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#24058 - 01/13/07 08:50 AM
Mister X by Dean Motter New Serie in DH wowwwww!!!
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huge fan of this series!!
this is so far apart from the grendel anniversary one of the best news of darkhorse in this year!!!!
news
Dark Horse Comics (with a special arrangement with Vortex Comics)
has offered me the opportunity to resurrect my most popular creation
in an all-new publishing venture. I can't reveal too much here, but
this will be a fresh visualization of the mysterious Mister X.
It is being created for new readers as well as those that remember
the original series. These stories will be even more rooted in the
Film Noir, German expressionist, Deco/Streamline architectural aesthetic
that made the character so compelling in the '80s. It will be a darker
and more somber vision, but not completely devoid of humor. At least I
hope that's the way the readers will view it.
written and illustrated by motter...
site...
http://home.earthlink.net/~dean.motter/news.htm
interior art!!!
http://home.earthlink.net/~dean.motter/STYX_P1.jpg
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#24059 - 01/13/07 02:21 PM
Re: Mister X by Dean Motter New Serie in DH wowwwww!!!
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Has Dean Motter every drawn Mr. X aside from the occasional cover? I think the Hernandex Brothers drew it at its peak of popularity. I think Seth took over from there. Does anyone have a collection of these things or a clearer memory?
While I have no doubt that it is Dean Motter's creation did others create it too? It was a long time ago, but not as long ago as when Stan Lee created the Fantastic Four.
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#24060 - 01/13/07 06:45 PM
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According to the Grand Comic Book Database Motter scripted issues 5-14 of the original series with Seth doing the interior art. In addition Motter created most of the covers. So while I certainly don't want to discount the Brothers Hernandez or Seth's contributions to the comic it is primarily Motter's baby.
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#24061 - 01/13/07 06:53 PM
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He did the promo cover/poster that was solicited for like a year or so before an issue even came out. He did a treatment/proposal package and the Hernandez Bros took over from there. Lazy motherfucker.
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#24062 - 01/13/07 07:33 PM
Re: Mister X by Dean Motter New Serie in DH wowwwww!!!
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Thanks for the information guys. Randy, you say it was Motter's baby and Necro, you say that Motter was a lazy mother, so I still ask, did the book have a father (or more properly did Dean Motter have a partner in its creation)? Maybe not.
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#24063 - 01/14/07 02:49 AM
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Mr. X first appeared on the cover of an album called Megatron Man, by a musician named Patrick Cowley. His first comics appearance was the cover of Vortex #2. Radiant City first appeared on the cover of an album called Visions of Our Future by a group called the Tenants. Motter and Paul Rivoche worked out a lot of the ideas together for the graphic design of Mister X over the course of about two years, which Motter planned to do as a comic and eventually did at least nine pages of finished sequentials. Story at the time was he'd bitten off more than he could chew, so to speak, so had to get somebody else to do the actual comic. But my belief is that he had worked too hard on the style, not enough on the substance, and didn't have that much of a story to tell with all the neat-o designs. Motter's introduction to Mr. X V1 #1: There are quite a number of people that I am certain will breathe a sigh of relief to see, at long last, the first issue of MISTER X. Hopefully you readers will be primary among them. But there are several behind the scenes people (as is inevitable with projects such as this) that are owed a very special debt.
So it is that MISTER X and I would like to thtatnk publisher William P. Marks. Bill has managed to perform a remarkable juggling act with VORTEX [the anthology title] and its seemingly endless parade of artists and writers, Ty Templeton's STIG'S INFERNO, and my own firm; MODERN IMAGEWORKS (aka DIAGRAM STUDIOS). There are times when I think the man deserves a medal.
I would also like to thank Jaime, Gilbert and Mario for picking up the ball, and doing their usual excellent job of makding the unbelievable so damned entertaining.
I should also like to extend my thanks to longtime friend and collaborator, Ken Steacy for lending a hand at the most crucial times. And to Paul rivoche, without whose critical eye and imagination there would be no MISTER X.
For pivotal, yet largely indescribable roles in the project, I should like to thank Robert Macintyre, Cathy, Tom Robe, Ross & Jo-Ann Young (The 20th Century), Heather Brown, The Silver Snail, and especially Mitzi Hamilton, my associate whose dedication and thoroughness are somewhat amazing.
I did not intend for this column to seem like and Academy Awards speech, but should any of you be curious about the background of this book I refer you to Heidi MacDonald's very fine article in the June [1984] issue of AMAZING HEROES.
Thank you one and all — and welcome to SOMNOPOLIS. I don't think I have that issue of Amazing Heroes. Maybe I do, but it came out so frequently and was so full of NOTHING, no specific issues stand out in memory. AH was the Wizard of the 80's. Anyway. According to the intro of #2, Ken Steacy and Paul Rivoche ended their association with Motter and Mister X after #1, although Rivoche did letter #2. What caused that, I don't know. Motter is credited with "story & design" on the Seth illustrated stories. Volume 2 had at least two writers (Jeffrey Morgan and Wilbur R. Webb) and at least two pencilers (Shane Oakley and D'Israeli) — my collection is incomplete — and ran with the disclaimer "MISTER X is based upon the character created by Dean Motter and additional concepts by Paul Rivoche."
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#24064 - 01/14/07 10:22 AM
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Registered: 10/27/03
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Boy, thanks for the research and the hard work. I was mistaken. Rivoche was the one that I had taken to be the co-creator. I think he did a lot of the early posters. I too, look forward to seeing Motter's version.
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#24065 - 01/14/07 11:12 AM
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I fondly remember the Rivoche covers, which in my opinion were superior to the nice interior work by the Hernandez's.
I stopped buying it after Seth took over. My mistake, given how great Seth's other work is. I haven't seen his Mr. X at all.
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#24066 - 01/14/07 06:15 PM
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I'm hoping this will lead to a proper reprinting of the entirety of the original series. One of the things that made the demise of the publisher, ibooks, so sorry was the state of their Mr. X reprint project at the time. Yes, they produced two volumes, but I believe there was a third and final one that never made it out, and I know that the copy I received of one of the volumes (I think I never got ahold of the other one) had severe misprintings in it -- some page sequences omitted, some repeated.
So, the whole deal was just a major, major disappointment. I've got one volume of a three-volume reprint series; it may not even be the first one one, I can't recall at the moment...; maybe because it was contained a serious printing blunder that rendered it unreadable.
Then ibooks was gone.
How disspiriting.
Matthew
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#24067 - 01/15/07 04:55 AM
Re: Mister X by Dean Motter New Serie in DH wowwwww!!!
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there are 2 trades of ibooks,that have all the volume 1,with a another end,that was written for the trade by motter.
there also the stories of a1,of sienkiewicz and gaiman/mckean...
apart of all the info you have posted on the topic...
there is also a volume 3 in caliber press done by deborah marks...
and also a one shot donde by peter milligan and brett ewins in vortex,that is called mister insect x!!!
saludos...
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