In 2009 SLG Publishing published Soule's graphic novelStrongman which focuses on a luchador-turned-hero, with art by Allen Gladfelter. A sequel to Strongman subtitled Oaxaca Tapout was completed in 2011 but remains unreleased. He released two series in 2010 and 2011 through Image Comics, 27: First Set and 27: Second Set, inspired by the well-known urban legends about musicians who die at age twenty-seven, with art by Renzo Podesta. 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 crewed space mission to investigate an anomaly in the asteroid belt. Letter 44 was a thirty-five issue ongoing series with art from Alberto Jimenez Alburquerque, the first issue of which debuted in October 2013.[7]Letter 44 was optioned for development by the SyFy network in early 2014.[8]
In 2013, Soule took over writing duties for Swamp Thing with issue #19, after Scott Snyder's departure.[9] In addition, he was the writer for Red Lanterns commencing with issue #21[10] and continuing through issue #37. Starting in October 2013, Soule originated Superman/Wonder Woman, illustrated by Tony Daniel.[11]
In January 2017, his ongoing series Curse Words with co-creator Ryan Browne began publication from Image Comics.[13] It completed its 28-issue run in late 2019.
In January 2018 it was reported that Soule would be writing a miniseries titled Hunt for Wolverine, which would span multiple genres in exploring the mystery behind the character's return from the dead in 2017's Marvel Legacy #1.[14]
Soule's debut novel, The Oracle Year, was released on April 3, 2018 from Harper Perennial.[15][16]
In June 2018, Marvel announced Soule would be writing the series Return of Wolverine, as a follow-up to Death of Wolverine and Hunt For Wolverine.[17] Following Return of Wolverine, Soule relaunched the Marvel Comics: Presents series which featured "Wolverine's Vigil," a story that spanned decades and introduced Wolverine's daughter, Rien.[18]
At San Diego Comic Con 2019, Soule and Scott Snyder announced their new creator owned series Undiscovered Country with Image Comics.[19] The series quickly became Image Comics' biggest launch in five years with 83,000 pre-orders.[20] Also at SDCC, Soule also announced that he would be writing a four-issue miniseries Star Wars: The Rise of Kylo Ren which would tell the story of Kylo Ren's fall to the dark side.[21]
Soule was selected alongside many other Star Wars writers to help create Star Wars: The High Republic, a new era of Star Wars novels and comics that take place 200 years before Episode 1.[22]
At New York Comic Con 2019, Soule announced that he would be taking over writing duties on Marvel's Star Wars flagship comic series which would take place between episodes 5 and 6.[2][23]
On April 27, 2022, it was reported that Soule had been made a Creative Consultant for Lucasfilm.[2]
In June 2022, it was announced that Amazon Studios had picked up the rights to make film and television shows based on Eight Billion Genies, with Soule and Ryan Browne set to executive produce.[25]
Awards and recognitionedit
In 2020, Soule and his co-creators of the Image Comics series Undiscovered Country were nominated for the Best New Series Eisner Award, recognizing it as one of the finest new series released in the American comics industry that year.[26]
Soule's series Letter 44, illustrated by Alberto Jiménez Alburquerque, was an official selection of the 2016 Festival International de la Bande Dessinée in Angoulême, France, recognizing it as one of the best graphic titles published in the French language in the preceding year.[27]
Superman/Wonder Woman: Power Couple, the first collected trade paperback of the monthly series, received the 2015 Stan Lee Excelsior Award.[28]
Soule's series 27: First Set (with Renzo Podesta) was included on the "Great Graphic Novels" list from the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) in 2012.[29] In 2016, Soule's run on She-Hulk (with Javier Pulido and Ronald Wimberly) were included on YALSA's Great Graphic Novels for Teens.[30]
The Oracle Year (Soule's debut novel, 416 pages, April 3, 2018, ISBN 0062686631)
Anyone (Novel, 432 pages, December 3, 2019, ISBN 0062890638)
The Endless Vessel (Novel, 464 pages, June 6, 2023, ISBN 0063043041)
SLG Publishingedit
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 Comicsedit
Twenty-Seven (4-issue limited series, with Renzo Podesta, December 2010 – March 2011, collected in First Set, trade paperback, 136 pages, 2011, ISBN 1-60706-382-4)
Twenty Seven: Second Set (four-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)
Curse Words (ongoing series, with Ryan Browne, January 2017 – November 2019)
Undiscovered Country (ongoing series, with Scott Snyder, Giseppe Camuncoli, Daniele Orlandini, and Matt Wilson, November 2019-onward)
Eight Billion Genies (eight-issue limited series, with Ryan Browne, May 2022 – present)
Archaia Studios Pressedit
Strange Attractors (five-issue limited series, with Greg Scott, December 2012 – April 2013, collected in Strange Attractors, hc, 128 pages, 2013, ISBN 1-93639-362-X)
DC Comicsedit
Swamp Thing Vol. 5 #19–40 (April 2013 – March 2015)
Volume 4: Seeder #19–23 (tpb, 144 pages, 2014, ISBN 1-4012-4639-7)
Volume 5: The Killing Field #24–27 (tpb, 136 pages, 2014, ISBN 1-4012-5052-1)
Volume 6: The Sureen #28–34 (tpb, 176 pages, 2015, ISBN 1-4012-5490-X)
Volume 7: Season's End #35–40 (tpb, 200 pages, 2016, ISBN 1-4012-5770-4)
Inhumans: Attilan Rising #1–5 (tpb, 112 pages, 2015, ISBN 0-7851-9875-X)
Civil War vol. 2 (5-issue limited series, with Leinil Francis Yu, July 2015 – October 2015, collected in Civil War: Warzones!, tpb, 120 pages, 2016, ISBN 0-7851-9866-0)
Star Wars: Lando (5–issue limited series, with Alex Maleev, July 2015 – October 2015, collected in Star Wars: Lando, tpb, 112 pages, 2016, ISBN 0-7851-9319-7)
Star Wars: Obi-Wan & Anakin (5-issue limited series, with Marco Chechetto, January 2016 – May 2016, collected in Star Wars: Obi-Wan and Anakin, tpb, 112 pages, 2016, ISBN 07-851-9679-X)
Daredevil/The Punisher: Seventh Circle (4-issue limited series with Szymon Kudranski and Reilly Brown, March 2016 – June 2016, collected in Daredevil/Punisher: Seventh Circle, tpb, 128 pages, 2016, ISBN 1-3029-0232-6)
Volume 5: Blueshift (collects Issues #7, #14, #21, #28, and #32, one-shot background stories of the characters, tpb, 136 pages, 2017, ISBN 9781620104460)
Volume 6: The End (collects #29–31, 33–35, tpb, 160 pages, 2018, ISBN 9781620104682)
Notesedit
^Outlaw, Kofi (April 27, 2022). "Star Wars and Marvel Writer Reveals More Prominent Role at Lucasfilm". ComicBook.com. Archived from the original on April 27, 2022. Retrieved May 3, 2022.
^ abc"Star Wars Comics Writer Charles Soule Is Now a Lucasfilm Creative Consultant". CBR.com. April 29, 2022. Archived from the original on April 29, 2022. Retrieved May 3, 2022.
^Grove, Erik (June 24, 201). "Essential 8 Questions With Charles Soule – 'We're In The Middle of a Renaissance, There's No Doubt About It'". Bleeding Cool.
^ abSpinelli, Dan (February 18, 2015). "Penn alum is lawyer by day, comics writer by night". The Daily Pennsylvanian.
^Staley, Brandon (February 28, 2017). "Soule Offers to Clarify Border Policy for ECCC's Foreign Comics Creators". CBR.com.
^Parkin, John (March 2, 2013). "ECCC: Soule Alburquerque Head To Space For Letter 44". CBR.com.
^Goldberg, Lesley (April 30, 2014). "Syfy Adapting Frank Miller's DC Comics Series 'Ronin,' Oni Press' 'Letter 44' (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter.
^Anders, Charlie Jane (January 11, 2013). "Io9 Announces New Swamp Thing Creative Team". io9.
^Phegleym Kiel (March 20, 2013). "Venditti, Jensen & Soule Replace Fialkov On 'Green Lantern' Titles". CBR.com.
^Truitt, Brian (January 14, 2016). "Exclusive: 'Star Wars: Poe Dameron' comic book debuts in April". USA Today.
^Lehoczky, Etelka (July 29, 2017). "'Curse Words' Proves You Can Never Have Too Much Mystical Fire". NPR.
^"THE HUNT FOR WOLVERINE Explores Different Genres for LOGAN's Return". Newsarama. January 19, 2018. Archived from the original on April 6, 2018. Retrieved June 14, 2018.
^Marnell, Blair (July 18, 2017). "COMIC WRITER CHARLES SOULE DEBUTS HIS FIRST NOVEL, THE ORACLE YEAR (EXCLUSIVE)" Archived 2018-06-16 at the Wayback Machine. Nerdist.
^Adams, Tim (June 5, 2018). "Marvel Officially Announces Wolverine's New Series, Creative Team" CBR.com.
^"Charles Soule Shares Details on Marvel Comics Presents Reboot's 1st Wolverine Story: The Vigil". bleedingcool.com. November 2018. Retrieved 2020-08-10.
^"SCOTT SNYDER, CHARLES SOULE & GIUSEPPE CAMUNCOLI UNVEIL NEW ONGOING IMAGE COMICS SERIES—UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY—TODAY AT…". Image Comics. Retrieved 2020-08-10.
^"Undiscovered Country #1 is Image Comics' Biggest Genuine Launch in Five Years with 83,000 Pre-Orders". bleedingcool.com. 17 October 2019. Retrieved 2020-08-10.
^"SDCC 2019: Marvel's The Rise of Kylo Ren Revealed and More Highlights from the Lucasfilm Publishing Panel". StarWars.com. 2019-07-20. Retrieved 2020-08-10.
^"Lucasfilm to Launch Star Wars: The High Republic Publishing Campaign in 2020". StarWars.com. Retrieved 2020-08-10.
^"Marvel's Star Wars Comic To Relaunch with Writer Charles Soule". StarWars.com. 2019-10-04. Retrieved 2020-08-10.
^Bonomolo, Cameron (October 13, 2022). "Marvel Comics Writer and Lawyer Consulted on She-Hulk's Daredevil Episode". ComicBook.com. Archived from the original on October 14, 2022. Retrieved April 21, 2023.
^Kit, Borys (2022-06-29). "Amazon Picks Up Hot Comic 'Eight Billion Genies' (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2022-08-05.
^"2020 Eisner Awards Nominations". 2 June 2020. Archived from the original on 22 January 2022. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
^Johnston, Rich (January 11, 2016). "As Letter 44 Joins The Angoulême Official List, The Creators Head To France...". Bleeding Cool.
^"Shortlist 2015". Excelsior Award. 2015. Retrieved June 14, 2018.