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Every month while I am siphoning away though Previews and spot something a bit special, i will post it here.
Some months i may post a few bits, and some months not a lot, depends on what’s worth mentioning.
The Plucker: An Illustrated Novel By Brom
Brom is a legend in the sci-fi/fantasy community, and in this illustrated novel, the world-renowned dark fantasy artist intimately combines dramatic storytelling with uniquely arresting images to create a work of striking imagination – a world where fairy-tale tradition collides with vileness and depravity, love and heroism, suffering and sacrifice. It is shadowy land of make-believe where Jack and his box are stuck beneath the bed with the dust, spiders and other castaway toys, forced to face a bitter truth: children grow up and toys are left behind. Jack believes this is the worst that can happen to a toy. But when the Plucker, a malevolent spirit, is set loose upon the world of make-believe and Jack is thrust into the unlikely role of defending Thomas, the very child who abandoned him, he finds out there is worse that can befall a toy. Far worse. As desperation mounts, Jack is thrown together with Thomas’s other toys – Monkey, the Nutcracker and the ethereally beautiful porcelain doll Snow Angel – as they struggle to rise above their simple roles as playthings in an effort to save the boy they love. Now updated with eight all-new exclusive pages of original content from Brom in an affordable paperback edition.
In Shops: SEPTEMBER 2010 Item Code: JUL102011 SRP: £12.99
Writer: Grant Morrison
Artist: Mukesh Singh
From superstar creator Grant Morrison (All-Star Superman, Batman & Robin, The Invisibles) comes 18 Days, the story of three generations of super-warriors, meeting for the final battle of their age.
18 Days is a re-imagining of the great eastern myth, the Mahabharata and follows the course of the climactic war that concludes the age of the gods and begins the age of man. It is the prototype for every war ever fought. The scale is epic, wherein the biggest armies ever conceived of face one another across the ultimate battlefield to decide the fate of the future. This hardcover illustrated script book from Dynamite Entertainment and Liquid Comics, will allow readers a first glimpse into the mythic animated series being developed by Morrison.
The book reveals the inner workings of the acclaimed writer's process and features the original animation scripts, story bibles, character descriptions, and commentaries. Grant's groundbreaking story is matched perfectly with original illustrations created by acclaimed artist, Mukesh Singh.
In Shops: 7/28/2010 Item Code: MAY100920 SRP: $24.99
Jim Steranko'S RED TIDE
On sale Jun 23
Full Colour, 128 pages
$19.99
Hard Ccover, 7" x 10"
After emerging as Marvel Comics' most controversial superstar, Jim Steranko tackled his greatest artistic challenge: creating an entirely new medium, the visual novel—not an illustrated novel or novel-length comic book, but a seamless fusion of interdependent graphic and prose narratives forming a powerful and original new method of telling stories. An artistic tour-de-force, Red Tide is hard-boiled detective fiction in the bare-knuckle tradition of Hammett, Cain, and Chandler, as well as the dark, atmospheric milieu of film noir. Dark Horse is proud to reintroduce this landmark work, remastered with state-of-the-art digital colors by Eisner Award-winner Dave Stewart, in a collector's quality hardcover edition.
• 2006 Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame inductee.
• Steranko is best known for his work on Nick Fury.
10 years in the making, or 10 years late, you decide,
a gritty bare-knuckled detective fiction from award winner Jim Steranko!
Cages, Now back in print and was due July 2009. (Still waiting)
By Dave McKean
Best known for his work with Neil Gaiman, McKean is also an accomplished cartoonist in his own right. This is his magnum opus to date: an immense, pulsing graphic novel that's also a treatise on art, creativity and the uses and misuses of technique. Originally serialized between 1990 and 1996 (and collected in 1998), it's been out of print for several years. The book's plot is fairly rudimentary: a painter, a writer and a musician who live in the same apartment building find their lives intersecting. But the book's gradual shift from literalism to fanciful allegories and stories-within-stories mostly serves as the springboard for a visual tour de force. For most of the book, McKean restricts himself to wobbly, jagged two-tone pen-and-ink drawings, occasionally in the manner of Egon Schiele. But he often signals shifts in storytelling mode by switching media or style (to ink-wash brushwork, airbrushed photography, white-on-black "woodcuts," bold near-abstractions or whatever seems appropriate); when the artwork erupts into full-color paintings and collages, the effect is explosive. Even when the story falters or drifts into endless philosophical chitchat, McKean's artwork saves the day. His characters, built out of crazily bent lines and splatters, have perfectly choreographed body language, and his daring visual experiments serve the ideological goals of his writing.
Fan Heat Rating 10/10
Whatever Comics Heat Rating 10/10
Killing Pickman FINALLY coming back!
Order Number MAY090651
KILLING PICKMAN DOUBLE-SIZED ISSUE #3&4
(W) Jason Becker (A) Jon Rea
Special double-size issue presenting the unpublished issues 3 and 4 of the Killing Pickman series in a single issue! As the horrific details of the case of a serial child killer unfold, Detective William Zhu finds himself immersed in a macabre world of occult terror. Zhu is driven by unseen forces into a confrontation with evil beyond anything he has ever encountered before. If Zhu is to survive this ordeal with his sanity intact he may be forced to take the law into his own hands and destroy the monster himself: Richard Pickman, sitting in a cell at Heorot maximum security prison.
Full Color 48 pages $4.99 Mature Readers (series contains Graphic Violence and Adult Content)
Those who know rating 9/10
Whatever Comics Heat Rating 9/10
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