Thank FOC It s Friday – Planned to coincide and cover the demands of Final Order Cut Off at Diamond Comic Distributors. And now Lunar Distribution as well. Who knows what Penguin Random House will bring? Here s this week s comics product coming through that may adjusting as demand slips and slides with the emerging economic bubble. Or somesuch.
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Traditionally FOC is the date when retailers have a last chance to amend their advance orders for comic books without penalty. A final opportunity for publishers to promote books while orders can still be added. A time for credits to be amends, new covers to be revealed and a final push given. This is an attempt to sift through them all and find the most relevant items.
Marjorie Finnegan: Temporal Criminal Debuts From Mind Of Garth Ennis.
AWA news release.
She’s Marjorie Finnegan. She’s a temporal criminal. What more do you need to know?
Oh, all right then: All Marj wants to do is race up and down the time-lanes, stealing every shiny-gleamy-pretty-sparkly she can lay her hands on. But her larcenous trail from the Big Bang to the Ninety-fifth Reich has drawn the beady eye of the Temporal PD, whose number one Deputy Marshall is now hard on our heroine’s tail– and taking things extremely personally.
Worse still, Marj’s worthless creep of an ex and his even scummier partner have seen an angle of their own in all this, and now intend to use her time-tech to change history for their own benefit. Marj’s only ally? A guy called Tim. And he’s just a head. I mean come on, what use is just a head…?
January 21, 2021 12:51pm
by
Graeme McMillan
Courtesy of Andy Clarke/AWA
Garth Ennis returns to comics with a new sci-fi series with artists Goran Sudzuka and Miroslav Mrva featuring a fun-lovin gal who causes chaos through time.
Whether it’s the supernatural horror of
Preacher or the superhero parody of
The Boys, Garth Ennis has been a comic book writer whose work tends to touch a nerve in his audience even as he moves between genres. For his latest project,
Marjorie Finnegan, he’s moving in a more sci-fi direction, but he remains as iconoclastic as ever.
The eight-issue series from indie publisher Artists, Writers & Artisans, is co-created with artist Goran Sudzuka, who has previously worked with Ennis on crime drama