>> Issue 7 of Rising Stars is out this week;

And I think #8 comes out this coming week.

they've slotted September for
>the
>> first issue of Midnight Nation under the Joe's Comics imprint. (I've
>turned in
>> the first script, and Gary Frank is doing the pencils even as we speak).
>
>What is "Midnight Nation" all about?

It's a contemporary story that doesn't really fit most categories...maybe magic
realism comes closest, dark fantasy maybe...it sets some of the tropes of the
dark fantasy genre against a modern setting, with a police officer on a quest
to recover something taken from him, a search which shows him a side of the
country usually not seen, the hidden doors and secret places only glimpsed out
of the corner of the eye....

jms

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