DC has decided to go back to press with the long out-of-print Fallen Angel trade paperback. It will be available in August.
No word on any interest in collecting the rest of the DC run.
PAD
Posted by Peter David at June 10, 2006 06:06 AM | TrackBack | Other blogs commentingHey PAD, Shouldn't you point out to everybody that reads your blog that Fall of Knight came out last week? I know I hadn't realized it was coming out on June 6, until just randomly surfing Amazon.
Maybe this is a coincidence, maybe not, but Fallen Angel TPB just got published here in Spain (we get many comics directly in tpb these days). No advertisement or promotion at all, so I guess theyre trying to be loyal to the original edition.
I comment this might you enjoy your work reaching out (you have a fan base in Spain Mr.David), and who knows, maybe no one told you yet, wouldnt be the first time I heard of such a case.
I'd imagine this is sort of a test... if the 2nd print does well due to the IDW relaunch, they'll collect the rest of the run.
I hope they'll eventually collect the rest of the series. I came in too late in the series, but all I needed was one issue to convince me this was the finest writing Peter has done.
Why can't IDW reprint volume 1 (aka the DC run)?
I mean they're reprinting Marvel's old Transformers comics.
are these rights ever going to revert back to you? I keep thinking about Alan Moore and "V for Vendetta."
Well I hope they will be doing the issues after the first 6 in TPB. If they don't want to then they should just let you do it.
I apologize if this is a dumb question on this particular board, but does this mean there has been only one Fallen Angel TPB so far? I've been waiting forever for number 2.
And I know the pamphlets are not quite X-Men in sales but honestly, every series and its sister, with equal or lower sales, gets compilated into trades. A good portion of the profit margin lies in tpb sales nowadays. So what makes FA the exception? What's the publisher's problem?
Yeah, only one TPB so far, collecting the first issues of the DC series. The first issues of the IDW series are collected in August.
I'm all freaked out here too. I want the second Fallen Angel trade paperback (to go along with the first one in my library) and I want to see the rest of Peter's Supergirl run in trade form as well. Somebody needs to tell Paul to get his head out of his Superman (and apparently now Wonder Woman) obsessed ass!
Great to hear the first trade going back to press. I also hope that DC sometime soon collects the rest of the run. I don't normally buy the trades of material I already have but I would for Fallen Angel.
Let's make a FA film. I saw the "Prairie Home Companion" film today, and Virginia Madsen (billed in the credits as the "Dangerous Woman", but rather more than that when they finally get around to opening her character up) reminded me (in more ways than one) of Lee.
Can anyone give me the lowdown on Fallen Angel? Just the basic dynamic or whatever. I never even heard of it when it was first published by DC. Since then I've heard good things, but I know nothing about what it is about
Basic rundown of Fallen Angel.
Female dark avenger of a mysterious town. She's powerful, but nobody knows exactly how powerful she is. Requesting her help can be dangerous since she has her own opinions about justice in a very morally ambiguous world.
That's a rough idea of the first trade, anyway. If you're in the mood for something dark and serious, it's worth giving Fallen Angel a try.
You'd think that the demand for the book forcing them to go back for another printing would be indicator enough that there would be demand for a second volume. Silly me.
Good news..! I do hope they collect the rest; from a retail point of view, it's very difficult to sell a series that hasn't been entirely collected (see such lost gems as Shade: The changing man, Wildcats ver3.0, Deadenders, and, of course, Fallen Angel).
You're forgetting that she was supposed to be Linda "Earth-Angel Supergirl" Danvers before that idea was retconned out with the publisher switch.
Hang on . . .
Linda took off for parts unknown after REALLY being shafted by the Spectre in the last issue.
(who, as we all know, went mental [see J.S.A., GL Rebirth, Day of Vengeance, etc.])
Could she have taken advantage of the Infinite Crisis to "jump ship" and lock the door behind her? As I recall, when she showed up in the issue-before last of "Superman/Batman" (and WTF didn't they just call it "World's Finest"?) Superman said he wasn't supposed to remember her.
Just throwing idle thoughts out..
Posted by Jason M. Bryant at June 11, 2006 04:52 PM
Basic rundown of Fallen Angel.
Female dark avenger of a mysterious town. She's powerful, but nobody knows exactly how powerful she is. Requesting her help can be dangerous since she has her own opinions about justice in a very morally ambiguous world.
That's a rough idea of the first trade, anyway. If you're in the mood for something dark and serious, it's worth giving Fallen Angel a try.