Yes! The day has finally arrived, my friends. David Lynch and Mark Frost’s Twin Peaks returns for a new series on Showtime in 2016. But until then, you’ll have to amuse yourself with all-new episodes of Strangehaven which returns in the new British anthology Meanwhile…
According to my sources, Meanwhile…#1 has been printed and is even as I type finding its way through various distribution and shipping systems to early bird subscribers, reviewers and, hopefully, contributors. To everyone but me apparently.
For those of you who are unable to attend the festival, please enquire at your friendly local comic book shop, and point them towards my publisher. You could also order this momentous first issue directly from the publisher’s website yourself, or even take out a four-issue subscription. Official on-street publication date is 17th October 2014 which un-coincidentally falls during the Lakes International Comic Festival in Kendal which I will be attending, and at which I will be signing copies at my publisher’s table – Soaring Penguin Press, in the Comics Clock Tower.
So here’s what you’ll get for your money: Sixteen pages of Strangehaven in colour. I’ll repeat that; in colour. It’s the first part of the fourth volume which is due to be serialised over the next couple of years in the pages of Meanwhile…and it’s the first time you’ll have seen any Strangehaven stories in anything other than shades of grey. How about US distribution I hear you cry? Well, I hear ya, and the news is good – Diamond Distributors will be carrying the book stateside and it will be listed in the December cover dated Previews under the Soaring Penguin heading.
This first issue also contains first episodes of two other continuing series: The Bad Bad Place by the dynamic duo of David Hine and Mark Stafford, neither of whom should be unfamiliar to the comics cognoscenti, and both of whom have been around for at least as long as I have, creating great comics. There’s also 10 Minutes by Yuko Rabbit, an exquisitely drawn mangaesque fairy tale.
An interesting late addition to the package are the three winners of this year’s British Library Comics Unmasked competition, each of them exciting new talents. There are also a wordless one-off strip by Sally Jane Thompson, “Heavy” and a sci-fi spy adventure starring Melody Baker by Chris Geary. All fifty-six fantastic pages wrapped up in an all-new Millidge cover.
There are other Strangehaven-related developments to be announced in due course, but for now, see if you can pick yourself up a copy of Meanwhile…#1.
12 comments on “It’s Happening Again”
Unknown
It's interesting that the publisher does not offer subscriptions to Europe, but only to the UK, US/CA, and "Rest of the World".
Thanks, Airstrip One. 🙁
millidge
Drop the publisher a line…perhaps you can work out a deal 🙂
Gabe McCann
Isn't Europe a part of the "Rest of the World"?
Tony Lazarus
"New Strangehaven". You could have just stopped there and cut to the details of when it comes out, and I'd have been perfectly happy! Can't wait 8=)
Unknown
@Gabe: Isn't the UK part of Europe?
millidge
Yes, but Europe isn't part of the UK. I understand what Airstrip One means… 'Rest of the World' in this context means Australia, the Far East etc., as the published cost is higher than it is to the US. Europe should be more equivalent to the UK price.
Michael
I just received the first issue yesterday and it looks great. Strangehaven has never looked better than in those glorious colours and I can't wait to read more. After such a long wait it's like it has never been gone. Good luck with the rest of the series, Gary, I'll be there all the way.
millidge
Cheers Mike, it's appreciated.
Les Chester
Any news on possible Orbital signing?
millidge
Les, it looks like it's happening.
uglifruit
It's fantastic to be visiting the picturesque rural village of Strangehaven again, after all this time. It's like I've never been away. (Or perhaps It's like I was never allowed to leave).
The full colour treatment is glorious, and the "Previously on Buffy The Vampire Slayer" style opening was a lovely recap – I was worried that this had eaten into the available pages, but there was still plenty of new stuff to get my teeth into. Roll on the *next* issue! (Or issue-ette, whatever we're calling it now).
millidge
Thanks 'Ugli' your comments are much appreciated. Sixteen all-new pages next time…I like to call them 'episodes' 🙂