Die with Kieron Gillen & Stephanie Hans

DIE is a pitch-black fantasy published by Image Comics where a group of forty-something adults have to deal with the returning unearthly horror they barely survived as teenage role-players. If Kieron’s in a rush, he describes it as “Goth Jumanji.” That only captures a sliver of what you’ll find in oversized debut issue—where fantasy gets all too real.

I got two interview two of the biggest talents making comics today: Gillen and Hans.

Kieron Gillen is an award-winning writer based in London, Britain. He is best known as the co-creator of The Wicked + the Divine and Phonogram. His comics work has been published by basically everyone and he's written all the Marvel superheroes you've heard of and a few you've haven't. He has written extensively for Star Wars, and is the co-creator of Doctor Aphra. DIE is his latest ongoing comic. He mainly plays fighters with big mouths.

Stephanie Hans is an artist based in Toulouse, France. She is one of the most prolific and in demand cover artists in the anglophone sphere, and has worked for all the major comic publishers. Her sequential work has been seen in the Wicked + the Divine, Spider-man, Angela, Journey into Mystery and Batwoman. DIE is her first ongoing comic. She mainly plays wizards with big swords.

Discussing:

• Role Playing Games is being in a band, but for story-telling.
• Wrestling with Tolkien
• RPG handling of class and Class, race and Race.
• “If anyone is going to pick up on that it’s Elana”
• “All the metal album covers are real”
• Fantasy is a peacock
• The birth of the 90s
• Gaming and comics as collective storytelling
• Sensitive metal-heads
• And which new RPGs to pick up!