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Friday Runaround: Trailing Jonah Hex

Published Fri, 30 Apr 2010 02:18:43 -0500

HexWatch: The new Jonah Hex trailer hits the intraweb.

MadibaWatch: An unauthorised biography of Nelson Mandela in comic form has won Best Book For Older Readers in the Children's Africana Book Awards in America.

AwardWatch: Neil Gaiman has been granted the Kurt Vonnegut Literary Award, something which he accepted as part of National Library Week.

GameWatch: Could Halo creators Bungie move into comic book publication? In a UGO interview, Joseph Staten stated. "In the next 10 years, Bungie's going to make the call on what we want to create, whether it be comics, movies, anything."

LegalWatch: The Jack Kirby Estate/Marvel legal battle will take place on Marvel's doorstep in the publisher-favouring New York rather than the creator-favouring California.

CollaborationWatch: Matt Sturges explains the upcoming "Exquisite Corpse" issue of Vertigo's House Of Mystery.

See, this story is supposedly set in the continuity of House of Mystery, sandwiched between issues twenty-four and twenty-six. Somehow I had to take the horrific scenario that they'd dealt me and resolve it in a way that a) made sense, b) got everything back where it was supposed to be, and c) wasn't a cheat.

The last was the hardest by far. Given the damage that these inspired literary hooligans had caused, there didn't seem much of a way out of it beyond, "And then they woke up to discover that it had all been a nasty, frightening dream." But that isn't how we do things around here. The ending had to make sense, it had to follow from what came before, and most importantly it had to not suck.

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