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Brian Peck
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Just saw this over on Bleeding cool:
"Originally published by Charlton in the seventies, then republished by
Fantagraphics in the eighties, Doomsday + 1 was John Byrne‘s first
“proper” comic book series, created with Joe Gill. In which a South
American country fires nuclear missiles against the USA and the USSR
simultaneously, each of whom then retaliate against the other. Three
astronauts who return to Earth ally themselves with survivors and try to
survive in a new apocalypse,.
And now it’s back, in a new series by John Byrne to be published by IDW.
Doomsday.1 or Doomsday Point One is a new four issue mini, rebooting
the original completely.
the thrilling tale of seven adventurous astronauts, who watch in horror,
aloft in the International Space Station, as most of Earth is annihilated by a
titanic solar flare.
“I’ve been thinking for some time that I would like to revisit a post-
apocalypse kind of scenario, such as was seen in my very first ‘dramatic’
work in comics, but this time without the more obvious fantasy elements
of that original series (mermaids, alien robots, frozen mammoths, etc.),”
said Byrne. “When bits and pieces of this new series first started to
percolate around in my head, I knew almost at once the shape that
‘revisit’ would take; something in the ‘All-New, All-Different’ vein. And
the first time I doodled some images of my ‘crew,’ I knew I was there!”
When all communication is lost and their home appears destroyed, what
are the intrepid astronauts to do? Prepare to cling to a new life in zero
gravity, waiting for the space stations supplies to dwindle to nothing?
That doesn’t sound very adventurous, now does it? No, the true thrills of
DOOMSDAY.1 come when the seven stranded heroes descend back to
their decimated home world to confront the dangers left behind by the
universe’s cruel ravaging!"
Doomsday plus one published by IDW
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Didier Yvon Paul Fayolle
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Yeah...
Can hardly wait... May is sooooo far away !
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Conner Dinkins
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KUNO DAL!
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William Roberge
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Great news, I'm looking forward to this one!
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John Byrne
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sighYou know, I said and said and said and said to the folks at IDW that this series was NOT to be promoted in any way as DOOMSDAY + 1 being "back". This is a whole NEW series, with DIFFERENT characters, and DIFFERENT events. A similar title, mostly in the way of a "nod" to the "old timers" and that's ALL.
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Joe Smith
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Instabuy
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Conner Dinkins
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sighYou know, I said and said and said and said to the folks at IDW that this series was NOT to be promoted in any way as DOOMSDAY + 1 being "back". This is a whole NEW series, with DIFFERENT characters, and DIFFERENT events. A similar title, mostly in the way of a "nod" to the "old timers" and that's ALL.
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A little sad.
But I'm still gonna buy it.
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Eric Ladd
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JB, is this project what you meant by "repeating yourself just a little bit" last week? Either way, I will be interested to see how you achieve the apocalypse.
*edit to add words that disappeared =/
Edited by Eric Ladd on 30 January 2013 at 9:05am
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Joel Tesch
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sigh You know, I said and said and said and said to the folks at IDW that this series was NOT to be promoted in any way as DOOMSDAY + 1 being "back". This is a whole NEW series, with DIFFERENT characters, and DIFFERENT events. A similar title, mostly in the way of a "nod" to the "old timers" and that's ALL.
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To be fair to IDW, this may not be IDW's fault. That intro was written by the Bleeding Cool writer who likely assumed based on the title this was related to DOOMSDAY + 1. The italicized portion of the article, which I read to be actual portion he's quoting, doesn't make any mention of the original series being connected to this.
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Veli Loponen
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This is cool (even though this isn't connected to old series). And I saw that Charlton's Space 1999 will be published also by Archaia studios in May.
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Peter Martin
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That cover looks great -- including the colouring. Sounds like a bit of a ripping yarn.
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Bill Mimbu
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Still sounds cool, despite not being connected to the Charlton book... *Puts title on LCS pull list*
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