War Rocket Ajax #14: Dark Horse Editor Rachel Edidin on Breaking in to Comics [Podcast]

This week on ComicsAlliance’s official podcast, we’re pleased as punch to welcome Rachel Edidin, the Dark Horse Comics editor responsible for the print collections of Axe Cop, Finderand The Adventures of Dr. McNinja, as well as the newly released The Last Dragon! She tells us how she broke in as an editor and what it’s like to be the one who has to answer to the fans — and you can listen to the whole show right here at ComicsAlliance!

After regaling us with a horrifying tale of allergic reactions, Rachel Edidin joins us to talk about how she got into comics

and about interacting with fans in her former job as the moderator of Dark Horse’s Conan message boards:

My favorite thing about Conan readers is that they get really, really into it. And they tend to get really really into it from really well-informed perspectives. A lot of the people that were showing up had read tons of Robert E. Howard, the original stories, were really aware of not only the Dark Horse comics, but how Conan as a character and how the stories had been represented and had evolved across media, and a lot of them felt really strongly about it.

Of the message boards that I’ve been involved with, this was definitely one of the more energetic. For the most part, it was a lot of fun. It got pretty surreal and odd at times. There was one person who was really upset at the idea of having a woman as the moderator of the Conan board, who ended up trolling obsessively to the point where we just banned him, and then banned the sock puppets that he made into infinity.

For the most part, it was cool. It’s an interesting community, it’s a good comic, and like with most message boards, and maybe moreso, the nice part of moderating is that you get to turn down the shouting to the point where you get to see the conversation underneath.

All that, plus one of the best reader complaints ever and more in this week’s interview!

Listen to the new War Rocket Ajax podcast right now on ComicsAlliance.

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