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- Writer Marc Bernardin reveals why Adora and the Distance is both an epic fantasy and a deeply personal tribute to his daughter.
- Adora and the Distance: Graphic Novel Preview
By Mike Avila
Updated: Jun 20, 2021 2:05 pm
Posted: Jun 20, 2021 2:00 pm
When Marc Bernardin set out to write Adora and the Distance, he wanted to tell a story that showed the world as his daughter, who has autism, saw it.
So Bernardin, a TV writer who has worked on Star Trek: Picard, Carnival Row, Castle Rock and other shows, went off to tell a tale. The story is about a brave girl named Adora who goes on a voyage across a world full of ghosts, pirates and an impending menace known as “The Distance.” Along the way we meet selfless heroes, we experience discovery, fear and sacrifice on an epic scale thanks to various symbolism and a clever balance of light and dark, beautifully rendered by the vivid artwork by Bernardin’s co-creator, artist Ariela Kristantina and colorist Bryan Valenza, who along with letterer Bernardo Brice and editor Will Dennis, helped fully form Adora.
“Adora and the Distance” is a comiXology Originals graphic novel available exclusively in digital format (a print edition is planned for Spring 2022). It’s the latest project from the increasingly busy Bernardin, who is working overtime to undermine his Twitter bio claim of being “lightweight famous.” His recent Kickstarter campaign for his short film Splinter — his directorial debut — earned a stunning $220,000 in just 30 days. Which means Bernardin has to fulfill the last stretch goal - a special episode of the Fatman Beyond podcast he co-hosts with Kevin Smith that will be all about the things he liked about Zack Snyder’s Justice League (that should be a fun listen). The reaction to Splinter, which he hopes to begin shooting in October, stunned him and provided validation of the fan base he’s built via his TV work, his comics writing, his journalism and his commentary on social media.
“The part that was the most educational for me was that, I always, possibly incorrectly, assumed that much of the [podcast] audience was for Kevin and they got me by accident. And they just put up with me because I'm wedded to the podcast,” he says. “But [the Kickstarter] seemed to prove there are people who believe in me and are willing to express that belief with hard-earned money, at a time when money remains elusive for many. And that is remarkable.”
Bernardin hopes that fanbase gives Adora a chance, because he devised the story to be the type of crowd-pleasing epic adventure he has always gravitated to. “I’m the nerd who loved Lord of the Rings, the Princess Bride and The Dark Tower. So it was kind of always going to be that,” he says. “The tension was whether I could find a way to thread in what the book is about, which is autism.”
As he said in an EW interview nearly two years ago when the book was first announced, Adora aims to provide the answer to an unanswerable question: “What’s going on inside the mind of a loved one who has never been able to tell us?”
The writer wanted the story to be one that people who have no experience dealing with autism could enjoy on its own, while still offering familiar echoes for those readers for whom it is a constant in their lives. There are mentions of Adora’s regimented daily life - “Every day is the same, more or less,” says the narrator at one point. There are allusions to matching therapies, which are used in autism treatments, as well as other signals about common traits in people on the spectrum.
“Once you get to the end and the Twilight Zone-y moment that says, 'Here's what it was about,'” Bernardin says. “That can help you then re-read the book and spot things and see what those things mean and see that those faces Adora saw in her dreams were her parents. And the idea that it is the real world that's calling to her.”
It took Bernardin years to make any meaningful progress on getting Adora made. As he pitched the project, he couldn't get people to buy in. They didn't believe in it like he needed them to believe in it. “I had been talking here and there to publishers for more than a decade about Adora,” he recalls. “And while the response was always strong, there was always a thing that somebody wanted to change about it, or a thing that someone didn't quite get about it.”
- Mike Avila
Jul 20, 2023 · The WGA strike has been going on for over 70 days, and last week the writers were joined by SAG-AFTRA representing many of the actors in Hollywood on the picket line. We sat down with Marc Bernardin (Batman Beyond, Picard, Caste Rock) to discuss the issues that lead to the strike, and the conditions on the ground.
Marc Bernardin. Marc Bernardin (born November 29, 1971) is an American journalist, public speaker, TV and comic book writer, and podcaster. He has served as film editor for the Los Angeles Times and senior editor for The Hollywood Reporter and Entertainment Weekly. He has written for GQ, Wired, Details, Vulture, Playboy, and Empire. [1]
