Pride Month 2022 – Die

DIE is a horror/fantasy comic about a group of adults who are drawn back into a fantasy role-playing world where they lost a friend years earlier.

THE WICKED + THE DIVINE writer KIERON GILLEN teams up with artist supernova STEPHANIE HANS (THE WICKED + THE DIVINE 1831, Journey Into Mystery) for her first ongoing comic! DIE is a pitch-black fantasy where a group of forty-something adults have to deal with the returning unearthly horror they barely survived as teenage role-players. If Kieron’s in a rush, he describes it as “Goth Jumanji.” That only captures a sliver of what you’ll find in oversized debut issue—where fantasy gets all too real.

https://imagecomics.com/comics/series/die

Created by: Kieron Gillen; Stephanie Hans
Publisher: Image Comics

Behind the mask:

A role-playing game based on the comic was recently funded on Kickstarter. It made $643,327.92, with an original goal of $37,000. We can’t wait to play!

Pride Month 2022 – Mariko Tamaki

Source: http://marikotamaki.blogspot.com/

Mariko Tamaki has been writing for Marvel and DC Comics since 2016, when she wrote She-Hulk and Supergirl: Being Super, respectively. In 2017 she began a novel adaptation of Lumberjanes. Check out this interview below for more on Lumberjanes!

Tamaki began writing for Detective Comics, and with issue #1034 she became the first female lead-writer of the title.

Pride Month 2022 – Prodigy

Alias: Prodigy

Name: David Alleyne
Pronouns: He/Him
Hometown: Chicago, Illinois
Family: Christopher Alleyne (father); Dorothy Alleyne (mother); Kim Alleyne (sister);
Occupation: Investigator
Languages: English
Team: X-Factor Investigations
Abilities: Telepathic absorption of knowledge and skills of others; super-genius (mutant)
Current Status: Investigator with X-Factor Investigations on Krakoa

First Appearance: New Mutants (Vol 2) #4 (October 2003)
Created by: Nunzio DeFilippis, Christina Weir, Keron Grant
Publisher: Marvel Comics

Behind the mask:

Prodigy first appeared in 2003 in New Mutants. In Young Avengers, Vol 2 #9, Prodigy is shown as being openly bisexual, having dated Surge and Speed, and a not-so-secret crush on Hulkling. Prodigy has been a junior teacher for the New X-Men, battled the Skrull invasion force, and helped move the X-Men to Utopia.

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