New Wasteland On Sale

By John Freeman on September 24, 2008

Wasteland #20, the latest issue of the monthly comic book series published by Oni Press is on sale this week, written by Antony Johnston and drawn by Christopher Mitten, with covers by Ben Templesmith.

Wasteland takes place one hundred years after the Big Wet, a disaster that destroyed most of the world as we know it. Half the world is now covered by poisonous, rising oceans. What dry land remains is a broken, infertile world of hard ground and harder living.

Over on his official web site Anthony (“Author, designer and all-round British person” whose credits include Dead Space and the Alex Rider graphic novels) describes the story, Apocalyptic City as “another of our ‘interlude’ one-off issues with a very special guest artist, Eisner award-winner Chuck BB of Black Metal fame.”

“This issue is also a bit special because we’ve approached it differently,” he adds. “For the first time in these interludes Christopher contributes some art too, and Chuck’s art illuminates the actual fables and stories of how Newbegin was founded. It’s something I’ve wanted to try for a while, so I hope you enjoy it.”

• The Diamond order code (tell your local comic shop) for Wasteland #20 is JUL084167.

John Freeman

The founder of downthetubes, which he established in 1998. John works as a comics and magazine editor, writer, and on promotional work for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He is currently editor of Star Trek Explorer, published by Titan – his third tour of duty on the title originally titled Star Trek Magazine.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine, Babylon 5 Magazine, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics. He has also edited several comic collections, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”.

He’s the writer of “Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies” for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs” with Dave Hailwood.