Apr
29
2006
ISBN:1563899426
Author: Bill Willingham Penciller: Lan Medina Inkers: Steve Leiloha & Craig HamiltonColourist: Sherilyn van Valkenburgh Letterer: Todd Klein Original Series Covers: James Jean & Alex Maleev
DDC: 741.5973
Once Upon a Time in a fictional land called New York City. Chapter One: Old Tales Revisited. In which we meet many of our principal players and get just the first hint or two of some of the myriad troubles to come.
Legends in Exile is the collected first five chapters of the whole Fables series. In it we are introduced to the fables, a collection of characters who have settled in New York. Originally these fairy tale legends lived in their own worlds, but were driven out by The Adversary. Now they must live among the mundanes, never letting any but their own kind know of who and what they are. And now it seems that there is a murderer in their midst, and everyone wants to know who killed Rose Red.
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Oct
02
2005
Serenity Comics #1-3
Story by: Joss Whedon & Brett Matthews
Script: Brett Matthews
Art: Will Conrad
Colours: Laura Conrad
Letters: Michael Heisler
ISBN: 1593074492
DDC: 741.5
Set between the end of Firefly and before the Big Damn Movie that is Serenity this story, Those Left Behind, is almost like a TV episode. And sees the return of a baddie from the series along with all our Big Damn Heroes.
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Jul
06
2005
ISBN: 1401204953
Author: Frank Quitely & Grant Morrison
DDC: 741.5973
I heard about this comic over at The Woolamaloo Gazette, and when I took a look on the forbiddenplanet site it was quite cheap around nine euro I think, so I impulse purchased.
The plot is sort of Homeward Bound meets violence, death and the army. Three animals have been modified, equipped with armour, guns and taught how to speak, and are employed by the USAF as assassins. But the time has come for them to be decomissioned.
The rest of the book is their attempt to escape, and in the words of 1 we3 home now
.
Sounds a bit Disney-esque, and it could easily have been quite “ah, purty animals go home.” But it isn’t. The animals don’t really say all that much. How much conversation can you expect from a dog, a cat and rabbit? So a lot of the book lets the artwork do the story-telling. And very effectively, imo.
I mentioned in my review of The Astonishing X-Men that I’m not a huge comic book/graphic novel reader, but that’ll change if I find more like this.
This is a very sad, moving book, and almost every other review I’ve read of it mentions how affecting it is. So I won’t say “enjoy”, but I do think it is worth picking up.
10/10, comic, graphic novel, sci fi
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Feb
18
2005
While you are waiting for September and the film release (later if you’re this side of the Atlantic) you might be intereste in the prequel comics. The first is due for release in July.
"Dark Horse Comics confirmed for Newsarama that they will be
publishing the three-issue prequel, written by Whedon and Brett
Matthews (a Firefly writer and former comics collaborator with
Whedon), with art by Will Conrad."
(Via Whedonesque )
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