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Originally posted by Hypo
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Lol I just started buying hellblazer trades. I just went on Google and searched for best hellblazer stories.
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Anything you would suggest?
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Nothing spectacular. I assume the books I'm reading would probably be better if I had started from the beginning. Which, for whatever it matters, I hear is not a bad thing to do.Comment
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So apparantly this book is now called FBP: Federal Bureau of Physics?Originally posted by Iggy View Post
I almost missed it because of the name change.Comment
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Yea, they got a cease and desist on the name.Comment
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And that's the best they could come up with?Comment
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It doesn't really roll off the tongue but it works pretty well with the issue 2 cover:Originally posted by W.West View Post
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I fucking love The Unwritten. Issue 52 was amazing.Comment
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Collider, FBP, whatever. From what I've seen, it's Fringe with the numbers filed off anyway.Comment
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I haven't decided whether I want to pick that up or not. Guess I'll decide after Witching Hour.Originally posted by Hypo View PostComment
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WILLINGHAM ANNOUNCES "FABLES" TO END WITH ISSUE #150
Writer Bill Willingham announced Friday on his personal website that his long-running, acclaimed Vertigo series "Fables" will end with issue #150. Accompanying that news is his decision to partially retire from comic book work.
"Retirement in the storytelling trade means, still working and writing every day, but being a bit more selective in what projects I take on," Willingham wrote. "Pushing 60, I thought it would be a good time to start making concrete plans for those remaining good writing years."
The most recently solicited issue of "Fables" is #137, scheduled out in January 2014, meaning that "Fables" will likely end in early 2015. The issue, Willingham states, will be "a larger than usual size." Companion series "Fairest" will also draw to a close, Willingham disclosed, "just before the big final 'Fables' issue."
Willingham quotes "Fables" series artist Mark Buckingham as saying, "I respect Bill's decision and am looking forward to working with him on the book's epic final year, leading to the series' grand finale."
"Fables" debuted in 2002, and has in many ways helped define the past 11 years of DC Comics' mature readers imprint. The series has won more than a dozen Eisner Awards, has been in development as both a movie and TV series at multiple points (including a currently active film project at Warner Bros.), and is the inspiration for current Telltale video game "The Wolf Among Us."
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Anyone who has installed an ink cartridge in his or her printer has likely encountered four familiar colors, cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. No, you didn’t accidentally buy a cut-rate cartridge; these are the four colors that comprise the four-color printing process, the dominant means through which comic books were produced from the 1940s through the 1970s. Comic book publishers sought to lend a level of depth to their books that black and white alone could not offer. Unfortunately, four-color printing wasn’t the panacea they thought it would be; what it was though was an iconic style unto itself.
Pick up an older comic book and take a look at the heavily saturated colors, the dot-matrix style of printing, the way the colors bleed into one another. It creates a unique visual aesthetic that instantly evokes the feeling that only comes with thumbing through a comic book. From paper to ink, comic book quality has improved tenfold over the years, but now Vertigo is paying homage to the medium’s past with a brand new series we’re proud to exclusively announce. Meet Vertigo Quarterly: CMYK, an anthology series inspired by the printing process that helped define the medium as we know it, written and illustrated by some of the top creators working today.
Here’s the official description from our pals at DC/Vertigo:
The four colors that are the basis of comic coloring—CYAN, MAGENTA, YELLOW, BLACK—serve as the inspiration for talent to push the boundaries of short storytelling in the VERTIGO QUARTERLY: CMYK anthology series.
Starting with stunningly simple, bold covers, CMYK will defy all conventions of traditional comic book anthologies. The unifying color may suggest a mood, a plot point, a coloring technique—limited only by the imagination of the incredible talent involved. Starting with CYAN this Spring with stories and art by Jock, Fabio Moon, James Tynion IV, Martin Morazzo, Robert Rodi and Javier Fernandez, Amy Chu, Joe Keatinge, Cris Peter, Shaun Simon and Tony Akins and more! Followed by MAGENTA in summer, YELLOW in fall and BLACK in winter, you’ll see color throughout the year as only Vertigo can deliver.
Sounds pretty cool, huh? Here’s the other three covers too:
I’ll leave you with a quote from Don DeLillo’s Underworld.
“A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the emulsion. Once you get inside a dot, you gain access to hidden information, you slide inside the smallest event.”
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Vertigo Quarterly: CMYK #1 arrives April 30th. Will you be picking it up? Let us know in the comments below.Comment
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