Give Her Liberty
Cor.
Granted, this is an expensive beastie (listed at $100 US), and not everything in it is high-quality guaranteed, but it sure sounds enticing. A big shiny volume for Give Me Liberty, with a bunch of behind-the-scenes? Oooh, yes.
If I've got a favourite comic limited series that's not tied up in the likes of DC, Marvel and their stables, it's the original Give Me Liberty. I meant to say in my Watchmen commentary, that this is another comic I'd be curious to see what they did with as a film.
There was many a sequel to Liberty, but for me few of them captured that intelligence and black humour that was strung through the first mini-series. I read the final one and kind of thought, 'That's it?' Still, the original is still a gem. An increasingly deluded/dystopic United States, stemming from the machinations of the White House and corruption in the military. And through it all, young Martha Washington grows up, enters that military and finds herself witness to the Second American Civil War.
The story is set in 1995 through 2012, all of which was the future when the book came out in 1990, but it reads just as well nowadays as a Watchmen-style 'alternate history'. I really recommend reading it - you can probably get a collection of the original 1990 miniseries for substantially less than a hundred dollar.
Granted, this is an expensive beastie (listed at $100 US), and not everything in it is high-quality guaranteed, but it sure sounds enticing. A big shiny volume for Give Me Liberty, with a bunch of behind-the-scenes? Oooh, yes.
If I've got a favourite comic limited series that's not tied up in the likes of DC, Marvel and their stables, it's the original Give Me Liberty. I meant to say in my Watchmen commentary, that this is another comic I'd be curious to see what they did with as a film.
There was many a sequel to Liberty, but for me few of them captured that intelligence and black humour that was strung through the first mini-series. I read the final one and kind of thought, 'That's it?' Still, the original is still a gem. An increasingly deluded/dystopic United States, stemming from the machinations of the White House and corruption in the military. And through it all, young Martha Washington grows up, enters that military and finds herself witness to the Second American Civil War.
The story is set in 1995 through 2012, all of which was the future when the book came out in 1990, but it reads just as well nowadays as a Watchmen-style 'alternate history'. I really recommend reading it - you can probably get a collection of the original 1990 miniseries for substantially less than a hundred dollar.