Brass Sun is getting launched as a stand alone comic?

[Colin YNWA]

Starting to doubt my own spouting (not for the first time) and so grubbed around Barney to discover that each  story so far has been 65 pages which will give us 130 in total (possibly more if they've been jiggling with the panel layout as I've heard they are. So that's plenty to fill the 6 issue mini... right... right...

[Colin YNWA]

And this from a recent interview from Ian Edginton

At the same time, it's a great adventure story. What are your plans for Wren and Septimus? Do you have an end in sight, or will it be more like a Saturday serial, with new adventures in every story arc?

It is a big, sprawling story. Ian and I agreed at the outset that we wanted to tell a wide-ranging, expansive tale that spanned dozens of worlds. In some respects it does harken back to more pulp, Saturday-morning serial feel, in that it's a rich tapestry of colorful and quirky characters and worlds.

However, I'm also conscious of outstaying our welcome and letting the story meander on for it's own sake. There is a definite end, that's for certain and Wren and Septimus will be there, but things between them will have changed quite significantly by then and that's all I'm going to say about that!

So it certainly seems like Ian at least is in for the long haul.

Full interview

http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2014/05/ian-edginton-on-mechanical-universes-and-brass-sun/

[Bat King]

Good stuff!

[Frank]

Gordon Rennie and Simon Coleby's Frankenstein-meets-Cross-Of-Iron romp, Jaiger, is getting the same kind of release as a stand alone title in the US:

[dweezil2]

Gordon Rennie and Simon Coleby's Frankenstein-meets-Cross-Of-Iron romp, Jaiger, is getting the same kind of release as a stand alone title in the US:

Cool! 

[Mabs]

Gordon Rennie and Simon Coleby's Frankenstein-meets-Cross-Of-Iron romp, Jaiger, is getting the same kind of release as a stand alone title in the US:

I think it's a poor choice to be frank. I don't think readers in the US will take to it the same as Brass Sun or Underbelly.

[Richmond Clements]

Gordon Rennie and Simon Coleby's Frankenstein-meets-Cross-Of-Iron romp, Jaiger, is getting the same kind of release as a stand alone title in the US:

I think it's a poor choice to be frank. I don't think readers in the US will take to it the same as Brass Sun or Underbelly.

Why not?

[Mabs]

I think mainly due to the set up, and some of the terminologies might be difficult to grasp for someone who is not familiar with the world of Rogue Trooper (as I know I did).

[TordelBack]

Hmmm, but aren't there going to be Rogue reprint floppies as well as the sadly-brief new stuff available on the same shelf from IDW, not to mention the handsome US versions of the Rogue Casefiles?  I'd say that anyone whose interest is piqued by a fabulously atmospheric almost Banksian SF standalone would find they are well-served if they wanted to know more.

I think Jaegir is a great idea for this treatment.  If I had a reservation, it would be to wonder if Coleby's dense artwork will scale down as well as INJC's open lines do.

[dweezil2]

If U.S readers can handle the flowery and poetic writing of Brass Sun, I can' t see them having an issue with the more straight forward militaristic dialogue in Jaiger.

[Link Prime]

I think Jaegir is a great idea for this treatment.  If I had a reservation, it would be to wonder if Coleby's dense artwork will scale down as well as INJC's open lines do.

It might be differently re-sized, but based on Year One & Royals, I think it'll go down just fine.

[Hawkmumbler]

I think Jaegir is a natural chiice cobsidering the respectable sales of The Royals and Colebys increasing profile in the US.

[I, Cosh]

I think mainly due to the set up, and some of the terminologies might be difficult to grasp for someone who is not familiar with the world of Rogue Trooper (as I know I did).

Interesting perspective as I would've said that Jaegir's place in the Rogue Trooper universe was pretty irrelevant beyond providing longer term readers with a bit of shorthand for the backstory.

Of course, I do know that backstory so it's hard to separate but the new series is set in such a different, unexplored part of that universe and seemed to do a great job establishing the characters and Mitteleuropean military milieu that I wouldn't have thought it made much difference. Clearly I was wrong.

I think Jaegir is a great idea for this treatment.  If I had a reservation, it would be to wonder if Coleby's dense artwork will scale down as well as INJC's open lines do.

Moderately interestingly, it wast the reverse of this which I experienced recently. In short: it looks fine shrunk down but bigger is always better.

Travelling home last weekend, I was rereading the first five parts of Jaegir on my iPad. I arrived to find a stack of eleven Progs waiting for me, with that day's top of the heap. I was shocked by the difference. Everything was bigger and bolder. There seemed to be vast expanses of space in each panel; the artwork was open and expansive where it had been cramped and claustrophobic [NB this could be a positive for the atmosphere the strip is going for]. I exaggerate, but only a little.

[Frank]

Aye, after the proper story of Jaegir got going, it occurred to me that Rennie could have dispensed with the Nordland trappings and claimed it as a brand new story set in his own original universe. Everyone's a Nort, but that's not really what the story's about, so maybe whatever hankering the excellent Mabs experienced for greater knowledge of the back story was only because he knew the story took place in a different corner of an extant textual reality.

It might actually be an advantage to be a new reader coming to the story untroubled by the knowledge that Friday/Rogue is theoretically telling Lucky/Bagman to dispense some mini-mines somewhere off-page, and with no awareness of the strips' shared history. I suppose whether that's the case depends on whether Rebellion choose to sell the US comic as an extension of the Rogue Trooper universe - given the fate of IDW's original RT material, I don't see much advantage in doing so.