This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes Chrissy Williams and Lauren Knight to the show to discuss their comic book Golden Rage.
Chrissy Williams is a UK-based writer and comic book editor best known forher work on Die, The Wicked + The Divine and Superfreaks. She editedan anthology of poetry comics called Over The Line with UK artist Tom Humberstone (about which Alan Moore said “I really can’t recommend thisventure highly enough”). She is also a published poet, and her first collection was one of The Telegraph’s 50 Best Books of the Year. Her debut Image Comics series with all-female creative teammates Knight, Sofie Dodgson, Becca Carey, and Joamette Gil is titled Golden Rage.
Lauren Knight is a Scottish comic artist and writer who has worked previously with Boom! Studios drawing a Buffy The Vampire Slayer one-shot and as a contributor to Shelly Bond’s Insider Art Project. She also has a previous life as a colourist for DiamondSteel Comics and the BBC. She has also worked extensively with UK based publishers DC Thomson to revive archival comic material.
The debut issue of Golden Rage dropped on August 3, 2022 with the final issue of the mini-series coming December 7, 2022.
In a world where older women who’ve been deemed useless to society are abandoned on an island, Golden Rage documents their golden years of making friends, baking dessert, and fighting to the death. Simply explained as Battle Royale meets The Golden Girls.
