Darkchylde

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Darkchylde
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Ariel Chylde pictured on the cover of Darkchylde issue #1
Publication information
Publisher Maximum Press
Homage Comics (Wildstorm/Image Comics)
Darkchylde Entertainment
First appearance Glory/Angela: Angels in Hell #1 (April 1996)
Created byRandy Queen
In-story information
Full nameAriel Chylde

Darkchylde is an American comic book character created in 1996 by Randy Queen. It was originally published by Maximum Press, and later by Image Comics, through Homage Comics, a publishing imprint of Wildstorm. Subsequent projects would be published by Darkchylde Entertainment, through Wowio. [1]

Contents

Darkchylde is the story of Ariel Chylde, a cursed teen who can become the creatures from her many nightmares, and then must save her small town from the forces of darkness she's set free.

Publication history

Darkchylde was launched as a comic book property in 1996.

In an interview with Nicholas Yanes from scifipulse.net Queen revealed that Darkchylde would appear in a published comic book after several years of absence. This comic book would be a one-shot crossover titled The Darkness/ Darkchylde: Kingdom Pain, released in December 2009. In addition to containing a new story feature Darkchylde, this one-shot also contained preview art for Randy Queen's next comic book title "Starfall". [2]

Manga Darkchylde

In 2005 the title was relaunched at Dark Horse Comics as Manga Darkchylde, with Ariel now being a little girl. The term manga in the title is somewhat misleading, as the new series is clearly not a manga in the traditional sense and actually bears very little resemblance to Japanese manga in any way. Only using the base elements of the original Darkchylde, Randy Queen is now expanding his "Darkchylde-universe".

Issues

Darkchylde comic books, in order of reading:[ citation needed ]

Collected editions

Some of the comics have been collected into trade paperbacks:

Adaptations

Novel

Darkchylde was turned into a Young Adult Novel by Andrea Brown Literary Agency. [3] Queen completed the first of a series of long awaited novels titled Darkchylde: The Ariel Chylde Saga in 2015. [4]

Film

In August 2007 creator Randy Queen revealed to Newsarama that a film was in the works.[ citation needed ]

In an interview with Nicholas Yanes from scifipulse.net, Randy Queen was asked and responded to a question about a film/television adaptation of Darkchylde:

Yanes: For years now there have been rumors of Darkchylde being turned into an animated series, miniseries for a cable network and movie. Are you able to comment on Darkchylde's potential future on in television and film? Any actresses you'd love to play Ariel? Queen: A movie makes so much sense it's ridiculous, and all I can say is that we are working on it. I know that's a frustrating answer for fans, but it's a frustrating process. It's probably best for me not to comment on actresses, so we'll just all have to wait and see. [5]

Test footage from the set of Darkchylde emerged in July 2010 [6] and on October 31, John Carpenter was hired to direct. The project has since seen no further comment from Carpenter or Queen, and is believed to be in development hell or shelved by the production company. [7]

Tumblr depictions and subsequent DMCA takedown notices

In August 2014, Randy Queen, owner of the character, filed numerous DMCA Takedown Requests regarding Escher Girls, a Tumblr blog which critiques the anatomical inaccuracies of women featured in comic art. [8] The notices were filed in response to posts critical of Queen's work, specifically a piece of art published on the blog nine times with encouragement for others to correct it with redraws - a piece of art created 18 years ago while the artist was still learning. [9] Queen felt his work was being used in an abusive and misleading manner, and exercised due process with Tumblr in having his copyrighted images removed from the blog. Tumblr erroneously removed the entire post, which included commentary. [10] Subsequently, Queen apologized on his Facebook page regarding the incident and asked Tumblr to restore the content, which they did. [10]

Notes

  1. ↑ "Darkchylde Entertainment". Wowio.com. Retrieved 2012-03-08.
  2. ↑ "Comics Interview: Randy Queen Discusses Darkchylde/Darkness Crossover". Scifipulse.net. October 28, 2009.
  3. ↑ Nicholas Yanes, "Randy Queen Signs With Andrea Brown Literary Agency To Turn Darkchylde Comics Into Young Adult Novels". Scifipulse.net. October 28, 2009.
  4. ↑ "Why Randy Queen's Darkchylde : The Ariel Chylde Saga Is The Next Big YA Novel Franchise". SciFiPulse.net. 16 April 2015. Retrieved 2015-11-24.
  5. ↑ "Randy Queen Talks About Starfall & His Comic Book Influences". Scifipulse.net. February 24, 2009.
  6. ↑ "Exclusive DARKCHYLDE Weta Workshop Test Footage Revealed". Newsarama. July 6, 2010.
  7. ↑ Turek, Ryan (October 31, 2010). "John Carpenter Bringing Darkchylde to the Screen". Shock Till You Drop. CraveOnline. Archived from the original on November 2, 2010. Retrieved October 31, 2010.
  8. ↑ Masnick, Mike (August 4, 2014). "Copyright As Censorship: Comic Artist Uses DMCA To Censor Critical Blogs". Techdirt.
  9. ↑ Geuss, Megan (August 6, 2014). "Artist uses DMCA to remove criticism of his impossibly shaped female characters". Ars Technica . Archived from the original on August 7, 2014.
  10. 1 2 Geuss, Megan (2014-08-06). "DMCA mea culpa: Randy Queen apologizes for response to criticism [Updated]". Ars Technica. Archived from the original on 2014-08-09. Retrieved 2014-08-06.

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