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Seeing this makes my day! I loved their original run on Batman way back when and really enjoyed the mini last year and now we get more!!
Steve Englehart let fans know on his newsletter about his latest project: A Marvel Comics one-shot featuring the Black Rider and confirmed he and the rest of the creative team are working on a Dark Detective III.
Englehart wrote:
Hi there -
This one's primarily about a book from left field: BLACK RIDER. It's a Marvel one-shot (but see below), part of a Western month coming up in June but soliciting in the next few weeks. Marshall Rogers and I got the gig because of DARK DETECTIVE - Black Rider dresses in black, and he's mysterious, see - but we decided to run with that. So instead of doing an actual Western, we had BR come east, to New York in 1881, when the city ended at 97th street and Manhattan island north was its own frontier. BR, in his normal identity of "kindly Doc Masters," is a hick in the big city - but the Black Rider is hunting down a Chinese prostitution ring, and the Black Rider is a very twisted individual. One telling detail: in the Kirby origin story from back in the day, he trained his horse to have a secret identity before he decided he himself needed one. People have tried to claim that the Batman is insane, but we won't be having that argument over BR.
But that's not all, because in Chinatown, BR meets a gentleman both Marshall and I have met before: a gentleman who'll one day become known as the Ancient One. And Yao, as we call him (don't tell anyone, but it stands for "Young Ancient One") has a few more peculiar friends. They might even form their own peculiar group - but that would come in future issues of BLACK RIDER, and those will only appear is the "one-shot" sells. So, if this sounds like a series you'd like to see Marshall and me develop, let your dealer know you want BLACK RIDER.
Also, I'd be remiss (to myself) if I failed to mention that COYOTE continues to reappear in trade paperback form from Image. Volume 3, coming in April, starts the paranoid adventure of THE DJINN, which I devised especially to be the ultimate Steve Ditko strip. I've always been a big fan of the weirdness Steve brought to his work, as exemplified in the original SPIDER-MAN and DR STRANGE, and I really wanted to give Steve the chance to go there again. He's been kind enough to say it's one of the most enjoyable things he ever did.
Coming later this year: DARK DETECTIVE III, by Marshall, Terry, John, and myself, and a 4-part JLA CLASSIFIED followed by a 3-part JSA CLASSIFIED, drawn by Tom Derenick and Mark Farmer. Neither is scheduled as yet, but I'll let you know.
Thanks for listening.
Steve Englehart
Dark Detective III is the sequel to the very well received Dark Detective II limited series. Englehart found out shortly after Mid-Ohio-Con that this story got the green light.
Keep checking back with PULSE for a full interview on this upcoming project.
How many of you plan on checking out both projects?
UPDATED 1/25 1:40 PM
Steve Englehart wrote:
Sorry to be back in your inbox so soon, but there seems to be a lot of confusion over what I meant by DARK DETECTIVE III - so here's the explanation:
DARK DETECTIVE I is the run from the 70s, currently in TPB as STRANGE APPARITIONS but to be republished at some point as DD I.
DARK DETECTIVE II is the run we just did, to appear later this year as a TPB.
DARK DETECTIVE III is the run we'll do this year, so we are, yes, doing more Batman - this time featuring the Penguin, Deadshot, and Dala the vampire.
Further on TPBs - a lot of people said they hadn't seen the COYOTEs in their local store or were otherwise unaware. All you have to do is ask your dealer and he will get them. Numbers 1 and 2 are out now, number 3 coming in April.
Steve Englehart let fans know on his newsletter about his latest project: A Marvel Comics one-shot featuring the Black Rider and confirmed he and the rest of the creative team are working on a Dark Detective III.
Englehart wrote:
Hi there -
This one's primarily about a book from left field: BLACK RIDER. It's a Marvel one-shot (but see below), part of a Western month coming up in June but soliciting in the next few weeks. Marshall Rogers and I got the gig because of DARK DETECTIVE - Black Rider dresses in black, and he's mysterious, see - but we decided to run with that. So instead of doing an actual Western, we had BR come east, to New York in 1881, when the city ended at 97th street and Manhattan island north was its own frontier. BR, in his normal identity of "kindly Doc Masters," is a hick in the big city - but the Black Rider is hunting down a Chinese prostitution ring, and the Black Rider is a very twisted individual. One telling detail: in the Kirby origin story from back in the day, he trained his horse to have a secret identity before he decided he himself needed one. People have tried to claim that the Batman is insane, but we won't be having that argument over BR.
But that's not all, because in Chinatown, BR meets a gentleman both Marshall and I have met before: a gentleman who'll one day become known as the Ancient One. And Yao, as we call him (don't tell anyone, but it stands for "Young Ancient One") has a few more peculiar friends. They might even form their own peculiar group - but that would come in future issues of BLACK RIDER, and those will only appear is the "one-shot" sells. So, if this sounds like a series you'd like to see Marshall and me develop, let your dealer know you want BLACK RIDER.
Also, I'd be remiss (to myself) if I failed to mention that COYOTE continues to reappear in trade paperback form from Image. Volume 3, coming in April, starts the paranoid adventure of THE DJINN, which I devised especially to be the ultimate Steve Ditko strip. I've always been a big fan of the weirdness Steve brought to his work, as exemplified in the original SPIDER-MAN and DR STRANGE, and I really wanted to give Steve the chance to go there again. He's been kind enough to say it's one of the most enjoyable things he ever did.
Coming later this year: DARK DETECTIVE III, by Marshall, Terry, John, and myself, and a 4-part JLA CLASSIFIED followed by a 3-part JSA CLASSIFIED, drawn by Tom Derenick and Mark Farmer. Neither is scheduled as yet, but I'll let you know.
Thanks for listening.
Steve Englehart
Dark Detective III is the sequel to the very well received Dark Detective II limited series. Englehart found out shortly after Mid-Ohio-Con that this story got the green light.
Keep checking back with PULSE for a full interview on this upcoming project.
How many of you plan on checking out both projects?
UPDATED 1/25 1:40 PM
Steve Englehart wrote:
Sorry to be back in your inbox so soon, but there seems to be a lot of confusion over what I meant by DARK DETECTIVE III - so here's the explanation:
DARK DETECTIVE I is the run from the 70s, currently in TPB as STRANGE APPARITIONS but to be republished at some point as DD I.
DARK DETECTIVE II is the run we just did, to appear later this year as a TPB.
DARK DETECTIVE III is the run we'll do this year, so we are, yes, doing more Batman - this time featuring the Penguin, Deadshot, and Dala the vampire.
Further on TPBs - a lot of people said they hadn't seen the COYOTEs in their local store or were otherwise unaware. All you have to do is ask your dealer and he will get them. Numbers 1 and 2 are out now, number 3 coming in April.