Paul Pope is a guy who is far far sweeter than he sometimes gets credit for. Witness him asking me to letter a 6-page story in the May 09 issue of WIRED Magazine–it’s a special “Mystery Issue”, guest-edited by J.J. Abrams, and Pope’s story was a Spock-centric prequel to the new Abrams-directed Star Trek prequel. That’s like prequel squared, I think. It’s new math.
Anyway, Paul drew the thing from a loose-ish script by a writer working pseudonymously as “K/O”, and for some reason Paul thought I should letter it. Yes Please! I am fortunate in a number of ways, but I think chief among these is the exceptional caliber and quality of my friends, which I am usually undeserving of. Paul is no exception–I think over the years I’ve learned more about cartooning and the many strange pieces of esoteric information that make up its discipline from Paul than from any three other sources. So it was super thrilling to be asked to do something with him.
BUT! Enough about Paul Pope–plenty of people will sing his praises without my help. I want to let YOU, Dearest Internet, know that you may now sample this 6-page story for yourself! I was surprised to find that WIRED (is it supposed to be all-caps like that? I hope so) is only $5, which made me feel less stupid about buying five of them. This will make you feel better about buying just one copy, presumably!
Will you have copies of WIRED at Heroes this month? If so can you save me one?
Congrats Dustin!!!
I guess I should check, huh? Thanks Andy!
Congratulations! That sample panel looks pretty great.
Ya! Bring together what belongs to be!
Much deserved man! :)
Your lettering is real esotericals.
THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID.
I read on CBR that it was penned by screenwriters Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman (K/O). I don't recognize those names. I suppose I could google 'em. Did you get a credit in the magazine?
I believe they co-wrote the movie. Also maybe Transformers? I did not receive a credit anywhere in the magazine. In the plus column, when I was lying awake all night last night, I did read a fascinating article in there about the Georgia Stones something or other.
[...] turned the light on to try and read myself back into slumber-ville–I read the rest of that Wired issue with the Paul Pope story that I lettered (remember that?). By 5 o’clock I just said screw it and got up to just go ahead and start [...]