Did you all see that Michael Chabon is doing an actual comic of "The Escapist," the comic within the novel of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay? I'm incoherent with psychedness.
He is also writing a 16 page back-up tale on the Golden Age Mr. Terrific from the JSA (Justice Society of America, the original DC super-team) in November. It will be
JSA All Stars
# 7, and it is supposed to be written in the "Golden Age Style" that Chabon depicted in
Kavelier and Klay.
True Anne. The second point you made, Marvel reps have been careful to repeat that every chance they have had on several retailer/business forums I am on.
Yup. I, even, managed to find that out about 1602. Still cool tho.
There's been talk of this but Dark Horse's site confirms that
Tales of the Vampires
"with stories written exclusively by Joss and writers from his shows" will come out in December and be a 5 issue run.
No new Buffy comics after #63 but it does say that they expect more comic series with Joss aside from the TotV and a possible future Fray series. (Go Faith! Choose Faith!)
Has someone mentioned here as well that due to fan demands they (not Dark Horse obviously, but whoever makes them) are going to continue making Buffy and Angel action figures.
How many issues of 1602 are planned? Do we know?
Got and read #2 today. The last panel actually made me feel sorry for the character in it. I've been flashing on it all day, thinking "Poor dear!"
Some nice art, esp. the light blue eyes of the Grand Inquisitor in the shadow of his hood. I'm not thrilled with the outfits worn by Javier's students, but maybe the anachronistic stuff is part and parcel of Gaiman's whole idea.
So I picked up Angel Season 2 while I was out today. Came home to find my Fray 1 through 8 and 1602 #1 that I'd bought off Ebay had arrived (as well as a Suncoast coupon I could have used when I bought the Angel DVDs. Argh!). Looks like I have a long weekend of sloth ahead of me.:) And then I'll finally be able to contribute to/understand the Fray and 1602 discussions. Whee!:)
Annotations for 1602.2 are now up.
Hmmph. I have two nits to pick with the commentary:
- Beast is now "blue-furred and brutish-looking" -- he wasn't always -- he used to look like he does here
- my ASS that's not Snowbird ... I know there's supposed to be a cutoff point, but ... didn't Snowbird do that?