{"id":2852,"date":"2019-06-17T17:12:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T17:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joehill.nl\/TheCollection\/?page_id=2852"},"modified":"2019-06-17T17:12:56","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T17:12:56","slug":"escapehatch024","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/joehill.nl\/TheCollection\/nonfiction\/escapehatch\/escapehatch024\/","title":{"rendered":"Escape Hatch 024: Meet Me In Gotham"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Flight or Fright<\/em>, a collection of terrifying and turbulent stories set in the unfriendly skies, is available now, pretty much everywhere. It’s got some high-flying classics like “The Horror of the Heights” by Arthur Conan Doyle and “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” by Richard Matheson. There’s also new stuff, including a brilliant original story by my Dad, and, uh, one by your faithful correspondent. I actually kinda think “You Are Released” is one of my better stories — I’ve taken to reading it at appearances because I think it plays well to a crowd.<\/p>\n

The book is getting some dandy reviews, but don’t take my word for it.\u00a0Mosey on over to the\u00a0Fright or Flight<\/em>\u00a0landing pad and check ‘em out for yourself<\/a>. And if you do acquire a copy of\u00a0Fright or Flight<\/em>, I hope you have a blast with it. Buckle up, though, and keep your air sickness bag close… there’s ugly weather ahead.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Popular Riverdale Senior, Archie Andrews, photographed here with an unidentified companion, less than an hour before he allegedly took an axe to friends and family in the local malt shoppe. Police have asked citizens with information about the unknown possible co-conspirator to come forward.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Speaking of comics, it looks like I’ll be at the Javits Center with my soul brother Gabriel Rodriguez this October for\u00a0New York Comic Con<\/a>. I don’t have the full details yet, but I expect we’ll sit in on\u00a0a couple panels, talk a bit about the forthcoming Netflix adaptation of\u00a0Locke & Key<\/em>, and do some signings.<\/p>\n

I’ll also be doing\u00a0a low-key appearance\u00a0in London at the end of October, which I’m not cleared to talk about yet, so let’s pretend I didn’t bring it up.<\/p>\n

I’m looking forward to both. More information as it comes in.<\/p>\n

No, I’m not going to start writing Archie anytime soon.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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I had a great talk with Matthew Turbeville over on his site Writers Tell All<\/a>… a swiftly growing resource for aspiring wordsmiths, featuring interviews from the likes of folks like Riley Sager, Laura Lippman, and Megan Abbott. I don’t know that I said anything all that interesting, but he was a generous interviewer, and anyone who has a poke around his site is sure to\u00a0encounter some worthwhile thoughts about suspense, genre, character, and craft. Go have yourself a\u00a0look<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Huuuuuuuuge<\/em>\u00a0CAPE: FALLEN spoiler ahead, don’t go any further if you want to preserve the suspense. If this is where you get off, thanks so much for riding along with me for another issue of Escape Hatch. We’ll catch you around, kiddo!
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FUUUUUUUUUUUCK<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I hope you’re keeping up with\u00a0The Cape: Fallen<\/em>, because artist Zach Howard has been turning in some of the most stunning work being done by anyone in comics today. We are, truly, not worthy, and the grisly vision featured above (and soon to be framed on my office wall) is the proof.<\/p>\n

Need a little Zach Howard original art for your\u00a0own<\/u>\u00a0wall? Hey, nothing spiffs up a room quite like one of his pin-ups, covers, or sequential masterpieces. You don’t just have to dream about it. Zach offers a selection of his original work — pages from\u00a0Rom, Venom, Wolverine<\/em>, and his own personal titles,\u00a0The Cape<\/em>and\u00a0Wild Blue Yonder —\u00a0<\/em>right here<\/a>.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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I think that’s all I got for you this time out. Getting any good reading done?\u00a0If you’re scratching around for your next all-consuming literary obsession,\u00a0can I recommend Madeline Miller’s brilliant\u00a0The Song of Achilles<\/em>? Or if you’re in more of a gaslamp-and-carriage kind of mood, maybe consider Anthony Horowitz’s astounding work of literary\u00a0prestidigitation,\u00a0Moriarty<\/em>?<\/p>\n

Wow, what about that latest issue of\u00a0Saga<\/em>? My heart has been torn out and thrown back in my face. Damn you, Brian K. Vaughan… and please don’t let the Intermission take one day longer than it needs to. We need you.<\/span><\/p>\n

Catch you in the next issue of Escape Hatch. Hang in there.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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