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Okay, I've made some notes from JMS's spotlight and there's some great info about the upcoming comics. JMS told so much at the time there was just no grasping it all.
Sidekick - JMS says he's always liked the idea of the sidekick - kind of 'Robin the boy hostage'. In this comic, The Cowl (because he wears a cowl) is murdered leaving Flyboy ('cause he's a boy who can fly) to try to solf the mystery while struggling to be accepted, even to accepting corporate sponsorships. It's a descent into madness.
Falling Angel - an ordinary young lady, Angel Mendez, sees an old woman dying in an alley - Lady Night. Sudenly the apparation is absorbed into Angel who tries to reform Lady Night while the latter pulls her twoard doing wrong.
Ten Grand - another ordinary guy...named Joe, who's a police investigator investigating a cult. The woman he's deeply in love with is killed and he's transformed. He can be hurt but he can't die unless he's pursuing a case of such justness and right that he can die for one minute - during which he can be with his love. He charges ten grand to accept a case to weed out losers and bring real people to him for help.
Guardians - is set in a world where all the power is Corporate and many (most?) work for the Guardian Corporation. The Point of View character has no interest in the corporations until one day he's called to a murder scene and one of the Guardians has been murdered. He's given the task of finding out who did what to whom and why.
These are due to start coming out in the Spring of 2013. Given what JMS said about being off of monthlies, I'd assumed that they'd be mini- or maxi-series but it looks like JMS has another way of approaching it, as per this interview I just found today:
Some photos I took of the posters and postcards that were handed out at Comic-Con are here in case anybody missed them.
Jan
Sidekick - JMS says he's always liked the idea of the sidekick - kind of 'Robin the boy hostage'. In this comic, The Cowl (because he wears a cowl) is murdered leaving Flyboy ('cause he's a boy who can fly) to try to solf the mystery while struggling to be accepted, even to accepting corporate sponsorships. It's a descent into madness.
Falling Angel - an ordinary young lady, Angel Mendez, sees an old woman dying in an alley - Lady Night. Sudenly the apparation is absorbed into Angel who tries to reform Lady Night while the latter pulls her twoard doing wrong.
Ten Grand - another ordinary guy...named Joe, who's a police investigator investigating a cult. The woman he's deeply in love with is killed and he's transformed. He can be hurt but he can't die unless he's pursuing a case of such justness and right that he can die for one minute - during which he can be with his love. He charges ten grand to accept a case to weed out losers and bring real people to him for help.
Guardians - is set in a world where all the power is Corporate and many (most?) work for the Guardian Corporation. The Point of View character has no interest in the corporations until one day he's called to a murder scene and one of the Guardians has been murdered. He's given the task of finding out who did what to whom and why.
These are due to start coming out in the Spring of 2013. Given what JMS said about being off of monthlies, I'd assumed that they'd be mini- or maxi-series but it looks like JMS has another way of approaching it, as per this interview I just found today:
And our plan is, four titles, and weÆll launch them in stages. So title one comes out by itself for about six months. Then title two comes out and the two will be running side-by-side. Then either four or six months later the third one comes out. First one is done. And then weÆll take a break on each one of these. Like the British serials. TheyÆll shoot like five or six episodes, then stop, reassess, then do the next batch. I want to have time. When youÆre doing a monthly book, youÆre like a man racing after a bus. YouÆre breathless and red-faced. I want to build in quality control. WeÆll do 12 issues, stop, put them into a graphic novel. While youÆre doing that, evaluate what you did right and what you did wrong, course correct. Take advantage of that gap. Then do the next 12. So itÆs a monthly but not a monthly. ItÆs a series of 12 and 12 and 12 and 12. And if we want to do one or two fill-in issues, we can do that.
Jan
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