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SATURDAY, JULY 28, 2007COMIC-CON INTERNATIONAL: IMAGE COMICS PANELBy Ernie Estrella
SAN DIEGO -- On Friday afternoon at Comic-Con
International, Brian Posehn (The Last Christmas),
Brian Reed (The Circle), Robert Kirkman (The Walking
Dead), Mike Oeming (Mice Templar), Erik Larsen (Savage
Dragon), Matt Fraction (Casanova), Gerry Duggan (The
Infinite Horizon), Phil Noto (The Infinite Horizon),
Jay Fotos (Frank Frazetta's Death Dealer) presented a
slideshow of new and upcoming projects.
Following are highlights:
* Kirkman acknowledged his closing in on the issue #50
milestone for two titles, The Walking Dead (by this
fall) and Invincible (January).
"I'm going to celebrate by getting rid of as many
characters as possible." Kirkman said about The
Walking Dead. "I'm thinking about killing everyone, I
don't know how people will feel about that."
* For Invincible #4850 expect a major confrontation
between Cecil and Mark Grayson that's been brewing
since the loss of his father.
* Larsen said that he's been running a bit late but
has been stockpiling a bunch of work and penciling
ahead so there will be lots of Savage Dragon soon.
* Fraction attributed illness for the lack of Casanova
but it's back on track. A future story called "When is
Casanova Quinn?" will see Casanova disappearing and
Fraction wants to see how far he can go by removing
the main character from the book.
* Plans for more issues of Rocketo are in the works.
* Larsen is also working on coordinating The Next
Issue Project Anthology. Golden Age public domain
comics will be resurrected with modern creators
putting a brief spin on these gone but not forgotten
titles. Some of the creators already committed include
Howard Chaykin, Kyle Baker and Mike Allred.
* Phil Noto and Gerry Duggan are teaming up for
Inifinite Horizon, a dark series that Duggan describes
as "re-imagining the Odyssey post-Iraq/Iran." starts
in November and will go monthly for six issues. Noto
sees the the new project as "a nice book to experiment
on."
* Kirkman has a new project called The Astounding
Wolf-Man. For those who think they've got the series
figured out after two issues, think again. "We're
going to be taking you in a lot of directions with
lots of twists and turns." Kirkman said.
* Michael Avon Oeming will be cutting back on the
writing projects at Marvel so that he can concentrate
on drawing Mice Templar bi-monthly and getting more
issues of Powers out. Mice Templar will be written by
Bryan J.L. Glass who Oeming last collaborated with on
Quixote. Oeming said that Mice Templar has been
several years in the making and is influenced by
Celtic and Norse mythology. The first issue will be
available in September at a whopping 50 pages.
* Brian Reed (Ms. Marvel) and Ian Hosfeld are working
together on The Circle which is an espionage book in
the vein of Modesty Blaise and the classic Mission
Impossible television show.
* Pinapl is a new series from Corey Lewis (Shark
Knife) Chad Walker and will be rolled out similar to
Warren Ellis' Fell.
* Fire Breather was a story that launched at the same
time as Invincible but with persistence, it's back and
so are its creators Phil Hester and Andy Kuhn.
* Pax Romana is Jonathan Hickman's (Nightly News) new
project.
* Joseph Michael Linsner is sinking his teeth in a new
creator-owned vampire story in February with Dark
Ivory. Together with frequent collaborator, Eva
Hopkins, they hope to take the Anne Rice out of the
vampires.
* Linsner is also nearing the 20th anniversary of Dawn
and is already dubbing 2009 the Year of the Goddess
with a new Dawn comic scheduled to launch in two
years.
* Posehn will be
doing a Simpsons Treehouse of Horror for Bongo Comics
that will cover parody Steven Spielberg's Jaws.
* Steve Niles and Bill Sienkiewicz are collaborating
the Sinner which looks stunning. Larsen championed the
book as "the coolest damn book ever!"
* Image has the license to dig through Jack Kirby's
basement full of superheroes, including Captain Victory
and Silver Star.
* Jay Fotos is in charge of the Frank Frazetta
properties Image has been pumping out based on his
iconic paintings and fan response has been extremely
good. "Frazetta has been enjoying what we've been
doing," Fotos said, "So we'll be doing more."
*
Creatures is Indiana Jones/X-Files starring Teddy
Roosevelt. Rick Remender is writing this book and will
begin with a one-shot, and then will be a continuing
series.
*
Dark Kingdom (written by Mark Kidwell) and Swamp Demon
are one-shots set in the same time period and setting
as Creatures and Death Dealer
*
Niles is also writing Dracula meets the
Wolf-Man.
*
Silver Warrior is a four issue mini-series written by
Joshua Ortega and drawn by Nat Jones. Fotos said that
they will be trying something different artistically
than the mentioned Frazetta books by fully painting
over pencils.
* Collections of the above-mentioned Jack Kirby
properties will be part of the Kirby creations
relaunch.
* In the spirit of Image's 24Seven anthologies, Image
is releasing another monster-sized collection of indy
and underground artists called Pop Gun. It will
feature work from Mike Allred, Joseph Michael Linser
and Jamie S. Rich. The page count is already at 500
pages and growing.
* The Luna Brothers saga Girls will be collected into
one enormous volume.
* Arthur Adamd' 90's adventure series, Monkeyman &
O'Brien will also be reprinted in one giant
collection.
* Scud the Disposable Assassin will see the light of
day again as Rob Schrab finishes his cult-favorite
book about the disposable assassin who doesn't want to
die. A full collection of Scud is in the works.
* Tim Sale Black and White Revised and Expanded
Hardcover. Everything he's done that he owns is being
printed into this massive opus.
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