Ars Technica:
William Gibson has made the leap from prose to picture books, collaborating with Michael St. John Smith and artist Bruce Guice to give us this week’s first issue of new IDW series Archangel.
“It’s an alternate-history/cross-worlds story,” Gibson writes in the back matter. “And I wouldn’t want to spoil too much of the frame, because that’s an inherent part of our narrative. But I will say that one of the first verbal tags we had for the material was ‘Band Of Brothers vs. Blackwater.'”
Archangel begins in February 2016, but it’s a very different 2016 to the one we know. The world is in ruins. The White House relocated to the ominous-sounding National Emergency Federal District in Montana. They have technology that far outstrips our own.
If William Gibson wrote a phone book, I’d read it from cover to cover. His is a seminal voice in fiction and someone who’s work I devour whenever he has anything published. This will be no exception.
Sweet! Sold! There’s one author I pre buy or buy every single word they publish… Would love a physical copy but that would just sit on a shelf — same as The Peripheral I love it, but haven’t actually opened my physical copy ever! I think Willy G would approve.
/almost/ got to meet him in my high school media class as he just interviewed at a newspaper we were touring, managed to get this sweet photo right from the papers photography dept: wife doesn’t like his “creepy” face ha but it has pride of position.
https://imgur.com/a/ZRun9
If you look you might catch the /lovely/ combination of pink iPad and product(red) case 😉 it makes ppl quite angry.
Just an FYI: The artist’s name is Butch Guice — not Bruce. He’s a well-known, longstanding comic book artist.