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Sunday, September 13, 2009
Vincent Price Presents....
Mood:  caffeinated
Topic: Comic Books - New

 

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Vincent Price  Presents:

The Comic Book Series

From

 Bluewater Comics!

 

 

There's been a dozen of these comic books published from BlueWater Comics...  Although I hadn't blogged about any of them until now.

That's because I've only read issues #10 -12 so far.  Issue #1 came out in October 2008, and yes there is a #13 planned for the series, making it at least a "baker's dozen" of HoRRoR Comics in this continuing series!

Below is what the marketing for this series had to say:

One of classic Hollywood's most famous scary men, Vincent Price made a name for himself in classic mysteries and thrillers throughout the 1940's, 50's and 60's. Now Vincent Price Presents comes to Bluewater Productions as their 1st ongoing monthly series.   The series will feature some of Prices’s films as well as developing new frightening ones with his estate. Welcome back to the macabre world of Vincent Price!

I have wanted to blog about the earlier issues I've read, but since it is my 'policy' to write basically only reviews on publications that I truly liked or found intriguing or 'different' enough to mention here, something or other in each of those comic issues I read kept me from doing so here...

As stated before in this Blog, I don't normally write neutral or negative blogs, as each blog takes at least 45 minutes to generate with text, copy, cropping and hosting photos, etc.  (I just don't throw together a one paragraph 'mention' of a comic, graphic novel, or film along with a bunch of other non-related projects in a 'review' blog post.)

Thus to spend that additional time on a comic book or other project that I didn't enjoy that much to begin with or maybe disappointed me a little, just doesn't make time management sense to me...

So why hadn't I blogged about this series before?   That is because I found the earlier issues (#10-11) to be a little uneven for me.  I'm no editor, but it must be very difficult to present a comic book title that has different writers and artists each issue and a completely different story. 

Editing a HoRRoR comic book that has just one story and presenting it each issue has to be even harder than editing an anthology comic book with multiple stories!   At least in an anthology issue that say has three stories, the reader could like one, be OK with a second, and dislike the third story.  Yet that same reader could be interested enough to pick up the next issue at their LCBS to at least glance at the cover and skim the interior pages to see if they want to purchase it.

With a comic book that has just one story, and no true continuing character(s), that has to be a harder sell, if the potential buyer had lukewarm feelings for the previous issue(s).

What this series has going for it is the 'Vincent Price Presents' title.  Yeah, I grew up in the late 1950's -60's when Vincent Price had his heyday in films.  So yes I could be a potential buyer for this series.  And with today's resurgence in HoRRoR films, comics and mags, there should be a good market for a comic book series like this with readers that are much younger than me!

If each issue was like #12 was in pleasing me with both a good storyline and good art, then I would feel better in recommending this series to you, my Blog reader.  However so far, the earlier issues I read had either good art or good story or a combination of both but the twist ending was off, like with issue #11.  

Issue #12, (front cover pictured above), has a good storyline by Nick Lyons.  Good art by R.H. Stewart.  The usual good lettering by Wilson Ramos Jr.  The front cover by Jim McDermott is catching to the eye, which should help pull the casual reader's attention to this title to at least take a look at the interior pages.  It is similar in 'look' to the Rue Morgue cover with Forrest J Ackerman that I blogged about in October 2008

Here are the details for this issue #12 only:

By:    Nick Lyons, R. H. Stewart, Jim McDermott 
Type:   Comics 
Genres:   Horror
Series:   Vincent Price Presents
Publisher:   Bluewater Productions 
Pub. Date:   August 26, 2009
UPC:   837654359495 
 

Vincent Price tells another gothic adventure. In 'Fade Away,' Private Eye Frank Wood takes on a case in which he must investigate mysterious break-ins at a home belonging to a wealthy old man named Jack Leonard.

Is there really an intruder or is Jack losing his mind and seeing someone that isn't there?

I'm hoping that what I liked in this issue will be repeated in upcoming issues.  Again I realize that it is very difficult to present stories that have different creative teams each issue that a regular reader would like. I myself want to like this series.  I would like to see the license with the Vincent Price Estate be continued, helping keep Vincent's name in the public eye.  I was pleased with this issue.  We'll see how it goes with the upcoming issues if I am to blog about this series again...

Notes:  This issue's cover price was $3.99, which is the standard cost of new comic books today.   However I have noticed at BlueWater's web site that there will be a trade paper back compiling the earlier issues.  I do not see what issues of the twelve published so far will be included in that TPB. Here are the known details of the upcoming TBP which is to be released September 30th:

The Gothic horror tradition of film icon Vincent Price is revived in these twisted comic book one-shots that transplant the best of the horror genre into innovative and bizarre landscapes for a new generation. Vincent Price serves as host and muse for these unforgettable stories, which include horrific transformations, twisting plots, perversions of science, labyrinthine castles, Gothic dread, surreal revelations, and a little unexpected genre-bending.

The cover price of the TPB Volume 1 is $17.99.  Again, I'm not aware of how many of the first issues are included in this first volume.  Yet this may be the better way to present this series to a wider audience.  Where in an 'anthology' TPB the reader has a better chance to like more of the stories in that format rather than taking a chance on a single issue with just the one story.  

For more info on Vincent Price Presents with previous and upcoming issues, please see the Bluewater Comics web site at:  http://www.Bluewaterprod.com

Thanks again to all of YOU reading our current and archived blog posts!  We do blog daily on comic book creators, comic book reviews, and other pop culture news and events including some TV shows and theatrical films!  

While You are here today... Please check out our new listings of comics, graphic novels, Comic Con exclusives and more pop culture items for sale in our online eBay Featured Store that most of our blogs are based on!  It's due to sales at this online store that keep us going with the ability to post blogs like the one you have read here today!

We appreciate your wanting to read our Blog, no matter which format it is published in, either at eBay that has several of our blog posts, or at our own domain name that has them all. 

And Yes... I have seen the Notice posted by eBay that they are 'retiring' the eBay Blogs and worse: "Remember, after October 31, 2009, these pages will no longer be available on the web".  With over 3,000 archived blog posts on the eBay Blogs platform.... and over 1.3 MILLION Page Views there alone...  THIS news does not please me!  I'm gathering my thoughts and letting my initial reaction calm down before posting on this news later this week... 

~ Michael  

 

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CONVENTION PHOTOS:  Keeping with the HoRRoR theme of this blog post... below is Doug Bradley during the 2009 San Diego Comic Con International.   Douglas William Bradley, (who was born 7 September 1954) is a well known English actor. He is best known for playing the role of the Cenobite Pinhead in all eight of the Hellraiser films!  Plus he played the character of Captain Elliot Spenser in two of the films Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988) and Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (1992).  My thanks to Doug for taking the time to pose and talk with me at the booth!  BTW, have you heard the SPINECHILLERS Audio Books that are read by Doug?  If not check out Alexander Finbow's http://www.renegadeartsentertainment.com/to find out more!

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Posted by makeitsomarketing at 7:25 AM PDT
Updated: Sunday, September 13, 2009 7:30 AM PDT
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Saturday, September 12, 2009
Leo Carrillo Film Festival 2009 - Night 2
Mood:  caffeinated
Topic: TV Shows

 

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Leo Carrillo Film Festival 2009 Night 2

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Above:  The BBQ area, the inflatable screen, and the Leo Carrillo Hacienda!

At the Left: The Leo Carrillo Ranch Windmill at dusk!

Bottom:  Tina, Michael, and Vikki!

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Last Friday Night Tina and I were among many who attended the first film evening of the 2009 Leo Carrillo Film Festival...  

Which led me to blog about our evening there in conjunction with reviewing the HoRRoR Western Comic Book 'Boot Hill" Issue #1 from Main Enterprises the next day!

Last night Tina and I just went with our neighbor Vikki to the second film evening, instead of with the group that was sponsored by the Men's Group the previous Friday.   Plus this morning I don't have a comic book to review!

Sure I could probably take one of the forty issues of The Cisco Kid that were printed from January 1951 - October - December 1958 by Dell Comics and review that here, but I'll just post a photo at the bottom right of this blog post showing issue #29 that was more in keeping with last night's feature film co-starring Leo Carrillo as a fisherman.

Instead I'll just mention that even without our larger group sponsored by the Men's Group, we had lots of others out there on the lawn to watch the 2nd night of the 2009 Leo Carrillo Film Festival!  Approximately 250 persons gathered and watched another episode of The Cisco Kid that ran before the 1941 re-make film of Barnacle Bill that starred Wallace Beery, Marjorie Main, and Leo Carrillo. 

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The above photos show the opening credits of The Cicso Kid TV Show episode that was shown last night.  It is really 'different' to sit under the stars at Leo Carrillo's Ranch and watch his TV Show episodes and then films he that played in.

The Film Festival audience is actually sitting near the pool and cabana where Leo and his family used to entertain their guests, mostly from Hollywood, who would travel down to the ranch that once comprised the Eastern area of Carlsbad that we now live in!  Matter of fact Clark Gable and Carole Lombard spent their honeymoon there at the ranch many years ago!

The film last night was really good, a MGM flick with the great Wallace Beery.  Of course all of us had a good time, what with the wine and  picnic dinner that Tina and Vikki prepared.  The Ranch folks also cooked hot dogs and had popcorn and candy to eat while watching the TV show episode and film for those that didn't bring food. 

There will be three more weeks of the Leo Carrillo Film Festival should you be in the Carlsbad, California area, September 18th (Friday) & 26th (Saturday), and then back to a Friday night on October 2nd!  The 26th evening will be a special 'Phantom Of the Opera' showing, of the 1943 film.

My thanks to Denise who took a few photos of Tina, Vikki, and myself last night, (of which one is published above right).  And for the additional conversation with Denise's friend Anna, who just happened to enjoy and collect the old EC HoRRoR Comics.  Small World indeed when you make conversation with others sitting around you!

Also, last night before entering the Hacienda, I talked with Allan Kindle who is on the Board of Directors for the Ranch.   Upon hearing of my interest in buying / selling / blogging about comics, he mentioned that he had gone to the San Diego Comic Con International about five years ago to look for Cisco Kid Comics for their exhibit at the Ranch itself! 

Which reminds me... For more info on the Film Festival or just to learn about the ranch, check out the web site at:  http://www.leocarrilloranch.org/     

Thanks again to all of YOU reading our current and archived blog posts!  We do blog daily on comic book creators, comic book reviews, and other pop culture news and events including some TV shows and theatrical films!  

While You are here today... Please check out our new listings of comics, graphic novels, Comic Con exclusives and more pop culture items for sale in our online eBay Featured Store that most of our blogs are based on!  It's due to sales at this online store that keep us going with the ability to post blogs like the one you have read here today!

~ Michael 

 

Now Celebrating the 11th Year On The Web!

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Note: If you breaking into or already work in the comic book industry or other pop culture productions; you are welcome to email us press releases, news items, and updates that you feel would be of interest to our blog readers. Including YOUR own works!

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COMIC BOOK COVERS:  OK, so in keeping with this Blog post's theme.... here is The Cisco Kid and Pancho on the water rafting instead of on horseback!   The comic book cover is from issue #29 from Oct/Dec 1955.  The film we saw last night was about fishermen from the San Pedro area of Los Angeles in 1941... so the below cover is showing Leo Carrillo (as Pancho) on or in the water again several years later! 

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Updated: Saturday, September 12, 2009 7:42 AM PDT
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Friday, September 11, 2009
The Tek War Chronicles Comic Book Series!
Mood:  caffeinated
Topic: Comic Books - New

 

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William Shatner Presents:

The Tek War Chronicles

From

 Bluewater Comics!

 

 

I've been reading this series since issue #1...  Although I hadn't blogged about it yet.

That changes today, after reading issue #3!

As stated before in this Blog, I don't normally write neutral or negative blogs, as each blog takes at least 45 minutes to generate with text, copy, cropping and hosting photos, etc.  (I just don't throw together a one paragraph 'mention' of a comic, graphic novel, or film along with a bunch of other non-related projects in a 'review' blog post.)

Thus to spend that additional time on a comic book or other project that I didn't enjoy that much to begin with, just doesn't make time management sense to me...

So why hadn't I blogged about this series before?  After all, I was familar with the concept.  It's been around, off and on, since William Shatner first came up with it back in 1988.  And yeah, I enjoyed him in Star Trek: TOS, the Star Trek Films and TJ Hooker that this series seems to have 'blended elements' from!  However, I wasn't overly excited about the prior Tek films, TV Series, comics, novels or games.  It was just... there.

I kind of felt the same way about the first two issues of this comic book series.  It was an OK storyline, but it just seemed to be taking much too long to get me heavily involved with it.  It didn't feel like it had too much continuity or baggage for me not to enjoy it, but the story was taking too long to draw me in for the ride.

However, issue #3 pulled me in.  Now I feel like the time I've 'invested' in reading the first three issues have not been 'wasted'.  I'm looking forward to reading the next issue now!

So I've told you what I felt about the writing of this storyline thus far.  Those writers are William Shatner and Scott Davis.  How about the penciling?  That has been consistent thru the series so far, thanks to Erich Owen.  Maybe that's what kept me reading into issue #3?  The colors by Michelle Davies flows with the artwork.  The lettering is the usual great work by Jaymes Reed. 

Here are the details for this issue #3 only:

By:                 William Shatner, Scott Davis, Erich Owens 
Type:             Comics 
Genres:          Science-Fiction
Series:           William Shatner Presents Tek War
Publisher:      Bluewater Productions 
Pub. Date:     August 26, 2009
Availability:  Check your LCBS or auction site
UPC:             837654359419
For ages:      16+ 
 

Dr. Leon Kittridge is proving more elusive and more costly to find than Jake Cardigan ever thought. Recovering from a blast that nearly killed him, Jake's determination to find answers leads him to old acquaintances and deadly consequences.

The stakes have gotten considerably higher and new shocking revelations about the secrets of Tek and Jake's quest for vindication are unveiled.

I'm hoping that what this team has done to bring together issue #3 so well continues in issue #4.  We'll see...

Notes:  This issue's cover price was $3.99, which is the standard cost of new comic books today.   Which is why I only blog about comics that I believe are worth the monetary cost for entertainment purposes or collecting, not necessarily for 'investment' purposes.  

For more info on The Tek War Chronicles with previous and upcoming issues, please see the Bluewater Comics web site at:  http://www.Bluewaterprod.com

Thanks again to all of YOU reading our current and archived blog posts!  We do blog daily on comic book creators, comic book reviews, and other pop culture news and events including some TV shows and theatrical films!  

While You are here today... Please check out our new listings of comics, graphic novels, Comic Con exclusives and more pop culture items for sale in our online eBay Featured Store that most of our blogs are based on!  It's due to sales at this online store that keep us going with the ability to post blogs like the one you have read here today!

~ Michael  

 

Now Celebrating the 10th Year On The Web!

"Hammering Out the Web
For You Since May 12th, 1998!"

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Note: If you work in the comic book industry or other pop culture productions, you are welcome to email us press releases, news items, and updates that you feel would be of interest to our blog readers. Including YOUR own works!

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CONVENTION PHOTOS:  Keeping with the Sci-Fi theme of this blog post... here is Tina at the Stargate booth during the 2009 San Diego Comic Con International.   Even though we don't watch each and every Sci-Fi series out there on TV or at the Big Screen, we do appreciate the fact that there are more choices than ever to choose from to watch!

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Updated: Friday, September 11, 2009 8:49 AM PDT
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Thursday, September 10, 2009
An Upcoming Special Event At Mysterious Galaxy!
Mood:  caffeinated
Topic: Other Cons

 

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Above:  The Storefront @ Mysterious Galaxy!

To the Right:  The 40th Anniversary Hardcover Book!

 

   

Comic-Con: 40 Years of Artists, Writers, Fans, and Friends - A Special Event @

Mysterious Galaxy

September 20th, 2009

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During the month of July I was blogging a lot on the then upcoming 40th Anniversary of the San Diego Comic Con International... 

Which was very special to me as I was there almost at the beginning when I first set up as a dealer in 1972.  

Well, for people like me that have enjoyed attending the con some, part, or even all those 40 years, the Comic-Con folks put out two publications celebrating this special event for their 40th Anniversary!  

The first was the regular Comic Con Souvenir Program Book that was distributed to each attendee at the Con.  I enjoyed reading it so much that I blogged about that right away!  

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The second publication, the actual hardcover book, was co-authored by Gary Sassaman and Jackie Estrada.  That book is pictured at the top right of this blog post.  Gary and Jackie will both be at this special event.  The event details are mentioned below, taken from the event's web page:

Click Here to see our NEWLY LISTED Comics, Graphic Novels, Toys, Fanzines and Prozines!   Comic-Con: 40 Years of Artists, Writers, Fans, and Friends  - A celebration of San Diego Comic-Con International!

Featuring Gary Sassaman & Jackie Estrada (pictured above) co-authors of the Book! 

Host:                  Mysterious Galaxy
Type:                 Music/Arts - Performance
Network:            Global
Price:                 Author events are free and open to the public.
Date:                 Sunday, September 20, 2009
Time:                 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Location:           Mysterious Galaxy
Street:              7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd. #302
City/Town:        San Diego, CA

Our event will include co-authors Gary Sassaman and Jackie Estrada, and numerous contributors. Plus podcasts via geekroundtable. Details to follow!

OK, I'll take it from there...

Click Here to see our ENDING SOONEST Comics, Graphic Novels, Toys, Fanzines and Prozines from COMIC CON!   First, to see my blog previewing the special book and my history with the con... Just Click here!

I haven't blogged about the book since I first received my copy at the Comic Con, but trust me on this one... it is chock full of notes, photos, and memorabilia from the 4 decades of history!  Great effort by all concerned in putting this together! 

Up to date details on this special event can be found at:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=139208123776&ref=mf

While you are on that page, either click 'attending', 'maybe attending' or 'not attending'.  Check out who else is going... maybe you haven't seen them for a while, and you might want to make the special effort to attend!

My Thanks to the Mysterious Galaxy team in sending me my invitation.  Tina and I look forward to attending this special event.  You too can get special invitations to events being held at Mysterious Galaxy if you 'join' their Facebook Fan Page, which is shown on the page url above.  Just click on the administrator's name link which will take you to their Fan Page where you too can join and be informed of what next events will be happening!

BTW, the last Special Event we attended there was back in May of this year, when we joined Mysterious Galaxy in celebrating their Sweet 16 Birthday Bash!  (Click here for that blog post!)   Our thanks for the Mysterious Galaxy folks for putting that shindig on!  It was very enjoyable!

AND Thanks again to all of YOU reading our current and archived blog posts!  We do blog daily on comic book creators, comic book reviews, and other pop culture news and events including some TV shows and theatrical films!  

While You are here today... Please check out our new listings of comics, graphic novels, Comic Con exclusives and more pop culture items for sale in our online eBay Featured Store that most of our blogs are based on!  It's due to sales at this online store that keep us going with the ability to post blogs like the one you have read here today! 

~ Michael 

 

Now Celebrating the 11th Year On The Web!

"Hammering Out the Web
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Note: If you breaking into or work in the comic book industry or other pop culture productions, you are welcome to email us press releases, news items, and updates that you feel would be of interest to our blog readers. Including YOUR own works!

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CONVENTION PHOTOS:   In keeping with this blog post's theme today, I'm posting another comics creator that attended the recent San Diego Comic Con International this past July.  I met Jennifer Brazas very briefly in the Artists Alley section of the Comic Con.  Jennifer is shown below holding two issues of her Mystic Revolution creation.  I have not yet read those publications nor blogged about them. However You can find out more about them at her web site: mysticrev.com  !

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Updated: Thursday, September 10, 2009 5:58 AM PDT
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Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Learning To Land... The Lander Comic Book Series!
Mood:  caffeinated
Topic: Comic Books - New

 

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Learning To Land...

Lander

The Comic Book Series #0 & #1

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Above:  Issue #1  At the Left: Issue #0 from Haley's Comics!

I've been blogging the last few days about several new comic book series that have caught my interest...

Which is good, because after all, isn't this blog's name 'ComicBookCollectorsBlog.com ? 

Well it is, and I feel that the comics I've been blogging about recently are ones that are to be read and collected.  Not necessarily 'collected' in a trade paperback format, but bagged and boarded to be placed in your collection to read again in the future, they are that good!

Today's post is about the 'Lander' comic book series.  I was sent copies by Jaymes  Reed who writes and also letters this series, after I blogged about some other publications that he had done lettering in and liked.   I'm always grateful to be turned on to new series that I feel good while reading and then sharing with my blog readers.  

Here are what the first two issues are about per Jaymes' advertising blurbs on his web site:

Click Here to see our NEWLY LISTED Comics, Graphic Novels, Toys, Fanzines and Prozines!   LANDER #0  Written/Lettered by Jaymes Reed
Illustrations/Cover by Andrea ASH
Peron Colors by Catriel Tallarico

Standard Comic
Full Color
Page Count: 8

Haley's official original Landing! In 1999, Haley boards a plane for Miami, but she LANDS in the South Pacific... as aviatrix Amelia Earhart in 1937!

Meet HALEY, an afterlife time traveler who possesses the bodies of women throughout history to alter the outcomes of varying timelines. In the spirit of Quantum Leap, join Haley for a different year, possession --and artist-- each TIME...

And then....    LANDER #1
Written/Lettered by Jaymes Reed "Mars Lander" Illustrations- Lee T. Melton, Jr. "Everywhen" Illustrations- Philipp S. Neundorf "Mars Lander" Colors- Siqueira & Aline Silva
Cover- Andrea ASH Peron

Standard Comic
Full Color
Page Count: 24


Haley Possesses a scientist on a doomed planet Mars 3 billion years ago! While her colleague contemplates his faith, God prepares to reward that faith by using Haley to send him to a whole new world... EARTH! And in "Everywhen," Haley Lands in a church with a priest... and a question.

Meet HALEY, an afterlife time traveler who possesses the bodies of women throughout history to alter the outcomes of varying timelines. In the spirit of Quantum Leap, join Haley for a different year, possession --and artist-- each TIME..  

 

OK, I'll take it from there...

As I've said before here in my Blog...  I enjoy time travel stories when they are done right.  I cite for example the TV Show 'Quantum Leap', of which I was one of the Original Leapers, attending the very first 'LeapCon' in Los Angeles!   Additionally, 'Somewhere In Time' with Christopher Reeves and Jane Seymour is a film that I always stop to finish up when I am channel surfing and I catch it in progress...

So, yeah I suppose I would be inclined to like a series that calls to mind 'Quantum Leap' in its' advertising blurb. 

Thing is, I didn't see the advertising until After I read these two issues, and was drawing comparisons of my own to them!

Is this series perfect?  No, but the first two issues ,(actually numbered #0 & a #1), are very good steps in the right direction to keep my interest in this continuing series.  

Issue #0 had a good background story, what with it being on Amelia Earhart in 1937, always a great time period to start a series in my mind for a time travel series.

Issue #1 had two stories, and as such a reader would naturally favor one over the other.  I did.  I really liked the 'Mars Lander' story... reminded me of some old black & white TV Sci-Fi Shows that enthralled me as a kid in the early 1960's.

You'll notice the word 'God' in the advertising blurb.  No, the two issues so far are not overly religious, or come out and preach 'at' you.  Very good balance in the writing, and of course Jaymes' lettering was great as usual.  I had not read anything by Jaymes before and was pleased with these two issues with him as the writer. 

The artwork fit the stories and the whole presentation for both issues were entertaining as well as though provoking.  What was fun was seeing different artists for each of the different stories.  Almost like 'leaping in' to different artist's renditions each time.  Seeing 'Lander' from different artists' viewpoints made this different but not too different where the artwork could have clashed with each others' stories.  The choices of artists were good ones for these two issues.

I would recommend this to those that enjoy time travel TV Shows, Films, or print publications that have this as part of their theme.

Issue #3 will be published within the next couple of weeks.  I plan on reading that issue and possibly blog on issues #2 & #3 together sometime after that... 

Details on purchasing these issues can be found at:

http://www.digital-caps.com/Lander.htm

My Thanks to Jaymes for sending me these copies for to read and possibly review here in my Blog.  I look forward to reading more in this series.

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Updated: Wednesday, September 9, 2009 6:04 AM PDT
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