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Archives for April 2010

Ender in Exile #2 (Now available)

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New cover just released. I’m so thrilled to be working on this project. I’ve long been a fan of Ender’s Game, and I was doing back flips when Orson Scott Card released the direct sequel Ender in Exile in November 2008. Beautiful art by Pop Mahn. Cover by Sebastian Fiumara. For some reason Marvel has billed me as Aaron William Johnston, with my middle name. Not sure why. This means that I now show up on their list of writers twice, once with my middle name and once without. Ah well. What do you do?

Note: This is the first cover to feature Ender’s new enemy, Admiral Quincy Morgan, and his love interest, Alessandra Toscano, a colonist heading to the planet Shakespeare with Ender.

THE STORY:
Thirteen-year-old Ender Wiggin has a new assignment: governor of a colony planet. And Valentine, his sister, has given up everything to join him. But the starship carrying them to their destination carries a new enemy as well: Admiral Morgan, the captain of the ship. Determined to strip Ender of power and seize the governorship for himself, Morgan will do anything to undermine Earth’s youngest and greatest hero. Based on the bestselling novel by science-fiction master Orson Scott Card, the adaptation of the multiple award-winning Ender Wiggin series continues here! Parental Advisory …$3.99

IN STORES: July 8, 2010

COVER BY: SEBASTIAN FIUMARA
WRITER: AARON WILLIAM JOHNSTON
PENCILS: POP MAHN
INKS: POP MAHN
COLORED BY: JIM CHARALAMPIDIS
LETTERED BY: NEUROTIC CARTOONIST, INC

Preview Ender’s Game: The League War (Now available)

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My newest one-shot in the Marvel Enderverse is now available. Ender fans (like myself) do not want to miss this one. This is an original story that Scott Card and I developed that’s never been told before: How did Peter and Valentine start and end The League War. Fantastic art by Timothy Green.

Check it.

Great review for Dragon Age

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Google Alerts, well, alerted me of another great review for Dragon Age issue #1. Many thanks to Jonathan Chuang over at Broken Frontiers for his kind words. Read the review here.









Roads Into Writing One-Day Workshop at Southern Virginia University

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This coming Saturday April 9 I’ll be speaking at Southern Virginia University. It’s an event organized by Orson Scott Card and will include myself and two other writers. Click the image below for more information.

Vodafone – Movies on your Phone

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I love this print campaign from Scholz & Friends NRW in Duesseldorf, Germany for Vodafone. Don’t know exactly how these were used. They’re make great subway terminal posters. Not necessarily a new idea, but a fun one and executed well.

Pampers Swing Cover

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A creative team over at Saatchi Saatchi Germany has come up with a cool way to feature a new line of Pampers diapers called Cruisers. The diapers apparently offer greater flexibility around the legs and therefore greater mobility for little tots. So they’re “play” diapers, whatever that means. Personally, I can’t imagine a parent switching diapers just for playtime–and I’m qualified to have this opinion since I have a child currently in diapers–but hey, maybe some parents are looking for a diaper just for play time.

In any event, the guys and gals at Saatchi have made a fabric cover for playground swings. It’s a cool idea, but like most guerrilla ideas, it will likely only get seen by a handful of people. What’s more, I can’t imagine these will stay on the swings for very long. They’ll slip off and get blown around the playground in no time flat. So it’s just as much litter as it is advertising, but hey, it’s a fun idea.