Forthcoming titles:
The Highwaymen sounds like a great idea for a Hollywood buddy movie, albeit a geriatric one. Able “Speed” Monroe and Alistair McQueen were the ultimate couriers and they’re coming out of retirement for one last job, transporting a top secret package for a dead President. Writers Marc Bernardin and Adam Freeman team with artist Lee Garbett to bring this one to life. I’d love to see Sidney Poitier and Clint Eastwood in the inevitable film version. Coming from Wildstorm June 20. Anticipation factor: 7
The Weapon is another title that sounds like it would make a great film. A high tech invention, evil assassins and an ancient mystical martial art – this sounds perfect for Jet Li! Fred van Lente and Scott Koblish bring us this four issue actionfest. Coming from Platinum Studios in June. Anticipation factor: 7
Black Summer is a new series from my current favourite comic writer Warren Ellis. Here Warren once again turns his fevered imagination to the superhero genre but this promises a more explicit take than the usual Marvel/DC fare. Art is by Juan Jose Ryp. The eight issue series from Avatar starts in August but watch out for issue 0 before that. Anticipation factor: 8
Sheena Queen of the Jungle gets reinvented for the modern age by Robert Rodi and Matt Merhoff from a concept by Die Hard scriptwriter Stephen E. de Souza. Coming in June from Devil’s Due. Anticipation factor: 7
Tales from the Crypt is back! I’m not sure whether to be excited or disgusted but either way the bi-monthly series promises two stories each issue in the Crypt tradition. Coming from Papercutz in June. Anticipation factor: 6
Crécy could be looked on as an attempt to cash in on the success of 300 as it deals with another epic historical battle between vastly mismatched forces but with Warren Ellis (yes him again!) writing it will almost certainly be much more than that. Anyway you can keep your Greeks and Persians this is the English sticking it to the French! Art is from Raulo Caceres. An Avatar graphic novel coming in June. Anticipation factor: 9
Doktor Sleepless is another new series from the prolific Ellis (does the man never sleep!), this time he’s joined by artist Ivan Rodriguez. I don’t know much about this, although I have seen the script for page one and it sound like it will be something pretty wild with Ellis in full unfettered mode. Coming from Avatar in July. Anticipation factor: 8
Avengers Classic promises to do for the Avengers what Classic X-Men did for that team, namely not just reprinting the original stories but also expanding on them with an all new back-up tales. As well as the Lee and Kirby original Avengers story this first issue also features tales by Dwayne McDuffie with Mike Oeming and artist Kevin Maguire teamed with none other than Stan “The Man” Lee! Coming from Marvel June13. Anticipation factor: 7
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