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Image Expo: Straczynski and Sienkiewicz announce ALONE

07/02/2013 2:17 pm by Heidi MacDonald

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Image Expo is unrolling right now and news is coming out on the Image Comics twitter feed.

Straczynski and Bill Sienkiewicz are debuting Alone, a six-issue series that's going to deconstruct comic book storytelling. #ImageExpo

— Image Comics (@ImageComics) July 2, 2013

It will be the hardest to spell EVER comics series. Straczynski and Sienkiewicz!

Heidi MacDonald

Heidi MacDonald is the founder and editor in chief of The Beat. In the past, she worked for Disney, DC Comics, Fox and Publishers Weekly. She can be heard regularly on the More To Come Podcast. She likes coffee, cats and noble struggle.

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  1. Lee Whiteside says

    07/02/2013 4:00 pm at 4:00 pm

    Plus the return of Book of Lost Souls with Coleen Doran and Dream Police with Mike Deodato!

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  2. Steve Flack says

    07/02/2013 4:23 pm at 4:23 pm

    “It’s a brand new idea in comic book storytelling.,” Stracyznski said. “Basically, I do two issues, then I quit. So the audience has to come up with the ending themselves.”

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  3. Doctor Timebomb says

    07/02/2013 4:46 pm at 4:46 pm

    I love how Eric Stephenson and David Brothers railed against Before Watchmen, and now they’re giving us a book from two of the people who worked on that series (and plenty more JMS besides). In comics, no one is immune to star fucking.

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  4. Kurt Busiek says

    07/02/2013 5:07 pm at 5:07 pm

    >> I love how Eric Stephenson and David Brothers railed against Before Watchmen, and now they’re giving us a book from two of the people who worked on that series (and plenty more JMS besides). In comics, no one is immune to star fucking.>>

    It’s almost as if they thought doing BEFORE WATCHMEN was a bad idea, not that the people who worked on it aren’t talented creators who they’d like to see do new stuff of their own.

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  5. Kelson says

    07/02/2013 6:58 pm at 6:58 pm

    “A series that’s going to deconstruct comic storytelling” doesn’t really say anything to me – OK, that’s the academic angle, what’s the angle in terms of actual story?

    But more “Book of Lost Souls?” That I’m glad to hear about. That book had great potential and was never really given a chance to go anywhere.

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  6. Cole Schenley says

    07/02/2013 10:02 pm at 10:02 pm

    Wait, isn’t David Brothers the quality control guy there? I mean, he’s doing behind the scenes work on books, but he’s not in charge of what the Image higher ups approve as comics. He didn’t suddenly start working for DC or something.

    And Stephenson might not like BW, but I didn’t think he had decreed that creators who were involved with those books were banned from Image work. Seemingly his beef is more with the people who approved the creation of BW in the first place.

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  7. Doctor Timebomb says

    07/02/2013 10:29 pm at 10:29 pm

    JMS didn’t just write for BW. He defended it. There’s only one way to treat this cretin, I refer you to Mark Waid and Chris Roberson’s comments here:
    http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/03/03/its-possible-that-jms-may-not-be-writing-for-dynamite-any-time-soon/

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  8. R.D. says

    07/02/2013 11:27 pm at 11:27 pm

    Not that Stephenson cosying up to JMS isn’t amusing on some level, but Christ almighty, get over yourself.

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  9. Doctor Timebomb says

    07/03/2013 12:57 am at 12:57 am

    You’re probably right

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  10. Pedro Bouça says

    07/03/2013 6:23 am at 6:23 am

    Waste of a great artist. And he probably will, like Chris Weston, spend years hearing people complain that his series isn’t finished when it’s not his fault.

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  11. Jason A. Quest says

    07/03/2013 8:52 am at 8:52 am

    I don’t think publishers blacklisting a creator for his views or even his previous work would be something good for the industry. (Google “HUAC blacklist” if you’re unconvinced.)

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  12. Nathan Aaron says

    07/03/2013 9:34 am at 9:34 am

    It’s Bill Sienkiewicz. Who CARES what the storyline is about! :) It could be six issues of people eating cereal and I’d STILL buy it! – Bill Sienkiewicz!

    With that said, I wish people would stop using the word “series” so freely. It’s confusing as crap anymore to figure out if a book is a mini-series or a series (which to me means ONGOING) because everyone interchanges those terms all the time.

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  13. Larry Vossler says

    07/05/2013 9:01 pm at 9:01 pm

    I would LOVE to read another comic by Sienkiewcz. He’s one of my favorite comic artists but it’s a damn shame JMS is writing it.

    When I was at the expo, my heart shank when I heard the news.

    A great idea with a great artist but with a writer I want nothing to do with.

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