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Year In Review

I’ve been writing these ‘Year In Review’ posts since 2010, and each time I try to summarize what’s happening in my life and the gratitude I have for all these incredible experiences.

2018 was intense but saying that at this point feels redundant. They’ve all been intense. Intense is now normal, I think I’m just better capable of handling it.

That was kind of the theme this year – This is crazy but somehow, we press on and make it work.

At Seneca we’re lining up our Animation program review for 2019, and it looks like big changes will be happening again as part of that process. It’s hard to believe I’ve been coordinator of the program for 12 years. I’m proud that we keep innovating, making improvements to keep the courses relevant and make sure our grads are ready to go out and kick butt in the industry. I’ve been here long enough now that some of our grads are coming back to teach as well and that’s a surreal and gratifying experience.

The new subway stop at York University has completely changed how I get to school for teaching. Instead of grinding my way through traffic and worrying about parking, I start my days by reading my lecture notes or catching up on comics. It’s been transformative and cut down on stress that used to eat into my day.

Speaking of reducing stress, I started working out in late July and it’s helped me keep moving so my sedentary jobs don’t continue to wreck my neck and back. I feel better than I have in years and I’ve lost a bit of weight too, so that’s been exciting and unexpected.

Stacy and I did the regular convention circuit in North America and also traveled to Johannesburg and Vienna. Zipping around the world for comic conventions, balancing work and sightseeing, is becoming a reality and it’s something I hope we get to keep pursuing in 2019 and beyond.

Creatively, 2018 was mind-boggling:

Hey Jim, how would you like to co-write the world’s biggest superhero team while their new billion-dollar movie comes out? While that’s going on, how about co-writing a crossover between one of the hottest cartoons on TV and your favorite hobby, the one that inspired you to become a writer in the first place? Just for good measure, how about taking the reins on a new generation of young heroes to guide their formative years?

Yeah.

I look at that insane rundown of releases and I’d say I could hardly believe it, but I’ve got the gray hairs to prove that it all really happened. Between teaching and writing it really is two full-time jobs, with promotion and travel heaped on top. I love all of it, but the juggling has been wild at times.

I decided to cash in some of the creative credit I built up at Marvel and worked with Nyla Innusuk and Sean Izaakse to create a new Canadian superhero. The response to Amka, and the way readers from Canada and abroad have embraced her has absolutely blown me away. If we get any Snowguard cosplay in 2019 I don’t know if I’ll be able to handle it.

Wayward the comic series wrapped up in October, but we still have our final Deluxe Hardcover and the co-op board game (designed by Jon Gilmour) arriving in 2019. The animated series fell through and the rights have been returned to Steven and I, so my agent is now back on the attack looking to get it attached elsewhere. Fingers crossed.

Writing Evil at Baldur’s Gate and co-writing Rick and Morty VS Dungeons & Dragons made this year special, but I’ve got even more Dungeons & Dragons material coming in 2019. Comics and game stuff aplenty, but I’m sworn to secrecy for now. More details coming soon.

2019 is looking good. If things go the way we’re planning it could be another banner year.

If your 2018 was rough, I hope the new year brings better news and brighter days. If the year was good, let’s keep that momentum going!

Marvel Comics Arriving March 2019


AVENGERS: NO ROAD HOME #4 (OF 10)
AL EWING, MARK WAID & JIM ZUB (W) • SEAN IZAAKSE (A)
Cover by YASMINE PUTRI
CONNECTING VARIANT COVER BY MARKO DJURDJEVIC (1 OF 4)
THE ALL-NEW WEEKLY AVENGERS EVENT CONTINUES!
Who is the Queen of Night? What brought Nyx to wage war on the gods themselves? Witness the origin of the Avengers’ latest, greatest foe!
LEGACY #711
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

AVENGERS: NO ROAD HOME #5 (OF 10)
AL EWING, JIM ZUB & MARK WAID (W) • SEAN IZAAKSE (A)
Cover by YASMINE PUTRI
CONNECTING VARIANT COVER BY MARKO DJURDJEVIC (2 OF 4)
THE ALL-NEW WEEKLY AVENGERS EVENT CONTINUES!
As the Scarlet Witch works to escape Nyx’s prison of darkness, the Hulk takes on Hypnos, Lord of Sleep, in the realm of Nightmare!
LEGACY #712
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

AVENGERS: NO ROAD HOME #6 & 7 (OF 10)
AL EWING, MARK WAID & JIM ZUB (W)
Issue #6 – SEAN IZAAKSE • Issue #7 – PACO MEDINA (A)
Cover by YASMINE PUTRI
Issue #6 – CONNECTING VARIANT COVER BY MARKO DJURDJEVIC (3 OF 4)
Issue #6 – VARIANT COVER BY TBA
Issue #6 – VARIANT COVER BY JIM CHEUNG
Issue #6 – VARIANT COVER BY ALEX ROSS
Issue #7 – CONNECTING VARIANT COVER BY MARKO DJURDJEVIC (4 OF 4)
THE ALL-NEW WEEKLY AVENGERS EVENT CONTINUES!
ISSUE #6 – Welcome to the Hyborian Age, Wanda Maximoff — hope you survive the experience! An extra-long Conan epic like you’ve never seen before!
ISSUE #7 – Spectrum takes command as the Avengers take the fight to the Queen of Night — but whose side is Conan on?
LEGACY #713 – ISSUE #6 – 40 PGS./Rated T+ …$4.99
LEGACY #714 – ISSUE #7 – 32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99


CHAMPIONS #3
JIM ZUB (W) • STEVEN CUMMINGS (A)
Cover by KIM JACINTO
SPIDER-MAN VILLAINS
VARIANT COVER BY MIKE MCKONE
• The ultimate sacrifice or the ultimate betrayal?
• Ms. Marvel will find out the truth, even if it kills her…
• Jim Zub (AVENGERS, UNCANNY AVENGERS) and Steven Cummings (Wayward, Legends of the Dark Knight) take the Champions into new territory, and the team will never be the same.
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99


MARVEL COMICS: THE WORLD OUTSIDE YOUR WINDOW HC
Written by JOE SIMON, STAN LEE, STEVE GERBER, BOB LAYTON, DAVID MICHELINIE, CHRIS CLAREMONT, SCOTT LOBDELL, PETER DAVID, J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI, JOHN NEY RIEBER, MARJORIE LIU, G. WILLOW WILSON, JIM ZUB, ZEB WELLS
Penciled by JACK KIRBY, GIL KANE, GENE COLAN, JOHN ROMITA JR., JACKSON GUICE, MARK PACELLA, RICHARD BENNETT, GARY FRANK, JOHN CASSADAY, MIKE PERKINS, MIRKA ANDOLFO, SEAN IZAAKSE, TODD NAUCK
Cover by STEPHANE ROUX
The Marvel Universe has always reflected the world outside your window — from the moment Captain America charged into battle in World War II, to the present day! Marvel’s characters face relevant and real-life issues alongside their extraordinary adventures — from grappling with alcoholism, to participating in politics, to celebrating diversity and everything in between! These powerful stories from Marvel’s 80-year history feature iconic heroes tackling heavy-hitting subjects including drug abuse, teen suicide, HIV, terrorism, school shootings and more.

Collecting AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (1963) 97, HOWARD THE DUCK (1976) 8, IRON MAN (1968) 128, NEW MUTANTS (1983) 45, ALPHA FLIGHT (1983) 106, UNCANNY X-MEN (1981) 303, INCREDIBLE HULK (1968) 420, AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (1999) 36, CAPTAIN AMERICA (2002) 1, ASTONISHING X-MEN (2004) 51, MS. MARVEL (2015) 13, CHAMPIONS (2018) 24; material from CAPTAIN AMERICA COMICS 2, AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (1999) 583.
320 PGS./Rated T+ …$50.00
ISBN: 978-1-302-91872-9
Trim size: oversized

Arriving in Feb: Rick and Morty VS Dungeons & Dragons #1 – Director’s Cut Edition

Rick and Morty VS Dungeons & Dragons #1 – Director’s Cut Edition
(W) Jim Zub, Patrick Rothfuss
(A) Troy Little
(CA) Alex Cormack

Re-presenting the sold-out first issue in deluxe format! This special edition includes excerpts from Patrick Rothfuss and Jim Zub’s original script, work-in-progress process pages from the art table of Troy Little, and a section of some of the rare and hard-to-find covers! Presented in conjunction with Oni Press! Patrick Rothfuss, the multiple award-winning, bestselling author of The Kingkiller Chronicle series, joins Dungeons & Dragons fan-favorite Jim Zub (Avengers, Wayward) on a tri-dimensional fantasy adventure!
In Shops: Feb 20, 2019

Zub at PAX Unplugged 2018!

This weekend I’ll be at PAX Unplugged, the Penny Arcade Expo’s tabletop gaming and RPG show happening in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania! I’m a guest of ONI Press, the co-publisher of Rick and Morty VS Dungeons & Dragons, and will be signing at their booth (BOOTH #2813) throughout the weekend, as well as sketching Rick and Morty characters on the Rick and Morty VS D&D sketch covers they’ll have in stock. Come on by and snag a copy, or bring other Zub comics in your collection to get signed!

In addition, lots of other friends and publishers I’ve worked with will be at the show:
IDW Games (who will be demoing the Wayward Board Game) are at BOOTH #3148.
Paizo (home of the Pathfinder RPG) is at BOOTH #2825.
Pandasaurus Games (home of game designer Jonathon Gilmour) are at BOOTH #1956.
Renegade Games (publisher of the Kids On Bikes tabletop RPG) is at BOOTH #2713.
Wizards of the Coast (the home of Dungeons & Dragons) are at BOOTH #3025.

Marvel Comics Arriving February 2019


AVENGERS: NO ROAD HOME #1 (OF 10)
AL EWING, JIM ZUB & MARK WAID (W) • PACO MEDINA (A)
Cover by YASMINE PUTRI
Hidden Gem Variant Cover by MARK BROOKS
VARIANT COVER by ADAM HUGHES
CONNECTING VARIANT BY MICO SUAYAN (1 of 3)
VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS
VARIANT COVER BY JUAN FERREYRA

The team that brought you AVENGERS: NO SURRENDER REUNITES for an all-new weekly AVENGERS adventure!

Night has fallen across the universe. Now seven Avengers — and one new addition — journey forth to bring back the light. But when the threat they face has destroyed even the gods…will anyone make it home?
LEGACY #708
40 PGS./Rated T+ …$4.99


AVENGERS: NO ROAD HOME #2 (OF 10)
AL EWING, JIM ZUB & MARK WAID (W) • PACO MEDINA (A)
Cover by YASMINE PUTRI
CONNECTING VARIANT COVER by MICO SUAYAN (2 OF 3)
Nyx, the Queen of Night, battles the Avengers over the bodies of her victims — and Hawkeye pays the price of defiance!
LEGACY #709
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99


AVENGERS: NO ROAD HOME #3 (OF 10)
AL EWING, JIM ZUB & MARK WAID (W) • PACO MEDINA (A)
Cover by YASMINE PUTRI
CONNECTING VARIANT COVER by MICO SUAYAN (3 OF 3)
Rocket Raccoon comes face-to-face with his past — and it isn’t pretty! Meanwhile, the Avengers search the universe for the Shards of Night — and find trouble in the shape of the Children of Nyx!
LEGACY #710
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99


CHAMPIONS #2
JIM ZUB (W) • STEVEN CUMMINGS (A)
Cover by KIM JACINTO
CAPTAIN MARVEL VARIANT COVER BY PEPE LARRAZ
• When the dream is at stake, everything you believe in and have fought dearly for, what would you be willing to sacrifice to keep it alive?
• One of the Champions has made a choice that will haunt them for the rest of their days… And now the villain behind that decision has everything they need to shatter the next generation of heroes.
• Jim Zub (AVENGERS: NO SURRENDER, UNCANNY AVENGERS) and Steven Cummings (Wayward, Legends of the Dark Knight) take the Champions into uncharted territory, and the team will never be the same.
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

Forces Of Geek Interview

I spoke to the Forces Of Geek crew about Wayward – how it came to be, the evolution of the series, and the big finish. Give it a read!

Comic Book HQ Podcast Interview

I spoke to the gang at Comic Book HQ and we cover the final issue of Wayward, breaking into the comic business, playing Dungeons & Dragons, Rick and Morty, and more! Give it a listen!

CHAMPIONS #1 Arrives in January!

Arriving in January, pre-order now!

CHAMPIONS #1
JIM ZUB (W) • STEVEN CUMMINGS (A) • Cover by Kim Jacinto
Variant Cover by Michael Cho
Variant Cover by Lee Garbett
MARVEL 80TH VARIANT COVER BY PHIL NOTO
Variant Cover by Skottie Young

THE WORLD STILL NEEDS HEROES – AND THERE ARE HEROES ALL OVER THE WORLD!

The Champions have gone global! The team has seen explosive growth under Ms. Marvel’s leadership, with super-powered members ready to answer the call in a dozen different countries. They’re saving people and improving lives across the planet while they inspire the next generation… but something sinister lurks beneath the surface of their expanded mission. It’s a dark secret that could destroy the team and everything they stand for!

Jim Zub (AVENGERS: NO SURRENDER, UNCANNY AVENGERS) and Steven Cummings (Wayward, Legends of the Dark Knight) ignite a new era of CHAMPIONS, filled to the brim with action, adventure and drama in the Mighty Marvel Manner!

32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

Shoot the Breeze Interview

I spoke to Ian Cameron at Shoot The Breeze all about the Champions in Weirdworld, our Champions relaunch, Avengers: No Road Home, and wrapping up Wayward. Check it out!

CHAMPIONS Relaunch in January!

The World Still Needs Heroes and There Are Heroes All Over the World!

Announced on Saturday at New York Comic Con, CHAMPIONS gets a brand new issue #1 in January and we are bringing aboard my incredible Wayward co-creater, Steven Cummings, to celebrate this new era of Marvel’s next generation of heroes!

Check out this stunning first issue cover artwork by Kim Jacinto, with colors by Rain Beredo:

Why a new issue #1?

The response to my Champions stories has been great so far and many of the single issues have gone into second printings, but in the current retail climate the simple truth is that readers look to issue #1’s as a clear jumping on point for stories and characters. When new Marvel Editor-In-Chief CB Cebulski came on board I was already announced as the writer of Champions with issue #19 and so, as other Marvel series have been getting Fresh Start issue #1’s to mark important story changes and signal to readers and retailers that they have big plans, it was decided that Champions should get the same treatment in the new year. Marvel is really happy with what I’ve been doing and they want to make sure more people know about it and get on board.

In order to make sure we were worthy of that new issue #1, we’re swinging for the fences with wild ideas and a big dramatic story to open things up in 2019. Bringing on Steven, the phenomenal line artist on Wayward, gives me the confidence that we can really go for broke with action and drama in the Mighty Marvel Manner.

What kind of big ideas?

Ms. Marvel is now the formal leader of the Champions and she’s decided that the team needs to make their mission bigger than ever. She believes that since young people will inherit the world some day, they need to step up and make it a better place. Dozens of teen heroes around the globe have answered her call and the Champions are becoming a movement like no other.

How many heroes are we talking about?

On our first cover there are 11 characters, and inside that first issue there are 3 more who join them. That means there are 14 heroes so far and more will appear in future issues. There are five heroes at the center of the Champions story – Kamala Khan, Miles Morales, Amadeus Cho, Sam Alexander, and Viv Vision – with many others contributing depending on where in the world (or across the universe) they find themselves. There are a lot of popular and obscure teen heroes in the Marvel Universe who haven’t had a ‘home’ in quite some time and I hope Champions will be able to spotlight some of them as our story grows.

You mentioned big drama…

Yeah. With a team this big, the Champions have gained the attention of some A-list evil in the Marvel Universe as well, a major villain who wants to stop their movement before it starts. This villain’s plans lay the groundwork for our first arc, a twisted tale of dark secrets and betrayal that could destroy the very future Kamala is working to protect. This first arc will have major repercussions on the team and will change some of them forever.

At the same time, there’s unrequited love brewing among team members, friendships being broken, and new egos to contend with. More heroes means the Champions can tackle huge threats, but it brings a ton of other unexpected problems. Ms. Marvel and her friends will be tested like never before.

As we get closer to the January launch, I’ll be showing preview pages and teasing story revelations. Keep an eye out because in 2019 the Champions go BIG and I can’t wait for you to read it!