Another perspective on the comic...

[pandorasblog]

While delving through my comics/feminism RSS feeds, I ran across an article: Why The Anita Blake Comic Won't Succeed (And Trust Me, I Want To Be Wrong). It turns out to be less an article on the likelihood of that particular comic doing well, and more one on why the author doesn't seem to think that many women read comics at all (began commenting, then realised it was turning into an essay; life's too short, yadda yadda yadda). Nevertheless, I thought it was interesting to have a line on the comic from outside the immediate fandom, and this is a particularly ironic one since LKH seems to have added First Ever Bringer Of Comics To Wimminkind to her list of imagined accomplishments...

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[ravenhaley.livejournal.com]

The comic book people from Dabel Brothers Productions are on LKH's board. I asked if they had any plans to make alternative universes.

Some LKH lover came back to tell one that LKH doesn't share/play well with others. It doesn't matter if she does or doesn't if she wants to branch her piece of crap out to other people. (The Earth is Doomed)

Anyways, I finally got an answer that they only are going to do "Guilty Pleasures". Of course depending on how well the comics do, is if there will be another book of "Laughing Corpse" and so on.

Marvel has signed on as the exclusive publisher for Dabel Brothers Productions, obtaining the marketing, print and distribution rights. The first project under the agreement is an adaptation of Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter novel "Guilty Pleasures".

[pandorasblog]

Interesting; so this is as much a stepping stone for Dabel as anything else: get a known license, then if you do well with that, maybe you get the chance to produce your original concepts under Marvel's auspices. Which is nice for them, and a reason for them to work hard on the comic. I guess it's just too little, too late for me... hard to get excited about developments with AB:VH stuff when the main canon is such a clusterfuck. In both the literal and metaphorical senses.