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Speaker for the Dead Hardcover

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Marvel has compiled my five-issue adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s novel Speaker for the Dead into a beautifully bound hardcover. This project was a thrill to work on since Speaker is one of my all-time favorite novels. If you haven’t read it, I strongly advise you to do so. It won the Hugo and Nebula Awards the year it was published, and for good reason. Here’s a link to Orson Scott Card’s site where you can read more about the novel.

Credits for the adaptation:

Writer: Aaron Johnston

Penciller: Pop Mahn

Penciller (cover): Giuseppe Camuncoli

Editor: Jordan White

Marvel announces FORMIC WARS: BURNING EARTH

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Just announced at Comic Con in San Diego: Orson Scott Card and I will be writing a new limited series for Marvel in the Enderverse entitled FORMIC WARS.

Check out an interview I did for Marvel.com here.

As any fan of Ender’s Game knows, Ender Wiggin destroyed the Formics in the Third Formic War. But what about the First and Second Formic Wars? What happened during THOSE conflicts? How did the world get to the state it’s in when Ender is born? What did the formics do to our planet that led to all-out war?

Well, the answers will come in this new limited series, including the story of young Mazer Rackham.

I can’t tell you how thrilled I am to be working on this. I’ve been a life-long fan of Ender’s Game, and to work in the Ender universe now is absolutely incredible. I still can’t believe it myself. Look for more news about the upcoming series in the future.

Orson Scott Card’s Ender in Exile #1 (Now available)

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The direct sequel to Ender’s Game begins now! Thirteen-year-old Ender Wiggin has saved mankind from an alien threat. His reward? Exile. Branded a monster by those who feel threatened by his military genius, Ender is suddenly a hero without a home. Consumed with guilt, Ender must face his own demons and the people who are bent on stripping him of power. Based on the bestselling novel by science-fiction master Orson Scott Card.

Written by AARON JOHNSTON
Penciled by POP MHAN
Cover by SEBASTIAN FIUMARA

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 #1

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So the first review I’ve found for the first issue of Dragon Age is very positive. Many thanks to Jason Kerouac over at Panels For Pages. Jason gives the comic four stars, well actually four hurlock assassins, which is just as good as stars, I guess, only meaner. I mean, stars won’t stab you in the back and trample over your bleeding corpse like hurlocks are prone to do. Anyway check out the review. Jason calls it a “fantastic tale.” Hoorah.