His proposal, Bad Guy Factory, for a series “based on the idea that all those supervillains had to get their training and equipment somewhere” is included in the collection A Stark and Wormy Knight. Tad continued writing for DC with issues 50 through 57 of Aquaman: Sword Of Atlantis, teamed with artists Shawn McManus ( The Sandman, Shadowpact) and Walden Wong ( The Creeper, The Next). In 2007, Tad wrote a one-shot issue for DC Comics’ Helmet of Fate Limited series: The Helmet Of Fate: Ibis The Invincible #1 (March 2007) featuring art by Phil Winslade ( The Monolith). In 2006 Williams wrote The Next, a six issue miniseries for DC Comics featuring art by Dietrich Smith ( Aquaman, Outsiders) and Walden Wong ( Day of Vengeance). Only two were issued: Number 1 (the premier issue, February 1997) and Number 0 (April 1997), before the publisher Tekno Comix went out of business. Williams’s first comic book series was Mirrorworld: Rain published in 1997. Two television ideas, both unproduced, are included in RITE: Short Work: two episodes of “THE CLOAK” and “DOGS VERSUS THE WORLD.” The screenplay, “BLACK SUNSHINE,” is included in A Stark and Wormy Knight. His short story “The Burning Man” was included in a graphic novel omnibus, The Wood Boy-The Burning Man, (with Raymond Feist) from the Dabel Brothers in 2005. Williams’s short fiction has been collected in RITE: Short Work (2006), A Stark and Wormy Knight (2012), and The Very Best of Tad Williams (2014). Williams has published many works of short fiction, beginning with “Child of an Ancient City” in Weird Tales, Fall 1988 (expanded to book length in 1992), and continuing through 2013 with “The Boy Detective of Oz: An Otherland Story” in the anthology Oz Reimagined: New Tales from The Emerald City and Beyond from editors John Joseph Adams and Douglas Cohen “The Old Scale Game” in the anthology Unfettered from editor Shawn Speakman and Diary Of A Dragon, a limited edition chapbook from Subterranean Press. Forthcoming career retrospective collection, featuring 16 stories and one screenplay.
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