TIME WAITS

Plus: AVENGERS conclusion! NEWBURN conclusion! Am—am I dying??

May 29, 2024

Hey HEY!

DSTLRY just announced the new book I’m co-writing with my fellow Mangasplainer, David Brothers! Anyone who’s listened to our show knows by now that David and I have similar tastes in stories, and one of our favourite tropes is “guy who left his violent past behind gets PULLED BACK IN,” and that’s TIME WAITS in a nutshell, but combined with some fun time travel elements!

Marcus To, who I’ve wanted to work with forever, is the lead on art, assisted by Marvin Sianipar. THE Matt Wilson is on colour art and the amazing Ariana Maher is lettering this bad boy! Three issues, 45 pages each of story. It’s GORGEOUS.

I’m really excited to work with the DSTLRY crew again, who helped usher in AFTERLIFT and THE ALL-NIGHTER over at Comixology. So excited in fact that this is just the first of FOUR PROJECTS that I’m doing with them! I’ve got an incredible lineup of creators working with me on everything and can’t wait for all of it to be out in the world.

Check out my interview with Forbes! Does this put me on track to get onto Forbes’ 400 Richest Americans list? No! Because I’m Canadian!

You’ll see a lot more about TIME WAITS and the other books in the coming months. You’ll be sick of me! Sick of me!!

I BELIEVE IT

Curled up in bed, clutching your stomach, screaming, “why did I go back for Zdarsky seconds and thirds?!”

Anyway, it’ll be fun.

But right now, in the present, we’ve got some BIG ONES out this week!

AVENGERS: TWILIGHT #6, our final issue, hits stands today!

It’s been quite the journey. I’m so happy that people have dug this series. Every page is full of our love for these characters and I hope it shows. Daniel Acuña is an absolute art master and this thing is going to hopefully live on forever in collected form.

Also out this week is NEWBURN VOLUME 2, the conclusion to our little crime series! I hope anyone collecting this in trades has managed to avoid the finale spoilers.

As you can tell by the photo above, I’m quite tired. Just got back from Comicpalooza in Houston and holy shit what an amazing show. I don’t think I’ve ever seen guests and attendees treated so well. Highly recommended. I even did an interview on Houston’s NPR station for anyone interested!

In Pal News, My TIME WAITS collaborator, David Brothers, has started a new Youtube endeavour, NO RELATION, where he digs into cultural things he finds interesting. The first one is great, as he dissects the new Childish Gambino video with Black Josei Press founder Jamila Rowser. Highly recommended!

David is one of those guys, unlike me, who’s always thinking smart thoughts. You can get more of them over at his excellent newsletter, which you can sign up for here!

Okay! Bye!

UPCOMING BOOKS
BATMAN #148 — June 4
NEWBURN VOL 2 — June 12
THE WHISPER QUEEN #2 — June 12
BATMAN #149 — June 18
BATMAN/CATWOMAN: THE GOTHAM WAR—June 25
BATMAN #150 — July 3
PUBLIC DOMAIN #6 — July 3
DAREDEVIL OMNIBUS VOL 1 —July 9
THE DOMAIN #1 — July 10
BATMAN: THE BAT-MAN OF GOTHAM TPB—Aug 20
AVENGER: TWILIGHT TPB —Aug 27
BATMAN: THE JOKER YEAR ONE — Sept 10
DAREDEVIL OMNIBUS VOL 2 —Dec 31
THE ALL-NIGHTER VOL 3 — Jan 21