Day 1 – Thursday at SDCC 2008 – Collected Edition News

July 24, 2008
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So yesterday’s news wasn’t exactly from “Day 1″. Wednesday is more like Day 0 or you can even call it Preview Night, if you wish.

The news is starting to come in at this late hour in the East. I was worried earlier today that there would be no news at all. Silly me, eh? It’s San Diego for goodness sake!

On with today’s news from The Con:

  • Agents of Atlas is getting an ongoing series! Jeff Parker hinted at this way back in April 2007 when he came on the podcast. Expect a relisting of the Hardcover – which I chose as the #1 Collected Edition of 2007! All comic books fans, young and old, should have it sitting on their shelf. Besides the great six issue series it’s loaded with extras and the characters original appearances from the 1950′s and it’s all for only $15.
  • Following up on my Roy Thomas interview, Marvel has announced that Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson will be added to the Marvel Illustrated line of books.
  • David Mack will be adapting the Philip K. Dick short story “The Electric Ant,” with Paul Pope covers.
  • Marvel has also announced a follow-up to the classic X-Men crossover event Inferno titled Inferno II: X-Infernus. It will begin in December. I say this because this may give way to a new X-Men Inferno Collected Edition (Premiere?) Hardcover. To the best of my knowledge, Inferno has only been released in trade paperback and that was back in 1996. The entire storyline consists of Uncanny X-Men 239-243, New Mutants 71-73 and X-Factor 36-39. Well worth a read if you get the chance.
  • Guy Davis and Dark Horse has plans to continue The Marquis, first published by Davis in 1997. A new upcoming collection, The Marquis: Inferno, a trade paperback collection of the first two “Marquis” stories, “Danse Macabre” and “Intermezzo, is due out summer/fall 2009. Alongside reprinting both original series it will have a new expanded sketchbook section, a color cover gallery including the guest covers on ‘Danse Macabre’ with really incredible artwork by Matt Wagner, Mike Mignola, Teddy Kristensen, Kelly Jones, Charles Vess and Michael Gaydos, along with the other covers done for the original stories and French editions. The stories are specifically drawn in black and white and grey with the scenes in Hell done in full color reds, and Dave Stewart who does his magic on ‘B.P.R.D.’ will be coming in to recolor the Hell scenes for the new collection too. The upcoming latest installment in the series, The Marquis and the Midwife. should follow in 2010.
  • ICv2 has learned that, based on the overwhelming response to the Watchmen movie trailer accompanying The Dark Knight, DC Comics has ordered a huge new printing of 200,000 copies of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen graphic novel.
  • Rumor: Steven Grant is doing a Vertigo GN. More news on this as I get it.
  • Sneak Peak at Chip Kidd’s slideshow presentation Bat-Manga: The Secret History of Batman in Japan
  • Devil’s Due announced a publishing partnership with French comics house Les Humanoides Associes (commonly known stateside as Humanoids) and may even publish an Omnibus of Humanoids material.

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