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Grant in February

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quinine92001

16:29 / 24.11.04

7 Soldiers Preview

the whip

FinderWolf

17:16 / 24.11.04

Anyone else think Whip = Obuilette from Marvel Boy?

diz

17:22 / 24.11.04

also Grant-related, from Rich's column this week: Scott Lobdell implies that Grant Morrison was a "coward" for not putting Northstar in his X-Men book. Sure, Grant must be a homophobe and afraid to court edgy issues regarding gays because he didn't want Northstar in his book. Riiight.

it wouldn't have anything to do with Northstar being a C-list hero whose history largely revolves around his being an alum of Alpha Flight, a C-list team if there ever was one.

and, hey, speaking of Alpha Flight being a C-list team, that has nothing to do with why Lobdell's Alpha Flight failed, either. it's because Marvel didn't push it hard enough, or the audience is too narrow-minded, or something.

Sax

17:31 / 24.11.04

That is the most fucking ridiculous costume for fighting crime for ever dreamed up. Ever.

_Boboss
(prev. THOR!)

That's the best fucking costume for fighting crime. Ever.

The Natural Way

13:45 / 26.11.04

That door opening is fucking scary

"Not...releez...dark wunz...", or whatever. Looks great. Am more excited about this now. Fight!

The Natural Way

13:46 / 26.11.04

Seven Soldiers excitement goes without saying or airfucking.

hashmal

23:38 / 27.11.04

'dec previews' has a three page preview of vimanarama. i can't scan them at the moment. i'll see if i can get access to a scanner tomorrow, unless someone else does it first. it looks great. i love philip bond's art. has he done anything else with morrison beside his work on the invisibles? the subterranean fossil demons look far more promising than the archons of the invisibles, but have to wait and see i guess. the archons never really did much for me. just always seemed kinda silly. quimper and satan were way better. hopefully the 'dark wunns' will be more evil and sinister. however, it is a love story and has ufo's, but it's an apocalyptic love story and the ufo's sound like engines of war. best lines from the spread: "did you just hear a noise like a dozen pairs of scissors opening and closing?", "when did everything stop being normal?"

LDones

01:23 / 28.11.04

Bond did the pencil chores on Garg Marginsin's 'Kill Your Boyfriend', from some years back. I enjoyed Bond's Satanstorm art a bit more, but Kill Your Boyfriend is fucking great.

The Falcon

15:02 / 28.11.04

Done inks/finishes on a wee bit Doom Patrol, round #48-52. As well.

The Natural Way

17:31 / 28.11.04

I always felt as though I could reach out and touch the King of all Tears's smooth, insectoid carapace.... Made me feel sick. Nasty in a "Urrggh! Dr Who special effect come alive!" kind of way. The fossil demons seem to be about a different kind of horrid.

hashmal

13:30 / 02.12.04

for those who haven't already seen it. sorry the quality is poor.

Bobboss
(prev. Uncle Batman)

18:34 / 02.12.04

*Squeeeeeaaaaal*

It does. But as far as I'm concerned there is space in the world for anything that looks and sounds like Rogan Gosh.

Agreed. Asian culture is hardly well represented by mainstream comics, so I'm all for this. Looks a fuck sight less hallucinatory and twisted than RG, though.

FinderWolf

21:51 / 02.12.04

In that same previews as the above scan, there are the sketches printed in Wizard by Grant and J.H. Williams for the Seven Soliders designs, reminding us all that Grant is a pretty good artist as well. His designs for the new Guardian were particularly good. If you scanned the Vinayarama stuff, can you scan the Grant sketches for Seven Soldiers just for fun...?

CameronStewart

23:37 / 02.12.04

Yeah, Grant's design for the Manhattan Guardian is very cool, as are all of them, really. I've tweaked the Guardian slightly at our editor's request, but it's more or less what appeared in Wizard.

Merely Ducard

23:53 / 02.12.04

Please tell me he hasn't been tweaked to be less riot-cop/submit-to-the-sexy-gold-fascist? Oh wait, you mean you tweaked it *before* that image from Newsarama... Nice work.

hashmal

02:09 / 04.12.04

FinderWolf

02:12 / 04.12.04

Very cool! Thanks for scanning that!

My first thought when I saw the Guardian profile was (after thinking "that's so cool that Grant can draw!") that the profile looked kinda like a Steve Pugh drawing. The chin and lips look like Steve Pugh's. Anyone else know what I'm talking about? Probably not. I like Steve Pugh's art, though.

Mario

03:20 / 04.12.04

A friend sent me some scans of the pages from Wizard. If someone wants to host them, I can send them along. They are a bit clipped, but viewable.

Dicodisco

10:25 / 04.12.04

Try this:
http://www.imageshack.us/index.php

Mario

17:21 / 04.12.04

Cheers

Tripolata

17:59 / 04.12.04

There's no way I'm going to be able to take Klarion seriously. He's Eddie Munster for Grodd's sake.

Mario

20:11 / 04.12.04

As it happens, Grant addresses that in the article:

"I wanted to get away from the 'Eddie Munster' look, so I went back to [Jack] Kirby's original Puritan look with some new influences - the leather armor is inspired by paintings of Oliver Cromwell, the 17th century Puritan reformer, and Marilyn Manson's stage wear - and tried to create the poster boy for Nu-Puritan Goth!"

Tripolata

21:03 / 04.12.04

Characters arcs I can see myself buying before Barbelith convinces me to get the rest:

Zatanna, Frankenstein, Black Cop, Bulleteerette, Mr. Miracle

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00:23 / 05.12.04

Yeah! I'm with Klarion all the way, roll on April!

Doesn't Grant just rock? Life on Earth wouldn't be anywhere near the same without him.

I was looking forward to Vimanarama long before I saw this, but now I'm twice as happy.

captain piss

17:26 / 05.12.04

so, I'm not clear on this, are the books going to be released simultaneously, or one after the other?

CameronStewart

17:36 / 05.12.04

They're going to be staggered, so that (I think) two of them come out each month. The entire 7 miniseries will run from February 2005 up to somewhere in early 2006.

John Octave

05:44 / 06.12.04

That is a GREAT tweaking/redesign for Mister Miracle. Really pretty art on Grant's part in general, I gotta say. He's made a woman with a bullet for a head look sexy. That's an accomplishment.

So, from the limited bit of information we have, which book is looking the most promising, d'you think? I for one am most excited for Frankenstein.

Rawk'n'Roll

16:58 / 06.12.04

I've not seen anyone mention it here but does anyone think that the LITG rumour from last week about GM + FQ Superman is kosher?
They definitely seem to be pushing for a Crisis II... could we finally get those two on Supes?

Bobboss
(prev. Uncle Batman)

17:34 / 06.12.04

What, as an ongoing monthly? We've been here before...

Merely Ducard

19:04 / 06.12.04

Guardian. The superhero. The Guardian. The newspaper. As. Part of. The same. Thing.

Okay, that's pretty inspired.

The Falcon

04:21 / 07.12.04

Yeah, it took me about a week to get that.

A beautiful tunnel of ghosts

17:42 / 07.12.04

Games Workshop's Golden Heroes super-hero role-playing game had the same concept about 20 years ago in an article published in their magazine White Dwarf - IIRC it was a parody of The Sun that had a female super-hero working for them. It's probably been used elsewhere but that was what Grant's version reminded me of when I saw it.

CameronStewart

19:17 / 07.12.04

And wait til you see the idea he's had to update the Newsboy Legion...

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