New Trades

[ukdane]

A few new trade covers/placeholders, which I don't think have been posted yet:

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and from Black Flame:
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Cab Inc: Better The Devil
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[Woolly]

That Slaine pic is fuckin stunning!
Thanks to the superb repro in the hard-backs ive *really* warmed to Langley's style.

Cant wait!

[DavidXBrunt]

Helen Earth was the villain in Hell on Earth, what could the villain be called in Better the Devil. Best punning title wins a shitty prize.

[Woolly]

Betty the Devil?

[Woolly]

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[Woolly]

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[The Adventurer]

What's Storming Heaven and why does it look so awesome?

[Tu-plang]

Storming Heaven was a Gordon Rennie/Fraze Irving story about acid tripping superheroes fighting against Charles Manson in 1969 San Francisco with the trippiest, most colourful artwork that Irvings done.  Cool huh?

Well, not really.. beautiful art and premise, but it was 'compressed to death' - told in 8 parts or something when it should have had about 20.  But here it seems to be grouped with A Love Like Blood, From Grace and some future shocks maybe?  Looks to be a promising collection.

[DavidXBrunt]

To be fair to Gordon the scripts were hampered by outside editorial dictates that meant he had a strict page count to hit. It was detrimental to the story telling, it didn't bear fruit, and it's probably a mild regret for those involved.

It's still a great story with stunning art and had much potential.

[Tu-plang]

Don't get me wrong, I really liked what I saw, I just wanted way more of it.  I remember quite a few stories were hit by the '46 page rule'.

[DavidXBrunt]

Sorry, didn't mean to imply you were harsh on it. What we got was better than it could have been but not as good as it could have been.

As for the collection, I've heard the title 'A Love like Stroming Grace' bandied around and whilst it's silly it's still what I'll be thinking of it as.

Next artist specific collection? Howabout some of Carlos' shorter Dredd work? His epics are, rightly, lauded and available but his work on things like 'Fartz' and 'The Girlfriend' are minor masterpieces.

[DavidXBrunt]

Sorry, didn't mean to imply you were harsh on it. What we got was better than it could have been but not as good as it could have been.

As for the collection, I've heard the title 'A Love like Stroming Grace' bandied around and whilst it's silly it's still what I'll be thinking of it as.

Next artist specific collection? Howabout some of Carlos' shorter Dredd work? His epics are, rightly, lauded and available but his work on things like 'Fartz' and 'The Girlfriend' are minor masterpieces.

[DavidXBrunt]

Sorry, didn't mean to imply you were harsh on it. What we got was better than it could have been but not as good as it could have been.

As for the collection, I've heard the title 'A Love like Stroming Grace' bandied around and whilst it's silly it's still what I'll be thinking of it as.

Next artist specific collection? Howabout some of Carlos' shorter Dredd work? His epics are, rightly, lauded and available but his work on things like 'Fartz' and 'The Girlfriend' are minor masterpieces.

[Byron Virgo]

I seem to remember Matt and/or Jon saying at Bristol that there was going to be an Ezquerra/Dredd collection after the Irving one.

[Emperor]

I really liked the concept of Storming Heaven and was blown away by the art (including some superb colouring).

I like the title Amazon have: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Storming-Heaven-Frazer-Irving-Collection/dp/1904265774/">Storming Heaven: The Frazer Irving Collection - ooooo.