Solario
04-17-2007, 04:08 PM
So anyone else have something new or interesting they want to check out in the near future? I'm mostly talking about new series or the sort, but I guess a big turning point or the sort is cool too.
Anyway, as I've so relentlessly mentioned countless times I'm a big fan of Matt Fraction and Warren Ellis, which is why I'm pretty excited about their new series, like Fraction's second (out of seven) "album"/arc of Casanova called Gula (Gluttony.) Each of the arcs are going to be named after the Seven Deadly Sins, the first being called Luxuria (Lust.)
Casanova is about the son of the highest-ranking lawman on the entire planet, Casanova Quinn is also the world's greatest thief. When Cass sort-of-but-not-really makes the move from stealing to kidnapping, he starts a chain reaction that sends him plummeting down the cold, dark waterslide of spacetime and into the deep pool of transdimensional super-espionage, treachery and blackmail at the hands of his estranged father's worst enemy and his own dead twin sister from another universe.
This particular album will be drawn by the current artist's (Gabriel Bá's) twinbrother, Fabio Moon. He was initially suppose to draw the series actually. Anyway, they're both great. Check out De:Tales (http://www.darkhorse.com/profile/profile.php?sku=13-414) or their blog (http://fabioandgabriel.blogspot.com/) for a look at both artist's skill.
The entire first issue of the first album is available at this recent CBR interview, "Casanova" Or: "How I Learned to Stay Cool and Love the Multiverse." (http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=9663)
And this is the cover for the new issue coming this summer:
http://www2.uol.com.br/10paezinhos/images/cover08-cover.jpg
I am, of course, also looking forward to see what he does on the new Champions book, part of the 50 States Initiative, which is being played as a sort of Baseball team build up (Meaning multiple characters for different positions, possible firings etc.) The tagline is "If you had one year to save the world, what would you do?"
And all the other stuff he's doing like the Abe Lincoln biography and his work on Iron Fist and the Punisher.
Moving over to the Ellis front, aside from his excellent work on Thunderbolts, Fell, Newuniversal, Desolation Jones etc, he's got a couple of project moving like a television series called Dead Channel (not a whole lot of infomation on that,) two novels called Listener and Crooked Little Vein ("Michael McGill, a burned-out private eye is hired by a corrupt politician to find the real US Constitution. What follows is a scavenger hunt across America, exposing its seedier side along the way. He is joined by surreal college student side-kick, Trix.") He's also working on an GN called Crécy, oddly enough about the Battle of Crécy, an ongoing at Avatar called Doktor Sleepless (with taglines like Future Science Jesus or Tesla Boy Gangster,) Ignition City, Black Summer (building off his Authority work, a book about a superhero gone rogue and deciding to kill the President of the United States) and Freakangels. The ones I'm particular psyched about are Crécy (though the art work is a bit too detail for my usual preference,) Doktor Sleepless, Ignition City and Freakangels.
Freakangels, we don't know a lot about, but I'm intriged by the artwork by Paul Duffield. Somebody compiled the logo and the character design we've been show.
http://l.yimg.com/www.flickr.com/images/spaceball.gif
Doktor Sleepless is something Warren has mentioned a couple of times in the past, but apparently it didn't click until recently. It's basically a Mad Scientist book, but also, as someone described it: "a real live boy trying to become Pinochio." The first page of the script is available at his LiveJournal blog (http://warren-ellis.livejournal.com/90223.html). It sounds interesting.
Crécy is, of course, about the battle of Crécy during the Hundred Years' War, where the English absolutely butchered the French thanks to their longbows. It is also considered to be the beginning of the end of chivalry, due to prisoners and wounded being killed afterwards, breaking the chivalric code of conduct during warfare.
Finally the basic premise of Ignition City is that the old Space Heroes weren't dead, they were deported. Think aging Flash Gordon, Dr. Zarkov, Yuri Gagarin and Buck Rogers trapped in an orbiting dumping ground for space heroes past their prime. Ellis said it was slightly inspired by Deadwood, which makes it sound right up my alley. Plus I love all that stupid 50's Space stuff. There's an amusing bit of script on WarrenEllis.com (http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=3090)
Alright, so what are the rest of you looking forward to?
PS. Unless it's constructive, try curbing the negativity, guys. This is a thread of LOVE.
Anyway, as I've so relentlessly mentioned countless times I'm a big fan of Matt Fraction and Warren Ellis, which is why I'm pretty excited about their new series, like Fraction's second (out of seven) "album"/arc of Casanova called Gula (Gluttony.) Each of the arcs are going to be named after the Seven Deadly Sins, the first being called Luxuria (Lust.)
Casanova is about the son of the highest-ranking lawman on the entire planet, Casanova Quinn is also the world's greatest thief. When Cass sort-of-but-not-really makes the move from stealing to kidnapping, he starts a chain reaction that sends him plummeting down the cold, dark waterslide of spacetime and into the deep pool of transdimensional super-espionage, treachery and blackmail at the hands of his estranged father's worst enemy and his own dead twin sister from another universe.
This particular album will be drawn by the current artist's (Gabriel Bá's) twinbrother, Fabio Moon. He was initially suppose to draw the series actually. Anyway, they're both great. Check out De:Tales (http://www.darkhorse.com/profile/profile.php?sku=13-414) or their blog (http://fabioandgabriel.blogspot.com/) for a look at both artist's skill.
The entire first issue of the first album is available at this recent CBR interview, "Casanova" Or: "How I Learned to Stay Cool and Love the Multiverse." (http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=9663)
And this is the cover for the new issue coming this summer:
http://www2.uol.com.br/10paezinhos/images/cover08-cover.jpg
I am, of course, also looking forward to see what he does on the new Champions book, part of the 50 States Initiative, which is being played as a sort of Baseball team build up (Meaning multiple characters for different positions, possible firings etc.) The tagline is "If you had one year to save the world, what would you do?"
And all the other stuff he's doing like the Abe Lincoln biography and his work on Iron Fist and the Punisher.
Moving over to the Ellis front, aside from his excellent work on Thunderbolts, Fell, Newuniversal, Desolation Jones etc, he's got a couple of project moving like a television series called Dead Channel (not a whole lot of infomation on that,) two novels called Listener and Crooked Little Vein ("Michael McGill, a burned-out private eye is hired by a corrupt politician to find the real US Constitution. What follows is a scavenger hunt across America, exposing its seedier side along the way. He is joined by surreal college student side-kick, Trix.") He's also working on an GN called Crécy, oddly enough about the Battle of Crécy, an ongoing at Avatar called Doktor Sleepless (with taglines like Future Science Jesus or Tesla Boy Gangster,) Ignition City, Black Summer (building off his Authority work, a book about a superhero gone rogue and deciding to kill the President of the United States) and Freakangels. The ones I'm particular psyched about are Crécy (though the art work is a bit too detail for my usual preference,) Doktor Sleepless, Ignition City and Freakangels.
Freakangels, we don't know a lot about, but I'm intriged by the artwork by Paul Duffield. Somebody compiled the logo and the character design we've been show.
http://l.yimg.com/www.flickr.com/images/spaceball.gif
Doktor Sleepless is something Warren has mentioned a couple of times in the past, but apparently it didn't click until recently. It's basically a Mad Scientist book, but also, as someone described it: "a real live boy trying to become Pinochio." The first page of the script is available at his LiveJournal blog (http://warren-ellis.livejournal.com/90223.html). It sounds interesting.
Crécy is, of course, about the battle of Crécy during the Hundred Years' War, where the English absolutely butchered the French thanks to their longbows. It is also considered to be the beginning of the end of chivalry, due to prisoners and wounded being killed afterwards, breaking the chivalric code of conduct during warfare.
Finally the basic premise of Ignition City is that the old Space Heroes weren't dead, they were deported. Think aging Flash Gordon, Dr. Zarkov, Yuri Gagarin and Buck Rogers trapped in an orbiting dumping ground for space heroes past their prime. Ellis said it was slightly inspired by Deadwood, which makes it sound right up my alley. Plus I love all that stupid 50's Space stuff. There's an amusing bit of script on WarrenEllis.com (http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=3090)
Alright, so what are the rest of you looking forward to?
PS. Unless it's constructive, try curbing the negativity, guys. This is a thread of LOVE.