Fandom Favourites, Part 3: D'Israeli

Welcome back to THE SITH ARCHIVES OF DARTH FANDOM! If you are a long-time fan of my blog (which I highly doubt) or somebody who’s just randomly seen every post I’ve ever made, you’ll probably know Fandom Favourites. Well, if you don’t, Fandom Favourites is just me saying “Hey! This is some guy that I think makes some pretty cool stuff!” and then writing a post about them. I have one about Joe Bongiorno, creator of The Star Wars Expanded Universe Timeline website, and one on Darth Angelus, creator of The Chronicles of Humanity and the guy who’s making that really cool Heir to the Empire adaptation. Well, this episode of Fandom Favourites is not actually a person who’s worked on Star Wars, but he has done some of my favourite stuff. This guy is Matt “D’Israeli” Brooker. For those of you who don’t know him, D’Israeli is a British comic book artist and sometimes writer, and is known (at least by me) for artwork on Scarlet Traces, Leviathan and Stickleback. If you don’t already know, Scarlet Traces plays a pretty reasonable part in my upcoming Tintin story Tintin and the Secrets of the Multiverse, as it is what I call “Earth-4 in the Tintin Multiverse,” due to Tintin’s appearance on Page 42 of the Scarlet Traces graphic novel. Anyway, he’s been doing comics since the 1980’s, and some of his earlier works include Ultraman and D’Adventures of I.S.R.A.E.L.I. In 1989-1990, he worked on Timulo for Deadline Magazine with writer Molly Eyre (a.k.a. just another name of Matt Brooker), as well as Fatal Charm with Shane Oakley (who is a real writer) also in the Deadline Magazine. Timularo, which is the collection of all of the Timulo comics, the D’Adventures of I.S.R.A.E.L.I. comics A Fistful of Fingers, Who Me? and Consequences (and a lot more) can be found on Lulu here. In 1991 he worked with Warren Ellis and Blast! Magazine on Lazarus Churchyard, and inked and coloured a lot of stuff after that. He had Consequences, the one-shot sequel to Timulo, published by the short-lived Autocratik Press in 1998, soon after he had worked with Ian Edginton on the four-part plus prologue mini-series Kingdom of the Wicked for Caliber Comics. 2002 came with the creation of Scarlet Traces with Ian Edginton, a sequel to HG Wells’ The War of the Worlds, which is still continuing today (I am hoping to write about in a blog post sometime soon). The next year he worked with Edginton yet again on the horror story Leviathan and with Paul Cornell on XTNCT. He began Stickleback with Ian Edginton in 2006, which is a basically-tie-in to Edginton and Steve Yeowell’s The Red Seas (just to put it out there, Stickleback’s real identity is READ THIS SPOILER IF YOU DARE: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes in disguise), and has done a lot of work since then, including Scarlet Traces sequels (The Great Game, Cold War, Cold War: Book 2 and Home Front, Storm Front coming soon) and prequel (HG Wells’ The War of the Worlds), Stickleback sequels (England’s Glory, London’s Burning, Number of the Beast and The Thru’Penny Opera) and an awesome series called Helium in 2015. His work is really amazing and I recommend that you try and find it. Also, he puts in a lot of Easter Eggs and references in his drawings, most of which can be found on Eamonn Clarke’s website Scarlet Traces Annotations. Well, that’s a wrap on THE SITH ARCHIVES OF DARTH FANDOM!

Just Some Random Stuff I Decided To Post About

Welcome back to THE SITH ARCHIVES OF DARTH FANDOM! You must all have heard the sad news of COVID-19, which has heavily impacted many communities across the world. I know I’m just a blogger, but I advise anybody who is reading this to please stay safe. Anyway, today I have just bought some reading material for this time (I still have a lot of books to read, like Splinter of the Mind’s Eye, Dark Force Rising, Shadows of the Empire, The Truce at Bakura, and a lot of others, but they don’t really matter right now) at one of my local bookshops, and I was very lucky. I first found Republic Commando: Triple Zero by Karen Traviss, the second novel in the Republic Commando series (hopefully this will help me write my Underworld series which includes the Imperial Commandos), secondly there was the slipcase/hardcover edition of Ryder Windham’s The Life and Legend of Obi-Wan Kenobi (it has two really good painted covers), and last but not least was the Halo: Official Spartan Field Manual, my newest edition to my Halo Collection alongside the novels The Fall of Reach, The Flood and First Strike, the movie The Fall of Reach and the games Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 2: Special Collector’s Edition (which both don’t work). Well, to change the subject a bit, I’ve started playing around with the Starport Press blog (see my previous post here), and I am officially announcing a new upcoming digital project (not quite sure if or when I’m going to make it), entitled “Outbreak.” What I can say so far is that it is going to be a pretty much text with some animations on Microsoft PowerPoint 2010, which is about the last man on the planet who has to fight off Martian Octopods as they attack the post-apocalyptic zombie-virus-in-the-air Earth. Yeah, it is meant to be a rip-off of HG Well’s The War of the Worlds combined with “that zombie videogame called... oops, I forgot the title.” Finally, just to change the subject even more, you can click on the images below to see some rough sketches for Blue Blood (they’re actually for Book 3 and 4, since 1 and 2 are really just normal Earth which I can’t draw as I’m not even an amateur artist) combined with a comic book effect (yes, other geeks out there, the margins on these pictures are those of actual comic books), and just to warn ya, if Blue Blood ever does become a comic book, I will not be the artist and the pictures which I have used will definitely not be for Issue 1. And just to bore you even more, I’d just like to say that Issue 1 of my new Tintin Magazine is complete, Issue 2 just needs some extra touches for completion, and Sci-Fi Bi-Monthly Magazine Issue 1 is also near completion. Well, that’s a wrap on THE SITH ARCHIVES OF DARTH FANDOM!

Above: Cover featuring a sorry, no spoilers 'til I at least announce the book's name.

Above: Cover featuring oh well, I still can't release any spoilers because this dude is from the same book.

Starport Update 22.03.2020: Sci-Fi Bi-Monthly

Welcome back to THE SITH ARCHIVES OF DARTH FANDOM! In my recent days of absence, I have been preparing for two new publications: one is the Tintin Magazine, and the other is Sci-Fi Bi-Monthly Magazine! For a bit of information on the Tintin Magazine, go here, and for the rest of the information about the other stuff, carry on reading. My latest announcement is the Sci-Fi Bi-Monthly Magazine, which I am hoping to publish on a blog, whether it's one I have already or still need to make. I will be making these mags under the publisher name of Starport Press, and will be uploading them bi-monthly, beginning probably May this year, as well as the Tintin Magazine, although that's a little different, so if you want to know about that, keep an eye on Kih-Oskh. Anyway, this mag is going to include a couple of things. The first is that basic "Ya know, everything that's in this issue bla-dee-bla." Next is The Second Imperium Trilogy, and if you don't know The Second Imperium Trilogy, then go here. There's a couple of things changing, but it's pretty much the same. Thirdly is Blue Blood. Now you probably all don't know what Blue Blood is, and that's fine, because you're about to know a bit about it. It's an alien invasion in the 1940's. There, I told you, now you just have to read it when the magazine actually comes out. After this is New Millennium/Knightshade. Both of these take place in a different universe where sorry, no spoilers, because that would just be a total spoil and of course it takes place in a different universe, because you know me with my multiverse talk. The first issue will have a New Millennium piece that might last for a couple of issues, and after that's done, Knightshade will start. Finally, there's Thompson and Thomson. Yes, you heard that right, Tintin fans you might just be reading this blog. Thompson and Thomson. But know, copyright people who want to take me to court because of this, these are not the Thompsons from Tintin, just people who seem incredibly similar to them. There will also be a lot of references to Scarlet Traces, as this is where I got the idea from. Well, that's kind of it folks, so stay tuned for the mag and also.... Wait a minute, this isn't how I usually end a post.... Oh, yeah, I remember now.... Well see you next time on THE SITH ARCHIVES OF DARTH FANDOM! You know, I still don't think it's right....

Bulk Update!

Welcome back to THE SITH ARCHIVES OF DARTH FANDOM! Okay, well, to start things off, I was looking through my documents on my computer and I found some cool blog stuff from last year on this blog, and some of this stuff I haven't even released yet, or even started. One of these things includes Star Wars: Chronicles of Telian Aieler - The Clone Wars, and if you know me or always look at this blog, you'll know this name as pretty much my most important Star Wars story out of them all. And of course, as I had been writing in some of my previous posts, I'm almost ready to start posting this story, as I am about half way through Chapter 2. But of course, I got caught up in other things. I joined the Jedi Council Forums, found the work of Darth Angelus, as well as a lot of other things. So, I've decided to, just to catch up on a few things I'm going to be posting stuff that I found just now. First is Chronicles. As I noted, I'm about half way through Chapter 2, and just for fun, I'm going to post the first two paragraphs in the Stories section. Next, there's all of the Darth Angelus stuff that I got into. For a quick update, Darth Angelus has recently uploaded the fourth chapter of his animated adaptation of Timothy Zahn's Heir to the Empire, so you can watch that here. Anyway, I started making a "Complete Timeline of the Darkness Saga," and I hadn't actually added much, but I'm going to add a bit onto that. Finally, I came across some crossovers that I was planning, including Halo/Star Wars: Galaxy Evolved, Back to the Dark Times, Marvel/Star Wars: Empire Rising, and Indiana Jones and the Return to the Great Unknown. I had also planned an "Archive Insider," my rip-off of the Star Wars Insider for this blog, and I was hoping to release it in October last year, but I never really got around to it. Now, if you are keeping up with my other blog Kih-Oskh, you will know that I am beginning my own Tintin Magazine, and with some recent ideas for my sci-fi story The Second Imperium Trilogy and another sci-fi tale which I plan to reveal soon, I thought that I could possibly create a short every two months of every month sci-fi magazine including my original stories and Star Wars. I hope to release some more information soon. Well, thanks for reading, and be here soon for more on THE SITH ARCHIVES OF DARTH FANDOM!