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Gideon Falls will end later this year with an 80 page final issue.
Already? Huh. Haven’t read the latest trade yet, but after the third one expanding the story, I was kind of expecting it to have a longer run.
Probably for the best though. I’d rather see a book ending earlier than I’d expected than it being dragged out for longer than it should’ve been.
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It all seems to be on the creative team’s terms anyway so that’s good. Also with the final issue being a mini graphic novel there’s still a fair bit of material left.
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The “Things on Sale – December 2020” thread is up and running with:
Archie and Dark Horse
Lots more tomorrow…
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Image Solicits for December – Continuum link
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If the nazi-punching didn’t clue you in already.
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As well as their regular 2000ad weekly and Judge Dredd monthly mags Rebellion have increasingly been doing one-off specials. Mostly based on the massive catalogue of old British comics they bought from a Dutch publisher that had left them idle for 20 years.
The new one is Action, based on the comic that came immediately before 2000ad but got banned for being to violent (and to be fair for something aimed at 8-12 year olds it really did push those boundaries).
The thing is that usually these specials tend to use untried creators, some promising some not, but the bigger names tend to be held back for the weekly. This time though – new Garth Ennis.
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Well, that’s the election sorted then. Phew!
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The new one is Action
The new Action comic was released around about the start of lockdown. The latest offering is Battle, which also features more Garth Ennis.
It’s out now though my local comic shop is still having a horrible time getting in regular deliveries of British published comics.
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Comics is a bizarre world. Full of doom and gloom from fans combined with often numbers that look really good.
I’m hearing that Image Comics’ highly anticipated Crossover #1 by Donny Cates, Geoff Shaw, Dee Cunniffe, and John J. Hill, which Image is already comparing to Watchmen, has topped 150,000 orders at FOC—making it the highest ordered new series from Image Comics since Danger Girl #1 in 1998.
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Chaos! Coming next year. @FilayKenoby & @WordieJason (and @HassanOE) pic.twitter.com/UNF96kbI4v
— Deniz Camp (@MDesaad) October 19, 2020
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That happened on The Clock too, they did two issues but the third was so disrupted by the pandemic they decided to jump to trade. In the extras in the trade Hawkins explains why and offers a swap at any future convention of those two issues for any $15 trade he has on hand – might be some time before anyone takes up the offer though.
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I haven’t read a huge amount of Johns to be honest, some Green Lantern and JLA which I found to be competent superhero fare, maybe a bit better than the norm. I know his JSA stuff seems to get the best write-ups but I’ve never read it.
Doomsday Clock though I thought was very well written, with some interesting takes, although I thought the overall concept was nonsense. I’m hoping he brings that game to this without the baggage of a Watchmen sequel.
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Interesting that this book was so disrupted by Covid distribution Dark Horse just put it straight to trade. Maybe a tad annoying if you bought the first couple of issues but ‘unprecedented times’ and all that.
Descriptions sounds fun:
In this shocking new sci-fi horror series, a Russian computer virus has jumped the species barrier and wiped out most of the adult population, leaving the world precariously in the hands of the next generation. In the wake of devastation, musical prodigy Oscar Fuentes is separated from his twin sister Cira. Stranded on opposite sides of the country, they’re swept into rapidly evolving networks of teenage gangs. Can Oscar find his way back to Cira . . . or will they be lost to each other forever, in a dangerous makeshift civilization that is mercilessly replacing the past?
Yeah, okay. Milligan has been kind of lukewarm for me in recent years, but I’ll try this one out.
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Image Solicits for February – Newsarama/GamesRadar link
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John Arcudi is a great writer. I’ll be trying this one, for sure.
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Despite Black Science falling flat, I still rate Remender as a writer so good to see the expected Death or Glory OHC turn up.
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Thanks to Scott Allie being a predatory shitbag, it’s dead, axed with issue 2, as was the Knight of St Hagan mini.
There is a Hellboy & The BPRD 1952-1954 HC set for May 2021.
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Ah, unfortunate. I was hoping we’d still get it without Allie, seeing as he was just the co-writer on this book.
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axed with issue 2, as was the Knight of St Hagan mini.
I didn’t realize the St Hagan mini was also cancelled. That’s a bummer. I’ve been rereading the entire Hellboy Universe collection again, and it’s surprising to see how often the Knights of St. Hagan popped up (“In the Chapel of Moloch” and “The Bride of Hell”, for starters). This interconnectivity and world-building just makes me love the Mignolaverse that much more!
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Has anyone read Letter 44 or Wasteland? They’re on ComiXology dirt cheap and I’m tempted to give them a go. I can pick up the entirety of both series for under £20. Be interested in the thoughts of anyone who has read them first?
I read most of Wasteland (I think they lost me after a long hiatus at some point), and it was pretty good. I don’t think it ever quite fulfilled its potential, but it’s definitely worth getting at that price.
It also has a soundtrack you can play while reading!
https://ruinrunner.bandcamp.com/
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I recall enjoying reading letter 44, but I have no idea how it finished, so maybe I got bored after book 3 or 4?
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Letter 44 starts off OK, but ties itself in knots as it goes on.
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A rare cover from Todd McFarlane:
Anyone picked up Crossover so far? I know it’s had some pretty good notices. I’ll be tempted to pick up the trade.
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Yes, I read issue #1. It was a decent opener with a fun high concept (in some ways a little similar to Millar’s 1985) and it sketches out a likeable lead character. Nice art too, with some cool visual tricks that tie in with the key story ideas. I’m interested to see where it goes.
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‘Deadpool’ Creator Rob Liefeld Teams With Archie Comics For New ‘Mighty Crusaders’ Series
Somewhere, Linkara is weeping bitter tears.
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Invisible Men: The Trailblazing Black Artists of Comic Books Sheds Light on the Struggles and Triumphs of Black Pioneers
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Ah, Paul Pope, the great hope of comics, back in, when? 2000? Earlier.
Its the 11th anniversary of First-Second books publishing the complete THB. Announcing it in 2007 as the American Akira to be published in 2009 right after Battling boy.
(Spoilers: it never got published and Battling boy does not look to have been ever finished)It makes me sad that a very very dynamic creative artist and storyteller does not seem to finish his stories, and does not seem to work in comics any more.
The weird thing is – he thinks he does. There’s this here interview when he talks about being a comic creator and… good for him for living his life, but it really would be nice if he finished something. Is it the Carpel Tunnel that’s stopped him moving forward? Or amazingly high standards?
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Invisible Men: The Trailblazing Black Artists of Comic Books Sheds Light on the Struggles and Triumphs of Black Pioneers
That looks really interesting, I like to think I know a lot about comics but the knowledge that there were specific comics for a black audience, with black creators, as far back as the 1940s completely passed me by. I’m tempted to get a copy and fill in that gap.
It’s kind of interesting with comics anyway because outside of a few that love self promotion (the Stan Lee’s, Rob Liefeld’s and Mark Millar’s of the world) even big comics fans can have no idea really who the people behind the work are. I’ve mentioned before that I followed Doug Braithwaite’s work for over 2 decades before I saw a convention ad and saw he was black.
I probably could have ranted on about there being no ethic diversity in British comics creators without realising I’d been enjoying the work of at least one all along.
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I don’t know what’s up with Paul Pope.
There was a flurry of output from him the late 90s and early 00s — One Trick Rip-Off, Batman Year 100, Heavy Liquid, 100%, and the occasional one-off like an issue of X-Statix — but his output seems to have dropped off once he began flirting with OGNs with Battling Boy and First Second.
I’m not sure what he does to earn a living now, but he might have found that doing commercial illustration and design is less work and pays better than making comic books and graphic novels.
Adrian Tomine has been doing a lot of illustration work for The New Yorker magazine…
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I don’t know what’s up with Paul Pope.
There was a flurry of output from him the late 90s and early 00s — One Trick Rip-Off, Batman Year 100, Heavy Liquid, 100%, and the occasional one-off like an issue of X-Statix — but his output seems to have dropped off once he began flirting with OGNs with Battling Boy and First Second.
There were a bunch of allegations of abuse against Pope a few years back too:
Other pros didn't deny that Pope had done reprehensible things, but they were adamant that it was because he was dealing with alcoholism.
— Nick Hanover (@Nick_Hanover) October 6, 2016
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Really? More Immonen and Quitely art is always cause for celebration for me, and I’ll be interested to check out the Coipel and Charest books too.
Given the familiarity of a lot of those names in connection with MW, I’m presuming lots of them will be sequel series to existing books, but we’ll see.
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A comic book drawn by Frank Quitely but written by Mark Millar is to me like a movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio but written and directed by Michael Bay.
At least it’ll look good.
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Millar is one of the better of the modern generation of writers in my opinion, but he’s not consistent. When he reins in his need to shock he’s capable of producing work that’s intelligent and emotionally satisfying. So I’ll not buy his work blind but I’ll take a look at this new crop of books and I’m sure I’ll find something I want to read.
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Maybe he is like a Blues musician. His troubles inspire his writing. he gets famous. his troubles go away(Netflix pays him millions). His writing suffers.
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Snyder and Daniel sounds like a good pair.
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Given my complete lack of excitement reading DC’s solicits for March ‘21, I’m glad that Image came through nicely giving me a few things to be excited about. The new Reckless, Moonshine #23 (I feared that this book may have been cancelled), and Nocterra does look enticing too. Not a fan of Daniel’s art particularly, but Snyder and post- apocalyptic scifi horror sounds right up my street.
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I wondered if Moonshinw was wrapping up, good to see it isn’t.
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The Old Guard gets a star-studded anthology sequel in Tales Through Time
Alejandro Arbona and Kano: 19th-century Paris
Robert Mackenzie, Dave Walker, and Justin Greenwood: Moon landing
Vita Ayala and Nicola Scott: A present-day heist story
Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine De Landro: 13th-century Japan
Eric Trautmann and Rick Burchett: Western
Andrew Wheeler and Jacopo Camagni: WW1 Berlin
David F. Walker and Matthew Clark: American Civil WarOther creators on Tales Through Time include Jason Aaron, Steve Lieber, and Horacio Altuna. All of the new voices bringing their own perspectives to The Old Guard impact Rucka and Fernandez’s approach to the world they’ve built.
I was mixed on the comics, and the movie, but will probably check this out.
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Yes, yes, Newsarama is shite, but this I assure you is worth a visit.
https://www.gamesradar.com/uk/garth-ennis-marjorie-finnegan/
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This looks like fun.
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Yes, yes, Newsarama is shite, but this I assure you is worth a visit.
https://www.gamesradar.com/uk/garth-ennis-marjorie-finnegan/
Ok, yes, it was worth it, book sounds fun.
Now all AWA have to do is not screw up the TPB
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That sounds like an awful, awful, awful idea. Cruise ships have the ecological footprint of floating coal plants.
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That sounds like an awful, awful, awful idea. Cruise ships have the ecological footprint of floating coal plants.
They’re also petrie dishes with a free buffet. I got a mail about this yesterday and my first thought was “you want me to get on a cruise ship? Shortly after a global pandemic?”
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They’re also petrie dishes with a free buffet. I got a mail about this yesterday and my first thought was “you want me to get on a cruise ship? Shortly after a global pandemic?”
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Wow, you’re optimistic.
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They’re also petrie dishes with a free buffet. I got a mail about this yesterday and my first thought was “you want me to get on a cruise ship? Shortly after a global pandemic?”
From what I saw in Twitter last night that was largely the response of comics pros to the idea. “Con crud with a side of Covid and nowhere to escape”.
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Sneak peek of a process detail of a book cover I’m doing for @darkhorsecomics ✨💙✨ #korra1 user thanked author for this post.
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Can’t wait to see Sean Phillip’s version of Godzilla!!
Oooh. Ummm. Actually Brubaker will be the one drawing that issue.
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Actually Brubaker will be the one drawing that issue.
Not sure if you’re aware that Brubaker originally started out as a writer/artist; from his Wiki page:
Lowlife is a semi-autobiographical comic book series written and drawn by Ed Brubaker, originally published by Caliber Comics and later Aeon Press.
My son bought me an issue of his book Detour once; good story, but artwise…Sean Phillips has nothing to be concerned about.
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