Dark Horse released on Monday its first digital comics formatted for the iPhone and iPod touch devices. “Terminator: Death Valley,” a four-issue miniseries by Alan Grant and Steve Pugh — originally published in 1998 — is now available in the Apple Apps Store/iTunes as a series of four “apps” priced at $0.99 each.
I remember buying this miniseries during the time Warren Ellis and I were pushing to get Steve hired on to our Generation X. I already knew Steve’s work from 2020 VISIONS and loved it, especially his women. Anyway, I still have my single issues but I’ll check out this app.
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(from DMZ “Friendly Fire”, art by Viktor Kalvachev)
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Ryan Kelly’s arc ends with issue #16, and you have some great artists coming in on issues #17 and 18. What can you tell CBR readers about those two issues?
These are two single-issue stories, two one-shots. The first is an ambitiously titled story called “The Viking Art of Single Combat,” and it’s just as ambitious in deed as in word. Using a 22-page swordfight as context, I run down the theories and tactics used during that time in history. I imagine a cross between the visuals of Vagabond and the language of something like Warren Ellis’s “Crecy,” but probably more detailed than that. Certainly wider in scope. Something for the History Channel set. Vasilis Lolos is drawing that one. He’s drawn “Pirates Of Coney Island,” “The Last Call,” “Pixu,” and “5,” for which he won an Eisner.
The next is “The Shield Maidens,” which takes the folktale of the Valkyries, the women warriors, and grounds it firmly into reality — takes the mythology right out of it. As you can imagine, it deals with the women of a village and what they do when all the men have been killed in a siege. We’ll have Danijel Zezelj drawing this.
Any chance of characters from earlier arcs making a return appearance? Sven, perhaps?
Sven will return, under the title “Sven The Immortal,” and of course Davide Gianfelice will draw it. I hope it’ll be soon, within the next six months, but it all depends on the schedules. Right now I have issues #19 and #20 of the series planned for Sven.
What do you have planned for “Northlanders” later this year?
After these short stories, I am working on an outline for the next longer arc, which will be at least six issues and possibly eight. I had started gathering information and writing notes for what I thought could be a prose novel about the Black Death, but for a variety of reasons I am starting to think this idea would be better served as an arc in “Northlanders.” It couldn’t be about the Black Death, since that happened way later, but I found some records of minor outbreaks and sicknesses I could use as a starting point. Like I said already, this would be set in what is Russia today. I believe Leandro Fernandez is going to draw it.
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DMZ #41
Written by Brian Wood
Art by Nikki Cook
Cover by John Paul Leon
Having rejected the relative safety and stability of Parco Delgado’s government enclave (as well as a relationship with Matty Roth), Zee ventures out into the wilds of the DMZ. What is she seeking? Peace of mind? A greater truth? Or does she see Parco for what he truly is and would rather be alone and drifting than a part of it?
On sale April 15
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Cover art by JP Leon; interior art by Nikki Cook
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Another masterful drawing of Megan from our book LOCAL. © Ryan Kelly.
The start of the four-part, post-election, Parco Delgado-flavored WAR POWERS story.
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(© Massimo Carnevale)
This is for the final installment of “The Cross + The Hammer”.
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DMZ #39
Written by Brian Wood
Art by Riccardo Burchielli
Cover by John Paul Leon
“War Powers” part 3 of 4. Deep in Chinatown, Matty strikes it rich – at least for his bosses. Now he has a long fight back through the war-torn streets of New York. What’s the money for, anyway? And what “game changer” does Parco have planned?
On sale February 11
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NORTHLANDERS #15
Written by Brian Wood
Art by Ryan Kelly
Cover by Massimo Carnevale
“The Cross + The Hammer” part 5 of 6. Magnus’ past is revealed, and if you thought it was impossible for him to get more dangerous, he just did. But Ragnar’s tightening the noose, and Magnus is running out of room to maneuver. Thousands of men fight on a battlefield in Clontarf while these two men wage their own game of death.
On sale February 25
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“The Cross + The Hammer” part 1 of 6, art by Ryan Kelly, Massimo Carnevale, and Dave McCaig.
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