Jon Sable is NSFW
In today’s brand-new episode of Jon Sable: Freelance, by Mike Grell, Maggie the Cat lives up to her reputation. With diamonds — and other things — size matters.
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Free Mike Grell Forever
Starting Friday, November 2, ComicMix is proud to present, online and for free, Mike Grell’s newest graphic novel, Jon Sable Freelance: Ashes of Eden.
Jon Sable is many things: freelance bounty hunter, bodyguard, mercenary… even a children’s book author. It’s true. Under the pen name of "B. B. Flemm," Sable is the author of a popular series of children’s stories about a troop of leprechauns living in Central Park. How did he get to this point in his bizarre life? Ivory poachers slaughtered his family when Sable was a professional hunter in Africa. Deported back to the States, he drank himself to the bottom. With the help of his mentor, Sonny Pratt, and his literary agent, Eden Kendall, he struggled to put his life back together.
In Ashes of Eden, his newest adventure, Sable is hired by the head of an African diamond cartel to transport a magnificent raw diamond to an exhibit in New York. But his task is complicated by having to play escort, bodyguard and babysitter to the cartel’s corporate spokesperson, Bashira, a temperamental model with a history of drug problems. While Sable struggles to keep her under control and out of tabloid headlines he finds himself the center of a deadly hunt and a plot that reaches beyond the world of glamour and into the world of terror. But when diamonds are on hand, who would you expect to find behind the scenes, lying in wait?
Jon Sable: Ashes of Eden also marks the long-awaited reappearance of another classic Mike Grell, Maggie The Cat. The Jon Sable series was the best-selling title published by First Comics, one of the most important independent publishers at the birth of the direct market. Created (and owned) by Mike Grell, the character of Jon Sable is so popular that he was the inspiration for the ABC network series, Sable, in 1987. Rene Russo was a regular cast member, and guest stars included Lara Flynn Boyle and Del Close.
To celebrate, ComicMix is launching the first internet publication of two major works by Mike Grell, Shaman’s Tears and Bar Sinister. Shaman’s Tears was published by Image Comics in the 1990s, featured Grell’s Joshua Brand and guest-starred Jon Sable. Bar Sinister, with art by Rick Hoberg, contained a super-hero team introduced in Shaman’s Tears, was published by Valiant soon after. These will be full, 22-page issues, free and in color, online and for free at ComicMix.
Here’s the schedule: Shaman’s Tears Issues 0-4 runs 11/1 Shaman’s Tears Issues 5-8 runs 11/8 Shaman’s Tears Issues 9-12 runs 11/15 Bar Sinister runs 11/22 — Thanksgiving.
The Second Big ComicMix Video Podcast
Here’s your big chance to see comics creators Mike Grell and Timothy Truman as they talk about their new Jon Sable Freelance (Ashes of Eden) and GrimJack (The Manx Cat) graphic novels — and you’ll be able to preview pages of finished art from these two upcoming tomes! It’s the second Big ComicMix VIDEO Podcast, up and at ’em for your consideration.
All you have to do, as usual, is PRESS THE BUTTON!
Mike Grell on Bond 22
Cinematical had a good piece a short while ago about the script for Bond 22, the sequel to Casino Royale. We know that it will be a direct sequel to the film, and that screenwriters Neal Purvis and Robert Wade are reportedly basing their script on four of Ian Fleming’s short stories: The Hildebrand Rarity, The Property Of A Lady, Risico, and 007 In New York. Writer Patrick Walsh mentions in his piece, "I’m not a Bond expert, but some online research revealed that bits and pieces from these stories have made it into previous Bond films already."
Luckily for us, we happen to have a Bond expert handy — Mike Grell, creator of Jon Sable Freelance, Warlord, and the James Bond miniseries Permission To Die. How much of an expert? He actually drew Bond to look like Hoagy Carmichael. Take it away, Mike:
"Ian Fleming wrote 12 James Bond novels and 8 short stories, which Hollywood — so far — has turned into 21 Bond films without even touching some of the Fleming stories. Indeed, some of the adaptations (Moonraker and The Spy Who Loved Me, for instance) have borne precious little resemblance to the source material, while others have combined elements of several of Fleming’s short stories with the screenwriter’s own take on what a Bond movie should be.
Next Nexus
Via Heidi MacDonald at The Beat, we see that new adventures of Nexus, our favorite interstellar killer of mass murderers, will be coming out in July.
Clearly, this leaves us with a large hunk of questions over here at ComicMix. After all, if Nexus can come back in this day and age, complete with the original creators, what could possibly be next?
John Ostrander and Timothy Truman on GrimJack?
Mike Grell doing new Jon Sable Freelance?
Del Close coming back from the grave for new Munden’s Bar stories?
Obviously, if we have any information about any of these properties, we’ll let you know.
Soon.
Unless something else comes along to eclipse that news.
