The Fade Out Single-Volume Softcover -- and More Kill Or Be Killed?
With the new issue of Kill Or Be Killed, we got some news on what comes next. We still have other news we'd like to cover, but they'll have to wait -- hopefully not too long.
The Fade Out returns to stores this fall, perhaps October or November, this time in a single-volume trade paperback.
We guess that, around the same time of this new collection, we'll see the sequel to The Fade Out, as the team's next monthly title.
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While we were finishing our most recent blog post, Ed Brubaker was sending out his latest email newsletter, the first in just over four months. There's a ton worth reading there, in addition to an extended, five-page preview of the new issue, KOBK #18.
Revealing nothing else about the upcoming project, Brubaker writes, "today I will finally be reading the script for the KILL OR BE KILLED movie adaptation."
He also briefly mentions Too Old To Die Young -- now at the midpoint of its ten-month shoot, "which is I believe the longest shoot ever for a ten episode show with a single director" -- and he directs readers to the show's Instagram feed, which is now quite active.
And he addresses a reader's question on the changing (and possibly declining) retail market of local comic stores, in a slightly longer answer than what he gave in the back pages of the new issue.
(In the email and in print, he concludes the mini-essay in almost exactly the same way, assuring readers, "Sean and I will keep doing our books as long as people keep buying them... And I hope that’s at least another decade or two.")
The biggest reveal is about this new single-volume softcover for The Fade Out.
If the team's next monthly title starts no earlier than October, it will presumably carry over into the new year. We seriously doubt Ed Brubaker would commence lengthy research, at the end of 2017, for a book to be created in 2019 or later, so we think it's very reasonable to conclude that their next monthly title is this first follow-up to The Fade Out.
Since this new single-volume trade paperback would be a great way to promote the new series, we'd further speculate that the new title's first issue will come out no more than a month afterward -- and perhaps as early as the very same day.
But even apart from that, we're thrilled to see the story collected as the single graphic novel which it comprises, in an softcover edition presumably priced for a wider readership.
And while the choice of characters and their position is a bit surprising, Ed Brubaker is quite right that the new cover is gorgeous, as is the new design for the title.
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In the newsletter, Ed Brubaker also writes about the project preceding this next monthly title.
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And, in the back pages of KOBK 18, Ed Brubaker drops one more bit of interesting news.
Dylan's story might not end in June -- and even if it does, we may not have seen the last of that demon.
Either way, we do look forward to "another decade or two" from Brubaker and Phillips, reading whatever stories they'd like to tell.
The Fade Out returns to stores this fall, perhaps October or November, this time in a single-volume trade paperback.
We guess that, around the same time of this new collection, we'll see the sequel to The Fade Out, as the team's next monthly title.
---
While we were finishing our most recent blog post, Ed Brubaker was sending out his latest email newsletter, the first in just over four months. There's a ton worth reading there, in addition to an extended, five-page preview of the new issue, KOBK #18.
Revealing nothing else about the upcoming project, Brubaker writes, "today I will finally be reading the script for the KILL OR BE KILLED movie adaptation."
He also briefly mentions Too Old To Die Young -- now at the midpoint of its ten-month shoot, "which is I believe the longest shoot ever for a ten episode show with a single director" -- and he directs readers to the show's Instagram feed, which is now quite active.
And he addresses a reader's question on the changing (and possibly declining) retail market of local comic stores, in a slightly longer answer than what he gave in the back pages of the new issue.
(In the email and in print, he concludes the mini-essay in almost exactly the same way, assuring readers, "Sean and I will keep doing our books as long as people keep buying them... And I hope that’s at least another decade or two.")
The biggest reveal is about this new single-volume softcover for The Fade Out.
I've been researching and planning for a new book, a follow-up to THE FADE OUT for the past six months or so, and I'm happy to announce that in the fall (in time for Christmas shopping even) we'll be releasing a complete edition of THE FADE OUT in paperback. This will collect all 12 chapters under one cover, and a lot of extra stuff, as well...
This should be out in October or November this year, and I just love this cover Sean did. So keep your eyes peeled and tell your retailers if you want it.We previously reported, from his December newsletter, research into the 1950's and television's early golden age for the unconventional sequel to The Fade Out, and, in a subsequent interview, Sean Phillips revealed that this would be the first of two follow-up stories set in the same fictional universe.
If the team's next monthly title starts no earlier than October, it will presumably carry over into the new year. We seriously doubt Ed Brubaker would commence lengthy research, at the end of 2017, for a book to be created in 2019 or later, so we think it's very reasonable to conclude that their next monthly title is this first follow-up to The Fade Out.
Since this new single-volume trade paperback would be a great way to promote the new series, we'd further speculate that the new title's first issue will come out no more than a month afterward -- and perhaps as early as the very same day.
But even apart from that, we're thrilled to see the story collected as the single graphic novel which it comprises, in an softcover edition presumably priced for a wider readership.
And while the choice of characters and their position is a bit surprising, Ed Brubaker is quite right that the new cover is gorgeous, as is the new design for the title.
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In the newsletter, Ed Brubaker also writes about the project preceding this next monthly title.
As I mentioned in the recent issue's text pages, KILL OR BE KILLED is ending with issue 20 and we'll be announcing our next thing very soon (you'll in fact probably hear of it in issue 20 or this newsletter first). I already have said before one of the things Sean and I have started working on is an OGN - which will be an original hardback, novella length. But I don't want to reveal anything more about it yet.We're looking forward to the announcement.
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And, in the back pages of KOBK 18, Ed Brubaker drops one more bit of interesting news.
...I think it's been announced already, but some of you may have missed that issue 20 is our final issue (for now, at least). This arc is actually where a lot of the threads come together, as you'll see the next three [sic] issues. We may return to KILL OR BE KILLED at some point down the line, but it's time to move on to other stuff. We have two new things coming out later this year -- first an OGN hardback and then the launch of our next monthly serialized thing. I'll have more information about this stuff in issue 20.The planned film adaptation would presumably be limited to this first volume of twenty issues, and we're quite intrigued about the possibility of returning to this world.
Dylan's story might not end in June -- and even if it does, we may not have seen the last of that demon.
Either way, we do look forward to "another decade or two" from Brubaker and Phillips, reading whatever stories they'd like to tell.
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