MICK FOLEY & REBEKAH ISAACS join 12-Gauge at HEROES CON

From the HEROES CON release:

Yessirree, this year 12 Gauge Comics is coming loaded for BEAR! Making his first ever trip to HeroesCon this year is former WWE, WCW, and TNA wrestling champeen Mick Foley, aka “Mankind,” aka “Cactus Jack,” aka “Dude Love” (my personal favorite). He’s also the author of a few New York Times bestselling memoirs. But you might be thinking–”hey–HeroesCon doesn’t usually have media-type guests, what’s the dealio?” Well rest easy friends: Mick will be announcing a brand new comic he’s writing for 12 Gauge at the show! The details are shrouded in mystery, but Mick will be writing it, and it looks suspiciously like Brian Stelfreeze will be doing covers. Looks like 12 Gauge is going for a repeat of the uber-swamped Rosario Dawson appearances of 2007 and 2008! Mick will only be appearing on Saturday, as he has wrestling engagements on Friday and Sunday (what a life!)…

But there all three days will be Rebekah Isaacs, who is the artist on the new DV8 relaunch from Wildstorm, penned by Brian Wood! Rebekah has also worked previously on Ms Marvel, Hack/Slash, and Drafted, but odds are she’ll be at the 12 Gauge booth talking about her upcoming creator-owned book Magus, written by Jon Price and David Norton, who will both be appearing with her. Whoa nellie!

BDS Comics interview at Bloody-Disgusting

Here's an excerpt from the interview. Do the link to get the complete version:

THEoDEAD:”First of all thank all of you for your time in doing this. Before we jump into “The Boondock Saints: In Nomine Patris” why don’t we have everyone introduce themselves to the readers?”

Eben Matthews:”I'm the Founder/Creative Director of INNFUSION and the producer of the Boondock Saints Comic Series. INNFUSION is a creative idea company. We develop and produce cool stuff in a variety of media and comics and motion comics are two of the areas we focus on and love.”

Troy Duffy:”WRITER/DIRECTOR OF BDS1 AND 2.”

J.B Love:”My name is J.B. Love and I co-wrote the comics with Troy Duffy.”

Chris Brunner:”Illustrator/Cartoonist”

THEoDEAD:”With “IN NOMINE PATRIS” readers will be able to add to the awesome experience that they already had with “ALL SAINTS DAY” as the series has been compared to a deleted scene from that film. What is “IN NOMINE PATRIS” exactly?”

J.B Love:”It's essentially as the sub-title says, 'The Secret History of Il Duce'. We get to see the decisions, interactions, the process that led from him becoming a victim of violence to becoming the mob's own personal boogy man. Il Duce's story starts in 1959 and closes in 1975, when he went to prison, which is where we find him, 20 years later, in the first Boondock Saints film. During this story we'll be intercutting another 'deleted scene' with Connor and Murphy, which takes place before the assault on 'The Roman's' estate at the end of the 'All Saints Day'. So we get the evolution of hardcore badass-ery along with some day-to-day badass-ery.”

THEoDEAD:”I’m not going to lie, but when I was walking out of the theater after seeing “ALL SAINTS DAY” I had the thought that BDS would make a natural transition from film to comics. How long has this been an idea? Was the intent to make this move something that was very recent or has there always been interest?”

Eben Matthews:”I've been working with Troy and Co. for over five years doing web development, branding and marketing / design work for them. A few years ago the same thought hit me - that the Saints were perfect for comics. I got in touch with JB and asked him to write up a short comic style script to have something to then show to Troy. At that point they were settling a lawsuit and dealing with some other issues and it wasn't even possible to bring the Saints into other media so I sat on the script and the idea until the lawsuit was settled and it was possible. After that I sent the script over to Troy and he responded positively to it. We then had a series of meetings with Troy and CB (his producer) and ironed out the details followed by creative and story meetings and Boom! Boondock Saints in Comics!”

Troy Duffy:”I'M STILL LEARNING THE COMIC WORLD. THOUGH MANY HAVE THOUGHT FROM THE BEGINNING THAT BDS WOULD TRANSLATE BEAUTIFULLY TO COMICS, WE ACTUALLY TOOK A DIRECTION THAT IS NOT TECHNICALLY A PART OF THE TWO MOVIES. FILLING IN THE BACK STORY AS IT WERE. SO THOUGH IT "FEELS" A BIT LIKE BDS, ITS QUITE A DIFFERENT EXPERIENCE. MOSTLY, IL DUCE'S HISTORY.”

J.B Love:”Well, Troy's the one best suited to speak on this, but Eben and I couldn't stop talking about all the comics possibilities once we'd seen the first film. And as I'm sure Troy will mention, being able to do pretty much anything in comics and not having to worry about FX budget opens up the world to all kinds of awesome. I think as far as why it came about when it did, this has to do with everything with the rights getting straightened out and the group of us coming together. Stars aligned and shit.”


THEoDEAD:”I know that there seems to be a more central focus on the eldest of The Saints, but will the brothers also play a major role as well?”

Troy Duffy:”THE STORY IS DUCE EXPLAINING HIS BLOODY PAST TO HIS SONS, SO YES. YOU WILL SEE SOME CHARACTERISTIC BROTHERS GIGS EVERY NOW AND THEN.”