On Felicia Day’s fantasy gaming webseries The Guild, Wil Wheaton plays Fawkes, the Machiavellian leader of the Axis of Anarchy online guild. Fawkes is the antagonist (and occasional paramour) of Day’s heroic cleric, Cyd “Codex” Sherman. And even though Wheaton’s played a major role on The Guild, we’ve never seen what his in-game avatar looks like…until now.

Here’s your very first look at Wheaton’s villainous alter ego, as seen on the cover of Dark Horse’s upcoming The Guild: Fawkes comic by artist Paul Duffield. io9 recently spoke with Felicia and Wil about Fawkes’ tale, which the actors cowrote together.

Wil, how did you and Felicia end up collaborating on The Guild: Fawkes?

Wil Wheaton: Felicia and I were working on Eureka together in Vancouver, and I kept asking her to come hang out and do silly things with me. And she kept telling me she couldn’t hang out and do silly things with me because she was writing comics for Dark Horse. Then we started talking about how it would be cool to do a comic together that would do a little bit of Fawkes’ story.

This is the first time we’ve ever seen Fawkes’ avatar. Were you involved in the design process? Like, “More skulls and spikes, everywhere!”

WW: I think people choose an avatar that represents their idealized selves, and Fawkes likes to think of himself as this completely powerful, fearless badass. The version of his avatar that you’re seeing was mostly my basic description to artist Paul Duffield. He really brought that avatar to life.

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