Is this book still coming out in June?

June 7.

Paneltopanel is offering a signed plate edition at no extra cost.

I was just checking, because I was putting a big order into Amazon.ca and wondered if I should wait a bit. As it is, I have to split it up into two orders now anyway.

I wannit I wannit I wannit!!!

I'll be buying it too. But Previews has it solicited for May. Not that I'm disputing Veitch, he would know better than anyone. But obviously Previews has it wrong.


Wait a sec... not Previews, it was CSN. CSN got it wrong. But there is a nice one page ad for it.

Yeah, it was advance-solicited in the March cover-dated Previews for arrival in comic book shops on June 7. I'd rather it be sooner, but I guess I can make it a few more weeks. Veitch is worth at least that amount of wait!

Matthew

No offense, really, I am new to the board and I am positive this question will only provoke certain individuals to attack me, but what else has Rick Veitch done? I just want to know if I liked his other stuff, I also saw the add for some work of his I recognized his name from here. The ad depicted a guy standing back to the viewer on a red planet/moon looking at a planet and stars in the distance. If he's from here I may want to support his work just for that. I was just curious is all.

I certainly hope you don't get attacked just because you don't happen to know the work of one particular cartoonist. That would be stupid.

One thing for which Veitch is best-liked is his run on Swamp Thing. He started out pencilling, then took over the writing as well, when Alan Moore left. Before that assignment, he contributed some uncredited art assistance to the series.

I like his Swampy, but I find a lot of his solo work to be much better. The One, The Maximortal, and Brat Pack (the latter two volumes/stories are part of a proposed trilogy, The King Hell Heroica) all deconstruct the mythology of the superhero in various ways. Pocket Universe, Rabit Eye, and Cryptic Zoo collect his comic book stories about his dreams.

All are wonderful.

But he's done a lot of other stuff. He was the artist for Alan Moore's Greyshirt, in Tomorrow Stories, and he's written some Greyshirt stories, too, including the spin-off mini-series, Indigo Sunset. He's done writing and/or art for some other tales in Moore's ABC line, here and there, as well.

He wrote a Question mini-series not too long ago, and, before that, the first twelve (or ten?) issues of the latest Aquaman series.

Back in the eighties (he's really, really, REALLY old!*), he contributed a number of sci-fi and fantasy works to Epic Illustrated -- Marvel's answer to Heavy Metal. Some in color, some black and white, some single short stories, one the multi-episode saga, Abraxas and the Earthman. He also shared art (and writing?) chores with Steve Bissette on a sci-fi/horror short story called... was it... Monkey See? A nice body of work, there.

Also from the Marvel Epic line was his full-color graphic novel, Heartburst, which I hate that I don't own. If Veitch ever reprints it, it'll probably be in black and white, and I'd really like to have it in color. I'll have to track it down somehow someday.

His brother, Tom, wrote for underground comix in the sixties and/or seventies, and I think Rick did some underground work, too. Also, correct me if I'm wrong here, Rick, but he attended, maybe graduated, the Joe Kubert school and contributed to back-up features (in just the war titles, right?) for DC series Kubert edited, as did many other Kubert students.

There are probably lots of things I'm forgetting.

Matthew

*Heh, heh. Don't ban me, Rick

What hasn't he done?

I would most likely know his work on Swamp Thing then, but the era you are talking about puts me right about when I started collecting comics, around 21 years ago. I was collecting the Marvel published The Transformers comics, and didn't collect anything else until The Evoltionary Wars crossover that sucked me in with a Punisher Annual with a great cover. From there I read Avengers until, I found the X-Men around issue #258 which relatively is around the end of Claremont's great run. All this time later, all these books later and I hate to admit: After all this time I am not familiar with any of this guy's stuff.