{"id":710,"date":"2007-03-15T20:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-15T20:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/newstuff\/"},"modified":"2007-03-15T20:01:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-15T20:01:00","slug":"newstuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/newstuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Newstuff"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andy Runton’s Owly<\/i> gets a cuteness rating of two thousand out of ten. Check out the scans for yourself<\/a> and tell me I am right! So does David Petersen’s Mouse Guard<\/i>, which I managed to check out recently thanks to my friends in Kanpur.<\/p>\n

The weekly series 52<\/i> is drawing to a close pretty soon, and I must say that, taking into consideration my general apathy towards Marvel\/DC’s corporate superhero storytelling, I would be willing to shell out money for a collected hardcover of 52<\/i>. An Absolute edition wouldn’t hurt, either. After all, the writers involved included Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka and Mark Waid ( Geoff Johns is more of a fanboy than a writer, in my humble opinion.)<\/p>\n

Volume 4 of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is titled Century<\/i>. It’s going to be published by Top Shelf Publishing, because Moore has broken off all ties with DC\/Wildstorm following the release of V For Vendetta<\/i>. In case you are confused about Volume 3 of League, it was published last year by DC\/Wildstorm and was called The Black Dossier<\/i>, I am waiting for the Absolute Edition to release before I buy it. From the Top Shelf website<\/a>, Century<\/i> is a 216-page epic spanning almost a hundred years. Divided into three 72-page chapters — each a self-contained narrative to avoid frustrating cliff-hanger delays between episodes –this monumental tale takes place in three distinct eras, building to an apocalyptic conclusion occurring in our own current twenty-first century. Chapter one is set against a backdrop of London, 1910, twelve years after the failed Martian invasion and nine years since England put a man upon the moon. With Halley’s Comet passing overhead, the nation prepares for the coronation of King George V, and far away on his South Atlantic Island, the science-pirate Captain Nemo is dying. Inthe bowels of the British Museum, Carnacki the ghost-finder is plaguedby visions of a shadowy occult order who are attempting to create something called a Moonchild, while on London’s dockside the most notorious serial murderer of the previous century has returned to carry on his grisly trade. Working for Mycroft Holmes’ British Intelligence alongside a rejuvenated Allan Quartermain, the reformed thief Anthony Raffles and the eternal warrior Orlando, Miss Murray is drawn into a brutal opera acted out upon the waterfront by players that include the furiously angry Pirate Jenny and the charismatic butcher known as Mac the Knife.<\/p>\n

Craig Thompson’s next release called Kissypoo Garden<\/i> is also solicited for sometime in 2008. This is a 200-300 page collection of his shorter works over the years. And what is this my eyes spy? A 500-copy limited release of a hardcover of the collected American Elf<\/i> by James Kochalka! 520 pages. My cup runneth over!!!<\/p>\n

Apparently, Warren Ellis’s latest offering, Black Summer<\/i> arose out of a bet between himself and William Christiansen, the head of Avatar Press. The challenge was to come up with a superhero concept that wasn’t a rehashing of old ideas and yet managed to reach Event-level high notes, kind of a multipart crossover that threatens to change all reality. In Ellis’s own words<\/a> – “Huge technical challenge, and I like those, because they keep me sharp. It took me more than a year, mind you… Until I hit on the two ideas. What if a superhero killed the President? And the underpinning: where do you draw the line?<\/i>” The artwork is by Juan Jose Ryp, and looks like a combination of Geoff Darrow and Jacen Burrows influences, as far as I can see from the preview images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andy Runton’s Owly gets a cuteness rating of two thousand out of ten. Check out the scans for yourself and tell me I am right! So does David Petersen’s Mouse Guard, which I managed to check out recently thanks to my friends in Kanpur. The weekly series 52 is drawing to a close pretty soon, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}