Tomb Of The Gods 1 – Out Today

Complete with gorgeous Tony Harris cover, INDIANA JONES AND THE TOMB OF THE GODS 1 is out in the States today and in the UK tomorrow, no doubt.

I received a copy through Fed-Ex this week, ripped open the package and must admit to having a big old fanboy thrill seeing a story I wrote spelled out in THAT logo across the top of the cover (it’s amazing to think that a font can have that effect). If you’re working in comics, you’re almost certainly a nostalgist with an unhealthy inner child buried not very deep below the surface. I’ve written dialogue for Darth Vader, Judge Dredd, Wolverine and, now, Indy, and every time you get the finished comic in your hands you briefly get this experience where you realise that, while you may be in your mid-to-late-thirties, with all the responsibilities that adulthood entails – mortgage, parenthood etc – the ten-year-old you is still there and can, occasionally, be blurrily glimpsed, loch ness monster photo-style. It’s quite liberating to realise this, actually, before the feeling disappears and you have to fill in the latest tax return or whatever. Pah, being a grown up blows big baby chunks (a line from Two-And-A-Half Men, which seems to be the only thing I watch on TV these days as it’s on Paramount when I sit down to eat in the evenings. It may not exactly be Evelyn Waugh in terms of comic sophistication, but it’s surprisingly funny. Anyway, I digress).

I’ve talked enough about TOMB so won’t bang on about it again… too much. But it looks absolutely great thanks to Steve Scott, and features all the things you’d want from an Indy story – an archeological mystery, a quest, Nazis, international locations, Indy getting the crap beaten out of him. Indy getting the crap beaten out of him… a lot. What more do you want? And he’s not in his mid-sixties in this one! Buy two in case something happens to the first one.

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