The Trackless Way

My third and final new book of the year is released.

Once & Future is the story of a retired Monster Hunter who drags her entirely unknowing grandchild into her line of work when a bunch of British Ultra nationalists try and awake an ancient Arthurian Evil.

I like to mix up what I do, as I get bored easily. I like the work I do to be i) born of my obsessions while ii) feeding from a completely different part of me. If I do two books that scratch the same itch, I get bored. I suspect you would too. 

DIE is the weird, hyper-detailed, painful, messy work. Peter Cannon was the formalist, experimental fuck-me-I-love-comics art-for-art’s sake work. Once & Future is the smart pop thrill work.

It wouldn’t work without Dan Mora, who is an fantastic action/horror artist who never loses track of the characters’ charms. I often think of comic artists in terms of who they are as actors, and everyone Dan draws is the equivalent of a box office draw. I just want to hang around with these people. Tamra Bonvillain is a colourist with huge taste and imagination, choosing her palettes to either sell the normality or the weirdness.

Orders have been fantastic, so hopefully you should have no trouble finding a copy. I think you’ll enjoy this a lot. Writing Bridgette and Duncan is just a joy.

You can buy from your local shop or, Comixology. There’s some preview pages here and a trailer here.

Absolutely fine. 

I wrote the relationship in the TV show, as David and Michael and Douglas and I have been cheerfully explaining to people for a long time now, as a love story, between an angel (mostly male-presenting but at one point sharing a female body) and a demon (mostly male-presenting except when he’s a nanny).

I have, for the last thirty years, believed firmly that anything anybody wants to bring to their Aziraphale and Crowley (and Anathema and Newt and Beelzebub etc) headcanon is good with me (dating back to the days before Ineffable Husbands and Air Conditioning, to the distant past when people told me they were writing Crowley and Aziraphale Slash). That’s the joy of fanfiction, the joy of fandom, the joy of headcanons. It makes me disappointed when people feel that I’m being mean by not endorsing their particular headcanon as the Only Truth, but as far as I’m concerned, what’s on the page or on the screen is the Only Truth, and anything imagined beyond that is headcanon, so at best I’d just be telling you what I (half a book author, whole TV series author) happen to think.