SLG Editor in Chief Jennifer de Guzman was kind enough to send over some promo art for the two properties they announced a couple of days ago, Progeny and Mecha-Nation. Here’s Progeny:
And here’s Mecha-Nation:
Both books are created by The Spectacular Spider-Man producers Greg Weisman and Vic Cook. If I’m not mistaken, the art for the Progeny piece (and maybe the Mecha-Nation one as well) is by Sean Galloway, who worked with them on the Spider-Man cartoon. Jennifer added that they don’t have a firm release date yet, as both Weisman and Cook are pretty busy with their animation work, but Weisman would be in San Diego to talk about them.
July 17th, 2008 at 11:25 am
Mecha-Nation is actually something that Greg has been working on for years. At the 2003 Gargoyles convention, he told the attendees that it was something he planned to pitch to one of the animation studios. Clearly, it never got that far, and he kept the characters.
It’s great to see that Greg is getting back into comics beyond his Gargoyles books, and that he’s getting to create his own characters. I just hope that SLG can promote and release these comics effectively. The Gargoyles books are great, but perpetually later (in part due to Disney’s failure to approve them ina timely fashion, even though Disney never changes a thing.)
July 17th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
Even though the mere mention of mecha excites me, Progeny looks more interesting than Mecha Nation
August 21st, 2010 at 12:17 pm
I have to say that I was thoroughly disappointed with the Slave Labor Graphics ‘Gargoyles’ continuation. Cartoon art worked for TAS because it could be tailored for a moving medium; most of the artwork I saw (including the immensely disappointing ‘Bsd Guys’) stripped so much of the dark and visually frenetic character of the show away. It wasn’t that the art was poor per se, but more that what works for an animated series (you really want to tell me that Batman Adventures: The Comic was on par with the animated series that gave it life?) infrequently works for a still-art medium like comics. Even the Marvel Comics ‘Gargoyles’ art- though I’m well aware that Marvel’s version was more or less intended for a much younger crowd- was altogether much more able to convey the mood that TAS built up.
I debated posting this more than once, but had to once I saw the contents of ‘Bad Guys’ #4. The cover, featuring a very animalistic-looking Fang (the batwinged feline mutant) struck me as thinking they might be trying to breathe more life into him a.k.a. Killer Croc from Batman or Man-Eater from Marvel’s ‘Silver Sable’ (humour me with the fact that Man-Eater was a fifth-business character in what Marvel eventually ditched as a fifth-rate comic book- didn’t even make it to #30)…no such luck, mi amigos. I’ve seen fan art a dozen times better than this. To me, it was as if Weisman was trying to pass it off as a Chris Bachalo or David Lloyd. It was painfully cartoonish, bringing me to my point once again that animation cel work does not, I repeat, does NOT work in a still medium for a creation like Gargoyles. I respect that Greg most likely tried to find someone who both fit his bill and whom Disney was comfortable with, I just didn’t find the stories visually engrossing or the whole thing to be suspending of disbelief (again, visually)… Mr. Weisman knew what he was doing and I’m not going to question his aptitude as a writer for a moment. I just was unimpressed and disappointed by what could have been much better, visually.