I've lost count at this point
Great news! Yen Press recently posted on their site, well earlier than they ever have before, the cover art for the right-to-left cover of the January 2010 issue. (The left-to-right cover art isn’t anywhere to be seen at this point.) Check it out on their site, or take a quick peek of it below.
Isn’t it wonderful? I must admit that, when I saw that pointy-nosed blonde teenager, my heart leapt for joy. It’s been a long wait, but I think I can speak for many of us when I say…
…What? Oh, you mean that Barbie lookalike? Oh yeah… her. Well, along with the cover, Yen Press announced that they’re not only going to comic-ize another one of their sister publishers’ young adult novel series, they’re going to immediately start serializing it in Yen Press as well. (For the record, the “next issue” pages of the December issue said that Jack Frost would be on this cover.) The Gossip Girl franchise started out in 2002, and already spans a whopping fifteen novels and hit cable TV series - and now it’s coming to comics.
Obviously, I’m outside the target audience for this by about fourteen years and one chromosome - and the title “Gossip Girl” brings back memories of reading “Pride and Prejudice” in my high school English classes - an incredibly dull novel about insufferable snobs talking (and talking and talking) about each other behind backs and then getting married. But good for Yen Press anyway. No, the girl I want to see in this issue is this one:
That’s right, it looks like Maximum Ride is still on schedule to make her triumphant return in the January issue, and not a moment too soon. Welcome back, Max! I missed you - and unlike that manicured priss taking up most of the cover with her eyes somehow hovering above her hair, I think that you would have at least pretended to give me the time of day back in high school.
Not that I’m still bitter about that sort of thing.
(sniff)
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Well that’s good news on Maximum Ride’s part.
I love NaRae Lee’s work. As a former tech writer at Adobe & Intel who has been too sick to work for close to a decade (or even read much or go online until last year), I know now that taking care of yourself is the most important thing. I plan to say so over at the Yen Press site.
But I just HAVE to say—it’s soooo cute that the picture she drew for Washington DC is obviously Seattle, Washington State! I live in Seattle on the hill opposite to the one that has the view that she drew, and she did an amazing job on the residential area of Queen Anne Hill, the Lower Queen Anne buildings that rise as tall as they can get without overpowering the Space Needle, the Needle itself, and I can even recognize some of the downtown buildings! She drew Mt. Rainer a little too pointy, but beyond that it was perfect—and perfectly the wrong place!
But we love her, so it’s ok. I laughed with love. And momentary confusion at the juxtaposition.
…having not read the series of novels yet, I just realized it could be the text that was wrong. Either way, I still love NaRae Lee & Yen Plus!
And Pig Bride. [spoiler muffled with great difficulty]
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