Saladin Ahmed and Megan Levens’ Starsigns Is for the Astrology Heads

Here in our world, Scorpio Season is that almost all enchanted a part of the yr when it’s all the time Daylight Savings Time demon time no matter what the clock says. But the state of affairs’s a bit completely different on the Earth of Starsigns, Copper Bottle’s new month-to-month comedian collection from author Saladin Ahmed and artist Megan Levens. io9 has your first look at the moment.

Everyone’s relationship to astrology is completely different, and infrequently has much less to do with how they really feel about their indicators versus how folks react when studying them. For Rana Fawaaz—the younger Arab American Brooklynite on the heart of Starsigns—being a Taurus is only one aspect of her identification, as is her being a caterer. But not like her meals service gig, which is easy, the importance of her being born underneath a set, Venus-ruled signal is extra sophisticated to suss out as a result of a lot of it’s intangible and deeply private, and it’s unclear simply how a lot religion Rana put in astrology earlier than the occasions of this story about what occurs to the world when the zodiac’s constellation one way or the other fall to Earth. After the celebs crash land proper into Rana’s life and take human type, although, she will be able to’t deny that there actually could also be one thing to everybody’s horoscopes past wishful, projective pondering. Check out the quilt and a web page preview to the primary situation beneath in addition to some phrases from Ahmed.

Speaking to io9, Ahmed (who identifies as “very much a Libra”) mentioned that the ideas at work in Starsigns are issues he’s lengthy been intrigued by, and wished to make use of as a way of telling interlocking tales about folks higher understanding who they’re. “Outside of the question of belief I’ve always been fascinated by the iconography around the western zodiac—all of these little ‘stories’ arranged in a wheel, used in turn to tell people stories about themselves,” Ahmed informed io9. “So this is actually project that has been percolating a long time. And in pairing with the absolutely BRILLIANT artist Megan Levens I’ve finally been able make it a reality!”

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In addition to Ahmed and Levens, Starsigns’ artistic crew additionally contains colorist Kelly Fitzpatrick, letterer Shawn Lee, and Heather Antos. The first situation of Starsigns is now out there to learn at no cost at Copper Bottle.

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