Zoe Tunnell on Seven Wives

About this episode

Zoe Tunnell joins the podcast to discuss her new comic series Seven Wives and the themes of cult-like behavior and crime.

Here’s an episode we’ve wanted to have for a while. Zoe Tunnell joins the podcast this week to discuss her new IDW Crime series Seven Wives and examine how easy it is to fall into cult-like behavior. As massive fans of (fictional) crime, we’re excited for Zoe Tunnell and her comic book collaborators to launch the new IDW Crime imprint with a locked-room mystery. It gives us an excuse to rattle on about Agatha Christie, Knives Out, and our devilish, guilty pleasure, True Crime. Seven Wives’ murderous opening features the Dunn family patriarch receiving forty-nine stab wounds at the altar of his Fundamentalist temple. The suspects, the titular wives, and maybe an offspring or two. Detectives Aguilar and Halwell get to work interrogating everyone on the compound, granting Seven Wives a killer structure, and a thrilling excuse for Zoe Tunnell to beef up her three-issue mini-series with a meaty, messy character study. We’ve followed Zoe Tunnell for years, enjoying her comics criticism and her plunge into comic-making. We discuss how one skill prepared her for the other, her passion for crime stories and locked-room mysteries in particular, and the empathy required to understand cult…

People in this episode

Hosts: Brad Gullickson, Lisa Gullickson

Guest: Zoe Tunnell

Topics covered

• Seven Wives
• cult behavior
• crime stories
• locked-room mysteries
• comics criticism

Keywords

• IDW Crime
• Agatha Christie
• Knives Out
• True Crime

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Seven Wives, Knives Out, True Crime, Final Order Cutoff, The Future is Calling, CreatorxCreator, Superlatives, Watch The Stacks, A SKTCHD Guide to Pronouncing Creator Names, My Boyfriend is a Bear

Places: Herndon, Virginia, Winchester

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