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Is This The Most Geek Hipsterish Comic?

There is the geek. There is the hipster. And there is the geek hipster.

People used to be comfotably one or the other. Then the geek discovered sex, music, drink, drugs, nice clothes, design, a haircut… but can't quite leave his pull list behind. Simultaneously, the hipster had a few copies of eighties Transformer comics around for show, discovered they really liked them in a completely unironic fashion, and now buys comics disguised as a statement. The geek hipster or the hipster geek is born.

Well, in May, Dark Horse may be publishing the most geek hipsterish comic of all. The Guild: Fawkes, in May, Check out this checklist.

Co-written by, and kinda starring, Wil Wheaton, with Big Bang and Twitter cred.

Co-written by, and kinda starring, Felicia Day, of The Guild, Dollhouse and Dr Horrible.

It's actually set during the show, for continuity cred.

Drawn by Jamie McKelvie, who drew the most hipsterish comic of all, Phonogram, but also, like its writer, now works on X-Men comics. They are the modern male epitome of hipster geek.

And then there's this cover by Paul Duffield, who drew Freakangels, a traditional sci-fi Warren Ellis comic but that had added kudos by being a longform web comic. As well as fashion, tattoos, and lots of swearing.

If Scott Pilgrim birthed the geek hipster and Phonogram gave it funny feelings inside, then The Guild: Fawkes may be its first wet dream…

Apparently, somewhere, there;s something called the Superbowl going on. Wouldn't know.

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