Looks like the AiT/Planet Lar website has been updated with several of their upcoming projects, including The Last Sane Cowboy and Other Stories, The Homeless Channel and the first two issues of the long-awaited Black Diamond mini-series:
Fifty years from now, an elevated highway spans the nation. Initially a response to international terrorism, the US government grounds commercial airline flights and builds THE BLACK DIAMOND, a dangerous road full of gearheads and misfits, drug runners and grey-market tech heads, all driving illegal 1970s muscle cars in a nomadic, breakneck existence. But when the government decides to clean up THE BLACK DIAMOND heading east and when his wife is kidnapped to be used as a hostage by forces loyal to the road, Dr. Don McLaughlin, DDS, has to borrow his brother-in-law’s illegal 1973 Mercury Cougar to get on the highway and rescue his wife… 150 feet above and 100 miles an hour faster than anything he’s ever known.
Interestingly enough, if I’m not mistaken, the titles of the first two issues — “Shake Hands With Danger” and “One More For The Road” — are taken from 1950s driver’s education films. Shake Hands with Danger is a construction safety film that’s supposed to be a little chilling. One More for the Road, I believe, was a drunk driving film, but then again, maybe it’s just a reference to Lynyrd Skynyrd.
The other interesting thing here is that Black Diamond is a mini-series, rather than a graphic novel, which is AiT’s usual M.O.
February 13th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
The Homeless Channel sounds intriguing.
February 13th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
I’ve read most of the Homeless Channel and I can honestly say it’s awesome.
February 13th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
I heard about that channel on the George Carlin Channel, but they kept saying it should be the Houselessness channel.