rascal_father
19-07-2005, 09:07 AM
DC held their Vertigo: Looking Over the Edge panel this afternoon, and we had detailed interviews about two of the projects announced, Brian Wood’s DMZ and Douglas Rushkoff’s Testament. here’s look at some preview images from the panel, along with a few basic details of what you're looking at.
http://www.newsarama.com/SDCC05/DC/Vertigo/Vess_Fables_Promosmall.jpg
- Fables: 1,001 Nights of Snowfall is an original graphic novel due next year with a framing sequence by Charles Vess and art by Mark Buckingham, James Jean, Mark Wheatley, and John Bolton. The story is set in the early days of Fabletown, when Snow White was sent to the lands of “Arabian Nights”.
http://www.newsarama.com/SDCC05/DC/Vertigo/JACK_Cv1.jpg
- Jack Of Fables is another Fables spin-off by Willingham and Mathew Sturgis – this time a new monthly series, with art by Tony Akins and covers by James Jean. The series is about Jack on the road and before long, “in deep trouble”.
http://www.newsarama.com/SDCC05/DC/Vertigo/PRBD_Cv.jpg
- Pride Of Baghdad is an 2006 OGN by Brian K. Vaughan and artist Niko Henrichon set in war-torn Iraq, where an escaped pride of lions struggle to stay together and avoid the deadly conflict “in a world they can never hope to comprehend.”
http://www.newsarama.com/SDCC05/DC/Vertigo/CGN_Cv1CLR.jpg
- Writer/artist Rick Veitch’s Can't Get No is another 2006 OGN, about an up-and-coming businessman whose world becomes confused when he wakes up to find himself marked from head-to-toe with “super-indelible, permanent ink”. Now a freakish outsider, he goes on a cross-country odyssey into a world where civilizations rules no longer apply.
http://www.newsarama.com/SDCC05/DC/Vertigo/Sloth_Promo2.jpg
- Love & Rockets’ Gilbert Hernandez’s writes and illustrates the b&w OGN Sloth about a teenager who escapes his miserable life by willing himself into a year long coma. When he awakens, he can only move at a snail’s pace.
http://www.newsarama.com/SDCC05/DC/Vertigo/exterminators1small.jpg
- The Exterminators is an ongoing monthly series debuting in January 2006 by writer Simon Oliver and artist Tony Moore. Henry, a new member of an LA-based pest-control firm begins to see the world from the POV of bugs, and begins to understand insects are truly Earth’s dominant life form.
http://www.newsarama.com/SDCC05/DC/Vertigo/STV2_Cv20.jpg
- Richard Corben returns to October’s Swamp Thing #20 as the Swamp Thing tries to escape reality by creating smaller and smaller versions of himself, until he reaches a subatomic universe, where he then encounters John Constantine.
http://www.newsarama.com/SDCC05/DC/Vertigo/fountainCvrsmall.jpg
- Finally, DC showed an images from filmmaker Darren Aronofsky’s the upcoming OGN The Fountain, with art by painter Kent Williams and based on the New Regency and Warner Bros. film starring Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz.
http://www.newsarama.com/SDCC05/DC/Vertigo/Vess_Fables_Promosmall.jpg
- Fables: 1,001 Nights of Snowfall is an original graphic novel due next year with a framing sequence by Charles Vess and art by Mark Buckingham, James Jean, Mark Wheatley, and John Bolton. The story is set in the early days of Fabletown, when Snow White was sent to the lands of “Arabian Nights”.
http://www.newsarama.com/SDCC05/DC/Vertigo/JACK_Cv1.jpg
- Jack Of Fables is another Fables spin-off by Willingham and Mathew Sturgis – this time a new monthly series, with art by Tony Akins and covers by James Jean. The series is about Jack on the road and before long, “in deep trouble”.
http://www.newsarama.com/SDCC05/DC/Vertigo/PRBD_Cv.jpg
- Pride Of Baghdad is an 2006 OGN by Brian K. Vaughan and artist Niko Henrichon set in war-torn Iraq, where an escaped pride of lions struggle to stay together and avoid the deadly conflict “in a world they can never hope to comprehend.”
http://www.newsarama.com/SDCC05/DC/Vertigo/CGN_Cv1CLR.jpg
- Writer/artist Rick Veitch’s Can't Get No is another 2006 OGN, about an up-and-coming businessman whose world becomes confused when he wakes up to find himself marked from head-to-toe with “super-indelible, permanent ink”. Now a freakish outsider, he goes on a cross-country odyssey into a world where civilizations rules no longer apply.
http://www.newsarama.com/SDCC05/DC/Vertigo/Sloth_Promo2.jpg
- Love & Rockets’ Gilbert Hernandez’s writes and illustrates the b&w OGN Sloth about a teenager who escapes his miserable life by willing himself into a year long coma. When he awakens, he can only move at a snail’s pace.
http://www.newsarama.com/SDCC05/DC/Vertigo/exterminators1small.jpg
- The Exterminators is an ongoing monthly series debuting in January 2006 by writer Simon Oliver and artist Tony Moore. Henry, a new member of an LA-based pest-control firm begins to see the world from the POV of bugs, and begins to understand insects are truly Earth’s dominant life form.
http://www.newsarama.com/SDCC05/DC/Vertigo/STV2_Cv20.jpg
- Richard Corben returns to October’s Swamp Thing #20 as the Swamp Thing tries to escape reality by creating smaller and smaller versions of himself, until he reaches a subatomic universe, where he then encounters John Constantine.
http://www.newsarama.com/SDCC05/DC/Vertigo/fountainCvrsmall.jpg
- Finally, DC showed an images from filmmaker Darren Aronofsky’s the upcoming OGN The Fountain, with art by painter Kent Williams and based on the New Regency and Warner Bros. film starring Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz.