Editor’s Note: It’s Wednesday, so that means it’s New Comic Book Day and another edition of Amazing Journey!
The Amazing Journey column will touch on a comics-related topic, such as writing the first issue of a series, what it’s like to run a comic book store, working with artists, and how writing comics is different from writing prose.
After a summer break, we are back with an abbreviated column this week. As we head into the last third of the year, I am trying to keep a steady creative cadence, which means developing some better systems for getting all my work done.
One suggestion I found in a YouTube video was the the Rule of Two.
No, not the Sith-related one. The one that holds that you should never take more than one day (or unit of time) off in a row from something.
So to avoid a two-week streak with no comics column, today you’re going to get my pick-ups of the week, a Question of the Week, and a note that the Friday fiction column should return in two days with new Guild chapters!
Question of the Week: What comic are you looking forward to this fall?
Seeing as how the writers and actors are still on strike, we are really down to comics and live sports to entertain us! Oh, and thankfully the release date for The Creator (Sept. 29) has not been pushed.
My answer: Jonathan Hickman and Valerio Schiti’s G.O.D.S., which comes out on October 4 with a triple-sized first issue!
What I’m reading this week/Variant watch
X-Men #26 - It’s the wedding of Emma Frost and … Tony Stark? What? Don’t ask questions and instead just look at the first half of this gorgeous connecting cover by Lukas Werneck.
Immortal X-Men #15 - The solicit copy sounds bleak (and the following issue even bleaker), and it’s never good when a zombie Wolverine is on the cover. But in honor of Ms. Frost’s nuptials, I wanted to highlight this variant by Sway.
Birds of Prey #1 - I have no history with any of these characters, but Kelly Thompson re-teaming up with Leonardo Romero is a must-buy!
Are you reading The Cull? It's being serialised on Substack as well as in print (which I think might be a first?). Great first issue!