Charles Soule

Charles Soule is a Brooklyn, New York-based New York Times best-selling ^[1] comic book author, musician, and attorney, known for his work on books such as 27 published by Image Comics, Letter 44 from Oni Press, Death of Wolverine, and Superman/Wonder Woman.

Early life

Charles Soule attended the University of Pennsylvania,^[2] where he received his undergraduate degree in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, with a concentration in Chinese language and history.^[3] He later graduated from Columbia Law School.^[4]

Career

Soule currently practices law in New York City, focusing primarily on immigration and corporate law.^[4][5]

In 2009 SLG Publishing published Soule's graphic novel Strongman which focuses on a luchador-turned-hero. A sequel to Strongman subtitled Oaxaca Tapout was completed in 2011 but remains unreleased. His other creator-owned projects include Strange Attractors, about complexity theory applied to New York City by two genius mathematicians, released by Archaia in May 2013, and Letter 44, from Oni Press, a real-world sci-fi political thriller involving a manned space mission to investigate an anomaly in the asteroid belt. Letter 44 is an ongoing series, the first issue of which debuted in October 2013.^[6] Letter 44 was optioned for development by the SyFy network in early 2014.^[7]

In January, 2013, DC Comics announced that Soule would take over writing duties for Swamp Thing starting with issue #19, after Scott Snyder's departure.^[8] In addition, he was the writer for Red Lanterns commencing with issue #21^[9] and continuing through issue #37. Starting in October 2013, Soule originated Superman/Wonder Woman, illustrated by Tony Daniel.^[10]

Soule is the writer for Marvel Comics' ongoing titles She-Hulk and Inhuman, as well as the writer of the 2014 storyline "The Death of Wolverine" published in September 2014.

Bibliography

SLG Publishing

• Strongman (graphic novel, with Allen Gladfelter, 120 pages, March 2009, ISBN 1-59362-152-3)
• Strongman Volume Two: Oaxaca Tapout (graphic novel, with Allen Gladfelter, 144 pages, July 2014, ISBN 1-59362-206-6)

Image Comics

• Twenty-Seven (4-issue limited series, with Renzo Podesta, December 2010 - March 2011, collected in First Set, tpb, 136 pages, 2011, ISBN 1-60706-382-4)
• Twenty Seven: Second Set (4-issue limited series, with Renzo Podesta, September–December 2011, collected in Volume 2: Second Set, tpb, 112 pages, 2012, ISBN 1-60706-521-5)
• Skullkickers #18: "Son of Tavern Tales" (2012, collected in Skullkickers Treasure Trove Volume 2, hc, 320 pages, 2013, ISBN 1-60706-794-3)

Archaia Studios Press

• Strange Attractors (5-issue limited series, with Greg Scott, December 2012 - April 2013, collected in Strange Attractors, hc, 128 pages, 2013, ISBN 1-93639-362-X)

DC Comics

• Swamp Thing Vol. 5 #19-40, (April 2013-March 2015):
  • Volume 4: Seeder (tpb, 144 pages, 2014, ISBN 1-4012-4639-7) collects:
    • "Urban Jungle" (with Kano, in #19, 2013)
    • "This Green Hell" (with Kano, in #20, 2013)
    • "The Murder Poet" (with Jesús Saíz, in #21, 2013)
    • "The Whisky Tree" (with Kano and David Lapham,in #22-23, 2013)
    • "The Patchwork History" (with Jesús Saíz, in #23.1, 2013)
  • Volume 5: The Killing Field (tpb, 136 pages, 2014, ISBN 1-4012-5052-1) collects:
    • "Seeder" (with Andrei Bressan, in #24, 2013)
    • "Lessons Learned" (with Javier Piña and Kano, in Annual #2, 2013)
    • "Two Enter... One Leaves!" (with Jesús Saíz, in #25, 2014)
    • "Victor: Spoiled" (with Jesús Saíz, in #26, 2014)
    • "My Green Heaven" (with Jesús Saíz, in #27, 2014)
  • Volume 6: The Sureen (tpb, 176 pages, 2015, ISBN 1-4012-5490-X) collects:
    • "Salting the Earth" (with Javier Piña, in #28, 2014)
    • "The Gift of the Sureen" (with Jesús Saíz, in #29-31, 2014)
    • "In The Muck" (written by Jeff Parker and drawn by Paul Pelletier and Álvaro Martínez, in Aquaman vol. 7 #31, 2014)
    • "Blue/Green" (with Jesús Saíz, in #32, 2014)
    • "The Wolf and the Lady" (with Javier Piña, in #33-34, 2014)
• Red Lanterns #21-37, (June 2013-December 2014)
  • Volume 4: Blood Brothers (tpb, 176 pages, 2014, ISBN 1-4012-4742-3) collects:
    • "The New Blood" (with Alessandro Vitti, in #21, 2013)
    • "The King is Red" (with Alessandro Vitti, in #22, 2013)
    • "The Butcher's Bill" (with Alessandro Vitti and Jim Calafiore, in #23, 2013)
    • "Lights Out, Part Four: Blood Brothers" (with Alessandro Vitti, in #24, 2013)
    • "Lights Out, Part Five: The Source" (written by Robert Venditti and drawn by Sean Chen, in Green Lantern Annual vol. 5 #2, 2013)
    • "Sphere Of Influence" (with Alessandro Vitti, in #25, 2014)
    • "Red. Dead." (with Jim Calafiore, in #26, 2014)
  • Volume 5: Atrocities (tpb, 272 pages, 2014, ISBN 1-4012-5090-4) collects:
    • "Hot And Cold" (with Alessandro Vitti and Jim Calafiore, in #27, 2014)
    • "Red Alter" (with Robert Venditti and Billy Tan, in #28 and Green Lantern #28, 2014)
    • "Forever" (with Alessandro Vitti, in #29, 2014)
    • "Judgement Day" (with Tony Bedard, Emanuela Lupacchino, Alessandro Vitti and Jim Calafiore, in #30-31 and Supergirl vol. 6 #31, 2014)
    • "Atrocities" (with Jim Calafiore, Alessandro Vitti and Miguel Sepúlveda, in #32-34 and Annual #1, 2014)
  • New Gods: Godhead (hc, 424 pages, 2015, ISBN 1-4012-5847-6) collects:
    • "Godhead Act I, Part V: God Is Red" (with Jim Calafiore, in #35, 2014)
    • "Godhead Act II, Part IV: Boom" (with Jim Calafiore, in #36, 2014)
    • "Godhead Act III, Part IV: Forged In Blood" (with Jim Calafiore, in #37, 2014)
• Action Comics vol. 2 #23.3 (with Raymund Bermudez, November 2013)
• Green Lantern vol. 5 #23.3 (with Alberto Ponticelli), November 2013)
• Superman/Wonder Woman #1-12 (October 2013 - November 2014):
  • Volume 1: Power Couple (hc, 192 pages, 2014, ISBN 1-4012-4898-5) collects:
    • "Power Couple" (with Tony Daniel, in #1, 2013)
    • "Gods and Monsters" (with Tony Daniel, in #2, 2014)
    • "Zod" (with Tony Daniel, in #3, 2014)
    • "What Any Man Would Do" (with Tony Daniel, in #4, 2014)
    • "Reflections" (with Tony Daniel, in #5, 2014)
    • "Until the End" (with Tony Daniel, in #6, 2014)
    • "Rise" (with Paulo Siqueira, Eddy Barrows, Barry Kitson, in #7, 2014)
  • Volume 2: War & Peace (hc, 224 pages, 2015, ISBN 1-4012-5347-4) collects:
    • "Infected, Chapter 2: Evolutions" (with Tony Daniel, in #8, 2014)
    • "Enemy of the Sate, Chapter 2: Escape" (with Tony Daniel, in #9, 2014)
    • "Superdoom, Chapter 2: Distance" (with Tony Daniel and Pascal Alixe, in #10, 2014)
    • "Last Sun, Chapter 2: Assimilation" (with Thony Silas, in #11, 2014)
    • "Last Sun, Chapter 3: The Promise" (with Ed Benes, Tony Daniel, Pascal Alixe, Cliff Richards and Jack Herbert, in Annual #1, 2014)
    • "Metaphormorphosis" (with Cliff Richards, in #12, 2014)
    • "Old Soldiers" (with Rags Morales, in Wonder Woman: Futures End #1, 2014)
    • "War & Peace" (with Bart Sears, in Superman/Wonder Woman: Futures End #1, 2014)
• Superman: Doomed #1-2 (among with other artists, May 2014 - September 2014) collected in Superman: Doomed (hc, 544 pages, 2015, ISBN 1-4012-5240-0)

Marvel Comics

• Thunderbolts vol. 2 #12–26 (July 2013 – May 2014):
  • #12 "Untitled" (with Steve Dillon, 2013) collected in Volume 2: Red Scare (tpb, 136 pages, 2013, ISBN 0-7851-6695-5)
  • Volume 3: Infinity (tpb, 160 pages, 2014, ISBN 0-7851-6696-3) collects:
    • "Untitled" (with Phil Noto, in #13, 2013)
    • "Infinity" (with Jefte Palo, in #14-18, 2013)
    • "Road Trip" (with Gabriel Hernandez Walta, in #19, 2013)
  • Volume 4: No Mercy (tpb, 160 pages, 2014, ISBN 0-7851-8982-3) collects:
    • "No Mercy" (with Carlo Barbieri, in #20-22, 2014)
    • "Untitled" (with Kim Jacinto and Paco Diaz, in #23-26, 2014)
• She-Hulk vol. 3 #1-12 (February 2014 – February 2015):
  • Volume 1: Law and Disorder (tpb, 136 pages, 2014, ISBN 0-7851-9019-8) collects:
    • "Motion" (with Javier Pulido, in #1, 2014)
    • "...and?" (with Javier Pulido, in #2, 2014)
    • "He Who Wouldn't Be King" (with Javier Pulido, in #3, 2014)
    • "The Zealous Advocate" (with Javier Pulido, in #4, 2014)
    • "Blue" (with Ron Wimberley, in #5-6, 2014)
  • Volume 2: Disorderly Conduct (tpb, 136 pages, 2015, ISBN 0-7851-9020-1) collects:
    • "Small Victories" (with Javier Pulido, in #7, 2014)
    • "The Good Old Days" (with Javier Pulido, in #8-10, 2014)
    • "Titanium Blues" (with Javier Pulido, in #11, 2014)
    • "Final Verdict" (with Javier Pulido, in #12, 2014)
• Inhuman #1–present (April 2014–present)
  • Volume 1: Genesis (tpb, 136 pages, 2014, ISBN 0-7851-8577-1) collects:
    • "Genesis" (with Joe Madureira, in #1, 2014)
    • "The Queen in the Sky" (with Joe Madureira, in #2, 2014)
    • "They fall" (with Joe Madureira, in #3, 2014)
    • "A thunder god in Attilan" (with Ryan Stegman, in #4, 2014)
    • "Empty Throne" (with Ryan Stegman, in #5, 2014)
    • "Trial by Fire" (with Ryan Stegman, in #6, 2014)
  • Volume 2: Axis (tpb, 112 pages, 2015, ISBN 0-7851-8780-4) collects:
    • "Out of the Darkness" (with Pepe Larraz, in #7, 2014)
    • "Comes the Light" (with Pepe Larraz, in #8, 2014)
    • "Ennilux" (with Ryan Stegman, in #9, 2014)
    • "The Dark Queen" (with Ryan Stegman, in #10, 2014)
    • "Escapes" (with Ryan Stegman, in #11, 2015)
    • "Disunion" (with Ryan Stegman, in #12, 2015)
• Original Sins #3, "Whispers of War", (with Ryan Browne, July 2014)
• Death of Wolverine #1-4 (September 2014−October 2014)
  • Death of Wolverine (hc, 144 pages, 2015, ISBN 0-7851-9351-0) collects:
    • "Part One: The End" (with Steve McNiven, in #1, 2014)
    • "Part Two: Poison" (with Steve McNiven, in #2, 2014)
    • "Part Three: Seppuku" (with Steve McNiven, in #3, 2014)
    • "Part Four: History" (with Steve McNiven, in #4, 2014)
• Death of Wolverine: The Logan Legacy #1, 7 (2014-2015)
• Death of Wolverine: The Weapon X Program #1-5 (November 2014-January 2015)
  • Death of Wolverine: The Weapon X Program (tpb, 136 pages, 2015, ISBN 0-7851-9260-3) collects:
    • "Phase One: Question" (with Salvador Larroca, in #1, 2014)
    • "Hypothesis" (with Salvador Larroca, in #2, 2014)
    • "Experimentation" (with Salvador Larroca, in #3, 2014)
    • "Analysis" (with Angel Unzueta, in #4, 2014)
    • "Conclusion" (with Angel Unzueta and Iban Coello, in #5, 2015)
• Wolverines (January 2015-May 2015)
  • Volume 1: Dancing with the Devil #1, 3, 5 (with Nick Bradshaw, Juan Doe and Jonathan Marks, tpb, 112 pages, 2015, ISBN 0-7851-9286-7)
• Uncanny Inhumans #0, "End Times" (with Steve McNiven, April 2015)
• Inhumans: Attilan Rising #1-?? (with John Timms, May 2015-??)
• Civil War #1-?? (with Leinil Francis Yu, July 2015-??)
• Star Wars: Lando #1-5 (with Alex Maleev, July 2015-October 2015)

Idaho Comics Group

• Tarzan and the Comics of Idaho #1 (August 2014) {Contains a snippet of the as yet unpublished Strongman Volume Two: Oaxaca Tapout}

Dynamite Entertainment

• Pathfinder: Goblins! #2: "The Glorious Demise of Gurgle & Deep" (with Alberto Jimenez Alburquerque, September 2013)

Oni Press

• Letter 44 (October 2013 – present) collected as:
  • Escape Velocity (with Alberto Jimenez Alburquerque, tpb, collects Letter 44 #1-6 144 pages, 2014, ISBN 1-62010-133-5)

Notes

References

• Charles Soule at the Grand Comics Database

External links

• Charles Soule's Professional Law site
• Charles Soule's personal blog
• Charles Soule at the Comic Book DB
• Charle Soule's creator page on Image Comics website
• Interview with Charles Soule, io9
• Interview, via Nerdist, with Charles Soule and Jon Benjamin
• interview with Charles Soule about Swamp Thing, Comic Vine
• Interview with Charles Soule about his comic 27, Comic Book Resources
• Inverview with Charles Soule about his upcoming comic Strange Attractors, Newsarama