocrats after that… but last we talked, that is going to be the end of 2017, meaning it’ll be a 2018 release. Desperately annoying, but c’est la vie. First two issues written, though Jim and I need to rework the second a lot.

UNANNOUNCED 5 ISSUE THING: Horror comic with a music bent. I’ve said I’d write it for someone for over a year now, and really should get down to it. That it hasn’t been urgent means I haven’t had to priortise it, but now I’m ahead on basically all my work by a considerable amount means I really should. I believe this will be 2017, or maybe early 2018.

ONE-OFF WFH ISSUE: Need to write a tight synopsis for this, but it’s basically a chance to play with an icon for a publisher I’ve wanted to work with for a long time.

THE SPANGLY NEW THING: I had an idea for something at SDCC which instantly jumped to the top of the queue of things I want to write. I think it’s the best idea I’ve had since WicDiv, and maybe even better than that - it’s a purer idea anyway, though I suspect not as commercial. If it happens - and I’m still talking to the artist about it - that’ll be 2017.



EDIT: Actually, one more…

THE GRAPHIC NOVELLA: An artist friend and I are talking about doing a short form “thing.” 44-60 pages. Much more indie comics than people will be used to from me. A Love story, of a sort.

And that’s where I am at the moment in comics.