MattBrady
05-30-2003, 09:39 AM
Brian Wood has provided Newsarama with the covers for the first three issues of his and Becky Cloonan’s ongoing series, Demo, coming this fall from AiT/PlanetLar. As Wood has described the young superhero series, it’s “Almost entirely character driven, but without a lot of soap-opera and melodrama, and without any kind of ingrained editorial structure dictating the book's direction.”
Click on the thumbnails below for larger versions – text on the back covers (the left hand side of the images) is dialogue from the issues, and, according to Wood, gives a pretty clear view of what the series will encompass.
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<a href="http://www.newsarama.com/AiT/demo1_cover_done_s.gif" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.newsarama.com/AiT/demo1_cover_done_s_t.jpg" width="250" height="192" border="0" alt="Demo #1"></a>
<a href="http://www.newsarama.com/AiT/demo2_cover_done_s.gif" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.newsarama.com/AiT/demo2_cover_done_s_t.jpg" width="250" height="192" border="0" alt="Demo #2"></a>
<a href="http://www.newsarama.com/AiT/demo3_cover_done_s.gif" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.newsarama.com/AiT/demo3_cover_done_s_t.jpg" width="250" height="192" border="0" alt="Demo #3"></a> </center>
As Wood told Newsarama in<a href="http://www.newsarama.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=00049 4#000000" target="_blank"> April</a>:
“Simply put, it’s me and artist Becky Cloonan, the Channel Zero: Jennie One team, doing a series about ‘young superheroes,’ in our own style and by our own rules,” Wood told Newsarama. “I don't want to give too much away at this point, but it's hyper-focused on the characters themselves and how the fact they have these abilities or abnormalities affect the way they inter-relate. If, say, the X-Men is about how mutants deal with the rest of society, Demo is about how they would deal with themselves, their families and significant others. But again, in a real specific, subtle way that I haven’t seen done elsewhere.
“Almost entirely character driven, but without a lot of soap-opera and melodrama, and without any kind of ingrained editorial structure dictating the book's direction. It’s a tricky idea to explain, but much easier to show. It’s a delicate concept, one I have been refining in my head since I started writing the aborted NYX series two years ago.”
Click on the thumbnails below for larger versions – text on the back covers (the left hand side of the images) is dialogue from the issues, and, according to Wood, gives a pretty clear view of what the series will encompass.
<center>
<a href="http://www.newsarama.com/AiT/demo1_cover_done_s.gif" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.newsarama.com/AiT/demo1_cover_done_s_t.jpg" width="250" height="192" border="0" alt="Demo #1"></a>
<a href="http://www.newsarama.com/AiT/demo2_cover_done_s.gif" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.newsarama.com/AiT/demo2_cover_done_s_t.jpg" width="250" height="192" border="0" alt="Demo #2"></a>
<a href="http://www.newsarama.com/AiT/demo3_cover_done_s.gif" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.newsarama.com/AiT/demo3_cover_done_s_t.jpg" width="250" height="192" border="0" alt="Demo #3"></a> </center>
As Wood told Newsarama in<a href="http://www.newsarama.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=00049 4#000000" target="_blank"> April</a>:
“Simply put, it’s me and artist Becky Cloonan, the Channel Zero: Jennie One team, doing a series about ‘young superheroes,’ in our own style and by our own rules,” Wood told Newsarama. “I don't want to give too much away at this point, but it's hyper-focused on the characters themselves and how the fact they have these abilities or abnormalities affect the way they inter-relate. If, say, the X-Men is about how mutants deal with the rest of society, Demo is about how they would deal with themselves, their families and significant others. But again, in a real specific, subtle way that I haven’t seen done elsewhere.
“Almost entirely character driven, but without a lot of soap-opera and melodrama, and without any kind of ingrained editorial structure dictating the book's direction. It’s a tricky idea to explain, but much easier to show. It’s a delicate concept, one I have been refining in my head since I started writing the aborted NYX series two years ago.”