From playing the Mother of Dragons in the fantasy world of “Game of Thrones”, Emilia Clarke is now making her comic book debut through the superhero mini-series she created, “Mother of Madness”.

The actress, who has been working on the project for several years now, revealed that the idea started almost as a joke, when she and her friends started playing the “if game”. “It really started with a “Wouldn’t it be funny if…” conversation in a car on the way to a gig. We were like, “Wouldn’t that be mad if you sort of…?” Because we were talking about how mums are like superheroes, women have this incredible ability to have so much going on and manage to achieve all of those things. It’s almost superpowered,” said Clarke. “We were laughing and joking about how this would be, and then it just stuck with me. I was like, “You know what? It would be really funny. It would be really cool. I think we should do it.” And so I stuck to my guns and I carried on doing it.”

Describing the comic as Deadpool-esque, Clarke stated she started the all-female creative team of M.O.M that include illustrator Leila Leiz, contributor Isobel Richardson, and cover artist Jo Ratcliffe to bring about the story of Maya, a single mother, chemical engineer and superhero whose powers derive from her menstrual cycle.

“For there to be something like this, where it’s fun, and it’s bright, and it’s for lots of people – but also is continually reminding young women and young men that it’s good to be individual, it’s good to have feelings. There are ways in which you can live with them and not feel like you’re doing the wrong thing all the time, and that your views and your feelings are bad or wrong. They’re actually superpowered, because that’s what makes you you; that’s what makes you an individual. It’s how we make things; it’s how we make better people. So, that’s a very big goal. I’m going to come nowhere near to achieving it. But that was the reason why. If this comic educates and inspires then, my God, I’m going to be very, very happy,” she said.

The three-issue miniseries is set to be launched on 21 July. Who knows ..Netflix might pick it up for a live-action adaptation as it did with Keanu Reeve’s comic book “BRZRKR”.

The team of Malaysian comic book, “Andika The Neosantara Saga” recently announced that their beloved work will now be revived as part of a project with an American publisher with a 12-issue deal in the works.

Mohd Adnan Shamsuddin, the Art Director at Nanzoworks Studio and creator of the comic book, shared the good news on social media, writing, “After years of abandoning Andika’s 1st print on 2010 and 2nd print on 2012, I wish not to repeat the mistake again. Again Allah has granted me an opportunity to reprint the 1st issue with some extra pages, under the US publisher for the 3rd time… and what’s great is I can continue the story up to 12 issues!”

“Surely I need to take seriously about Andika, this time! And I wish you guys will be part of this journey,” he added.

Adnan stated that now that the trend in the US is to turn comic books into animation or TV series or even a movie, he hopes that one day the same can happen with Andika.

The creator revealed that he was contacted by Manuel Godoy, CEO of Black Sands Entertainment based in Columbia, Maryland in the US back in January after the latter came across Andika’s comic strip in a foreign art Facebook group.

The story, according to Andika The Neosantara Saga Facebook page, is about a native boy in the archipelago area called Andika who wants to live a free life out from his tribe’s strict rules and duty for the sake of protecting their heritage and secrets. One of the secrets was a powerful magical axe that sealed DemonLords which used to breed chaos a long time ago called Benta Genggara. All hell breaks loose when Andika breaks the rules. Now Andika has to hunt back the DemonLords by mastering the power of Benta Genggara.

It is noted that the comic was awarded Best New English Comic and Best Coloured Comic in 2012 by the Malaysian Comic Entrepreneurs Association (PeKOMIK). The first print sold out at Malaysia’s Comic Fiesta 2010 – enabling the team to go to the San Diego Comic-Con in 2012.

However, Adnan admitted that the project was never promoted by any organisation or anyone outside the team at the time, and was left out in the dark and forgotten.

(Photo Source: Andika The Neosantara Saga Facebook)