Fun in Baltimore Part 3 of 5

Today we do more the "vendor" presentations. Following Dark Horse we got the wonderful folks from Virgin Comics. It was pretty funny actually, Eric Powell had done such a good job with his Goon campaign, thats all Virgin could talk about for first minute or two. That's good marketing.

I also want to thank them for the sweet Dan Dare t-shirts we got. If you stopped by this past Wednesday you may have seen me sporting it around the store. I'm sure it'll come around again if you didn't. As you may, or may not know, Virgin does three types of books, Indian Heritage comics such as Devi, celebrity comics such as John Woo's Seven Brothers, and Horror and Sci-Fi comics like Dan Dare and Virulents. Virgin's presentation was kind of short (probably because Dark Horse's ran so long), but they made up for it by bringing in Garth Ennis to talk about Dan Dare. So here we go.

-As you have probably heard by now, in December Shadow Hunter by Jenna Jameson will be shipping. I have no idea what this gonna be like, but it should be good for a laugh or two at least.

-Virgin will be going West Side this year with a comic involving the fine folks over at West Coast Customs. What I find interesting, if you go to their site, is not only could I not find a way to get my car customized (probably showing how exclusive their clientle is), but they have West Coast Customs in Australia, Dubai, Malaysia, and Russia. WTF?

-Duran Duran is doing a Sci-fi comic for Virgin, scheduled for next year. Surprise, surprise. Duran Duran doing sci-fi? They are sci-fi. And not in the good way.

-Virgin will begin publishing more one shots like Virulents, more 48-56 page OGN's

-Ron Marz will be writing the companies first crossover with a another company in Devi/Witchblade

At this point they brought out Garth Ennis to talk about Dan Dare, on which he did not have much to say and quickly started taking questions from the audience (which, y'know, of course I couldn't think of anything to ask)

-Dan Dare will be a seven issue limited series, with a double sized #7

-There are already plans to do a second limited series, no word past that, but they are not ruling out an on-going

-It will be a "bit of commentary on British politics of the past couple years"

-There will be a brief history at the beginning of the first issue, so not to worry if you haven't read it before

-It is based primarily on the comics from the late 50's, not so much with the later stuff like Morrison's story

Lastly Garth took questions about other things, the only one that I bothered to write down was this "The Boys - 50 more issues of the same". What more do you really need to say?

-Dan