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This post was on the moderated newsgroup this morning:
So if I'm counting right, as of October there'll be three monthly JMS titles and I think the Silver Surfer mini should be around that time, too.
Jan
Originally posted by JMS
A quick drive-by promotion....
This past week, the solicitations from Marvel went out which included
the first introductory issue of my new book for Marvel/Icon (their
creator owned line), "The Book of Lost Souls." In addition to Colleen
Doran doing the art (which is just gorgeous, lush and rich and
textured), this is a regular monthly book (as opposesd to Dream Police,
which was a one-shot), and it's a contemporary dark fantasy, something
I've only ventured into on rare occasions...so for me, it's a lot of
fun.
In tone, the closest the book comes to would be something like Sandman,
or my prior series, Midnight Nation, which to this day stands as my
favorite story in the comics form because it was a very personal story
for me. The Book of Lost Souls also fits that category because it is
just as personal in many ways.
<snip most of the solicitation until we get to:>
THE BOOK OF LOST SOULS #1
Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
Pencils & Cover by COLLEEN DORAN
The destinies of most people are defined early on. Then there are the
others - the lost. Those whose numbers aren't in yet, who could go
toward the light or toward the darkness - indeed, who could be tipped
one direction or another. And everything starts with the book. That's
what Jonathan is about to discover. When he took a suicide plunge off
the London Bridge more than a century ago, the last place he expected
to land was on his feet, in the present, standing at the entrance to a
tunnel into a world of mysteries beyond his wildest imagination. A
world of powers and principalities and, above all, rules that he'd best
learn quickly. Or he'll have to deal with the Dark Man. And what the
Dark Man can't turn, he devours.
**********
It's the kind of story I love in that it allows me to ask the big
questions, while answering them on a personal, intimate level. It's a
very quirky book -- sometimes funny, sometimes dark, sometimes just
weird and at times oddly romantic -- and totally unlike anything else
Marvel is publishing, which makes it kind of an experiment for them as
well. They haven't done much at all in the urban fantasy/magic realism
school, so they're looking to this to see how it works for them.
And best of all...for those who've been here for a while...it has a
talking cat named Mystery, who is based a bit on Buddy, the cat I
rescued from an underground pipe now two years ago. So Buddy has hit
the big time...and of course now he has an agent, a manager, a
girlfriend, his own driver...there's just no living with him.
Anyway...they're taking orders for the book now, and I really strongly
commend it to folks who liked the moral texture of B5, and the personal
stories, and the intimacy of something like Midnight Nation. And
Colleen is doing some of her best work in this thing, in my view, and
if you know her work from other books and her Lord of the Rings art,
you know that's saying a lot.
jms
This past week, the solicitations from Marvel went out which included
the first introductory issue of my new book for Marvel/Icon (their
creator owned line), "The Book of Lost Souls." In addition to Colleen
Doran doing the art (which is just gorgeous, lush and rich and
textured), this is a regular monthly book (as opposesd to Dream Police,
which was a one-shot), and it's a contemporary dark fantasy, something
I've only ventured into on rare occasions...so for me, it's a lot of
fun.
In tone, the closest the book comes to would be something like Sandman,
or my prior series, Midnight Nation, which to this day stands as my
favorite story in the comics form because it was a very personal story
for me. The Book of Lost Souls also fits that category because it is
just as personal in many ways.
<snip most of the solicitation until we get to:>
THE BOOK OF LOST SOULS #1
Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
Pencils & Cover by COLLEEN DORAN
The destinies of most people are defined early on. Then there are the
others - the lost. Those whose numbers aren't in yet, who could go
toward the light or toward the darkness - indeed, who could be tipped
one direction or another. And everything starts with the book. That's
what Jonathan is about to discover. When he took a suicide plunge off
the London Bridge more than a century ago, the last place he expected
to land was on his feet, in the present, standing at the entrance to a
tunnel into a world of mysteries beyond his wildest imagination. A
world of powers and principalities and, above all, rules that he'd best
learn quickly. Or he'll have to deal with the Dark Man. And what the
Dark Man can't turn, he devours.
**********
It's the kind of story I love in that it allows me to ask the big
questions, while answering them on a personal, intimate level. It's a
very quirky book -- sometimes funny, sometimes dark, sometimes just
weird and at times oddly romantic -- and totally unlike anything else
Marvel is publishing, which makes it kind of an experiment for them as
well. They haven't done much at all in the urban fantasy/magic realism
school, so they're looking to this to see how it works for them.
And best of all...for those who've been here for a while...it has a
talking cat named Mystery, who is based a bit on Buddy, the cat I
rescued from an underground pipe now two years ago. So Buddy has hit
the big time...and of course now he has an agent, a manager, a
girlfriend, his own driver...there's just no living with him.
Anyway...they're taking orders for the book now, and I really strongly
commend it to folks who liked the moral texture of B5, and the personal
stories, and the intimacy of something like Midnight Nation. And
Colleen is doing some of her best work in this thing, in my view, and
if you know her work from other books and her Lord of the Rings art,
you know that's saying a lot.
jms
Jan
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