6 entries tagged
comics
For some reason there are a lot of comic-book adaptations of
H. G. Well’s War of the World:
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Alan Moore
and
Kevin
O’Neill,
League
of Extraordinary Gentlemen II
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A retelling of Wells’s story in a Victorian-era world
where every fantasy tale (set on Mars or otherwise) is true
simultaneously. Incredibly baroque tripods.
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Ian Edginton and D’Israeli D’Emon
D’raftsman,
‘Scarlet
Traces’,
Judge Dredd Megazine issues 4.16 to 4.18 (September to November 2002).
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Set a decade after the War of the Worlds, London
has been rebuilt with Martian technology. The resulting
hybrid tech has to be seen to be believed. The web site
linked to above has all the DVD-style extras, including
production sketches, deleted scenes, and making-of
documentary. Since the strip was originally produced for
on-line presentation, some of the cut scenes are animated!
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Alan Davis and Mark Farmer, Killraven
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The set-up is once again a decade or so after the Martian
invasion, except this time the Martians won and humanity has
been reduced to scavenging in the ruins and performing in the
gladiator pits. Cue an escape of scantily-clad gladiator
slaves. Some message-boards state this is a revival of an old
Marvel character (and the
name does sound familiar), but I cannot find an official
Alan Davis, Mark Farmer, or Killraven web-site to
link to.
I have a nagging feeling that there was another one
I was going to put in this list, but if so its name escapes
me for the moment... :-)
If you like slice-o’-life comics, check out Small Stories, a
web site of comics strips by Derek Kirk Kim (I lost the
address to this site years ago but it was mentioned in Ernie
Hsiung’s weblog). There are lots of stips there, some
long (Same
Difference is some 79 pages long), some short (such
as Valentine’s
Day). He says he’s working on getting some of
them ready for a printed book. I can’t wait...
I found Vera
Brosgol’s on-line comic Return to Sender (via
Derek Kirk
Kim’s links page)
just in time for her to announce a
short hiatus while she works on something for Girlamatic (a
soon-to-be-launched web site for female comics creators, it
seems). The whole strip is in a a very pretty pen and wash
style (actually the black ink is real and the blue wash is done
with Photoshop), giving it a very distinctive look.
We first met David Goodman
and his minicomics when he and his brother Arthur
and some friends attended CAPTION 2001. Now
he’s got his own web site, where he has published most of his
strips, sketchbooks and
reviews of things like CAPTION
2001. He’s also editor of an anthology zine Zip Gun
Presents and is soliciting submissions.
An on-going webcomic since forever, Scary-Go-Round
is John Allison’s successor to Bobbins. After
the first story arc, a lot of the old characters have slipped
back in as if nothing had happened. Whimsical adventures with
chemistry students reduced to sentient gasses, zombies,
international spies, science fairs, perky young women and
absent-minded men. Fun!
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Here is my understanding of the word retcon and my part in its coining.
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