Only a few more weeks until the September 14th release of Batwoman #1! As part of the “New 52″ initiative, I did an interview with DC’s official blog — the Source — last week. Read it here (though I mostly just talk about Bernie Wrightson). Be sure to read Jim’s interview as well.
And below is the cover to issue #3… Click to enlarge. Enjoy!
Originally released by DC’s blog, The Source, as part of comic con… A two-page spread from early in Issue #1. Batwoman vs. The Weeping Woman! Click to enlarge.
Just a quick update about some hardcovers coming out this Fall…
On November 30th, Dark Horse is releasing a hardcover edition of the 5-issue limited series Darth Vader & The Lost Command. I’m really proud of the series — which I think shows how Vader can both succeed and fail at the same time — and am thrilled that it’ll get this treatment just in time for the holidays. Thanks Dark Horse! (Mom & Dad, you can pre-order it at TFAW).
And as noted previously, Batwoman is part of DC’s “New 52″ — fifty-two brand new #1 issues that redefine the DCU. We also have an official release date: Batwoman #1 will be on stands September 14th. We’ve had Issue #1 in the can for a while now, so I’m personally very excited to finally see it in print. Then on December 7th, that first issue of Batwoman will be included in the hardcover collection: DC COMICS: THE NEW 52, which weighs in at over 1,200 pages and includes each and every single “debut issue” of the New 52. Thanks DC!
DC’s official blog, The Source, is hosting interviews with all the creators working on the 52 titles launching this September. Today, it’s Batwoman’s turn. Check it out here!
DC comics recently announced a plan to renumber the entire DC comics line — 52 titles, all getting brand new First Issues with some incredibly talented creative teams behind them — starting August 31st. There’s been a lot of speculation about exactly which titles will be included in the 52, but today DC confirmed that Batwoman will be part of this historic event. We’re really excited to be included in this initiative, and hope that everyone checks out the first issue when it hits this Fall. Cover art below…
Several pages from the first issue of Batwoman have been released at DC’s Blog, The Source! Check out the pages below (click to enlarge).
I can’t really reveal anything about the story yet, except to say that given my preoccupation with ghost stories, urban legends, and “modern” mythologies, the character who appears in the first few panels of this issue is one I’ve been haunted by for years. It’s both terrifying and thrilling to finally see her realized (and beautifully rendered, I might add).
The last few weeks of 2010 proved extremely busy but productive. Here’s some quick updates:
Batwoman: Jim and I finished our script for Batwoman #5, which wraps up the first arc (“Hydrology”) for the new ongoing series. We worked extremely hard to make sure that the arc packs an emotional punch and shows some growth for Kate, and to set up the next arc as well. I think I’m most excited about seeing reader reaction to the new villain and some of the scenes between Kate and Maggie Sawyer. DC posted an update on the series at the The Source, the official DC blog, which is also accompanied by art from the series (including Amy’s variant cover for Issue #1, which I’m reposting here!).I’m still working on various other projects, and some monster-related blog posts as well. Hope to have something up in the next week or two.
Here is Jim’s cover for Batwoman #2, which continues the “Hydrology” storyline, our first 5-issue Arc. I’ve already seen some of the interior art, and it’s pretty incredible stuff – Jim really captures both the horror of the new villain we’re introducing, and continues to humanize Kate Kate.
As with previous issues, Amy Reeder will be doing a variant cover.
On sale in March!
The launch event at Red Sky Comics for December 4th has been cancelled for reasons beyond our control. Apologies to anyone who was planning to attend.
Fortunately, the signing at BLUE MOON COMICS in Novato, CA is still on, as scheduled (see details below). We hope to see everyone there! Jim will have art from the Batwoman series on hand for preview, and we’ll have books to sign, including one of our earliest collaborations — a story for Hellboy: Weird Tales (but I only have ten copies of that, so get there early if you want one!). I’ll also have some Star Wars stuff. See you there!
BLUE MOON COMICS
1555 So. Novato Blvd.
Novato, CA 94947
12/11/2010
1:00PM – 4:00PM
Comic Book Resources posted a Batwoman #0 Preview with several pages of art and an interview that Jim, Amy, and I did earlier this week. You’ll see from the preview pages that Jim and Amy did an amazing job collaborating on this issue. As a writer, it was a very cool process to participate in. Jim and I started writing the outline for the Zero Issue several months after we submitted our outlines for both Arc 1 and Arc 2 and a series overview that covers a little over two years of issues. We then completed the script about four weeks after the script for Issue #1, and while we were working on the script for Issue #6, the first issue in Amy’s arc. Although this meant shifting gears a lot, it actually worked out really well because we had a good idea of where the series is headed and could start dropping some clues about future storylines. From an art standpoint, the basic concept was for Jim and Amy to share art chores – but in a rather challenging fashion. Rather than just have Jim do one set of pages and Amy another, we proposed that they would actually both do panels across two-page spreads. As a result, the script for the Zero Issue is fairly detailed, escpecially in terms of the ways in which the action in one set of panels mirrors action in the next.
Batwoman #0 is out today, and the series starts up in February with Issue #1, the first in the “Hydrology” arc.
