Hey everybody, lots of news today but too many threads to know where to just discuss stuff. So I thought I would put this one here with a link to the poll to vote for your most anticipated new series.
I noticed a lot of the conversations seemed pretty negative which is fair but surprising to me. While there were definitely titles I am not excited for there were plenty of surprises that pique my interest. I like the idea of Brandon Graham being in charge of a comics magazine. It seems ideally suited to his talents and I think many of the best aspects of comics magazines might come through without some of the negatives. I continue to be really hopeful for Injections which, as with many great ellis books, looks like it could pass for a spinoff from Planetary.
So what is getting everyone excited? New Vaughan books? Skottie Young going nuts? Phonogram follow up?
I may post a comprehensive list of news from the expo here in a bit just so people can browse it easily.
- Spawn to be written by Paul Jenkins
- Mcfarlane,Brian Holgun, Clayton Crain publishing book called "Savior" "What if the most dangerous man on Earth was also the one trying to do the most good?"
- Jame Robinson still working on "Airboy" also working on series called "Heaven" "about Mankind going to war with god in the future," with artist Philip Tan
- Brian Wood has two new series coming. "Starve" by Wood, Danijel Zezelj and Dave Stewart about a future where celebrity chefs are royalty; and "Black Road," from Wood and Garry Brown
- Brandon Graham's 8House still coming, has a preview, Graham and others to create comics magazine called Island along the lines of a less salacious Heavy Metal
- Deconnick and Rios working on arc 2 of Pretty Deadly
- Emi Lenox has a travel log project
- Jeff Lemire and Lenox to work together on book called "Plutona" about "a group of kids who find the body of the most famous superhero, dead in the woods."
- Scott Snyder and Lemire to team up on book called "A.D.," which stands for "After Death." The book, written by Snyder and illustrated by Lemire, is about a man able to live multiple lives.
- BKV has two new books. "We Stand on Guard," illustrated by Steve Skroce. The series takes place 100 years in the future, and is about, "a heroic band of Canadian civilians turned badass freedom fighters, who have to fight off an invasion of their country from another country -- the United States of America. Unfortunately, a hundred years from now, the United States has a lot of giant fucking robots." The other book is "Paper Girls" about " This is a story of four 12-year-old newspaper delivery girls, on the night something very strange happens." with artist Cliff Chiang
- Writer Marjorie Liu to pen "Monstress". an alternate, 1920s Earth in which immense, other-worldly creatures roam the world," Liu told the crowd. "Some of them are made of flesh, some of them are made of spirit, some of them are a mix of both. Then imagine there is this young girl who is a refugee from a war. She lives in the margins of society. She wakes up one day and has a psychic connection to the most dangerous, most mysterious, of these creatures."
- Brian Buccellato writing "Sons of the Devil" with artist Toni Infante.
- Eric Canete and Jonathan Tsuei have a book. The book is titled "Run Love Kill," and a preview can be seen on CBR. "We're being super-literal. There's a lot of running, a lot of loving, and a lot of killing," Canete said.
- Writer Alex de Campi is doing a series at Image with Carla Speed McNeil. Titled "No Mercy," it's about a group of teenagers on a service trip whose bus falls off of a mountain -- and things get worse from there. "There's no cell phones. There's no mercy."
- Kieron Gillen working on "Ludocrats" illustrated by Lafuente, a long-awaited follow-up to "Phonogram" called "Phonogram: Material Girl" and an arc of The Wicked and the Divinewith guest illustrators including: Stephanie Hans, Tula Lotay and Kate Brown.
- Zdarsky announces book with artist Kagan Mcleod pitched as "Gay Saga" called Kaptara
- Darwyn Cooke making "Revengeance" a three-part miniseries. "Revengeance is kind of a weird thing that came out of a couple of different sources," Cooke said.
- Skottie Young making ultra-violent fairy tale deconstruction titled "I Hate FairyLand" based on concept of a little girl being stuck in fairyland for thirty years, making her young on the outside but older inside.
- Previews available for many of those books as well as "Injections" on this site