This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg is joined by comic book creator Stephen Graham Jones to discuss his Earthdivers comic book at IDW Publishing.
Written by New York Times bestselling author, Stephen Graham Jones (The Only Good Indians, My Heart is a Chainsaw) and illustrated by Davide Gianfelice (Ghosted, Daredevil: Reborn), Earthdivers is an unforgettable and thrilling series that unites four Indigenous survivors in an apocalyptic near future as they embark on a bloody, one-way mission to save the world by traveling back in time to kill Christopher Columbus and prevent the creation of America. Earthdivers explores the staggering forces of history and the individual choices we make to survive it.
Jones is the author of experimental fiction, horror fiction, crime fiction, and science fiction. Although his recent work is often classified as horror, he is celebrated for applying more literary stylings to a variety of speculative genres, as well as his prolificness, having published 22 books under the age of 50.
Prior to Earthdivers, Jones contributed, along with artist David Cutler, an X-Men story to Marvel Comics’ Marvel’s Voices: Indigenous Voices #1 anthology, released in November 2020.
The writer has also won two 2020 Bram Stoker Awards for Night of the Mannequins and The Only Good Indians. His book My Heart is a Chainsaw won the 2021 Bram Stoker Award for Novel. In addition, The Only Good Indians also won the Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction in 2020.
Earthdivers is available at your local comic book shop with the second issue dropping November 2, 2022 with issue three coming December 3, 2022.
The book has been optioned by 20th Century Television according to Jones.
