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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2017 10:38:40 GMT -5
From Bleeding Cool Strangers in Paradise XXV #1 will be solicited ofr January 2018. I am not sure what this means for Motor Girl (a series I am quite enjoying, but it is one that feels like it is short term with w definitive ending in the works), but I am excited to see SiP return. I do need ot catch up as I am only partway through reading the previous stuff. -M |
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Post by urrutiap on Oct 18, 2017 14:28:21 GMT -5
Thats cool I guess. I only had one issue which was issue 1 of Strangers in Paradise a long long time ago from back in the mid/late 1990s. I didnt really care for the series since I was more into Marvel stuff such as X-Men, Wolverine, Cable, Amazing Spider Man, Spider-Man, Spectacular and Sensational Spider Man.
at the time back then I was in high school and was kind of losing interest in comics but in a weird way I was spending more money each month on Wizard Magazine and Toyfare and Sci Fi Insider. But I did like Strangers in Paradise a little back at the time back then. Just wasnt too into it
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Post by samurai32 on Oct 19, 2017 16:42:33 GMT -5
From Bleeding Cool Strangers in Paradise XXV #1 will be solicited ofr January 2018. I am not sure what this means for Motor Girl (a series I am quite enjoying, but it is one that feels like it is short term with w definitive ending in the works), but I am excited to see SiP return. I do need ot catch up as I am only partway through reading the previous stuff. -M Terry has publicly stated that he is done with long-form storytelling, i.e., “ongoing series,” because of the rate of reader attrition. So Motor Girl was always intended to last about 10 issues. That doesn’t mean he won’t revisit the character down the road. Same with SiP XXV. It is probably planned to last about a year or so. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2017 17:06:20 GMT -5
From Bleeding Cool Strangers in Paradise XXV #1 will be solicited ofr January 2018. I am not sure what this means for Motor Girl (a series I am quite enjoying, but it is one that feels like it is short term with w definitive ending in the works), but I am excited to see SiP return. I do need ot catch up as I am only partway through reading the previous stuff. -M Terry has publicly stated that he is done with long-form storytelling, i.e., “ongoing series,” because of the rate of reader attrition. So Motor Girl was always intended to last about 10 issues. That doesn’t mean he won’t revisit the character down the road. Same with SiP XXV. It is probably planned to last about a year or so. I was a late convert to Terry's stuff. I got into his art via some art books he did and the first sampling I did of his work was the Halloween Horrorfest edition of Rachel Rising #1 a few years back, which lead me to buy the first Rachel Rising trade and then a couple of the SiP omnibus editions. Motor Girl was the first series I jumped on from the outset. Plus you know, gorillas  I am still catching up on SiP and Rachel as I can find volumes, and he has a few other shorter series I want to check in on as well. Reader attrition is a big issue facing the industry as a whole, especially since they have not had a flow of new readers into the readership/customer base since the newsstands were abandoned 20+ years ago and all the publishers seem to be playing a zero sum gain with what;s left of the readership of mainstream books. SiP is on the fringe of the mainstream since it is a self-published book, but it has to function in the mainstream marketplace unless Terry wants to change his production model or look at crowdfunding and alternate distribution, all of which would take time away from the creative side of making comics, so not sure if it is a worthwhile trade off for him. I tend to prefer trades, but I jumped on Motor Girl in monthly format simply because it is self-published as well as being a damn good book, and doesn't have a corporate wing of finances underwriting it for other revenue streams, so needs the monthly revenue flow from readers. -M |
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Post by String on Oct 20, 2017 18:41:25 GMT -5
I've come late to appreciate Moore's work too. For as with Love & Rockets, SiP was always one of those series that I'd heard good things about but never read till recently. I read an edition of the first trade (which I think collects the first two mini-series) but either way, it was very enjoyable, from the characterization to the relationships to the art to everything.
Finishing SiP along with catching up on his other work has been on my to-read list. Although I did check out the first issue of Motor Girl, very good and intriguing with a slight twist near the end that I wasn't quite expecting, well done indeed.
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