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March 14, 2016 by Brigid Alverson

Links: More Tales of Delilah Dirk

March 14, 2016 by Brigid Alverson   Leave a Comment

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Good news for fans of Tony Cliff’s Delilah Dirk: There’s a third volume on the way, Delilah Dirk and the Pillars of Hercules. Entertainment Weekly has some gorgeous art and an interview with Cliff:

“Part of the inspiration for the Delilah Dirk series was reading mainstream superhero comics back in the late ’90s and finding that all the female characters were almost without exception completely humorless,” said Cliff. “This contrasted heavily with the actual human women I knew and counted as friends, and I wanted to bring that missing element to the type of comics I liked.” Noting that he’s seen Delilah Dirk praised as a “Strong Female Character” since the publication of the first book, Cliff says that he’s happy but that she was ” from the start intended to be simply a well-rounded character with strengths and weaknesses, who laughs and shouts and cries and displays a spectrum of actions and reactions. It says a lot about comics these days that these features make her stand out as a Strong Female Character.”

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With humanity settling the outer reaches of the galaxy in a new frontier, pioneers are kept safe by the Star Sheriffs, an elite law enforcement agency led by chief weapons designer April Eagle. When top-gun Saber Rider steps in to stop a train robbery, he finds a reluctant new ally in the shifty bounty hunter Colt and a clue to the whereabouts of a notorious traitor who might be helping the enemy Outriders. The action never lets up from there.

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About Brigid Alverson

Brigid Alverson, the editor of the Good Comics for Kids blog, has been reading comics since she was 4. She has an MFA in printmaking and has worked as a book editor and a newspaper reporter; now she is assistant to the mayor of Melrose, Massachusetts. In addition to editing GC4K, she writes about comics and graphic novels at MangaBlog, SLJTeen, Publishers Weekly Comics World, Comic Book Resources, MTV Geek, and Good E-Reader.com. Brigid is married to a physicist and has two daughters in college, which is why she writes so much. She was a judge for the 2012 Eisner Awards.

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