Mike Carey's Blog
June 7, 2009
We’ve been slightly inundated (if you can get away with using those two words contiguously) so I’m playing catchup with news bits and that missing X-Men: Legacy #224 weekly update. Here’s what’s been on the radar this last week:
SciFiPulse.net has an interview with Mike up from last Tuesday that ranges fascinatingly all over the place, and Hypergeek has another terrific and lengthy one, this focused more specifically on The Unwritten, X-Men: Legacy, and the Felix Castor novels.
Update: A new inter
May 19, 2009
Everyone’s read the Tommy Taylor books, but have you? If not, you may care to have a look at Mike and co-creator Peter Gross’s new Vertigo monthly, The Unwritten, whose debut issue landed in stores last week. It’s “a plot that spans all of literature from the first clay tablets to the gothic castles where Frankenstein was conceived to the self-adjusting stories of the internet.”
Here’s what they’re saying:
“A wish-I’d-thought-of-it-premise, highly recommended.”
- Brian K. Vaughan (Y: The Last Man,
April 22, 2009
The Write Environment screenwriter and blogger Jeffrey Berman sits down with Mike to talk about breaking into comics and various past and current projects. Berman’s interviewed some of the industry’s top talent, including Joss Whedon, Damon Lindelof, and Tim Kring.
Get it here!
April 17, 2009
X-Men: Legacy #223. “Salvage.” It’s the moment of truth for Danger and Professor Xavier as the seeds planted in ASTONISHING X-MEN finally bloom. Prof. X kept a sentient being almost as a slave and now that she is free of her bonds, Danger will take her revenge. And this time, the X-Men aren’t there to help him. It’s the beginning of the end of Professor Xavier’s part of X-MEN LEGACY! Part 4 (of 5)
Writer: Mike Carey, Pencils: Scot Eaton. Available: 4/15 US, 4/16 UK.
Ender’s Shadow: Battle School
April 8, 2009
There’s a new X-POSITION featuring Mike up at Comic Book Resources, including scans from the interior of X-Men: Legacy #223.
Says CBR:
While “X-Men: Legacy” writer Mike Carey has several strengths, it becomes fairly clear in talking with him that characterization is at the top of that list. In the emails we receive for him in advance of his appearances here at X-POSITION, comments typically reference how Carey has elevated underused characters into top tier cast members of the X-family, such as Ic
April 4, 2009
We’re back with the second of a two-part audio interview with Mike conducted by the multi-talented Ade Brown (former editor of the Just 1 Page charity comic) in celebration of the release of the latest Castor novel. The interview includes songs (10 total, 5 per part) - selected by Mike - that inform his creative processes.
Total run time: 1:24:34
(Part One is here.)
The fourth Castor novel - Thicker Than Water - was released in the UK last month.
Here’s the song list from the interview’s second part
With The Unwritten #1’s 40-page, only-one-dollar debut slightly more than a month off, CBR chats with Mike and co-creator/artist Peter Gross about Z-listers, Lucifer vs. Tommy Taylor, mythic conundrums, bathtub epiphanies, breakthrough ballooning, and Rudyard Kipling.
March 27, 2009
It seems Harris Comics is reprinting Mike’s Vampirella Revelations mini as part of its Best of Vampirella TPB series:
The critically acclaimed masterpiece is back in print! This is the story of Vampirella’s journey into her past. What she finds takes her to hell and back and brings her face-to-face with her mother, her home and the very moment of her birth.
Best of Vampirella, Vol. 4 also includes a story by Jay Faerber, Matthew Clark, and Ron Randall called “The Pack.”
This modern vamp classic is
Under the vaguely iridescent pulse of fluorescent basement lighting, between tables and endcaps stacked with copies of their books (Thicker Than Water, A Madness of Angels), they came in droves to see Mike Carey and Kate Griffin.
And so did we. Check it out.
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