The panel kicked off with a quick tease of the first episode of Season 4, which featured one of the clones wearing a creepy sheep mask spying on a couple of paramedics burying something in the woods at night. Here’s what they had to share about Clone Club. Orphan Black‘s WonderCon panel featured its male stars - co-creators Graeme Manson and John Fawcett, Jordan Gavaris ( Felix), Kristian Bruun ( Donnie), and Kevin Hanchard ( Art). The actress plays more clones you can count, so it’s easy to forget that there are other stellar cast members.

Kind of like a clone, really.Orphan Blackstars Tatiana Maslany, Tatiana Maslany, and more Tatiana Maslany. New readers will feel both rushed and confused. I honestly don’t know who the audience for this one is intended to be. The artwork is inconsistent – a fault perhaps of the division of labour, although artists seem to have stuck to certain characters – it veers from dodgy and disappointing to work that looks like it was created with an app using a photo of the show. The plot is rushed and cut apart with a blunt scythe. The minute changes to the plot don’t add anything. Unfortunately, the comic is none of these things. She is also helped by the pacing of the plot that allows for your mind to believe in each clone as an individual within an individual environment. She makes what is complicated and fantastical really simple and believable. However, it succeeds in the main because Tatiana Maslany who plays all the DYAD clones is so incredibly diverse and watching her inhabit all these completely different characters is quite mesmerising. I have watched a few series of the TV show and it is original, well written and clever. Orphan Black the comic is, to be blunt, not good. Oh, and like all good clone enterprises there is an evil overseer. But Becky was a cop and Sarah has to find a way out of her lie in order to rescue her own daughter. Sarah takes the girl’s bag from the platform and begins living her life. It all begins when Sarah, the Punky Londoner, watches a girl who looks just like her walk in front of a moving train. Clone girls that live all over the world and suddenly come to learn of each other’s existence. Not enough new material, dodgy artwork, messing with the plot that has already happened? Yeah, there’s a lot of things that can potentially piss off that ideal, waiting audience. Doesn’t sound too hard does it? But it can go so horribly, horribly wrong. Fans who want to see the characters do a little more, and who want a lasting, tangible memory of the show that they loved.

Namely, fans of the show who want to have a little bit more of the programme they love. Sure, they are not necessarily risky for publishers because there is a ready-made audience for the comic version. TV and film tie-ins potentially have a very hard job to do. There are so many people involved in the creation of this comic that they almost outnumber the clones. Written by: Graeme Manson, John Fawcett, Jody Houser

Orphan Black, Vol. 1 by John Fawcett