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Head of State: A peak inside Dead Roots for zombie action

October 21, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

At the start of the month Geek Native covered the Dead Roots Kickstarter. It’s going well; there’s still 10 days on the clock, more than 230 backers, funded and well into stretch goals now. Here’s the pitch: [Back this Campaign] In about a week’s time Kickstarter will send out a reminder email to all those […]

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: dead roots, kickstarters, Mike Garley, Mike Stock, previews, zombies

Get your zomb on for Halloween: Dead Roots Kickstarter

September 30, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

[Back this Campaign] Here’s a well timed Kickstarter. Zombie action in time for Halloween. We’ve featured Dead Roots on Geek Native before and know it packs a quality, if undead, punch. This Kickstarter is for the printed edition, bringing together all four editions plus extra content. Geek Native spoke to Mike Garley about the project. […]

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: dead roots, halloween, James Moran, kickstarters, Mike Garley, Mike Stock, zombies

Review of VS Comics v1

January 4, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

VS Comics is a monthly, digital comic from Mike Garley (Dead Roots, Collider) and James Moran (Doctor Who, Severance) and an impressive line of guest contributors and assistance. The creator owned project uses a format that has Moran and Garley contribute ten-page stories each month and multiple guest slots. In issue one we bring in […]

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: dead roots, Mike Garley, Mike Stock, reviews, sci-fi, vampires

Dead Roots review

November 5, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Dead Roots is a zombie comic anthology, with a first edition just out, and a quarterly publishing schedule via Apple’s NewStand app. There’s a Kindle version in development. The premise is simple but effective; Dead Roots follows the initial outbreak of a zombie plague. As an anthology is follows different people in multiple short stories, […]

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: dead roots, Gordon Rennie, James Moran, Mike Garley, reviews, zombies

Interview with Mike Garley and James Moran of VS Comics

October 9, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood 4 Comments

VS Comics is a new venture by Mike Garley and James Moran. It’s a creator owned comic, published digitally every month, that will feature four stories from four different creative teams. There’s Facebook page in place which has steadily been adding Likes. Mike and James have kindly agreed to step up and take part in […]

Filed Under: Comics, Interviews Tagged With: dead roots, James Moran, Mike Garley

Collider #2 and an interview with Mike Garley

June 8, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Mike Garley is a writer and editor who lectures, professionally, on writing for comics as well as the use of comics in transmedia campaigns. He runs the comic anthology Dead Roots based on a zombie plague. It is no surprise that Mike is the lead author for the comics in the transmedia franchise Collider. Alongside […]

Filed Under: Interviews, Online Shows Tagged With: Collider, dead roots, Mike Garley, robots, time travel

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