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.
[ Alan Moore / Pre-order ]
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.
[ Musings ]
WASTELAND #21 goes on sale today. This is “Dogs Of War”, the start of a brand new story arc. The Diamond order code is AUG084232, and here’s the solicit:
Michael and Abi have escaped the city to renew their quest for A-Ree-Yass-I, but a long journey across the harsh desert is the least of their troubles when they’re caught between two Dog Tribes! Can they discover the Tribes’ secrets… before the Tribes discover who Michael and Abi really are?
As always with a new story arc, there’s also a brand new soundtrack song now available for free download. Check out Sanctuary Four.
Finally, some advance appearance news: I’ll be at Thought Bubble next month, I’ll be signing at Travelling Man Leeds in early December, and I’m hoping to make it to the New York Comic Con in February (and it doesn’t clash with Superbowl weekend, thank goodness). More details on all of these closer to the time/s.
I’m attending the London MCM Expo this weekend. Together with Ben Templesmith, I’ll be doing signings and a panel to talk about DEAD SPACE.
The panel is at 12pm on Saturday, and will be held on Stage 2. Tony Lee will be hosting it and interviewing us, but we’ll try our best to still be sober by the end. Because…
The signings will be at the Manga Entertainment booth (Manga are distributing the DEAD SPACE: DOWNFALL DVD over here), just across the aisle from EA themselves, and will start at 1pm on both Saturday and Sunday.
The Manga booth will also have copies of my other books for sale, including a stash of Alex Rider graphic novels which I’m very happy to sign if that’s your thing.
Should be a good laugh. Hope to see you there.
[ Dead Space / Alex Rider / Appearances ]
Just a quick reminder that DEAD SPACE goes on sale tomorrow in America for PS3 and XBOX.
Us Euros, and PC owners, will have to wait another week—by which time No Known Survivors will have wrapped up, too. It’s a good time to be a space zombie killer on the loose.
[ Dead Space / Videogames / On Sale ]
I’m not going to post every link that comes up, because every gaming mag and site around will be reviewing it, and that would get a bit dull. But this one’s pretty special: issue #71 of Xbox World 360 magazine, out now in the UK, has the exclusive first review of DEAD SPACE.
The verdict? 91%, and special praise for the “film-worthy” script. Nice!
[ Dead Space / Videogames ]
WASTELAND #20 is on sale this week. This is Apocalyptic City—another of our ‘interlude’ one-off issues with a very special guest artist, Eisner award-winner Chuck BB of BLACK METAL fame.
The story of how Marcus founded Newbegin is known to everyone in the city. But how is it told… and just how true is it? Join the audience and gather round, as Newbegin’s famous marketplace storyteller is about to begin the tale!
This issue is also a bit special because we’ve approached it differently. For the first time in these interludes Christopher contributes some art too, and Chuck’s art illuminates the actual fables and stories of how Newbegin was founded. It’s something I’ve wanted to try for a while, so I hope you enjoy it.
The Diamond order code is JUL084167.
So it would seem there’s a bit of confusion over something I apparently said to PSW magazine about DEAD SPACE:
But don’t you dare go skipping any cut scenes in Dead Space.
“You’d be a fool to do that,” Johnson told PSW magazine. “If you want to find out the mysteries of the game, you need to listen to the dialogue. But more than that, you actually need to listen to it so you can complete the game.”
Now, this interview was conducted back in April, at the Sci-Fi- London event, so the fact that I have no actual memory of saying it (especially the last part) is neither here nor there. I do remember the guy from PSW, and he was a nice chap, so I’m willing to trust it isn’t a misquote.
However, it is being taken out of context, and I know this for one simple reason: there are no cut scenes in DEAD SPACE. Not one. Everything takes place in real game time. You can listen to audio logs, or watch video logs, while you’re running around dismembering necromorphs to your heart’s content if you want to. Or you can stop and listen/watch as you find them. But they don’t remove control from the player and they don’t stop the action.
So there’s really no need to skip them at all, and if you do, well, you’re only really getting half the game. Which is probably the context in which I actually said the above. Hey ho.
[ Dead Space / Videogames / Interviews ]
Issue #6 of DEAD SPACE, the final instalment of the series, goes on sale this week. The Diamond order code is JUN082254, and here’s the solicit text:
Concluding the prequel horror series to Electronic Arts’ upcoming DEAD SPACE survival horror game! One by one the avenues of escape from the colony of Aegis VII are closed off. Survival seems impossible! But Neumann has a plan. Will it be their salvation? Or will the colony itself become nothing more than a dead space?
…It probably isn’t giving too much away to tell you that it doesn’t end well. For anyone.
And don’t forget there’s more DEAD SPACE goodness (or should that be goriness) at No Known Survivors.
[ Dead Space / On Sale ]
So I’m pretty sure this hasn’t been officially announced yet, but the cover to the first volume of WOLVERINE: PRODIGAL SON is now on Amazon.
(Except, um, it’s in black and white for some reason. I’ve seen the cover colours myself, so I know this isn’t final art, but I also know Amazon often requires covers many months in advance. I therefore assume this is just an old mockup done specifically for them. Hopefully it’ll be fixed soon enough.) [The final coloured cover is now up for all to see, so I’ve altered the image here.]
What’s more interesting is there’s now an official release date of April 7th 2009, and all this means it is, of course, available for preorder from Amazon US (or Amazon UK if you’re over here, naturally).
Speaking of release dates, DEAD SPACE has been brought forward by a week (again!) and will now ship on the 14th October in America.
There’s no official word on whether the European release will be moved forward too, but the expectation is that it’ll follow over here on the 17th October.
[ Dead Space / Wolverine / Videogames / Pre-order ]
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