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Absolute Promethea/Seven Soldiers?

dragonstout

23:16 / 31.07.06

Since Cameron Stewart and J.H. Williams III frequent these boards (or used to, at least), I'm wondering if either of them has any clue as to whether or when there will be a fancy hardcover edition of either Promethea (recolored, as Williams has said) or Seven Soldiers. Thanks!

CameronStewart

13:15 / 02.08.06

No idea about Seven Soldiers. We just won a Best Limited Series Eisner, though, so I guess anything's possible...

Sniv

13:56 / 02.08.06

I think the best way to do a Seven Soldiers HC would be do individually bind each mini in its own small hardcover volume and have them all in a luvverly slipcase. I think it'd be the only way to do justice to the modular way the series is built, apart from binding each issue in a ladybird-book sized volume so you can read it whatever way you like. I've read the series three times through so far, and in a different combination of issues each time and it's great fun every time. I think it would lose a lot of this appeal to the series if bound in a single volume.

Of course, they've got to finish the bugger first...

Mark Parsons

02:44 / 03.08.06

RE Promethea

I got together an online petition for a Promethea Absolute Edition with the blessing of a member of the creative team. Lots of people signed it (got an announcement on some cool blogs such as Emerald City & Kung Fu Monkey) but alas it was all for naught as my "co-conspirator," a guy named Guido, dropped from the face of the earth along with the access passwords for the petition site. Bad boy, Guido.

I still have hope that there will be a nice edition of the series, and Dunbier indicated somewhere that it's certainly a possibility. Time will tell.

Would love to see SS in HC format, although I prefer the "as they were published" structure that the trades follow. In a perfect, print on demand world, we'd get two options: publication order or series of four reprints...

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

16:05 / 03.08.06

The ideal (though ridiculously expensive and never likely to happen) solution for 7S would be a box set of reprints of all the comics.

Actually, what WOULD be good, and slightly more plausible, would be to release a box, including timeline and stuff, for those of us who bought the issues.

Damn. I wish I was more artistic. I'd make my own damn box.

dragonstout

20:20 / 04.08.06

To furioso: yeah, I signed that petition years ago, and was posting here wondering whether it had gotten anything done...

8===>Q: alyn

02:28 / 05.08.06

I think they should publish 7S as individual laminated sheets in a three ring binder, so you can actually collate all the events of every issue, you know? And maybe pop-ups.

Stoat, take some measurements. I will make you a box.

8===>Q: alyn

02:37 / 05.08.06

5t02t0rz. Stoathelopithicus. The Stoat Who Would Be King.

Mark Parsons

22:48 / 05.08.06

"To furioso: yeah, I signed that petition years ago, and was posting here wondering whether it had gotten anything done..."

Moorcock, Rachel Pollack & John "Kung Fu Monkey" all signed on with you. Lesson: never trust a guy named Guido!

My aim was to get 5% of the readership, but we were still ways off. We did get on some cool blogs (like the soon to end scifi-fantasy review site "Emerald City") but would have had to keep ringing the star-blog bell to get close to the target. Fanboy Rampage said "Maybe" then closed up shop...

Ultimately, I don't think petitions may even be useful for projects like this. Still, if ya don't shoot for the moon, you'll never ever hit it...

The Falcon

23:04 / 05.08.06

I prefer the "as they were published" structure that the trades follow.

Really? I hate reading it like that.

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