Coming out this March is a book near and dear to us here at Blog@, Half Dead, as “color nerd” Dean Welsh, the boyfriend of our own Stephanie Chan, is the colorist. It’s also a book with a history, as Steph said in an email earlier this week:
This is my boyfriend’s first book as a colourist. It was originally going to be published by Speakeasy, but when it folded, the colourist found another gig. My boyfriend came on board for chapters 3-5 (last half of the book), after the Dabel Brothers picked it up.
The solicitation reads as follows:
COVER BY: AFUA RICHARDSON
WRITER: BARB LIEN-COOPER
PARK COOPER
PENCILS: JIMMY BOTT
THE STORY:
London. Now. Terrorism is rife, but after today, your life may never
be the same again. A ballerina, Romany, gets on a train in the London
Underground, a strange gas attack turns her into a half-dead vampire.
During the contaiment and cleanup of this attack, she’s captured by a
government agency formed to battle the vampire threat, PASA (the
Bureau of ParaHuman and Supernatural Affairs). Romany’s a remarkable
subject, and after some training she is paired with her handler, Ian,
also one of a very few survivors of a vampire attack. Ian turns her
into a force to be reckoned with… The cogs of an evil machine are
turning within the winding streets of London; disaster looms on the
horizon; they can strike anywhere at any time. What is PASA willing to
do to stop them?
124 PGS./Rated T+ …$10.99PRICE: 10.99
IN STORES: 2007-03-07IMPRINT: DABEL BROTHERS
FORMAT: TRADE PAPERBACK
RATING: RATED T+
Check out the comic’s official site for more info.
January 12th, 2007 at 9:02 am
Yeah, they’ve really been through it waiting to finally get the book out – I remember artist Jimmy Bott showing me some pages back when it was due from Speakeasy. I thought it had that moral ambiguity like the excellent vampire show Ultraviolet, very glad to see it actually coming out now, will be on my reading list.