(One) Shots Ring Out

By sheer chance I have three oversized, one-shot (i.e. self-contained) comics out this September. Originally, the King-Sized Cable Spectacular was going to be two issues, until my editor Axel and I decided it was better to give readers the story in a single blast. (It's also not a bad place to jump on, if you haven't tried Cable yet.) Wolverine: Roar was the second comic script I ever wrote, and it's been hanging in the wings, waiting for the right moment to pounce. Immortal Iron Fist: Orson Randall and the Death Queen of California (cover art at left) is the newest of the lot, and follows in the fine Brubakerian and Fractonian tradition of offering up an untold tale of one of the previous Iron Fists. Fans of 1920s Hollywood, Black Mask and beautiful ladies—looking at you Bill Crider—will probably dig this one.