Ender's Game Comic from Dabel Brothers...

[Boothby]

To quote from the SciFi.COM site:

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.ph ... 416&type=0

The Dabel Brothers and Marvel Comics will develop a comic with an original story by Orson Scott Card focusing on Ender Wiggin, the central character in Card's award-winning novels Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead.

The original "Enderverse" story will be titled Gold Bug and will take place sometime near the end of Ender's Game, as Andrew "Ender" Wiggin arrives on a new colony world as its first governor. It will be published as part of the hardcover collection of the first volume of the comic-book adaptation of Card's The Tales of Alvin Maker: Red Prophet, published by Marvel Comics and produced by Dabel Brothers Productions.

The new Enderverse story will feature art by Jin Han and will be scripted by Jake Black. Additional Enderverse projects are planned for the future and will be announced by Dabel Brothers Productions later in the year.

I've spoken to Mr. Card (well...we exchanged e-mails), and he adamantly stated it's NOT the part of the Ender's Game story that's to be in the movie. It is, basically, the epilogue.

It will still be great, though! [/fanboy]

Also...nothing new as to when, what or who regarding the movie.

[Jebus]

I wish he'd stopped after SftD, or at the very least after CotM.

Not that I don't enjoy reading more of the Enderverse, I do. I just think there's a reason why Card skipped all this and fast forwarded to Ender leaving Trondheim. It was unnecessary for the completion of Ender's story. And now he keeps coming out with these gap-fillers, milking the Enderverse for all it's worth with concepts that border on fan fiction, when he should be coming up with new ideas and worlds.

Ah well.

[Young Val]

wonder if it will have anything to do with Edgar Allen Poe's short story "The Gold Bug"

[Boothby]

Well, apparently it's not quite the epilogue, either.

Couldn't tell you if he's incorporated something from Poe...

But still, if it's an exploration of that first Bugger world, I'll enjoy it.

[neo-dragon]

I wish he'd just write Shadows in Flight already!

[Seiryu]

I'm kind of curious to see some of this stuff illustrated. That's one of the reasons I thought First Meetings was cool. It had some pretty neat pictures in it and such.

[peterlocke123]

I wish he'd just write Shadows in Flight already!

You mean Shadow's End right?

[ender23]

I wish he'd stopped after SftD, or at the very least after CotM.

Not that I don't enjoy reading more of the Enderverse, I do. I just think there's a reason why Card skipped all this and fast forwarded to Ender leaving Trondheim. It was unnecessary for the completion of Ender's story. And now he keeps coming out with these gap-fillers, milking the Enderverse for all it's worth with concepts that border on fan fiction, when he should be coming up with new ideas and worlds.

Ah well.

Actually i believe he wanted to write speaker first and needed to go back and write ender's game to give speaker some background. both books are about interaction with buggers/aliens... (framlings ) I'd wait 10 years for another book like speaker for the dead, after xenocide the books have fallen off a little. I LOVE them still but speaker is the most complete book when it comes to story line, characters, and introduction of a new species. It's like he thought of the entire world/plot/group of characters then wrote the story... it's amazing... (i only felt this way after maybe the 10th reading though....)

I will read anything that comes out in the enderverse! I jsut feel the way ender's game -> speaker -> Xenocide is put together is perfect!

[Janus%TheDoorman]

I'm slightly afraid that this comic will do to Ender's character what Shadows has done to Peter's. Here we have another chance for OSC to take one of his characters who he spent entire novels developing into an almost mythic hero, or in Peter's case nearly a villain, and instead placing them in a situation where all their weaknesses come creeping out in the most awkward way, as Peter's did when confronted with trying to run the Hegemony.

This comic likely won't be long enough for all that, but it'll be interesting to see Ender caught between the Invincible Commander of his youth, and the Galaxy-Striding Sage of his older years.