26th November 2008 / Wasteland / On Sale
WASTELAND #22 goes on sale today. This is “Dog-Face Boy”, the second part of the new Dog Tribe story arc. The Diamond order code is SEP084214, and here’s the solicit text:
Captured for ransom by the Red Fangs Dog Tribe, Michael and Abi are unarmed and helpless. But aid can come in the strangest of forms. Who is the mysterious cloaked man, so interested in their welfare? What does it all have to do with an impending marriage? And who will come from the city to save them?
Available from all good comic retailers.
Also, the third trade paperback collection, Book 03: Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos, is on track for release next week. I’ll confirm it here when I know for sure.
21st November 2008 / Dead Space / Appearances / On Sale
The DEAD SPACE hardcover collection is now on sale—a couple of weeks earlier than scheduled, just like the game.
The book collects all six issues of the DEAD SPACE series, concept artwork from the game, previously unseen art by Ben Templesmith, and extra background information on the series’ main characters by myself. I’ve had my copy for a couple of weeks now, and it’s a lovely package; sturdy, well-bound, nice paper.
In appearance news, first I want to say thank you to everyone who came out to Thought Bubble in Leeds last weekend to say hi. I had a great time, and so did everyone else—if you didn’t go, you missed out on what is rapidly contending for the title of “best UK con”. Let’s do it all again next year.
If you’re in the Leeds area, though, you don’t even have to wait that long—I’ll be signing at Travelling Man Leeds on December 13th, primarily to sign copies of the above DEAD SPACE hardcover and Book 3 of WASTELAND (which is due the first week of December) though as always I’ll be happy to sign anything else you want to bring along.
11th November 2008 / Alan Moore / Pre-order
Here’s one I wasn’t sure would ever see the light of day (no pun intended): LIGHT OF THY COUNTENANCE will be published by Avatar Press in January, according to Avatar Creative Director Mark Seifert in a thread on Whitechapel, Warren Ellis’ message board.
LIGHT is an adaptation of Alan Moore’s damning poem/essay on television, a piece which is both enlightening and disturbing, and is fully painted by Felipe Massafera. If you don’t recognise the name, Felipe also painted the cover to the HYPOTHETICAL LIZARD collection that came out last year. There’s a Flickr gallery of some interior LIGHT pages, plus a larger version of the cover, here.
I actually finished the script for this book more than five years ago (!) but finding someone capable of illustrating it has been tough—it’s a very demanding script that requires a fanatical attention to detail, enormous amounts of visual research, and a somewhat surrealist imagination. I’m glad to see it’s finally on the way.
7th November 2008 / Musings
I don’t talk politics here, as this is a work journal (though you can follow me on Twitter if you want more informal occasional outbursts), but I do want to quickly say: congratulations, America.
You finally elected a President with more than half a brain cell. The world is proud of you.
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