Some collected Euro-Mills coming...

[Grant Goggans]

I missed this in the February Previews.  This ships in April from Heavy Metal Books.  Your local shop may be able to sneak an order in, if you'd like the chance to read some of this stuff...
 
COLLECTION OF SHA TP
by Pat Mills & Olivier Ledroit
In Medieval France, a young witch named Lara is tortured and burned at the stake. As she dies, she vows vengence on her persecutors. A thousand years later, in a futuristic city, the mysterious Sha sets off on her trail of vengeance, tracking down and killing their
reincarnations! (C: 0-1-2)
SC, 144pgs, FC  SRP: $19.95

[Floyd-the-k]

It sounds a little like the abbreviated 'Shakara'. Does she shout 'Sha!' before bumping them off?
  Has anyone read this? Any good?

[Ignatzmonster]

Hipster Dad you rock. Missed this entirely.

[TordelBack]

Laaaaaraaaa!

[johnnystress]

From todays Drawn.ca

Manga vs. Marvel -- it's truly an unfair comparison to gauge how well Marvel Comics originally adapted the classic trilogy films against how Japanese artists did the same.

This list isn't really meant to be a competition; instead it's a contrast at how different cultures approach the same subject matter in graphically illustrated form. What follows are key moments of the Star Wars trilogy as presented in Japanese manga by Media Works in 1997, placed next to moments as already interpreted by Marvel writers and artists.

Link: http://www.starwars.com/eu/lit/comics/f20080227/index.html" target="_blank">Marvel V Manga

[Byron Virgo]

Sha comes from Scotha the Witch-Woman, which was a newspaper strip by Mills and Glenn Fabry in the short-lived News on Sunday in 1987. After that went tits up, Mills and Fabry reworked the series for Epic, Marvel's adult imprint, but ultimately that didn't happen either. In the end, he took the basic concept and turned it into Sha with Olivier Ledroit in 1995, which was his first work for the continent.

[Leigh S]

Looking forward to this - greatly enjoyed the Requiem stuff (though not the having to buy Heavy Metal to read it) so hoping for more of the same

[thinky]

Sha comes from Scotha the Witch-Woman, which was a newspaper strip by Mills and Glenn Fabry in the short-lived News on Sunday in 1987

wasn't that also at the time accompanied by a Brendan McCarthy strip..? or did i dream it?

thinky

[Byron Virgo]

"wasn't that also at the time accompanied by a Brendan McCarthy strip..? or did i dream it?"

Yup, your Scouse memory cells are not decieving you - News on Sunday also ran Milligan & McCarthy's Summer of Love alongside Scotha, and sadly neither was ever finished.

[thinky]

Yup, your Scouse memory cells are not decieving you

hurrah! i remember it now - for some reason i associate the strip with morrisey's "every day is like sunday", probably due to the mental picture of a seaside town and beach promenade.
but was there a fish-headed man creature somewhere?

anyway, it looks like rufus owns some of the arkwork...

cheers

thinky

Link: http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Page=1&Order=Date&Piece=51408&GSub=7135&GCat=0&UCat=0" target="_blank">rufus @ comicartfans

[O Lucky Stevie!]

ooooh -- now that';s what a real comic looks like.

is lettring by the esteemed mr frame that i espy there?

i've wet my knickers!

[Ignatzmonster]

**Looking forward to this - greatly enjoyed the Requiem stuff (though not the having to buy Heavy Metal to read it)**

Unfortunately, watcher, the cover will consist of a woman in a crome and leather thong, staddling a troll, with a sword handle nestled between her heaving breasts.

[Leigh S]

Heh, I think you're probably right - and Requiem itself is pretty Heavy Metal in content and art, but its very Millsy at the same time.  It's the adverts in HM that send a chill down my spine more than anything!

[Grant Goggans]

The weird thing is that I own exactly two issues of Heavy Metal and notice this difference between 1982 issues and modern ones...

Old Heavy Metal has short episodes from about ten different stories or series, and most of them are tits-in-space tales with lots of nudity, but the advertizing is all for highbrow crap like Omni magazine and Philip Jose Farmer novels, with interviews with men in tweed jackets discussing the future.

Modern Heavy Metal has about two stories an issue, and there's next to no nudity in them.  But the ads are for nothing but cartoon porn.  Just pages and pages of robots with boobs tying up schoolgirls in 20 minute DVDs.

So yeah, I'd like to read Sha without the advertising interruptions, please...