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Written by WatchFarscape.com
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Wednesday, 31 December 2008 |
Wondering how the comics are doing?? Here's great news from Chip, Sales and Marketing Director for BOOM! Studios
Glad you all like the comic... the team here at BOOM! is gratified by all the
praise.... a couple of things...
ISSUE #1 IS SOLD OUT!
What
does that mean? That means our distributor does not have any more copies. BUT
you MAY still find a copy at your local comic shop. So if you haven't gotten a
copy, make sure you go get one. We have a limited supply still available on our
web site.
That said - SOME STORES DIDN'T GET THERE COPIES ON THE
24TH!
Bad weather messed up some shipments. So if your local comic shop
didn't get a copy. Try on the 2nd, when new comic books will be at your local
comic store.
And, lastly, we are evaluating a second printing.
THANK YOU TO EVERYONE THAT HAS BOUGHT A COPY OF THE BOOK! WE APPRECIATE
ALL THE SUPPORT!
Best,
Chip
Marketing and Sales
Director
BOOM! Studios
So, if you don't have your copy or copies of the comic yet, make sure to get them ASAP. Want to leave comments or feedback about the comics? Make sure to check out the forums, because Keith DeCandido and Joe Corroney have both been posting in the WFS forums about the comics.
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Written by Stars
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Tuesday, 23 December 2008 |
Review: Farscape #1 [NO UNRELEASED SPOILERS]
by Stars
(For the spoilers review, Click READ MORE BELOW)
My name is John Crichton. I used to be an astronaut. Four cycles ago – that's what they call "years" in this neck of the woods – I was orbiting Earth in a module I built called Farscape 1. I was trying to test a theory. Then a wormhole opened, which proved a different one. It shot me across the galaxy. I wound up on a living ship called Moya, filled with escaping prisoners.
What a long, strange trip it's been.
And with that poignant, understated introduction, readers and fans of Farscape are launched right back into that familiar universe, almost at the exact moment we left.
Farscape #1, the first of four issues in the initial series to be released by BOOM! Studios (see here for a sneak peek of the upcoming second series), picks up from the closing "circle of life" scene of Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars, with panels that mimic shots of John Crichton showing his son the wonders of the universe, Aeryn Sun by his side.
But this is Farscape... By the fifth panel – only the second page in – a new menace is revealed, while the Sun-Crichtons, and their extended family aboard the Leviathan Moya, remain blissfully unaware.
We can finally stop running. Nobody's chasing me because I killed their brother, or because I have wormhole knowledge, or because the one-armed man killed my wife. We're done.
We intend to live our lives in peace and raise our son. That's our plan.
Of course, my track record with plans isn't the greatest in the universe...
Ain't that the truth? Farscape #1 drives home the point, serving as what would, in the television series, be the cold open and first act of an action-packed, nail-biter of an episode. And just as Farscape the series wasn't your run-of-the-mill ordinary sci-fi, Farscape the comic isn't the kiddie-style Archie-and-Veronica funny pages of yore.
Like the best modern comics and graphic novels, it's mature and edgy, with blunt talk and sexual situations, but doesn't forget the best Farscape traditions. There is betrayal and intrigue of Shakespearean proportions, as well as the not-so-simple challenges of everyday living in the Uncharted Territories. There is laugh-out-loud humor and snark and snappy banter, and the inevitable inclusion of bodily fluids.
Given the literary talents of Rockne O'Bannon and Keith R.A. DeCandido, thoughtful editing by Matt Gagnon, and the artistry of Tommy Patterson and Andrew Dalhouse, the characters are drawn and voiced true to form. Crichton's pop-culture references fly from Rockne O'Bannon's pen to the page as effortlessly as Pilot's formal syntax and Rygel's pomposity. The characters look as they should, from the highlights in Aeryn's hair to the plum-purple-pinks of deep space and Moya's golden brown skin. Chiana and Noranti have never looked better.
There's a feeling of homey recognition as familiar settings and images appear: Command, Pilot's den, Rygel hovering on his thronesled, Pilot on the clamshell. And some pages' visuals are simply stunning, impressive in a way that would have been bank-breaking CGI if ever attempted for the screen.
Like the series, the comic isn't without a glitch or two, things that make one go hmmm... in a few panels, Aeryn's eyes are inexplicably colored amber, and one now-major character bears a rather startling and slightly disconcerting resemblance to one gone before.
But as a whole, Farscape #1 is everything that made Farscape a cult hit and fan favorite, successfully translated to a new medium. And the truly ominous last panel carries on one final, unforgettable and quintessentially Farscapean tradition: the cliffhanger.
Farscape #1 will be released on December 24, 2008. Order it directly from
BOOM! Studios here
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Thursday, 04 December 2008 |
Want a preview of the Farscape comics and more info from Rockne O'Bannon on the comics and the webisodes?? Then check out this interview at MTV's Splash Page here.
The Farscape Comics hit comic book shop shelves on Christmas Eve - December 24th.
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