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Anyone else plan to get this?
SMOKE
The premise: Black ops soldier, Rupert Cain, goes in search of the truth behind his commanding officer's murder. Along the way, he uncovers a chain of lies and manipulation that reaches deep down into his own past, and all the way up to the most powerful people in the country. Black ops soldiers, corpulent terrorists, upwardly mobile prostitutes, plastic surgery addicts, a musical-loving cyborg assassin and a deviant British monarch in a violent, blackly comic thriller about how wanting to do the right thing can make everything go wrong.
The writer: Alex de Campi, possibly one of the most innovative and inventive new age writers that you've never heard of.
The artist: Igor Kordey. Controversial. Reliable. Solid.
Mix all of them together and you get full-color, three issue (48-pages each) limited series from IDW Publishing debuting in May.
I'm definitely adding this to my pull-list next month!
There's a very comprehensive interview with writer Alex de Campi at Newsarama:
http://newsarama.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=28835
I know of her primarily as a reviewer/columnist at NinthArt. While I don't agree 100% with all her views, she usually offers new and interesting ways of looking at things:
http://www.ninthart.com/authorindex.php?author=Alex+de+Campi
Please use this thread to discuss or speculate about Smoke, throughout the course of its run.
SMOKE
The premise: Black ops soldier, Rupert Cain, goes in search of the truth behind his commanding officer's murder. Along the way, he uncovers a chain of lies and manipulation that reaches deep down into his own past, and all the way up to the most powerful people in the country. Black ops soldiers, corpulent terrorists, upwardly mobile prostitutes, plastic surgery addicts, a musical-loving cyborg assassin and a deviant British monarch in a violent, blackly comic thriller about how wanting to do the right thing can make everything go wrong.
The writer: Alex de Campi, possibly one of the most innovative and inventive new age writers that you've never heard of.
The artist: Igor Kordey. Controversial. Reliable. Solid.
Mix all of them together and you get full-color, three issue (48-pages each) limited series from IDW Publishing debuting in May.
I'm definitely adding this to my pull-list next month!
There's a very comprehensive interview with writer Alex de Campi at Newsarama:
http://newsarama.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=28835
I know of her primarily as a reviewer/columnist at NinthArt. While I don't agree 100% with all her views, she usually offers new and interesting ways of looking at things:
http://www.ninthart.com/authorindex.php?author=Alex+de+Campi
Please use this thread to discuss or speculate about Smoke, throughout the course of its run.
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