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As ever, Knave and Kirkbride joined us to talk about the issue (with a cameo appearance from Brokenshire, too).
Warning: Our commentary track-style interviews are spoiler-intensive. If you haven’t yet read Amelia Cole #16, go buy it and come back to read along with us.
APK: Also if you didn’t enjoy Pacific Rim I can spend a few hours explaining the subtle reasons why you should…
ed. note: He already has! Read Adam’s review of Pacific Rim here!
APK: The adventures of Random Dude, coming soon to a comic shop nowhere near you!
Who is making the SFX calls this month? They’re kind of great.
DJK: We put them into the scripts. It’s kind of a gut thing…sometimes we like the action to go “silent” and just be seen via the art, and sometimes we think a “KERPUNCH” or “KRAKAPOW” is necessary. It’s a fairly random process sans logic, at least for me. I’m sure Adam’s set up an algorithm.
APK: Oh no, I tend to be scared to add them. I always want fun ones and then feel like I use the most boring effects ever. I am no good at them, I fear. But I keep trying.
APK: Everyone making this book should be having fun. Or else. I mean… totally, all fun here. …or else…
Is this the least plotty issue you’ve done yet? I feel like at the end of the day we did get some character beats and we learned that Amelia is wanted yet again, but other than that it was basically a big fight.
APK: This was one of those issues you get to do, after a while, where you can show the hole that not having your title around for a bit can make, as D.J. said above. It isn’t an issue you can do too early, but have to build to and I think this was the right time for it in the scheme of things.
DJK: It’s mid-plot, and we figured it was time to finally round up all the troops. We’d been doing the parallel stories since the start of Amelia Cole and the Hidden War (aka issue 6), and now the stage is set for it all to come together, and…well, wait and see.
For the trade collection, I think you need to go through with Nick and point out all the in-jokes in the cityscape.
DJK: We’re discussing extras now, and that’s a great one, Russ! Thank you. (Makes a note to talk to Nick and Adam about this for the Amelia Cole and the Enemy Unleashed trade coming from IDW in November, actually already listed on Amazon now. Ahem.)
APK: Oh man, I love it but I feel like it would take ages to go through. Can we do a total list for the omnibus? Assuming we have an omnibus later.
What’s next? This arc is close to wrapping up, do you know what your schedule looks like this year?
APK: Oh yeah. Issues 17 and 18 will wrap this arc with a bang. A big bang. Big badda boom. That will be the end of summer/start of fall. In November the trade of this arc is released from IDW. The turn around won’t always be that fast but the timing worked out on all sides so there you go. November should also see start the fourth arc, after we take our customary tiny break and then we keep going!
DJK: We’ve written the next arc and are fine-tuning it now. In fact, our to-do list today includes adding [REDACTED] and moving [REDACTED] to [REDACTED, MAN!] in issue 19. I’m really excited for readers to see what we have planned. It is going to be a fun and hopefully surprising/SHOCKING ride.
