From the future with love: Ibrahim Moustafa talks RetroActive
The AIPT Comics podcast is back to recap your week, review the best comics, and more! This week, Ibrahim Moustafa joins the show to discuss his new graphic novel RetroActive out on April 26th. We dig into how he approached this unique sci-fi time travel story, working with some of the best color and letter artists, and more.
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NEWS
- Marvel solicitations July 2022
- Ryan North’s ‘Marvel’s Squirrel Girl: The Unbeatable Radio Show!’ launches today
- 'Comics for Ukraine: Sunflower Seeds' to benefit Ukrainian refugees
- Shadow War Zone #1 announced
- DC Comics celebrates George Pérez in every June single issue
- Battle Beast from ‘Invincible’ returns in ‘Skybound X’ #25
- Sam Keith is back with a one-shot
Our Top Books of the Week
Dave:
- The Nice House on the Lake #8 (Tynion, Bueno)
- Captain America #0 (Tochi Onyebuchi, Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing, Mattia de Iulis)
Nathan:
- Captain America #0
- Catwoman: Lonely City #3 (Cliff Chiang)
Standout KAPOW moment of the week:
Nathan - Catwoman: Lonely City #3 (Cliff Chiang)
Dave - Hulk #6 (Donny Cates, Ryan Ottley)
TOP BOOKS FOR NEXT WEEK
- Dave: Blood-Stained Teeth #1 (W: Christian Ward, A: Patric Reynolds)
- Nathan: TMNT: The Last Ronin #5 (Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird, Tom Waltz, Ben Bishop, Esau Escorza, Isaac Escorza)
JUDGING BY THE COVER JR.
- Dave: The Amazing Spider-Man #1 (Besch Cover)
- Nathan: Dark Knights of Steel #6 (Middleton cover)
Segment: Interview - Ibrahim Mustafa RetroActive out April 26, 2022
- RetroActive reunites you with the team from COUNT (Brad Simpson and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou). How did it feel to get the band back together?
- Did you feel your collaborative process had changed at all? Did you learn new things about each other?
- What kind of research went into writing the historical aspects like this, both in terms of plotting and illustration?
- Were there any historical moments you wanted to get into RetroActive but had to nix?
- I’m imagining a ton of charts and graphs, how did you keep track of your timelines
- How did you set about creating the different protocols and technical terms? Dichrons, etc.
- RetroActive is a time travel story, what are some of your favorites?
- Is it daunting crafting a “new” time travel story and what was your hook into exploring this angle on time travel?
- Jaeger is also seeing print next month! How wild is it to get this in print for the first time?
- What was it like drawing Doctor Strange: Nexus of Nightmares?
- Any other projects you’d like to plug today?