recent rambling
Good news for Jack!
From the Tomb Magazine has a great review of the first issue of Jack, which was also featured last week at Comic Monsters and Comic Related News!What a fresh and thrilling read this was. This is a book that just sums up what I want to spend my money on at the comic shop. A very clever and puzzling story highlighted by fantastic artwork. This one is worth taking a look at.
Read the rest of the review here. Many thanks to Dan Royer for great press!
Jack the knife!
No matter what Jack does, he seems to wind up with knives ~ and yet he looks the most surprised when it happens. The real question is: is that just a steak knife for trimming the gristle off a t-bone or is Jack planning to make his new life even more complicated than it already is? I'm guessing a story about Jack eating dinner wouldn't exactly be a grabber (though I could be wrong!), nevertheless, rest assured: part two of "dark visions" will pit killer against killer with whatever weapons they can lay their hands on.
Check back for some interesting artifacts dug up from the scary archive, including very early character sketches!
Jack ~ issue no. 2 cover
The brand new cover for issue no. 2 of Jack ("dark visions" part II) is complete and ready for unveiling!
In the second part of the new series, Jack and his shady companion (the otherwise unidentified "Spring-heeled Jack" of lore) take on the serial killer whose murders have put Jack in hot water. This could be a difficult confrontation when Jack's in police custody and the killer is, himself, a police detective.
But then again, with a little supernatural help, it might not be too hard at all!
This two-part series kick-off features full-page sequential black and white art. Look for it in July of 2008!
Jack ~ origins
Synopsis: Can you reform a Ripper?
Dr. Marianne Gordon, a psychotherapist working in the criminal investigation department of the metropolitan police has a case file dropped onto her desk that she doesn't know what to make of: a twenty-something British amnesia victim who seems to be convinced that he is Jack the Ripper. Picked up on suspicion in a string of violent serial murders, "Jack" is both amiable and outright stupid ~ seemingly too stupid to have even committed the crimes he's accused of. Who is this tea-drinking, chain-smoking, affable anarchronism who talks to an "imaginary" incarnation of the notorious Springheeled Jack?
When Jack offers to help collar the real killer, strange and wonderful things begin to happen, proving this lost lamb has powers not only beyond belief, but beyond his own control. Dr. Caligari had nothing to compare to the creatures in the cabinet of this reincarnated serial killer's mind.
at Comic-Con 2007!
Some Background on this Project: A mild mania for urban legends, ghost stories, and the chilling true tales of ghoulish murder in East London in 1888 were the basis of this somewhat zany, but dark series.Jack transplants everyone's favorite psychosexual maniac to modern-day America to not only get him some much-needed therapy, but to atone for his violent misdeeds. Ripperologists and other "hunt the Ripper" fanatics may wonder which suspect plays the lead role in this particular drama, but our hero is an amalgamation of mythology and reality ~ even he doesn't recognize himself and has only the vaguest recollection of his murderous past.
