J. Michael Straczynski
@straczynski
Writer/producer. Babylon 5, Sense8, Changeling, Thor. Amazing Spider-Man, Captain America. Together We Will Go, The Glass Box. DO NOT POST STORY IDEAS. Scripts, behind the scenes posts and a lot of conversation at
Deutsche Fans von Harlan Ellison haben Grund zur Freude! Der Carcosa Verlag hat die erste deutschsprachige Ausgabe von *Dangerous Visions* als hochwertigen Hardcover-Band veröffentlicht.
Today, Harlan Ellison would have been 92. Eight years on, scores of new readers are discovering your words every day. Eight years on, the journey continues, and the work still matters. Rest easy.
Remember when everyone was saying AI would replace/displace script writers and prose authors, and it was all over the news...then suddenly nobody was talking about it and it never happened? Here's part one of why...and why that was deliberate. jmichaelstraczynski.substack.com/p/silence-wh...
News! Christopher Franke has just released a ton of Babylon 5 soundtracks on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, Pandora and others: six large volumes and smaller, six episodic soundtracks. Available yea unto this very moment.
Just sharing a few random thoughts in the middle of the night.... jmichaelstraczynski.substack.com/p/everyone-y...
Captain Jaclyn emailed to say the fulfillment site for babylon5books (now closed) was down for 54 days, no email, no nuthin', precluding last minute purchases, but is up now and offering free B5 quote images like this and a chance for those inadvertently shut out. view.flodesk.com/emails/69a65...
A whole lot of these. No one knows why. No one is meant to.
Four page preview of THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: TORN, issue 4, from me and Pere Pérez, in which things get complicated for Peter, and dangerous for Evangeline, as her arc takes a sudden turn. Hitting stores this coming Wednesday.
Lettered preview of issue three of THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: TORN, from me and Pere Pérez, hitting stores this Wednesday. The MJ/Gwen/Peter dynamic becomes even more complicated, and we discover things about Evangeline that will develop her far beyond who and what we think she is.
And lest one forget, in all the SYNTHETICS news, that the trade paperback containing my recent mini-even of one shots, collected under the MARVEL TALES banner, hits comic shops this Wednesday.
Holy smokes...I just read over the final pre-print copy of THE AMAZING SPIDER MAN: TORN, issue 2 and it came out even better than issue 1. Hitting stores November 12. Buckle up....
A reminder: as well as doing AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: TORN for Marvel I have a new creator-owned series coming from Dark Horse October 29th. SYNTHETICS is about what happens when we create synthetic humans to save a poisoned earth. Will we let them save us or revert to our worst selves?
For those who missed it at the various comics sites, here's a four-page preview (from about the one-third mark) of my first issue of THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: TORN. Art by Pere Pérez. Hitting shelves next Wednesday.
Hitting comic shops one week from tomorrow! Words by me, interior art by Pere Pérez. A story about Peter, Harry, Gwen and MJ during their time at Empire State University, with a ridiculously dangerous addition to Spider-Man's Rogue's Gallery.
For those who missed grabbing any, all or some of the one-shots I did this year as a Marvel Mini Event, a compilation of all six issues is coming out in November under the Marvel Tales banner.
I have a nice little short story in the newest edition of the anthology FANTASTIC FOUR FANFARE, hitting comic stores this Wednesday.
Meanwhile, we're approaching final order cutoffs for my new run on THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: TORN, and pre-orders are now being taken for my new creator owned title from Dark Horse, SYNTHETICS.
I've been alerted that when folks downloaded the Kindle edition of my graphic novel TEN GRAND it only had the first six issues due to an Amazon glitch; this has been fixed so if you got only the first six, you should be able to download it all now.
Orders being taken now for my new creator owned title, SYNTHETICS, coming in October from Dark Horse: a near-future science fiction story about what happens when we decide to create synthetic humans to save a poisoned earth. Will we let them save us or revert to our worst selves?
Also a reminder that the Kindle edition of my graphic novel DREAM POLICE is now available for the first time in complete form. The Dream Police protect those who enter the Dreamscape from all the dark and terrible things lurking at the edge of reality. amazon.com/dp/B0FCDBSWDN
2/ In the book we meet Johnny Secondsight who peered too deeply into the spirit world and now can only see that world; cults, demons, a dangerous, deranged angel and a kidnapping in heaven. A love story inside a horror story and one of my favorite pieces amazon.com/dp/B0FG3FTT15
A bit more of a peek at the DREAM POLICE graphic novel, one of the crown gems of the Joe's Comics titles, available on Kindle for the first time. Be sure to use this link, or search specifically for Dream Police Graphic Novel to find the right page. www.amazon.com/dp/B0FCDBSWDN
Best of all, if you go to the Amazon page for DREAM POLICE and click the Preview bar you will be able to read the entire first issue for free. Probably one of the best things I've done in comics, finally escaping into the world. Some cover images to whet the appetite....
At last we have a winner in the World's Most Pointless Gate competition.
For followers of my work, I have some very exciting news, both personally and professionally. A new challenge. A new beginning. I'm going back up on the high wire, to see what happens next. Details below.
After the Hulk/Dr. Strange pairup coming out May 20th in my 6 issue Marvel Mini-Event, the next one up will feature an epic throwdown between Ghost Rider and Galactus. Herewith, then, four unlettered preview pages from that issue....
But wait, there's more! My Hulk/Strange team up issue (being published in trade in October as MARVEL TALES) also has a backup feature pairing up Agatha Harkness and Aunt May entitled "What Happens In The Book Club, Stays In The Book Club."