Comic creator Dustin Weaver has been pretty active on his Tumblr lately, sharing a lot of his back catalogue work from series such as Infinity Gauntlet: Warzones and some fantastic character sketches of characters such as Marvel’s Wolverine, and much more. Which gives me opportunity to justify plugging his creator owned title, Paklis, a glorious anthology series published by Image Comics.
Launched back in 2017, back issues are available digitally (AmazonUK Affiliate Link), but if you want a taster of the strips on offer, check out the special standalone Paklis #0, released last year. As with the main series, nine issues now available digitally for just shy of £20, this offers a diverse collection of stories by Dustin, not likely to be collected later: superhero action, space opera, space comedy, cyberpunk, slice-of-life – and hard-boiled anthropomorphic mice!
Dustin Weaver began his career in comics as an intern at WildStorm Studios in 2003, where he was held to an unreasonable standard by his idol. Since then, he’s illustrated the New York Times bestselling novel The Tenth Circle, had a fruitful relationship with Dark Horse Comics where he made significant contributions to the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic series, and worked for several years exclusively at Marvel where, most notably, he co-created the acclaimed series S.H.I.E.L.D: Architects of Forever with writer Jonathan Hickman.
In recent years, Weaver has moved into the writing side of comics. He helped define IDW’s approach to Rocksteady and Bebop in their Ninja Turtles comics by co-writing the duo’s introductory issue and the mini-series Bebop and Rocksteady Destroy Everything!
For Marvel, he has performed as writer and artist for Edge of Spider-Verse and the five-issue series Infinity Gauntlet: Warzones.
Weaver now dedicates himself to his own Image series, including Paklis, most recently releasing 1949, a sci-fi noir thriller, published in hardback last year, that sprang from the amazing anthology series. Well worth a look!
• Follow Dustin Weaver on tumblr
• 1949 by Dustin Weaver is available to order here (AmazonUK Affiliate Link) | Image Comics | 120 pages | ISBN: 978-1534397101
• A 1949 Playlist on Spotify | YouTube
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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.
He’s the writer of comics such as 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.
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