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pitches for a 4 part series usually i m not interested in that kind of thing at all i like to do my own stuff however i had enjoyed working with neil and the brief was pretty open so i brainstormed some ideas essentially coming up with the plot to issue 1 if i recall correctly neil liked them and we started from there q what were the challenges of writing for pre existing characters the biggest challenge is to strike the right balance between hero and anti hero the core killing moon characters are all paid killers but they are also the series protagonists so they need to be murderous but in a sympathetic way the easy way out of this is to make all the victims totally irredeemable scumbags but i wanted to be a bit more interesting than that to be honest i m not sure if i would ever have written about a band of assassins if left to my own devices otherwise i ve found i actually enjoy the constraints associated with coming in on an existing fictional universe without having to create absolutely everything from scratch myself necessity truly is the mother of invention q and what were the highlights of writing the series going to the pub with neil the longer version of this answer is that he has made it a tradition to launch each issue at thought bubble which as you are likely aware is a really well regarded comics festival that runs every year in yorkshire generally during the autumn now i live in the south east so yorkshire isn t the most convenient for me but i did make the pilgrimage to see the second issue come out there i met neil in person for the first time and caught up with many comics friends new and old both at the show and at the pub afterwards my other main highlight is working with the team that neil s put together and of course neil himself it s always a pleasure to handover a script and see how neil interprets it i have to say i love darren s colours too indeed i persuaded him to help out with massacre for boys he s such a big talent it s no surprise to see the phoenix snap darren up of course there s also bolt 01 dave evans on letters and consulting editor richmond clements i ve known both dave and richmond for many years they are each of them legends another thing i love is the pin ups neil organises all of those so i basically get to see them when they re done the artists involved are phenomenal neil mcclements skd david frankum alan byrom the list just goes on and on all part of the team and when i put all the names together like this i see it s more than just a team we ve become a community also a more prosaic highlight for me is that neil takes care of the publishing side of things q it s now being collected together as a complete graphic novel can you tell us more about that well we completed the series and are now putting it all together as a trade paperback do people still use that term the book also includes the original killing moon which was created by his brother and that is a really interesting read it s nothing like the new one but at the same time you can tell they are closely related the way i view it is that the classic killing moon are the justice society and the current killing moon are the justice league when i saw neil s wraparound cover for the book which has both versions i was strongly reminded of earth 1 earth 2 and generally how great the dc multiverse was before crisis oh and it s important to say that we re doing this as a kickstarter crowd funding is so important for independent comics and for independent creators this is going to be my first campaign and i m really excited to see how it goes as an aside if fully funded this will be my first published book a personal landmark that i am very keen to reach q the graphic novel will also include brand new material what do you have planned on that front brand new for this collection will be a story called the prologue that comes at the end we are going to go back in time to merstburg castle before the events of the first issue and see the pivotal moment that everything that comes after before was set in motion sorry that s a bit vague but i m trying desperately to avoid spoilers one thing i can be definitive on is that the skeleton mayor is in it q and once published do you have any plans to revisit these characters in the future i don t want to pre empt any announcements but yes i d love to write some more the way it s plotted in my head i m about half way through the story i want to tell simple maths would say that means four more issues one more book but an important caveat is that it may very well not work out like that separately neil and i have been working on a story outline set many years in killing moon s past hopefully we ll get to do that one as well q it s been over a decade since i last interviewed you how has the small press industry changed for you during that time well i ve given up exhibiting at comic conventions for a start steve and i had some good time doing those but in the end it just became soul destroying three days behind a table at london super comic con in islington was the final straw the few visitors who wandered up to the small press area were almost without exception totally disinterested in massacre for boys since then i ve had a much better time going to such events purely as a punter q massacre for boys had supposedly come to an end a couple of years ago but we hear rumours you ve written new material recently can you tell us about that the high concept of massacre for boys is that it s a single story pretending to be an anthology we got to the end with the last stand and that remains the end of the story however despite that steve and i seem to be working on it again alongside bolt 01 did i mention he was a legend and others there are two main reasons we ve gone back to the well one last time firstly we want to put it together into a collection it was always meant to be read as a single entity we want to make it much easier for people to do that given we started more than a dozen years ago and for example switched page formats after two issues of walking wounded there s a lot of cleaning up to do just to get the book into publishable shape furthermore love that word although i was very happy with the end i was less satisfied with the middle there are quite a few important elements of the story arc that either didn t work didn t appear at all or simply got lost amongst all the other strips so now we re fixing all those problems and when they are fixed we are going to put out a book the massacre for boys book for boys and that will be the final and completed and best version of massacre for boys q and do you have any other comics related plans i think killing moon and massacre for boys are enough for any man having said that i do have a short ghost story set to appear in this year s hallowscream it s being illustrated by ken best and the work in progress i ve seen so far is really promising q finally if you could interview yourself what question would you most like to ask and what would the answer be the question would be my friend serena williams thinks you re a genius and she d really like to have dinner with you to discuss all the things she loves about your work is it okay if i give her your phone number and my answer would be yes i am always happy to have dinner with a fan as long as they have a minimum of 23 grand slam singles titles this is why i cannot interview myself alex finch is a former celebrity text jockey and the impresario behind comedy to watch additional credits artwork by bhuna with colouring on killing moon by darren stephens posted by clergyman at 16 04 no comments thursday 3 august 2017 massacre for boys the last stand cover the last stand by steven denton logo by nikki foxrobot walking wounded sniper elite script by chris denton art by steven denton letters by nikki foxrobot walking wounded emu war the last stand script by chris denton art by owen watts letters by bolt 01 scalphunter drive s a hard bargain script by chris sides art by eddy lyle letters by bolt 01 badland rules call the cops text story written and illustrated by steven denton the crusader spoonful of blood script by chris denton art and letters by bolt 01 colours by darren stephens the adventures of napoleon script by chris denton art by steven denton letters by bolt 01 pinup the crusader by bhuna back cover dog in a coat by steven denton posted by clergyman at 10 44 no comments tuesday 9 may 2017 the last stand posted by clergyman at 19 50 no comments sunday 21 december 2014 death on the rock sold out i am pleased to report that the print version of walking wounded death on the rock is now sold out this is the second of our proper walking wounded comics to disappear from the shelves walking wounded 2 has long been unavailable a re mastered omnibus edition of all our black and white work will probably follow in due course as indeed will a paperback collection of the whole ww mfb run but if you can t wait for that the digital edition of death on the rock remains on sale for the bargain price of 1 00 from our comicsy page posted by clergyman at 08 50 no comments saturday 6 september 2014 alan moore photostrip at mfb towers we re in the midst of an artist crisis and that has led us to consider reviving the great 80s tradition of the photostrip admittedly most were terrible but some of them were quite fun doomlord of course and the odd tale by a young british comics writer called alan moore who later went on to do a few quite good traditional comics posted by clergyman at 09 46 no comments sunday 6 july 2014 creators wanted work is currently underway on massacre for boys picture library 2 and opportunities exist for artists colourists and letterers to contribute to this landmark issue landmark for top secret reasons currently only known to confirmed contributors there s no money involved mfb is produced for the love of it and operates and at a financial loss but there is considerable creative freedom and creator ownership of all work contributed so if you feel like joining a team that includes 2000ad s newest droid contributing editor steven denton who works professionally as a colourist on voodoo planet in 2000ad dept of monsterology and keeper to name but 3 as well as the cream of comics talent from the uk and further afield then please get in touch posted by clergyman at 12 25 no comments saturday 19 april 2014 thirty kroner who i contributed several scripts to picture library 1 but the one that took by the far the longest to write was thirty kroner kincaid this strip started out with a throwaway comment by david frankum that he wanted to do something in the style of the based on a true story tales of wartime heroism that were a regular staple of the victor always eager to have david on board i immediately set to work as may be apparent the main influences on massacre for boys are those old ipc comics from the 70s and 80s battle 2000ad eagle scream and so on however steve and i have always enjoyed the dc thompson stuff as well especially the victor but also warlord hotspur and of course commando indeed we pastiched the commando style in an early walking wounded strip see mfb in colour david sent me a scan of one example of the genre which i loved but finding that i had no victor material in the house i bought myself the recent best of the annuals material i devoured it avidly and indeed added the best of for the regular comic to my collection as well one approach i could have taken was a straight parody and just made up a totally unlikely series of events then presented them as if they had really happened sort of like a quentin tarantino war film however i decided what i really wanted to do was tell an actual true story as a nice counterpoint to walking wounded which is pretty unrealistic sadly i decided to research the real commandos and see if there was anything i could work with my first idea was to use mad jack churchill one of the most inspiring maniacs whom ever lived however i couldn t really find a way in to start telling his story which in any case probably requires a great deal more than three pages then i found out about the lofoten islands raid which seemed so different to any kind of battle accounts i d come across before and potentially funny so i decided i had to do it i did consider having an extra page with jack churchill leading a beach landing unopposed much to his annoyance but decided this would just distract from kincaid s adventures and so regretfully reduced him to a one panel cameo the character of kincaid i made up but there was a real individual who misplaced thirty kroner during the raid and whom was not named in historical records to save embarrassment the exact manner in which the money was lost i also invented based on inferences taken from the description of what really happened i m quite proud that everything in the script is either fact or else invention that does not contradict any known facts one of the things i like about the finished script is it almost entirely succeeds in hiding how much effort has gone into it reading the story through it s so briskly written with a what i hope is a light touch you might think i knocked up in an afternoon ha i wish thankfully when i finally presented the script to david he was kind enough to accept it and furthermore do his usual phenomenal job on the art i particularly loved the naval battle sequence and then the expressions on the faces of all the characters he also came up with the idea of a restricting the colour to red shading only just like dc thompson used to do which was a masterstroke all three pages are a joy to look at nikki foxrobot then did her usual incredible job on the lettering the tasty icing on a delicious cake you can read page one on david s blog here and all three pages if you buy the comic obviously update oh all right because you re all so lovely the complete strip is now available from our facebook page 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