Bowyer Bible print 0282 Angels. Kraus
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Bowyer Bible print 0282 Angels. Kraus
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Waiting for the Trade
The current tenuous situation with Fallen Angel reminds me of one of those curiosities of the comic book market: the relationship between episodes in magazine form and longer stories in book form. Most comics in the US/Canadian market are released as individual issues, with maybe 22 pages of story and a bunch of ads. Longer works are often released as trade paperbacks (TPBs), but often don't sell as well because, let's face it, $19.95 is a much bigger chunk of change than $2.50. However, many series are collected into TPBs once the publisher figures the original issues have mostly been tapped out, often adding additional material like sketches, character designs, or occasionally an entire epilogue. (Kingdom Come and Death: The High Cost of Living both used that trick.) Advantages: they fit on a shelf, they're often better paper and more durable, you can get an entire 6-part story in one chunk... and most importantly, they can fit on bookstores' shelves, bringing them to an entirely new audience. During the 1990s, only the most popular storylines would get the TPB treatment, but as the graphic novel market has grown, the trend has been toward collecting every issue of a series, so that whether you get the original issues or the collections, you still get everything. This has led to two controversial phenomena: writing for the trade and waiting for the trade. […]Cancellations: Fallen Angel & B5
Fallen Angel is ending with #20, and Babylon 5: The Memory of Shadows has fallen through. However, JMS has always said, "If they can do a Brady Bunch movie, you can be sure that sooner or later, somebody's going to do a B5 movie." Even better, it turns out that while Warner Bros. owns the B5 TV show lock, stock and barrel, JMS owns the movie rights...so he's in a position to make sure that whoever does do a B5 movie will get it right. "To that end," he says... "I can wait." As for Fallen […]There is a sentiment that Xely the Purple (@[email protected], unfortunately their handle is bound to their old name) is feeling right now, and can't express in easy words, so I will do what I do often do and interpret for them.
The real heart of the Pnictogen Wing is not human. It's a pair of dragons that keep us going through this cruel world…I'm just the person who's been best at giving some kind of human shape and human voice to the draconic fires burning within. And I am not human either. I was an angel once, that what my memories tell me anyway. I was a bad angel, and I fell, but I have attempted to be the best possible human I can be under the circumstances—doing whatever is necessary to survive in a world where humans are the prevailing creature.
I am in awe of Xely and Orpiment. How they manage at all in this shitty world…I dunno.
So often Xel can't find words, and I rush in to help. But so often, I myself am at a loss for words. An angel, even a fallen one, at a loss for words! How often does that happen?
Yet I sense that others, out there on the Interwebs, have a similar feeling. How the heck did we end up here? Where is "here" even? What has become of the world?
~Mx. Chara Aznable of Pnictogen