NoScans: Some Vaguely Interesting Comics News

[tripodeca113]

Some interesting news about upcoming Astro City, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and the A;TLA comics.





"Astro City #50.Michael Tenicek lost his wife, years ago, to a chronal cataclysm. But he’s not the only one in Astro City whose life has been upended by life among the superheroes. Today, we’ll meet others, learn their stories and see how Michael—and friends—cope with their trauma. A sequel to the Eisner-nominated “The Nearness of You,” considered by many to be ASTRO CITY’s best story ever."

Well that seems like it'll be good, and Astro City does the human side of superheroes really well.

In other news the Avatar: The Last Airbender comics have gotten a new creative team.The new writer is Faith Erin Hicks (she's written the quite good Nameless City graphic novels, based on which it seems like she'll be a pretty good fit) and artist Peter Wartman. Here's the new character designs.




And lastly the final volume of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (which I'll admit I wasn't expecting).



"Tying up the slenderest of plot threads and allusions from the three preceding volumes, The Black Dossier, and the Nemo trilogy into a dazzling and ingenious bow, the world’s most accomplished and bad-tempered artist-writer team will use their most stylistically adventurous outing yet to display the glories of the medium they are leaving; to demonstrate the excitement that attracted them to the field in the first place; and to analyse, critically and entertainingly, the reasons for their departure.

Opening simultaneously in the panic-stricken headquarters of British Military Intelligence, the fabled Ayesha’s lost African city of Kor and the domed citadel of ‘We’ on the devastated Earth of the year 2996, the dense and yet furiously-paced narrative hurtles like an express locomotive across the fictional globe from Lincoln Island to modern America to the Blazing World; from the Jacobean antiquity of Prospero’s Men to the superhero-inundated pastures of the present to the unimaginable reaches of a shimmering science-fiction future. With a cast-list that includes many of the most iconic figures from literature and pop culture, and a tempo that conveys the terrible momentum of inevitable events, this is literally and literarily the story to end all stories."

I think we can all agree that it'll have a lot of references and commentary on modern day society(for better or for worse), but I'm probably just going to wait for Jess Nevins' annotations.

Comments

[riddler13]

Hm. I must confess that I wasn't expecting Tempest either. And like you said, Jess has to do the dirty work before we can read it.

Nor I.

[glprime]

I always need those annotations before fully digesting an LXG work. But it's always worth it.

[alicemacher]

Hi ho, yet another announcement by Moore that he's leaving comics forever. He's said that before, and then come out with such projects as Providence and Cinema Purgatorio. (Both of which I've enjoyed, so I'm not complaining.)

[tripodeca113]

I admit I'm skeptical of that as well.

[locuatico]

To be honest, I do think he already has retired from comics in the sense he no longer has any intention of working for any editorial anymore and he is simply working on his craft.
he mostly publishes through, what? Avatar? Avatar has a policy of "as long as it looks somewhat like a comic, we publish it" which suits Moore just fine. he has a story? they publish it no matter what it is about. (granted, LOEG seems to be published through Top Shelf, but you get my meaning)

[alicemacher]

Those are also the only two publishers which have given him and his artists (mostly Burrows and O'Neill these days) complete free rein. Also, Moore seems to get along well on a personal level with the folks at Avatar and Top Shelf.

[locuatico]

Yeah. I do remember the story of one comic Moore wrote for Avatar (The thing i remember the most about said comic is that, at one point, it involved a woman giving a handjob to a fish-man) and how it came to be because he had mentioned he had money problems to a friend of his in Avatar.

[deathcrist2000]

Ok, I am genuinely curious what Alan Moore's take on Steven Universe is going to be.

[mastermahan]

Garnet lives outside of time and inflicts a crippling codependency on her component gems in order to prevent them from defusing, since ceasing to exist is basically death.

Greg would be a burnt-out wannabe rocker whose extreme fetishes led to him fornicating with a profoundly alien being.

The Cluster is a composite consciousness made of the fragmented minds of millions of war dead.

Honestly, he wouldn't have to change much.

[astrakhan42]

The fusions are also really, really pornographic.

[strejdaking]

Also, Steven turns into insane serial killer crossdresser before he gets his throat slit by Oliver Twist, because he's not as good as a 20's German opera.

[tripodeca113]

The rest of the cast will be Steven's victims. Also they'll be portrayed in a way which makes it clear Moore isn't all that knowledgeable about them.

[cypherfdp]

I have really mixed feelings about a sequel to The Nearness of You.

[tripodeca113]

I think I'll be okay with it if, it's more of a looser sequel, about a new group of characters, dealing with loosing loved ones, and Mike having a small role running a support group or something like that. But follow ups to beloved stories, do have a poor track record.

[icon_uk]

Yeah, it's a risky move in terms of messing with perfection, but I think Busiek has earned the benefit of the doubt.

[janegray]

I'm glad the Avatar comics are continuing :)

[trooper924]

Here's hoping that Tempest doesn't devolve into complaining about how much modern fiction sucks like Century did.

Because as much as I do love a lot of Moore's work, that was pretty off-putting.

[zachbeacon]

Have any of the LOEG stories after the second one been any good? Black Dossier was unreadable garbage and I never bothered with the Top Shelf stuff

[leoboiko]

yayyy more Orlando! <3

[remial]

if Kevin shows up in the Avatar comics I will lose my shit.