Didn’t it used to be the other way around, with comics graduating to live action shows or movies? Well, in this case, Felicia Day’s brilliant web series The Guild is moving to comic form, at least for three issues:
It’s too bad she has to work on her new Syfy movie today. Otherwise, Felicia Day would totally be stopping by any and all Toronto comic shops.
An actress, writer and much-loved geek goddess, Day has successfully transplanted her popular Web series The Guild from the Internet to the page as scribe for Dark Horse Comics’ charming new The Guild, a three-issue miniseries debuting in stores today.
She’s reminded of the one random day in Barnes & Noble when she first saw a DVD of The Guild, the award-winning online comedy that for three seasons has followed a girl named Cyd (Day) and her guild of eccentric fellow online gamers known as the Knights of Good.
“I kind of geeked out and took a picture of it for my own posterity. But I’m such a book and comic lover. It’s just seeing something that has my name on it. And then my face twice on one of the covers! So that’s kind of like, ‘Ugh, get over yourself,’ ” Day says, laughing.
“I can’t help but get a little sick of my face, but it is exciting. It’s fun to see myself drawn.”
I’m sure hoping that the no-longer-accurately-titled “World’s Biggest Book Store” has a copy in stock when I visit there tonight.
Update, 25 March: No, they didn’t. They also didn’t have John Scalzi’s The God Engines or The Trade of Queens, the final book in the Merchant Princes series by Charles Stross. I did manage to get one of the four items I was looking for, The New Vichy Syndrome: Why European Intellectuals Surrender to Barbarism by Theodore Dalrymple.
