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7 Soldiers

 
  

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Triplets
23:58 / 06.02.05
Is she the Buxom Bulleteer? Cripes. Those things will get shorn off, shorely?
 
 
diz
05:15 / 07.02.05
oh, wow. i am in love with Pascal Ferry's take on Mister Miracle.

i'm totally digging his work on Adam Strange. it's one of my favorite books on the shelves right now.
 
 
The Falcon
16:25 / 07.02.05
Paquette's women are always, uh, 'well-built'.

Adam Strange is great fun, diz, agreed. Diggle and Ferry have the action set-piece in their collective pocket.
 
 
Billuccho!
20:46 / 07.02.05
Dammit, the one time I end up without a copy of the Horizon mag, something like this shows up in it. The universe detests me. Alas. Anyhoo, I think I'm looking forward to Mister Miracle the most.

But, er, the Frankenstein image isn't showing up... and that's the one I'm most intrigued by but have seen nothing of.
 
 
Axolotl
08:26 / 08.02.05
They all look pretty damn cool. I can see this is going to play merry hell with my attempts at budgeting my comic expenses.
 
 
Eloi Tsabaoth
11:54 / 08.02.05
The Guardian cover is almost Bollandesque.
Oh god, I used the word Bollandesque. Society will never take me back now...
 
 
The Falcon
13:41 / 08.02.05
Frankenstein?
 
 
The Falcon
13:42 / 08.02.05
Frankenstein. Yes. ^
 
 
CameronStewart
14:55 / 08.02.05
You're not the first person to say that cover looks like Bolland.

When I was a kid I used to meticulously copy Brian Bolland artwork from 2000AD and his Animal Man covers, spend DAYS and DAYS on a single piece - but I would of course change the superficial details so that Judge Dredd was now Mr Freeze, or Animal Man was now Zenith (you know, so they were "original" drawings). Eventually I got fed up with all the millions of tiny lines and started trying to strip down my style to the basics and started really getting into animation artists like Bruce Timm, Shane Glines and co. but many people (including Bruce Timm himself) could still pick out the Bolland influence.

Now I've started getting back into a more detailed rendering style and the Bolland comparisons are coming thick and fast...I still like Bolland's work, but the comparison worries me a little bit, I'm not sure if that's the road I want to go down.

Anyway, I'm hoping that was a compliment.

I wonder if I can post the cover for issue 2....
 
 
Keith, like a scientist
15:55 / 08.02.05
what are the relevant release dates for this first load of Seven Soldiers issues? I keep getting lost trying to find release dates...
 
 
Billuccho!
21:10 / 08.02.05
#0's out this month, Guardian and Shining Knight sometime in February. You can always check out DC's website.

And yeah, Cam, that's some fine (and, indeed, Bollandesque) linework on that Guardian pic.

Hey, Frankenstein looks neat. I *do* wish his arms were two different lengths, but that looks like Corben, there. Very very snazzy. I await.
 
 
The Natural Way
21:12 / 08.02.05
Do hurry up and find out, Cameron. I want to spoil myself silly.
 
 
Mr Tricks
21:25 / 08.02.05
according to DC:

SEVEN SOLDIERS #0 2/23/05

SEVEN SOLDIERS: SHINING KNIGHT #1 3/9/05
SEVEN SOLDIERS: GUARDIAN #1 (OF 4) 3/23/05

SEVEN SOLDIERS: ZATANNA #1 (OF 4) 4/6/05
SEVEN SOLDIERS: KLARION THE WITCH BOY #1 (OF 4) 4/20/05


heh heh "four twenty"
 
 
CameronStewart
22:13 / 08.02.05
Eh, Pappuce, there's actually no spoiler content at all on the second cover. The decision was that all of the second issue covers would just be headshots of each of the seven, so there's nothing really to give away any plot details.

I'm just wary of posting something before it's officially released online by DC. I have to be professional SOMEhow...
 
 
FinderWolf
13:14 / 15.02.05
the second cover is out now on DC's solicits, with the following:

SEVEN SOLDIERS: GUARDIAN #2

Written by Grant Morrison
Art and cover by Cameron Stewart

Grant Morrison’s towering SEVEN SOLDIERS saga continues in a bimonthly miniseries with stunning art by Cameron Stewart (SEAGUY)! The Guardian's encounter with the rival subway pirates NoBeard and AllBeard turns into a wild race through a labyrinth of secret Masonic subway tunnels underneath New York City. Their goal? To find a radioactive gem known as the Foundation Stone of Manhattan, an object that the dreaded Sheeda wish to possess and use for their own nefarious ways!
On sale May 18 • 2 of 4 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US

There's also a bit about Shining Knight, but it's not as cool as the above.

THE BEARDS ARE BACK WITH MORRISON, BABY!!!

NoBeard, AllBeard, maybe SheBeard too?
 
 
CameronStewart
13:35 / 15.02.05
Ah, okay, there we go:

 
 
The Natural Way
20:36 / 15.02.05
Rock!
 
 
H3ct0r L1m4
20:46 / 15.02.05
\m/

hey, didn't DC do a "close-up" cover sometimes during Morrison's JLA run? I remember it had Martian Manhunter on it.

"NoBeard and AllBeard", "Masonic tunnels", "foundation stone of Manhattan". too damn sold.
 
 
FinderWolf
23:50 / 15.02.05
Beautiful cover, Cam - intense and enigmatic.
 
 
Eloi Tsabaoth
15:12 / 16.02.05
Second cover: Also a little Bolland. But mostly Stewart. Which is a good thing.
 
 
Krug
15:43 / 16.02.05
This is the only 7S book I really can't wait for.

Go Cam!
 
 
Triplets
18:05 / 16.02.05
Grant Morrison’s towering SEVEN SOLDIERS saga continues in a bimonthly miniseries with stunning art by Cameron Stewart (SEAGUY)! The Guardian's encounter with the rival subway pirates NoBeard and AllBeard turns into a wild race through a labyrinth of secret Masonic subway tunnels underneath New York City. Their goal? To find a radioactive gem known as the Foundation Stone of Manhattan, an object that the dreaded Sheeda wish to possess and use for their own nefarious ways!

You had me at hello
 
 
Spaniel
18:57 / 16.02.05
Rock, indeed.
 
 
FinderWolf
18:58 / 16.02.05
how is the logo for the guardian, Cameron? (Or is it the tabloid newspaper logo we saw in the promo art for the first issue?) Is it Rian Hughes-designed, like Seaguy's wonderful logo?

(I understand if you can't truly voice your opinions if you're not crazy about the DC-assigned logo)
 
 
CameronStewart
14:09 / 17.02.05
The logo is the typical red tabloid newspaper banner, I don't think it's been shown yet.

And I designed it myself!

Unless they've changed it since I sent it in.
 
 
FinderWolf
14:58 / 17.02.05
Very cool, Cam!
 
 
CameronStewart
16:06 / 17.02.05


There it is, although the type in the shield and under the title will likely be changed. This was just my mockup.
 
 
The Natural Way
16:44 / 17.02.05
Has anyone mentioned the fact that DC has loads of preview stuff up - Zatanna, Klarion and the first 5 or so pages of 7S #0.
 
 
Ganesh
19:05 / 17.02.05
(Secret) Beard Wars! I love it!
 
 
The Natural Way
19:16 / 17.02.05
Link to Preview Extreme!
 
 
The Natural Way
19:21 / 17.02.05
Just scroll down the page.....
 
 
Yotsuba & Benjamin!
19:51 / 17.02.05
Holy crapnuts, that was 12 pages of GOOD. And here I was worried this was going to be Grant in Just Plain Super-Hero Mode. That opening sequence was tres okay.
 
 
Aertho
20:15 / 17.02.05
GODDAMMIT

I was totally hoping to shut the door on comics for a while. Promethea finished, NXM lost its "new", Morrison was easing me out with 3 ish minis, —my interests were winding down to a nice time to exit.

Why oh why am I excited to see a naked man drift from Charon's skiff into geometric memories? Why can't I just play foozball with the other boys?
 
 
The Natural Way
20:24 / 17.02.05
Ii don't really know what Grant's "just plain super-hero mode" is. JLA? X-Men? Seaguy? Marvel Boy? Arkham? His recent brush w/ super-pets?

Spoilers:

Zatanna's recounting of her Dad's(?) stage antics made me chuckle. Super-heroes in therapy w/out all that 80's "See how we deconstruct the archetype?" boringness? Excellent stuff. At least I assume we're viddying a therapy session.

Irving's art rocks also. I felt sorry for the zombie(?) - such poor, lumbering maligned oafs - and that inquisitor chap is very scary indeed; as is his familiar. And, woohoo!, Tinker eats fairies! STIIIIIIIIIINK!

As for #0: fantastic. Weird, creepy and total horror-show, doomed super-hero stuff. I recall someone complaining that the Sheeda Spine-Riders weren't all that scary - Weeeell, thay make me very uncomfortable. That sequence where one of them swims through Glob towards the Knight's submerged face was horrid. They're little people, imps etc., but they're also iterations of Outer Church squid-beetles and for that they must be greatly feared. You want to see a Spine Rider? Go back and re-read American Deathcamp and say hello to the outer-bug lodged in Boy's neck.

God, I love the tonal shift from JLA Classfied to this.

So who are the Seven Unknown Men who abduct The Spider?

What happens to him?

Everything is excellent.

Real Meals

Proper Food

IT'S DINNER TIME!
 
 
The Natural Way
20:49 / 17.02.05
What "memories", Chad?

The Whip's?
 
  

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