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- In the spirit of my Shatter post, I had a long piece in my head about that other great 80's genre: the Post-Apocalyptic. However ... time is preventing me from doing a full write-up on the Wasteland preview Oni kindly sent me, but in short: give it a try. I'm struck by a parallel to Battlestar Galactica: much like the miniseries that launched BSG, Wasteland's opening issue creates a detailed world, interesting characters ... and blows it all to smithereens, leaving room for a new status quo. Though the issue serves as a lot of setup, it's dense and chewy and action-packed and has some damn gorgeous art from Christopher Mitten. Check out a sample, if you don't trust me.
- Bryan Lee O'Malley has posted a lot of sketchbook scans on his Flickr account. Wonderful "behind the scenes" stuff for the Scottheads like myself.
- In the grand tradition of Paper Lion comes Harvey Jerkwater's brilliant The Knave and the Bold!
- Dave Taylor has a great, detailed interview with the creators behind another attempt at Shakespearean manga. I'm impressed with their approach of re-setting the stories, concentrating on entertainment value, and keeping the verse.
- How the heck did Postcards score Harvey freakin' Pekar? Jason tells the tale ...
2 comments:
I flipped through Wasteland at the LCBS this afternoon, reading the first 10-12 pages or so, and it just didn't grab me. Looked nice enough, but screamed "wait-for-the-trade" and fell victim to my new, stricter criteria for sampling floppies from the indie ranks.
I picked up Iron West, though, which looked interesting, grabbed me within its first 10 pages and is an OGN. I'm much more willing to take a $14.99 chance on a complete story than drop $2.99 a couplafew times for something that may never see completion.
but in this case it's 48 pages for 2.99, that's half an OGN right there.
Anyway, the sample looks awesome.
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