Alien Legion is back with Uncivil War!

[Sven the Returned]

I never read Alien Legion but was introduced to Stroman's work from his X-Factor run. Still one of my favorite artist and glad to see he's back to work.

Are you talking about his 90's X-Factor run with Peter David writing? I remember enjoying those issues a great deal back in the day

Alien Legion generally remains my favourite of all his stuff [absolutely love Vol. 2 #5], though as it progressed there were getting to be some pretty silly looking random alien race designs thrown in there that took me out of the book a little.

I hear you. Maybe squads will be segregated a bit more in this series. But Jugger's little friends were amazing.

[The Dirt Gang]

I wasn't into Tribe too much, but I have an issue of it somewhere.

I liked Tribe at the time. I'm not sure how I'd feel about it now. Back then I was buying more for art than story, now I'm the opposite. I'm sure I'd like the artwork still and as I recall there were a couple of cool characters.

[grendeljd]

I re-read the On The Edge mini-series to deal with my anticipation of the new mini, and it was pretty much as good as I remember. Definitely not a fan of the set-up at the end of it, as I mentioned in a previous post. Going to re-read Tenants of Hell next, which was the follow-up to OtE.

[The Dirt Gang]

Here is a good interview with Carl Potts. He talks about the upcoming series towards the end.

http://www.sidebarnation.com/my_weblog/ ... potts.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[grendeljd]

I never read Alien Legion but was introduced to Stroman's work from his X-Factor run. Still one of my favorite artist and glad to see he's back to work.

Are you talking about his 90's X-Factor run with Peter David writing? I remember enjoying those issues a great deal back in the day

Alien Legion generally remains my favourite of all his stuff [absolutely love Vol. 2 #5], though as it progressed there were getting to be some pretty silly looking random alien race designs thrown in there that took me out of the book a little.

I hear you. Maybe squads will be segregated a bit more in this series. But Jugger's little friends were amazing.

I'd like to see a smaller group of Nomad be the focus for this new series, to avoid some of the sillier, non-sensical alien designs. In re-reading the On The Edge mini, I re-discovered the single most ridiculous panel of aliens - there was literally a yellow-ball-happy-face with two big feet in amongst a bunch of other tiny, useless looking critters, and another spindly purple Gumby looking thing with a classic Warner Brothers or Disney cartoon face, wearing basically a black bra for armor. No more of that please!

My favourite characters, in no particular order & including dead ones;

Jugger Grimrod
Zeerod
Meico
Tamara
Sarigar
Tonk
Dun
Mescad
Durge

[grendeljd]

Some of my favourite covers from the past;

[grendeljd]

Here is a good interview with Carl Potts. He talks about the upcoming series towards the end.

http://www.sidebarnation.com/my_weblog/ ... potts.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Sweet, thanks for posting that - I am about to sit down & do some drawing, it'll be great to listen to

[grendeljd]

One last post - stumbled across a pretty cool custom Grimrod figure someone made a few years back;

[Cyberstrike]

I never read Alien Legion but was introduced to Stroman's work from his X-Factor run. Still one of my favorite artist and glad to see he's back to work.

I got all 4 of the X-Factor Visionaries: Peter David TPBs and if it weren't for Peter David's wonderful scripts I would have thrown them in the trash because Stroman's so-called art.

[leonmallett]

Is anyone able to confirm of the AL omnibuses are in colour? Thanks.

[Sven the Returned]

Here is a good interview with Carl Potts. He talks about the upcoming series towards the end.

http://www.sidebarnation.com/my_weblog/ ... potts.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I hope Dark Horse picks it up fom Tian or something.

[The Dirt Gang]

I never read Alien Legion but was introduced to Stroman's work from his X-Factor run. Still one of my favorite artist and glad to see he's back to work.

I got all 4 of the X-Factor Visionaries: Peter David TPBs and if it weren't for Peter David's wonderful scripts I would have thrown them in the trash because Stroman's so-called art.

Sorry to hear that. I can understand why his artwork would not be for everyone. If you ever do decide to throw them out, just send them my way.

[grendeljd]

Here is a good interview with Carl Potts. He talks about the upcoming series towards the end.

http://www.sidebarnation.com/my_weblog/ ... potts.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Sweet, thanks for posting that - I am about to sit down & do some drawing, it'll be great to listen to

Wow, I gave it a listen yesterday - great stuff!! Cool to hear so many stories from Carl Potts career that I had not known about. He seems like a really great man who cared more than most about comics and other people trying to break in to the industry quite a lot. He discovered Jim Lee!! I can't believe Jim Lee was almost too nervous to get his portfolio reviewed for the first time back in the day. Imagine a talent like that not breaking in because he was scared...

And very cool tidbits about the new AL mini - sounds like this is the same one they had started to produce with Dark Horse. Shame to hear that the industry is so tough these days that this project nearly didn't happen. Imagine, Carl Potts paid Larry & Chuck out-of-pocket to make the book happen, & inked it himself to save on expenses. Glad to hear that Stroman & Dixon wanted to do the project out of love for the property, to the point of taking less than industry standard pay just to make it happen. That's the kind of creative energy that makes for great comics, right there.

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Is anyone able to confirm of the AL omnibuses are in colour? Thanks.

Yes, both Dark Horse AL omnibuses are in color.

One of my favorite covers has to be the one for the first issue of AL I ever bought:



I've always been rather partial to this cover as well:



Back then, I received most of Vol. 2 through the mail via subscription so I love this cover too, as this was the first issue to arrive in my mailbox:

[leonmallett]

Is anyone able to confirm of the AL omnibuses are in colour? Thanks.

Yes, both Dark Horse AL omnibuses are in color.

Cheers.

Going on my to order list then...

[Sven the Returned]

Is the Titan Legion comic coming out this week?

[The Dirt Gang]

Here is a good interview with Carl Potts. He talks about the upcoming series towards the end.

http://www.sidebarnation.com/my_weblog/ ... potts.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Sweet, thanks for posting that - I am about to sit down & do some drawing, it'll be great to listen to

Wow, I gave it a listen yesterday - great stuff!! Cool to hear so many stories from Carl Potts career that I had not known about.

Off topic but that website has some great interviews with guys that have been around (Bob Layton, John Romita Jr., Starlin, Chaykin) for awhile and they share a lot of great stories.

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Is the Titan Legion comic coming out this week?

According to my LCS' website, the first issue is set for release on Jun. 25th.

Only two more weeks!

[Sven the Returned]

That feels like July to me.

[grendeljd]

That feels like July to me.

It will be July now, ugh!!

It didn't ship this week, got pushed back until next week. I was really looking forward to getting it today, more than any other comics!

[grendeljd]

Well, the last published issue of Alien Legion came out 21 years ago... so I guess waiting one more week won't hurt that much...

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That feels like July to me.

It will be July now, ugh!!

It didn't ship this week, got pushed back until next week. I was really looking forward to getting it today, more than any other comics!

I know, my copy is sitting in my LCS pullbox but I won't be able to go there for another couple weeks. Anticipation builds!

Plus, have you checked out Dark Horse's Sept. solicits? New Grendel mini, Grendel vs.the Shadow with Hunter Rose, written and drawn by Wagner. Nothing else screams Must-Buy like new Wagner art.

[grendeljd]

That feels like July to me.

It will be July now, ugh!!

It didn't ship this week, got pushed back until next week. I was really looking forward to getting it today, more than any other comics!

I know, my copy is sitting in my LCS pullbox but I won't be able to go there for another couple weeks. Anticipation builds!

Plus, have you checked out Dark Horse's Sept. solicits? New Grendel mini, Grendel vs.the Shadow with Hunter Rose, written and drawn by Wagner. Nothing else screams Must-Buy like new Wagner art.

Oh, hell yeah. I follow Matt Wagner on Facebook, he has been posting artwork in progress on that for months. Looks awesome.

So your shop actually got the Alien Legion issue? Dang!

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That feels like July to me.

It will be July now, ugh!!

It didn't ship this week, got pushed back until next week. I was really looking forward to getting it today, more than any other comics!

I know, my copy is sitting in my LCS pullbox but I won't be able to go there for another couple weeks. Anticipation builds!

Plus, have you checked out Dark Horse's Sept. solicits? New Grendel mini, Grendel vs.the Shadow with Hunter Rose, written and drawn by Wagner. Nothing else screams Must-Buy like new Wagner art.

Oh, hell yeah. I follow Matt Wagner on Facebook, he has been posting artwork in progress on that for months. Looks awesome.

So your shop actually got the Alien Legion issue? Dang!

As far as I can tell, they did. I can log onto my account via their website and check what issues are in my pullbox. They usually don't list issues that aren't in stock so I'm assuming that it's there.

[grendeljd]

Oh snap. I had a $5 gift coupon with Comixology to use - I just checked & AL:UCW #1 is there. Downloaded & preparing to read!