The Mary Sue is proud to announce Caitlín R. Kiernan’s newest addition to her Alabaster dark fantasy series, Alabaster: The Good, the Bad, and the Bird! Read on for more information and an interview with the creator.
Here’s the official info from Dark Horse:
Alabaster: The Good, the Bad, and the Bird #1
Writer: Caitlín R. Kiernan
Artist: Joëlle Jones
On-Sale: 5/20/2015
A year after her death in a burning barn, Dancy’s Flammarion’s seraph comes to collect her from a Hell of her own creation. A new evil haunts the sun-scorched back roads and ghost towns of the American South – murderous twins who command a legion of ghouls. Once again, Dancy must face down demons, those who walk the world unchallenged and those in her own shattered mind.
We spoke with the award-winning Kiernan, whose novel Alabaster is where the comic series sprung from, and who’s comic work has also included Vertigo’s The Dreaming, a spin-off from Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman.
The Mary Sue: First off, congratulations on this announcement of another installment of your Alabaster comic series. Does it feel good to be back working with your characters?
Caítlyn R. Kiernan: It does, yeah. There are a tiny handful of my characters who feel to me like comfortable old clothes. And with Dancy and Maisie and Bird, there’s unfinished business, a story that is, in a sense, very much incomplete.
TMS: Where do we pick up with the story for this new series and what can we expect as Dancy’s journey continues?
CRK: Alabaster: The Good, the Bad, and the Bird begins about a year after the conclusion of the final third of Alabaster: Grimmer Tales. As for where this story will take Dancy, Maisie, and Bird, there’s really not a lot I want to say, for fear of spoiling the story. But it’s a dark place. Probably a much darker place that in any of the previous Dancy stories I’ve done for Dark Horse. And something I very much want to explore is the relationship between Dancy and Maisie, which has, thus far, only just barely been touched upon.
Announcing Caitlín R. Kiernan’s newest addition to her Alabaster dark fantasy series, Alabaster: The Good, the Bad, and the Bird! Read on for more information and an interview with the creator.
By Jill Pantozzi
Here’s the official info from Dark Horse:
Alabaster: The Good, the Bad, and the Bird #1
Writer: Caitlín R. Kiernan
Artist: Joëlle Jones
On-Sale: 5/20/2015
A year after her death in a burning barn, Dancy’s Flammarion’s seraph comes to collect her from a Hell of her own creation. A new evil haunts the sun-scorched back roads and ghost towns of the American South – murderous twins who command a legion of ghouls. Once again, Dancy must face down demons, those who walk the world unchallenged and those in her own shattered mind.We spoke with the award-winning Kiernan, whose novel Alabaster is where the comic series sprung from, and who’s comic work has also included Vertigo’s The Dreaming, a spin-off from Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman.
The Mary Sue: First off, congratulations on this announcement of another installment of your Alabaster comic series. Does it feel good to be back working with your characters?
Caítlyn R. Kiernan: It does, yeah. There are a tiny handful of my characters who feel to me like comfortable old clothes. And with Dancy and Maisie and Bird, there’s unfinished business, a story that is, in a sense, very much incomplete.
TMS: Where do we pick up with the story for this new series and what can we expect as Dancy’s journey continues?
CRK: Alabaster: The Good, the Bad, and the Bird begins about a year after the conclusion of the final third of Alabaster: Grimmer Tales. As for where this story will take Dancy, Maisie, and Bird, there’s really not a lot I want to say, for fear of spoiling the story. But it’s a dark place. Probably a much darker place that in any of the previous Dancy stories I’ve done for Dark Horse. And something I very much want to explore is the relationship between Dancy and Maisie, which has, thus far, only just barely been touched upon.
Check out the full interview with Caitlín R. Kiernan’ on The Mary Sue!
