Strangers in Paradise sequel announced

[cardinalximenez]

Terry Moore has previously announced that Francine and Katchoo would return in time for SiPs 20th anniversary next year, and has now announced what form their return would take (spoilers for those who haven´t read the entire series)...



...A full-length novel with the occasional illustrations throughout. I´d hoped for a comic, but a new SiP story is cause for celebration any which way, shape or form. Mr. Moore elaborated in an interview with Afterellen.com:

Will the 2013 story be a single issue or a mini-series?

The Strangers in Paradise story for 2013 will be a full-length novel, with some illustrations. There are several reason for that: I have too much story to draw. I want to write novels, and more specifically, I want SiP to be my first novel. I don't want to make another series that suffers from my usual low orders in the comic book direct market. It's crazy for me to keep making mainstream fiction and then release it only in stores catering to Marvel-DC iconography. My orders are the same today as they were in 1996. The message is clear: that is all I can do in the comics market. If I want SiP to grow, I'm going to have to add on another market. The SiP novel will be my crossover book.

What made you decide to revisit Kat and Fran?

Well, to be honest, I never actually left. I just shushed you guys out of the house. I went on to work on other projects, but I have not mentally moved on or moved away from the girls. I can't, they're too deeply ingrained in me. I always knew I wanted to make more, but I thought if I took a break and stretched myself on other stories and art styles, I'd come back a better creator and make something fresh. Now with the 20th anniversary of SiP next year, the time feels right. And, I'm amazed that the book hasn't faded away. Thrilled is a better word. Readers are very loyal to Francine and Katchoo. I've had a lot of encouragement.

Can you give us any hints about where the story will pick up?

It's in the now. You remember them as being interesting and cute ... back then. But the world has changed, we've changed, so we may also worry they'll come back looking dated. If they did come back trying to do what they did before, it wouldn't work, it'd be embarrassing, like a '70s band reunion. But they are certain people who you see after some years and they have grown and evolved with the world and you encounter them and they blow you away. You think, "Holy crap, they're cooler now than before!" That's the impression I have in my mind with the new story: I saw them today and they are so freaking cool. Now, what they're up to, I'm not saying... yet.

Well, there you have it. Terry also provided this image of what Francine and Katchoo are up to these days:




Sweet...Now back to my search for an affordable copy of the SiP Omnibus edition. Here´s hoping we´ll get a proper, mutual kiss between them, this was as close as it got in the original series:

Comments

[greenmask]

We're trying to get away from scans bunged on for legality. Since you've got official art to share and your so-called legality scan is actually pretty relevant, can you nip out the "oh for legality" bit and add in the barest minimum of context? Like, "for new readers, here's what the relationship was like" or something. Cheers!

Actually p.s. If you could add some tags (Inc NSFW) that would be a help, thanks.

[cardinalximenez]

I tried adding tags for title and characters, but got an error message stating that adding those tags would exceed the 5000 tag limit, and was told to remove them except for the Terry Moore and Nsfw tag.

[greenmask]

That's fine then! If you've checked the existing tags for anything relevant you can think of (if sounds like you have) then all's well. Thanks.

[nezchan]

It's just the font I know, but I cannot see that website address as anything but "Terry Moore flirt.com" And you know, it's fine like that.

[riddler13]

YES! Strangers in Paradise!

And Francine's looking hot after her straight marriage. Kat really did wonders to her!

I'm no artist..furthest thing from it actually...

[victory_or_death]

But is anyone else reminded of Frank Cho?

Re: I'm no artist..furthest thing from it actually...

[kamino_neko]

Yeah...Moore and Cho's styles are actually strikingly similar.

Good.

But similar.

[pallas_athena]

I liked SiP and bought it all, though in retrospect I think the first three arcs (ending with "It's a Good Life!") were the best.

Having read it all, including the bits where Moore tries to write prose, I can say with authority that unless his prose has improved a *lot*, I won't be reading this. Even to find out what happened to Katina and Francine.

Towards the end of SiP, the three protagonists didn't even feel like characters any more-- just constructs that Moore was using to manipulate his audience. I kept reading for narrative closure (more fool I) but was relieved when it ended so I could finally get off the crazy train. And now he wants us to get back on? Hell no.

Pretty picture, though.

[riddler13]

Ah see, that's why I'm still a fan! The three initial arcs are ALL you get outside of the US, if you don't resort to online shopping! :)