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BLANK
10-04-2005, 09:36 PM
Hey guys, next year is the 10th anniversary of Kingdom Come by Alex Ross and Mark Waid.

Does anybody know if DC has any plans for a special 10th anniversary release of this classic book?
davids
10-04-2005, 10:14 PM
like to see how the world and the heroes turned out?
Bruce did he ever retire and hook up with talia. Did jonathan get a baby sister or brother? What would Wonder Woman's Amazon sisters think about her having a son? These and more questions should be asked.
tk421atpost
10-04-2005, 11:32 PM
I wouldn't be surprised if we saw an Absolute Edition hardcover sometime next year.
Doesitmatter
10-05-2005, 02:21 PM
A reprinting, sure. Anything new, no. Justice will still be running through next year.
yenaled
10-05-2005, 02:24 PM
yeah, I would expect a hardcover Absolute edition.
Taskmaster
10-05-2005, 02:24 PM
Yeah, as much as I'd love to see what has gone on in the KC future i'd be afraid it'd end up too much like the Kingdom, which while not that bad, it didn't do KC justice)
SUPERECWFAN1
10-05-2005, 08:01 PM
Nope a sequel shouldn't happen because it would hurt the orginal masterpiece. I can look at those 4 issues and see a story that changed a lot. It was beautiful and I'd hate to see something less than promising happen and ruin it.
Blueferret
10-05-2005, 09:42 PM
Yeah, as much as I'd love to see what has gone on in the KC future i'd be afraid it'd end up too much like the Kingdom, which while not that bad, it didn't do KC justice)

Agreed. the first issue of Kingdom I thought was great. The individual issues and the second issue really irritated me, psrticularly the intro of Hypertime.
Hellpop
10-06-2005, 06:17 AM
Don't count on a sequel, at least not with both Ross and Waid. Bad blood there, though they may have buried the hatchet by now. But Ross was not happy with The Kingdom, and DC would not risk angering him at this point.
Rich L
10-06-2005, 06:26 AM
Agreed. the first issue of Kingdom I thought was great. The individual issues and the second issue really irritated me, psrticularly the intro of Hypertime.

Offspring and Planet Krypton were pretty good, I thought - especially current day Batman seeing the Hypertime Batwoman and whispering 'Kathy?'
The Adventurer
10-06-2005, 06:41 AM
Ross could just do his idea of a sequel (actualy a prequel leading up to the death of Lois Lane. This is acording to the Wizard Ross Special) And leave Waid in the dust. Krueger or Buisek or someone else can do Waid's dialog work.
justcrash
10-06-2005, 08:18 AM
Don't count on a sequel, at least not with both Ross and Waid. Bad blood there, though they may have buried the hatchet by now. But Ross was not happy with The Kingdom, and DC would not risk angering him at this point.


Was the bad blood over the kingdom? Or something else?
The Adventurer
10-06-2005, 09:17 AM
Waid blew up his involvment with KC, while he gets the cowriting credit he was really just the writer of the Dialog. Ross felt betrayed and so they're no longer chumy.

Most people like to think KC was Waid's, but it wasn't. It was 80% Ross in terms of writing.

I mean, all you have to do is read The Kingdom, to relise just how little he understood the original.
davids
10-06-2005, 10:53 AM
More than a hunch and far less than fact. But Hypertime keeps coming up and budding in recent books.
Hellpop
10-06-2005, 02:55 PM
Waid blew up his involvment with KC, while he gets the cowriting credit he was really just the writer of the Dialog. Ross felt betrayed and so they're no longer chumy.

Most people like to think KC was Waid's, but it wasn't. It was 80% Ross in terms of writing.

I mean, all you have to do is read The Kingdom, to relise just how little he understood the original.

That's all true. The character of... the old man, what's his name? I don't have the book in front of me. Anyway, that was based on Ross' father. Ross came up with the proposal himself, without any writer involved, and said, basically, "Give me your next Alan Moore". He was given the choice of Waid and John Ostrander.

There was a REALLY good two part interview with Alex Ross in the Comics Journal a few years ago, which goes into a lot of detail that other publications might gloss over. Ross doesn't mince any words, about this or anything.
justcrash
10-06-2005, 06:04 PM
That's all true. The character of... the old man, what's his name? I don't have the book in front of me. Anyway, that was based on Ross' father. Ross came up with the proposal himself, without any writer involved, and said, basically, "Give me your next Alan Moore". He was given the choice of Waid and John Ostrander.

There was a REALLY good two part interview with Alex Ross in the Comics Journal a few years ago, which goes into a lot of detail that other publications might gloss over. Ross doesn't mince any words, about this or anything.

I would like to read that! Do you have a link, per chance? :)
Hellpop
10-08-2005, 03:08 PM
I checked the Journal's web site, but they don't have that interview posted (not that I could find, at least). It was in issues #223 & 224, which you could probably buy directly from Fantagraphics (www.fantagraphics.com) or from most of the better online comics retailers. Let me do a google search and see if I can find it.
justcrash
10-08-2005, 03:12 PM
I checked the Journal's web site, but they don't have that interview posted (not that I could find, at least). It was in issues #223 & 224, which you could probably buy directly from Fantagraphics (www.fantagraphics.com) or from most of the better online comics retailers. Let me do a google search and see if I can find it.


Thanks, man! :)
Hellpop
10-08-2005, 03:42 PM
Sorry, I can't seem to find the interview anywhere. :( But the magazines, like I said, shouldn't be too hard to track down. :)