Maybe because he actually gets paid for the Marvel stuff, and Ben Templesmith is blatantly rather more busy now than he was when Fell was semi-regular? just a wild stab in the dark, you know.

Templesmith has said he’s just waiting for the Fell scripts to draw.

2) Beasts of Burden is a 4-issue limited series, all new, done-in-one stories, continuing from the DHC anthologies. You don’t need to have read the first 4 short stories to understand the series, we cover what you need to know, and there’s a little set-up bit in the inside front cover of the first issue. Animals fight evil. You’re caught up.

Any chance the anthology stories will get put under one cover at any point?

They were really, really good.

2) Beasts of Burden is a 4-issue limited series, all new, done-in-one stories, continuing from the DHC anthologies. You don’t need to have read the first 4 short stories to understand the series, we cover what you need to know, and there’s a little set-up bit in the inside front cover of the first issue. Animals fight evil. You’re caught up.

3) There really is a Burden Hill, in NJ, although the series is not set there. But, yeah, it’s a pun, and they can misfire. It’s an okay title, though, I think.

Thanks again for discussing the series.

a few years back DC had the SOLO series…and paul pope has done a lot of work for them…and there were a number of indie folks who did work on batman black and white…

Perhaps this version has more stuff in it than the hardcover I read? Because that was called The Fixer and Other Stories, but it didn’t have the stuff from Safe Area Goradze in it, so I’m not sure this is the complete Bosnian tales.

FGJ: The solicit for Beasts of Burden claims it’s a new story, or at least it’s heavily implied.

Brad: Picking on the solicitation texts is all I have left in my cold, lonely life. Please don’t take it away from me!!!!!

Maybe because he actually gets paid for the Marvel stuff, and Ben Templesmith is blatantly rather more busy now than he was when Fell was semi-regular? just a wild stab in the dark, you know.

That Blackhawk mini is fantastic, and has some really lovely pre-computer Steve Oliff colours. So I heartily recommend that trade.

The again, Warren Ellis claimed he was actually going to start writing Fell and Desolation Jones again after his old computer crashed and that still hasn’t happened, so who knows if JMS can be held to his word either?

but shouldn’t DC wait until they see how JMS’s “Red Circle” event does at the box office before greenlighting series spinning out of them? Wouldn’t that be wise? Oh, wait – it’s DC!

All of us waiting for The Twelve to end need something to look forward to.

It’s never going to end is it?

Also, I slapped my forehead when I figured out the pun of Crusht Acean P.I., but am still trying to figure out the pun in the Dorkin/Thompson thing.

They’re beasts that live in burden… the beasts of burden – eh, eh?

And it will look fan-freakin’-tastic, unless for some reason you don’t like Jill Thompson. And you’re not that dim-witted, are you? ARE YOU????

These are the characters from the old (few years) horror anthologies Dark Horse used to do yeah?

Those were the best parts of those books – even in the awesome one’s, those stories still stood out.

Anyone know if this is a new story or a reprint?

I hope it’s a new story, and then we get a reprint with the old one’s and the new one… that’d rock my socks.

Also, I slapped my forehead when I figured out the pun of Crusht Acean P.I., but am still trying to figure out the pun in the Dorkin/Thompson thing.

It could be referring to the METHOD whereby Wayne faced the ladies. Like if he was wearing a funny mask he could say “I’ve never faced ladies like THIS before.” I mean it isn’t referring to that, but it could be.