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Rich Johnston reports on my pal Nate Southard's upcoming graphic novel Drive. Completists be aware I wrote the introduction, so that makes the third one after the Uncle Slam trade and the second Battle Pope volume.

With publications like his Making of Astronauts in Trouble, Proof of Concept, and now this, Larry Young seems to be taking a keen interest in playing Toto to our Oz company and pulling back the curtain to reveal the Wizard pushing buttons and turning wheels...and the looks we're getting are very interesting. Just like the title says, this is each of Brian Wood's original scripts for the recently concluded limited series, and to be honest I didn't spend a lot of time re-reading them since I know how they turn out but it is interesting, though, to read his scene and character descriptions and then go refer to how artist Becky Cloonan interpreted them. And speaking of Cloonan, she contributes new single illustrations for each individual script, and they're wonderful, almost worth the price of admission themselves. A-

Scurvy Dogs is amazon.com's Number One book in the Early Adopter Graphic Novel section, which is based on actual pre-orders and not page views:



...and I just heard from BSJ over at Khepri.com that the Demo script book (a non-comic) was his #5 best-selling GN/TPB/HC for 2005's Week 3. Of course you remember we had five of his ten best-sellers of the year last year, too. What is it about AiT/Planet Lar books that they sell so well on the Internet?

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