Arvid Nelson
writer
Arvid Nelson is an American comic book writer, best known for Rex Mundi.
Life and career
Nelson started writing comics while at Dartmouth College, where he also converted to the Baháʼí Faith. After graduating in 1999 he became a production assistant on a Woody Allen film, but it was while working on a documentary about The Paris Review that he visited Paris and started picking up influences that would lead to his creating Rex Mundi. It was planned as a 38 issue series and ends with issue #19. He has also created spin-off stories, like "Hill of Martyrs" which started in Rex Mundi #14 and continued online.
Nelson has also worked at Marvel and DC. For the former he wrote a Nightcrawler story in X-Men Unlimited. At DC he wrote a Mr Terrific story in JSA Classified and the first one-shot of The Joker's Asylum series.
One major literary influence is Robert E. Howard and Nelson has worked on a Kull limited series at Dark Horse and in May 2009 it was announced that he would be writing Thulsa Doom for Dynamite Entertainment.
Bibliography
Rex Mundi (#1–18, Image Comics, 2002–06, #1–19, Dark Horse Comics, 2006–09) collected as:
Volume 1: The Guardian of the Temple (collects Rex Mundi (vol. 1) #0–5, Image Comics, ISBN 978-1-58240-341-0, Dark Horse Comics, ISBN 978-1-59307-652-8)
Volume 2: The River Underground (collects Rex Mundi (vol.
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