DEVIL'S DUE ANNOUNCES NEW THEME TO G.I. JOE COMIC Series re-launches in June with a 25¢ issue
Chicago, IL -- Feb 21, 2005 - This summer, Devil's Due Publishing (DDP) will introduce a new theme to its G.I. JOE line of titles, focusing on a smaller, more streamlined team with a rotating cast of guest stars. G.I. JOE #43 will be the last issue of the current G.I. JOE ongoing series when the world is turned upside down after a new menace hits both G.I. JOE and COBRA. And the changes will last forever. The new series will be titled G.I. JOE: America's Elite.
The final two issues of the current series (#42 and #43) will each be 42 pages and cost $4.50. Exclusive preview images can be seen in the near future at www.devilsdue.net.
June will see the release of G.I.JOE: AMERICA'S ELITE #0, priced at an amazingly low 25¢. Issue #1 follows in July.
Some big-name creative talent takes over the reins. Joe Casey steps in as the new writer and newly signed exclusive DDP artist Stefano Caselli is on pencils. Current G.I. JOE writer, Brandon Jerwa will begin work on a top secret project that ties in with this title, and Tim Seeley begins drawing an equally classified upcoming project that is going to be his best work yet.
"The 'new' G.I.JOE will take place about one year after issue #43," said Josh Blaylock, President of DDP. "Some of the characters will have gone through major changes and we'll be tackling the age issues with the characters and the challenges each faces. The current series will end with a bang; that much you can bank on. And, yes, not all the key players will survive the series---on both the G.I. JOE and COBRA sides."
Zorro Returns To Comics
NBM is brining back Zorro in comic book form under their new Papercutz imprint. Don McGregor, who wrote Zorro for Topps Comics and the daily newspaper strip, is writing this new series, which will appear in regular comic book format before being collected in manga-sized volumes. Sidney Lima will illustrate the series.
The sequel to the movie Mask of Zorro, entitled Legend of Zorro, is due in theaters in November 2005.
"I like the challenge of different forms of story-telling," McGregor told Scoop. "With Zorro alone I've done the character in a monthly comic book series, as an adaptation from movie script into comics, as a newspaper strip on a daily basis, and now in the manga format. I have always been fascinated by diverse ways of telling stories, ever since I was a kid, seeing the Hopalong Cassidy comic strips only in the Sunday News, which my grandfather bought in the state of Rhode Island. I always would wonder, 'What happened during the week? What did I miss?' And I hope readers throughout the years have perhaps asked themselves the same questions and wanted to know the answers, in my work."
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