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Wild’s end #1

Writer Dan Abnett has worked on such comics as Guardians of the Galaxy, Dark Ages, The Hypernaturals, infinite Crisis: fight For The Multiverse, and many others. now he tells a tale of alien invasion in BOOM! Studio’s Wild’s End, but this is like no alien invasion you’ve seen before. Westfield’s Roger Ash contacted Abnett to learn more about this upcoming series.

Westfield: how did Wild’s end come about?

Dan Abnett: Ian (I.N.J. Culbard) and I had worked together before on Vertigo’s The new Deadwardians. We clicked, I guess, and realized we could match our imaginations. Wild’s end came out of one of our crazy brainstorms on the phone.

Wild’s end #1 preview page 1. Art by I.N.J. Culbard.

Westfield: Why did you decide to do this as an anthropomorphic series?

Abnett: right from the start. We realized this wouldn’t work without anthropomorphic characters. It just made it “right”, because it emphasized the clash of genres: the science fiction feel of, say, war of the Worlds intruding upon the comfortable rural world of, say, Wind in the Willows. I don’t think the reader will think of them as ‘talking animals’ for very long.

Wild’s end #1 preview page 2. Art by I.N.J. Culbard.