From: Rich Johnston <[r--n--n] at [ea.com]>
Subject: Rich's Revelations: 3 Retractions And In January
Date: 16 Jan 1997 11:04:02 -0700
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.info

Rich's Revelations. As always, take whatever you read with as much salt
as you like. This is a rumour and news column. If you have further
information that contradicts or substantiates any of the below items,
you know the address.

Rich's Revelations: 3 Retractions And In January

Firstly, retraction time. One of the purposes of Rich's Revelations is
to get rumours out of the dirt tracks and publish them, so that they can
be retracted and contradicted wherever incorrect. So, we are proud to
present...

Rich's Retraction: The High Cost Of Rumour-mongering.

I'd like to apologise unreservedly for statements in the last Rich's 
Revelations. The rift that I mentioned between Charles Vess and Neil
Gaiman simply doesn't exist, Charles is currently painting Book 2 of
"Neil Gaiman & Charles Vess's Stardust", Neil is writing Book 3, the
story about why Chris Bachalo left Death wasn't true either, and I seem
to have made a bit of a fool of myself.

I apologise for any distress I may have caused to Neil or Charles, any
damage to Neil Gaiman's professional reputation, or anyone else
involved. I appreciate both Mark Askwith and Neil Gaiman for additional
information e-mailed to me.

While we're on the topic, it seems that Simon Bisley is a well man. A 
completely Fabry-cated story.

This kind of stuff is really getting me down. Sources for stories 
always come from people in the industry, I've never made them up. Now 
it seems that even primary sources (and I use that term wrongly) are 
suspect. And the last thing I want is a libel suit heading my way. This
doesn't mean Rich's Revelations is closing down, but changing. Certain
stories will have to stay in the dirt tracks, it seems. I've got a
bitter taste in my mouth. Okay, a phone call from Neil Gaiman in the
evening was quite cool, but I'm above that kind of thing... 8-)

We now return you to your regular Rich's Revelations.

Rich's Revelations: Half Way January.

Today, my mum is 49.

Now, Jamie Delano. Jamie was one of my favourite Vertigo writers, and 
his stint on Animal Man is one of my favourite Vertigo arcs of all time.
However, his workload has been a little short of late, with occasional
Vertigo one shots or Vampirella stories. This is about to change.

We all know that Jamie is writing Shadowman after Garth Ennis' run 
finishes. Fabian Nicieza said that Jamie's run will be the same amount 
of bodies and blood, but that people talk about it first. The gen is
that Jamie's run will be co-written with Dick Foreman. Jamie hopes to
leave Dick with the series, so he can continue to work on his new
groundbreaking Vertigo series 20/20 and the licensed Millennium series,
provisionally being published by Dark Horse. 

Slated artists for this series are Duncan Fegredo and Sean Philips, but
apparently they may not do the art as those in charge want the art to be
painted. Both Fegredo and Philips have comics-painting history, but they
are not so sure about spending so much time on the project. (Source-
Jamie Delano, via Joel Meadows)

Jamie is also writing Bad Blood for Paradox Press, a graphic novel
mixing the detective novel with a story of incest. Drawn by Russell
Braun, a man from the Midlands who spent his youth in San Francisco in
the seventies, returns twenty five years later and becomes involved in a
relationship to a woman, who unbeknownst to him, is his own daughter.

A new Aliens series from Dark Horse will read like a dictionary of dark
artists. Written by Mark Schultz, Alien Havok, a two issue series will
see a colony, supposedly slaughter by the xenomorphs, with one survivor,
who took a hallucinogenic substance. Artists will include Nolan, Muth
and the aforementioned Fegredo and Philips, with many more to come.

We've heard Stuart Moore hint about a Helix series by Michael Moorcock.
Word is, that it could be J Cornelius in his own comic book series.

Signal To Noise, the Radio 3 adaptation of the originally serialised,
now collected graphic novel of the same name by Neil Gaiman and Dave
McKean, has been nominated for a Sony Award for best Drama. 

Twist and Shout Comics' X-Flies: Bug Hunt 3: Aliens is about to be 
solicited. And it's going to be a doozy. Last night I came up with the 
most horrendous pieces of word play I've written in my career, one that
needs two pages to set it up. Believe me, you'll think the fish joke in
Bug Hunt 2 is bad enough, but wait till April... Twist And Shout Comics
will be published a short story by Grendel and Star Wars scribe, Darko
Macan shortly as well as a Freudwitch story by Brendon Connelly and Jake
Hempson, a talented creative team from Oxford. You'll see the published
writing debut of Lance Gueck, co-creator of Spawn and long time
associate of Twist And Shout Comics. I'm doing the art chores... As ever
Dirtbag contines in Bug Hunt, taking the Dirtbag Presents storyline back
into conflict with Group 4, who last attacked Dirtbag in the very first
issue, over two years ago. Grab a beer and join the party.

Rich Johnston   Twist and Shout Comics
Copywriter   Publisher of Dirtbag and X-Flies
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