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Out This Week!

Tuesday December 27th 2011, 8:26 pm

Finally, after nearly a decade of fans demanding this, we see in shops this Thursday, the complete Chase trade paperback collecting the entire series, plus some extras! The book is mostly illustrated by me, and all of the stories are co-written by D. Curtis Johnson and myself. Some of the short stories have other artists and those were done for various DC Secret Files projects, but I did art on a couple of those as well. We were fortunate to work with some talented folks on those short stories, artists that suited the types of stories being told. Over all its a nice book as far as trades go, it serves as a good archive of the material under one cover for the bookshelf. And its material I’ve been wanting to see collected together for quite some time. I’m proud of the work that we were doing then, looking at it again today, it still feels fresh enough, forward thinking enough, that I think others will find some pleasure in the stories being told. And it gives some looser insights to Cameron Chase and some of her motivations, the origins of her flawed humanistic character on display in the pages of Batwoman. Where she comes from, especially in her mode of thinking on people who put on masks and capes, is explored in this book. Also, you’ll see just how much Agent Cameron Chase has evolved since these stories, in my mind. That she has been heading down a darker road, her evolution as a character is profound. Her past and her flaws have lead her into a deep and paranoid world, where trust isn’t easy for her, you’ll see the roots of this here and also a story that shows a possible far future for the Department of Extra-normal Operations. And all of this has impact that will lead to some profound actions by Agent Chase in the pages of Batwoman, as partly evidenced in the recent issue #4.

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