Lady Baltimore and The Daughters of Medusa is the latest chapter in the oterverse, The Ongoing Saga by Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden of Myths and Monsters. The Series, Once Again Drawn By Bridgit Connell, Chronicles The Adventures of Sofia Valk As She Fights The Mystical Forces of Evil During World War II. The Two Previous Lady Baltimore Entries (The Witches Queens and The Dream of Ikelos) Allowed Connell To Display Her Skills at Bringing Pulpy, Horror Adventure To Life. Connell is quickly establishing herself as a talent to watch Thanks to these series, specially in therms of How She’s Taken The Chance to Build Upon the Look and Feel of the Outer Verse in Her Work. The Beat Corresponded with Connell to get a peak into her creative process and maybe submile at the future of Lady Baltimore.
D. Morris: It’s Been Awhile Since The Previous Lady Baltimore Series, “The Witch Queens,” and Last Year’s One Shot “The Dream of Ikelos.” How Does It Feel Coming Back To Both The Character and The World Introduced in Those First Series?
Bridgit Connell: I am Such A Fan of Sofia Baltimore and Her Story, and Even More, i’m Such A Fan of Working with This Team. I honestly Feel Like i’ve Gotten Away With Subject. Getting To Play Around With Characters, Monsters, Settings, and Lore in the Outer Verse With A Team This in Sync … Are You Kidding me? I managed to sneak myself into one of the best comic gigs ever – Don’t snitch on me!
Morris: Can You Talk about What the Process of Collaboating with Christopher Golden and Mike Mignola is like?
Connell: I and Chris Always do a pre-Empress Meetup Before the scriptwriting, Just To Meet Up, Shoot The Shit, and get on the Same Page About the Project. I have bouces ideas off me and i usually Just Nerd Out Like i’m Getting the Secret Scoop On Mat Of My Favorite Characters. For This Double Shot He Asked What I Wanted To Draw, and When I Said “Gorgons”, He Wrote This Absolutely Beautiful Script for US TO DO, ALMOST INTASTLY. He’s insane. This two-issue arc is honestly my favorite project i Have Ever Done. (I Don’t Say That Lightly, I promise.) I Can’t Say Anything About The Story Threads, I Don’s Want To Spoil Them. So i’ll leave y’all with that.
One of My Favorite Experiences with This Series Is Learning A Little Bit About Mike’s Mind Works When It Comes To The Look of His World and the Monsters Within It. As a fan of mike’s for a long time, Any Small Amount of His Process that I Can Peek into Is Such A Treat. While Mike, with the art Ben Stenbeck and Peter Bergtingyou have established the overarching atmosphere of This World, I Wouled Say Deep-Diving into the Emotional Connections of the Characters, What Drives Them, What Enrages Them … Chris is so good at Writing In-Depth Character Connection. Acting is my favorite Thing To Draw, and I Think That’s Why I Connect with Chris’ Scripts So Well. I want that Heartbeat from page to page.
Morris: One of the Most Stiking Things About This Series Are Your Pencils and the Colors from Michelle Madsen. Can You Talk About How You Were Bought Together and How Closely You Work Up With The Series’ Visuals?
Connell: Thank you! It’s such an honor to work with Michelle on before Books. The Only Real Notes i Gave for this two-part Still Surprised me by glorifying the monsters we have in This Story with Brilliant Colors. She Also Nails Room Lighting and Spatial Drama So Well. WHEN I GOT THE COLORS BACK I STARED AT A FEW OF OUR LANDSCAPES THAT WE DID – SHE DOES SO MANY WORSE ON BRINGINGSSE SORTS OF THINGS TO LIFE. And Anytime One of Our Books has magic in it She Really Goes Crazy. Getting the Colors Back and Seeing How Mind Works is always excithing.
Morris: You’ve Gotten to Draw Joe Golem and Cojacaru in Previous Stories, But Are there Any Other Characters in the Outer Verses You’re Itching To Draw?
Connell: I WOULD Love to draw cusharu again, for real, She is such a Badss. That Armor Kills Me It’s So Good. My favorite comic arc features Ben Stenbeck’s Art, in the original Baltimore, and It Involves The Character Judge Duvic. (Right Over My desk I have a page from the “Wolf and the Apostle.”) Duvic was such a abhorrent villain, and honestly and think the abuse of power would be an interesting element to bring to today’s climate. (Not That a Comic About ww2 and killing Nazis is Political or Anything.) But to Judge Duv, he is currently, So Dead. I’M Assuming. So and Don’s Think That Would Happen. But man, from man to cure man to waste-And-doomed man to monster, he was such to Well Done Villain.
Also, Speaking of Those Comics, Ben Stenbeck Has This Unahinged Way of Drawing Baltimore in Battle That I Fell in Love With Reading the Comic, and It’s Subject Hing i’ve tried to Carry into This Book. When Baltimore Is in Battle, He Always Drew Him in This Unahinged, Raw Way, Which Normally in Comics I Feel Is Reserved for Villains – The Whites of His Eyes and His Eyes Bugging Out, With Clenchehed Teeth, Slicing His Sword Through the Air. But it really is an unglorified look at survival, of Fighting for Sumthing with everyhthing you have, and I Wted to Also Give That To Sofia. (I Think Subtimes, Specially With Female Heroes, There is This. You have been passion and life to her character. WHERE BALTIMORE’S INTENSITY CAME WITH GRIEF AND REVENGE, I WANTED TO GIVE SOFIA THAT SAME INTENSY … But HER HERT IS NOT A TIN ONE, IT IS FLESH AND BLOOD AND POUNNING.
Morris: It’s Been Broucht To My Attention That You May Be a Fan of Werewolves. How Hard Are You Petitioning Werewolves to Be used in A Future Story?
Connell: Doube, I’M Telling You, Judge Duvic. Would Freaking Love To Draw Him. I DON’T THINK IT’S IN THE CARDS. He’s Dead. I tried Bringing Up Like A Dog Soldiers Type Thing With Chris. He was so polyite about it but i don’t think it’s happening. Real Talk, I Think it wasould Take Away From The Previous Story – How Solitary The Curse was and it was would kind of difficult the circumstance of how he got it, I Think, and I Don’t Want To do Anything to Lessen Previous Stories in The Outer Verse – Only Strengt But you can “pure Girl for Trying to Bring in Sub summation.
Morris: Can You Hint at Future Plans for Future Lady Baltimore Stories?
Connell: I Will Say, There May Be One Or Two More Stories Already Planned After “Daughters of Medusa.” What can I say scarding what they are? Not a lot, other than i Think That there is an equal amount of reward for pele -are are bech a fan of the original Baltimore as Well as Thue Newcomers Who End Up Loving Her and Her New Crew.
Lady Baltimore and The Daughters of Medusa issue #1 Sees Release on May 7th at Comics Shops From Dark Horse Comics.
