The Marquis: Inferno
I just got advance copies of The Marquis: Inferno. And I've seen round after round of proofs and PDFs and I'm still floored at how gorgeous this book looks bound.
Pre-order it now.* Seriously. Gorgeous book. Great design. Incredibly cool, scary, beautiful story. Guy Davis doing his own gorgeous, terrifying, epic thing; revised, corrected, and recolored from the original Oni editions, with about a zillion pages of sketches, and a new introduction by Mike Mignola, and a full-color cover gallery, and other cool extras.
And yeah, I'm biased (see the credit for "Collection Editor" on page 4, and you already know how I feel bout Guy's comics), but guys, this is a really, really, really good book. It's terrific comics storytelling. It could be a crash course in character (and monster!) design. And it is a fantastically good deal.
(Disclaimer: There is a good reason that Inferno is rated 16+ on the DH website. This is a scary, graphic book; it's a beautiful, elegant period piece, but it's also very definitely horror, and there's a wee bit of frontal male nudity, if you're the type to worry about such things, which I'm not particularly.)
*If you live in PDX, you may want to consider pre-ordering a copy at Floating World, for reasons I'll enumerate later.
Pre-order it now.* Seriously. Gorgeous book. Great design. Incredibly cool, scary, beautiful story. Guy Davis doing his own gorgeous, terrifying, epic thing; revised, corrected, and recolored from the original Oni editions, with about a zillion pages of sketches, and a new introduction by Mike Mignola, and a full-color cover gallery, and other cool extras.
And yeah, I'm biased (see the credit for "Collection Editor" on page 4, and you already know how I feel bout Guy's comics), but guys, this is a really, really, really good book. It's terrific comics storytelling. It could be a crash course in character (and monster!) design. And it is a fantastically good deal.
(Disclaimer: There is a good reason that Inferno is rated 16+ on the DH website. This is a scary, graphic book; it's a beautiful, elegant period piece, but it's also very definitely horror, and there's a wee bit of frontal male nudity, if you're the type to worry about such things, which I'm not particularly.)
*If you live in PDX, you may want to consider pre-ordering a copy at Floating World, for reasons I'll enumerate later.