Megamind -- the official comic!

[fairest1]

As you may already know, Ape Entertainment is releasing a four-issue miniseries of Megamind comics, release dates currently unknown (the first issue is supposed to come out this month), though the prequel comic is in stores now!

For those of you who are interested, I thought I'd post the solicitations . . .

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[irrel]

Wow! Want O_O

[mekosuchinae]

omg prom. I AM DYING. DYING. CANNOT DEAL. No idea how that actually fits into continuity like at all, BUT WHATEVER. PUT IT IN MY EYES FOREVER.

[fairest1]

I want Roxanne to have decided to screw conventional ideas of prom dates and just be hanging out in the crowd with her friends and enjoying the party.

Possibly because that's what I did (despite what my mother apparently continues to think due to a male friend giving me a drive to the bash).

[mekosuchinae]

YES OMG. Hahaha. I kind of (totally) want Roxanne to be the sarcastic, nerdy editor of the schoolpaper, and she has to interview the Prom King and Queen, AND HIJINKS. Yes.

That's what I did, too! Man, whatever. High school was awkward enough without having to figure out that date thing.

[fairest1]

YES. And she'd be the one who somehow gets to all the good parties because she stays sober and has a camera, thus getting enough evidence to ensure the popular kids want to stay on her good side.

(she wouldn't even threaten to publish the photos. Really, that's not news, that's just tawdry gossip. And their paranoid, hungover minds would fill in all the details needed).

Hm. From my own memories on the school paper, the editor was generally a teacher who would publish absolutely anything as long as you knew how to use the ^$&% spellcheck and could form coherent sentences (true story; she printed the page-long article on the slaver wasps from Girl Genius that I wrote, back when it was obscure and offline only).

Naaah. More interesting to keep things like fictional papers where the kids actually have any kind of say in what's printed.

[masakomoonshade]

EVIL MINION!

That sounds awesome. I'm not so much looking forward to the dog one, though, because that particular plot has been done to death.

[mekosuchinae]

Haha, I'm deffff looking forward to the Megamutt story if only for the possibility of Roxanne/Megamind smooching times. I mean, what? Who said that? (I said that.)

[madamotaku]

I was going to post about this myself but never got around to it. I picked up the prequel comic at a local Borders, and guess what? It's a reprint of "The Reign of Megamind" (which was an SDCC "exclusive" item as well as the comic that you can download off the official website). There's an additional story that appears at the end of the book, though, which is about the previous versions of Minion's robot suit that Megamind had created.

The first issue of the four part series was released this week. At least it was supposed to be. I'm going to check my local comic shop to see the status of that.

[fairest1]

Oh, good to know about the prequel comic! Now I won't have to be concerned with tracking it down on eBay.

All I know is it isn't on Diamond's solicitations for this week or next. And the fact that there isn't an option to order it on Ape's website indicates it wasn't released earlier this month.

[madamotaku]

Ugh. Suck. Indie comics always have such unreliable release dates. :P

[fairest1]

Hey, now, some non-indie publishers also have trouble with release dates -- the last issue of Kick-Ass was six months late. At least the fact that it's official-ish means they'll be more careful about ensuring it's actually printed eventually.

[shipperwolf_1]

ah sweet! i want them all!!!