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Comics Continuum wrote:
PHILADELPHIA -- Aspen Comics held a panel on Saturday afternoon at Wizard World Philadelphia.
Panelists include Peter Steigerwald, Vince Hernandez, Ale Garza, Frank Mastromauro, Micah Gunnell, J.T. Krul and Mark Roslin.
Highlights include:
* Mastromauro provide an updated on Michael Turner's health, saying he had "a huge procedure" for his cancer in February, with a recovery time of four to six months.
Mastromauro said Turner is eating better and can sit four to five hours at a time. "He's prepping to finish up the rest of Soulfire and hop on our Marvel project," he said.
* Fathom #1 will reach stores in August.
* Mastromauro said there was great feedback to Iron and the Maiden and hopes to do a sequel. Finding an artist will be a key. "It will definitely be something that wil be down the road," he said.
* Krul said Fathom #0 will show where the launching point of the new series is.
* The Fathom Vol. 2 trade paperback will be in stores next week.
* Mastromauro said there are new properties in development, leading with Executive Assistant: Iris, due in the winter.
* Hernandez and Gunnell have a new property that will be announced this summer and will launch early to mid-next year.
* Marcus To is working on Soulfire Vol. 2, which will pick up as soon as Turner completes the first volume.
* Mastromauro said Aspen has been approached by other publishers about crossovers, but there are no plans. "It has to be approached carefully," Steigerwald added.
* Krul said if had to pick one, he likes to write Soulfire more than Fathom because there's more room to explore with Soulfire.
* Garza on Fathom: "I'm definitely going all out, balls to the wall on it. Working with J.T. is great."
Garza said he is given a lot of double spreads with Fathom and he had to switch gears from his DC/WildStorm work. "The scale of everything has been real big," he said, noting he gives it more a widescreen treatment.
* Mastromauro said there are "a few movie things in the works," along with other ancillary projects.
* Steigerwald said NBC has been hitting up Aspen for a lot of Heroes materials. Twelve new characters will debut online and, depending on feedback, some of them could be integrated into the television series.
* The Ekos remains on the back burner. Mastromauro said it's written and will follow Turner's Marvel project, probably for 2010.
* Turner has 2 1/2 issues left on his Soulfire run.
* Soulfire: Shadow Magic is written by Hernandez with art by Sana Takeda. It will be five issues, with a #0. It isn't scheduled yet, but Takeda is halfway through the first issue and will likely launch early next year.
* Executive Assistant: Iris is also planned for early next year. |
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it is great to hear the Michael is getting better
cheers for the topic here barak
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And CBR's much longer recap of the panel.
WWE Philly Aspen Panel
(As always CBR has better pics of the covers.)
Edited by Barak85 on 31 May 2008 at 4:23pm
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Cool.. havent heard of the Takeda project before. Sounds great.
The news is all to familiar... but exciting as always!
Glad to hear the Mikes on the ball and should be to full recovery in the next couple of months.
whoot.. excited for the marvel debut and the end of soulfire...
Cheers for the news barak
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Barak85 wrote:
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Are you sponsored by CBR? That's the second time in as many days you're pimping them. ;)
Could be the faulty graphics card on my computer, but does anyone else have problem telling what's with the background on Takeda's cover? It appears it's a sky in the background (and a waterfall) and we're looking up at her as she's coming down at us, but my initial feeling was we're looking down at her as she's coming out of the water.
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trust your initial instincts.
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Yea, looks like Grace is falling over the waterfall.
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A quote from Newsarama's review of the panel:
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| The exclusive tour print for WW:Philly, Aspen Splash book (out end of June), Shrugged pin up book, Soulfire: Shadow Magic cover for the zero issue (out early ’09), Cover for the trade of Fathom Vol. 2, X-Men Ultimate Origins variant chase featuring Wolverine, Wolverine #66 (with shogun Logan), X-Men #500 variant cover for Marvel, Aspen Splash exclusive for WW: Chicago. |
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So is there really going to be a Shrugged pin-up book?
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hmmmmmmmmm being at the panel i didn t hear about a pin-up book for shrugged either maybe they just forgot to tell us that one 
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here s a question for you barak85 when i was at the panel i saw a girl with a voice recorder and taking alot of notes would that be you? if it was you how did your recorder do when recording micha and ale probably not to well both are very soft spoken.kinda hard to hear them at times huh. now peter on the other hand holy crap batman lol.
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