MattBrady
11-18-2004, 04:56 PM
<i>Press Release</i>
<blockquote>Checker Book Publishing Group has announced winter 2004-2005 publication of Alien Legion: Footsloggers (ISBN 0-9753808-7-7, $19.95, 200 pp. full-color paperback). Footsloggers is Checker's third Alien Legion collection, and will collect the first six issues of the original series that was initially published in 1984 by Epic comics.
Footsloggers was brought into being by creator Carl Potts, with the help of artist Frank Cirocco and writer Alan Zelenetz. Ace inkers Whilce Portacio and Terry Austin also leant their skills to the first series of Alien Legion. Directed by Potts, these four talents created a world of extra-terrestrial intrigue, drama, and adventure featuring a galaxy-hopping mercenary force a la the French Foreign Legion. The stories in Footsloggers highlight the zeal in which Potts approached the project, and the overall milieu of the series allows for much diversity and expansion in both plot and character development, allowing Zelenetz the freedom to tackle multiple subjects within a single issue while staying within the boundaries of the Alien Legion universe.
This collection is the first half of the original twenty issues that were printed by Epic, Marvel's creator-owned branch. Alien Legion, after its first series, was re-created in 1987 and ran for another eighteen issues - the first eleven of which are collected in Checker's Alien Legion: Force Nomad (ISBN 0-9710249-0-1, $24.95, 320 pp. full-color paperback), and the last seven issues in Alien Legion: Piecemaker (ISBN 0-9710249-4-4, $19.95, 212 pp. full-color paperback).
Both Force Nomad and Piecemaker are well-loved by fans and critics alike, and the series is finding new devotees even after being out of print for twenty years.
". . .plays like 'The Dirty Dozen' mixed with. . .'Starship Troopers'"
-- Shotgun Reviews
"…the series is lifted above the ordinary by its art and writing… A comic book story has tapped a critical human concern and treated it seriously."
-- Publishers Weekly
Like all Checker titles, Footsloggers can be found, once winter hits, at comic shops, bookstores, or directly from Checker at http://www.checkerbpg.com </blockquote>
<blockquote>Checker Book Publishing Group has announced winter 2004-2005 publication of Alien Legion: Footsloggers (ISBN 0-9753808-7-7, $19.95, 200 pp. full-color paperback). Footsloggers is Checker's third Alien Legion collection, and will collect the first six issues of the original series that was initially published in 1984 by Epic comics.
Footsloggers was brought into being by creator Carl Potts, with the help of artist Frank Cirocco and writer Alan Zelenetz. Ace inkers Whilce Portacio and Terry Austin also leant their skills to the first series of Alien Legion. Directed by Potts, these four talents created a world of extra-terrestrial intrigue, drama, and adventure featuring a galaxy-hopping mercenary force a la the French Foreign Legion. The stories in Footsloggers highlight the zeal in which Potts approached the project, and the overall milieu of the series allows for much diversity and expansion in both plot and character development, allowing Zelenetz the freedom to tackle multiple subjects within a single issue while staying within the boundaries of the Alien Legion universe.
This collection is the first half of the original twenty issues that were printed by Epic, Marvel's creator-owned branch. Alien Legion, after its first series, was re-created in 1987 and ran for another eighteen issues - the first eleven of which are collected in Checker's Alien Legion: Force Nomad (ISBN 0-9710249-0-1, $24.95, 320 pp. full-color paperback), and the last seven issues in Alien Legion: Piecemaker (ISBN 0-9710249-4-4, $19.95, 212 pp. full-color paperback).
Both Force Nomad and Piecemaker are well-loved by fans and critics alike, and the series is finding new devotees even after being out of print for twenty years.
". . .plays like 'The Dirty Dozen' mixed with. . .'Starship Troopers'"
-- Shotgun Reviews
"…the series is lifted above the ordinary by its art and writing… A comic book story has tapped a critical human concern and treated it seriously."
-- Publishers Weekly
Like all Checker titles, Footsloggers can be found, once winter hits, at comic shops, bookstores, or directly from Checker at http://www.checkerbpg.com </blockquote>