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ARCHAIA PANEL OF THE DAY: THE GRAND DUKE The intense battles in The Grand Duke can’t be contained in a single panel, so we’re brining you a whole page today. The Night Witches are raining terror on their enemies in the night sky.

ARCHAIA PANEL OF THE DAY: THE GRAND DUKE

The intense battles in The Grand Duke can’t be contained in a single panel, so we’re brining you a whole page today. The Night Witches are raining terror on their enemies in the night sky.

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ARCHAIA PANEL OF THE DAY: THE KILLER

Since it’s the weekend… instead of a single panel we’re bringing you TWO PAGES of The Killer! Nice bonus, right? Killer talks shop and motivations with Mariano.

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forrome: How does the Siegfried of Alex Alice fit into the Siegfried of Wagner? Easily! I’m neither a “Wagnerite” nor an expert in Norse mythology. The poetry of Wagner and those sagas touched me as a spectator, not a specialist. When I read Wagner’s libretto or listen to his music, I get The Ring, I see things I’ve never seen anywhere else, especially on stage. The cycle is absolutely packed with heartrendering scenes of great symbolic power. There is my impetus, the lifeblood of my story, as you say.  I’ve taken the approach of a storyteller for Siegfried. In creating my story, I drew on many, many sources, from ancient legends to very modern interpretations, because I didn’t want to just adapt the opera as is. In comics, P. Craig Russell already did that in his book The Ring of the Nibelung. It’s an almost perfect adaptation; Russell adjusted the dialogue for comics. But, for me, though his narrative is hard to top, it does suffer from the bias of fidelity. Some scenes from the opera are so closely based on the music that they can’t exist on the page in a satisfying way. And the story as it is didn’t suit me. I wanted to tell “my” Siegfried story. Thanks for sharing your passion for Alex Alice’s Siegfried and posting a segment of the in depth interview featured in volume 1! The interview is very long and intense and offers a ton of insight into Alex’s process and the creation of this beautiful book. If you want to check out the whole interview for yourself, pick up a copy at the Archaia webstore HERE, your local comic shop, or wherever books are sold!

forrome:

How does the Siegfried of Alex Alice fit into the Siegfried of Wagner?

Easily! I’m neither a “Wagnerite” nor an expert in Norse mythology. The poetry of Wagner and those sagas touched me as a spectator, not a specialist. When I read Wagner’s libretto or listen to his music, I get The Ring, I see things I’ve never seen anywhere else, especially on stage. The cycle is absolutely packed with heartrendering scenes of great symbolic power. There is my impetus, the lifeblood of my story, as you say. 

I’ve taken the approach of a storyteller for Siegfried. In creating my story, I drew on many, many sources, from ancient legends to very modern interpretations, because I didn’t want to just adapt the opera as is. In comics, P. Craig Russell already did that in his book The Ring of the Nibelung. It’s an almost perfect adaptation; Russell adjusted the dialogue for comics. But, for me, though his narrative is hard to top, it does suffer from the bias of fidelity. Some scenes from the opera are so closely based on the music that they can’t exist on the page in a satisfying way. And the story as it is didn’t suit me. I wanted to tell “my” Siegfried story.

Thanks for sharing your passion for Alex Alice’s Siegfried and posting a segment of the in depth interview featured in volume 1!

The interview is very long and intense and offers a ton of insight into Alex’s process and the creation of this beautiful book.

If you want to check out the whole interview for yourself, pick up a copy at the Archaia webstore HERE, your local comic shop, or wherever books are sold!

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Matz talks about ‘The Killer Volume 4’ in our new interview We got to pick the brain of the mind behind ‘The Killer’ series for the newest book, ‘The Killer Volume 4: Unfair Competition’. He talks to us about Killer’s journey, where he’s going and what he’s up to in this new action packed global adventure. THE KILLER has been described as “modern noir.”  How much influence would you say the series has drawn from classic crime fiction versus more contemporary espionage and murder mysteries in film and television? Matz: “I’ve spent a huge amount of time, as a teenager, reading classic noir. I remember spending summers in Paris, reading. I loved that. I didn’t miss going away on vacation at all. Why hang out on an overcrowded beach in the sun, when you can be in sunny empty Paris, cruise the bouquinistes for cheap noir novels (at the time, you could find them for just a few Francs,), and hang loose, watching the tourists walk by; so yes, James Cain, Jim Thompson, Chandler, Hammett, and also classic literature. I always favored noir over murder mysteries. Solving a crime is less interesting to me than looking at the whole situation and trying to decipher the souls of the people involved, because nothing is black and white. Jim Thompson was fantastic because that’s what he did: he looked into the souls in a convincing way. He didn’t try to sugarcoat it. I also spent a lot of time at the movies, including at the Cinémathèque, where I could see all the classics. Melville or Leone, naturally, are probably the two main influences for The Killer. I always loved westerns. Ford, Hathaway, Walsh, Peckinpah, Boetticher, I just love them.” read the rest on the Archaia Website!

Matz talks about ‘The Killer Volume 4’ in our new interview

We got to pick the brain of the mind behind ‘The Killer’ series for the newest book, ‘The Killer Volume 4: Unfair Competition’. He talks to us about Killer’s journey, where he’s going and what he’s up to in this new action packed global adventure.

THE KILLER has been described as “modern noir.”  How much influence would you say the series has drawn from classic crime fiction versus more contemporary espionage and murder mysteries in film and television?

Matz: “I’ve spent a huge amount of time, as a teenager, reading classic noir. I remember spending summers in Paris, reading. I loved that. I didn’t miss going away on vacation at all. Why hang out on an overcrowded beach in the sun, when you can be in sunny empty Paris, cruise the bouquinistes for cheap noir novels (at the time, you could find them for just a few Francs,), and hang loose, watching the tourists walk by; so yes, James Cain, Jim Thompson, Chandler, Hammett, and also classic literature. I always favored noir over murder mysteries. Solving a crime is less interesting to me than looking at the whole situation and trying to decipher the souls of the people involved, because nothing is black and white. Jim Thompson was fantastic because that’s what he did: he looked into the souls in a convincing way. He didn’t try to sugarcoat it. I also spent a lot of time at the movies, including at the Cinémathèque, where I could see all the classics. Melville or Leone, naturally, are probably the two main influences for The Killer. I always loved westerns. Ford, Hathaway, Walsh, Peckinpah, Boetticher, I just love them.”

read the rest on the Archaia Website!

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Last Days of an Immortal hits comic shelves on November 21st and book stores on December 4th. If you thought investigating criminals was difficult in our world, the Philosophical Police of the Union will make you think twice!

Last Days of an Immortal hits comic shelves on November 21st and book stores on December 4th. If you thought investigating criminals was difficult in our world, the Philosophical Police of the Union will make you think twice!

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Digital Releases To Ring in the Fourth!

Archaia is celebrating the Fourth of July with more digital releases! Just like every Digital Wednesday, Archaia and comiXology are bringing your favorite comics straight to you! That’s right, you can get your favorite graphic novels in a digital format, including our exclusive line of digital first comics. That means you can check out some of Archaia’s hottest new comics before they’re printed! This week’s lineup gives you a large dose of adventure! 

DIGITAL FIRST RELEASES:

Hopeless, Maine Vol 1, part 4: 

Being Hopeless isn’t just a state of mind.

Trapped on an island off the coast of Maine, the people of Hopeless find life a little darker and more dangerous with every day that passes. The number of orphans rises continually, but who can say what happens to their parents? Plenty of the bodies are never found. This is not the stuff of happy, careless childhoods, it is instead fertile ground for personal demons. In Hopeless, the demons are not always abstract concepts. Some of them have very real teeth, and very real horns.

It’s a peculiar place. Here, almost anything can happen, from the weird and unsettling to the darkly funny. With a cast of freaks, nutters and the odd power crazed psychopath, life in Hopeless is seldom dull.

Hopeless is also about who you choose to be. The tale is a protest against apathy, and against the small evils that everyone takes for granted. The worst monsters frequently aren’t the ones with the obvious teeth – who are merely dangerous by nature – but the apparently ordinary people who choose to do hideous things. Written and illustrated by Tom and Nimue Brown.

Mouse Guard: The Black Axe #5:

David Petersen’s Eisner Award-winning MOUSE GUARD returns with The Black Axe, the third volume of this fantastic series. Set in 1115, this prequel to Mouse Guard: Fall 1152 fulfills the promise the wise oldfur Celanawe made to Lieam the day his paw first touched the Black Axe: to tell the young warrior about the mouse who first wielded the deadly weapon. The arrival of distant kin takes Celanawe on an adventure that will carry him across the sea to uncharted waters and lands, all while unraveling the legend of Farrer, the blacksmith who forged the mythic Black Axe. 

The Grand Duke, part 4:

The Eastern Front during WWII: Oberleutnant Wulf, a young Luftwaffe pilot, is horrified by Nazi barbarism and at odds with his fellow pilots, even as he finds himself taking to the skies to fight the infamous “Night Witches” — the 588th Night Bomber Regiment, the most decorated female unit in the Soviet Air Force. Motivated only by his desire to return home to his daughter, Romy, Wulf tries to survive the increasingly desperate and ferocious Eastern Front, while Lilya, the “Red Witch,” leads her comrades against the German invaders. A Romeo-and-Juliet story set against the backdrop of WWII aerial dogfights. Written by Yann and illustrated by Romain Hugault.

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Cow Boy, Part 3:

“Justice ain’t got no age.”

Nate Cosby (Pigs, Jim Henson’s The Storyteller) and Chris Eliopoulos (Franklin Richards, Misery Loves Sherman) present Cow Boy, the all-ages story of a young bounty hunter determined to send his entire outlaw family to jail. He travels the Old West on a horse that ain’t his, and won’t stop til every one’a his kin’s in the clink.

The Dare Detectives!, Vol. 1, Part 5:

Reformed crook Maria Dare has assembled a team of misfits to crack the world’s weirdest cases! They have brains…they have guts…but they don’t have a clue! And in their first adventure, the Dare Detectives are finished! Rent’s due and their license is suspended, but Dare’s going-out-of-business festivities are interrupted by Madame Bleu—whose abominable snowmen pets are on a chef-stealing, radio-robbing, snowpea-swiping crime wave! Dare races against the clock to hunt down Madame Bleu with the help of corrupt cops and Chinatown’s old crime boss. But can these bunglers really prevent the most audacious—and inexplicably convoluted—crime of the century? Written and illustrated by Ben Caldwell.

Everlast, Part 4:

A pre-apocalyptic tale written by Chad Michael Murray (One Tree Hill), Everlast follows Derek Everlast, a man whose destiny in life is guiding others to a place of rebirth for mankind called Haven. Following an instinct called the Nudge, bestowed on him by a higher power, Derek is guided to the next chosen human destined to survive, a little girl named Melissa. In a harrowing adventure, he must deliver her safely to Haven before the End of Days. Everlast tells a story of choice, love, friendship, and, most of all, survival.

Jim Henson’s The Storyteller, Part 3:

The much-loved, live-action/puppet combination TV show is now a graphic novel series! Archaia and The Jim Henson Company are proud to present ALL-NEW tales of fantastic wonder and extraordinary myth, as told from the tongue of The Storyteller and his loyal canine companion! Witness worded wonderment from a cavalcade of craft creators, including Roger Langridge (The Muppet Show comic, Thor the Mighty Avenger), Marjorie Liu (Black Widow), Ron Marz (Green Lantern, Artifacts), Jeff Parker (Thor,Thunderbolts), Francesco Francavilla (Detective Comics), Chris Eliopoulos (Franklin Richards) and Janet K. Lee (Return of the Dapper Men). Plus: a never-before-seen story adapted from a screenplay by The Storyteller’s original author, Academy Award® winner Anthony Minghella (The English Patient

Until next Wednesday!

Everyone at Archaia would like to wish our fans here in the States a Happy Independence Day, and hope you all have a great week, regardless of what country you are in! Make sure you check out our newest digital releases every Wednesday! 

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