Top Ten Sequel?

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From Warren Ellis's guest-shot on LITG on CBR (with an amber rating):

Coincidences in comics: some while back, Harlan Ellison and I contacted Wildstorm independently and unaware of each other in the same 24-hour period about Paul Di Filippo. Paul Di Filippo is an awesomely gifted writer of science fiction. The weird post-cyberpunk, biotech, retrotech Nineties sf form was basically led out of its stable by Di Filippo's STEAMPUNK TRILOGY and RIBOFUNK stories. Incredibly inventive and quite blisteringly mad, Paul marked out the perimeters of excellence a long time ago, and I thought comics needed him working in the form.

All lines to Paul's Lovecraftian Rhode Island residence have been cut, but today I've been made aware that Wildstorm have indeed commissioned the proposal he sent them. It's called BEYOND THE FARTHEST PRECINCT.

It's the sequel to Alan Moore, Gene Ha and Zander Cannon's TOP 1O.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Woah. Top 10 is one of my favorite books and I would LOVE more of it, but without Alan Moore??

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Hrm. DiFilippo is one of those "terrific ideas, bumbling execution" guys who would actually be perfect for comics if they still worked the way they used to -- with him in the Julius Schwartz role of describing a cover and then letting other people figure out how to write the corresponding story.

Everything I've read by him has been much more like Milligan than Moore...

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

"terrific ideas, bumbling execution"
a really good artist can massage this into gold.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

"terrific ideas, bumbling execution"
a really good artist can massage this into gold. that's one of the great things about comics.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

"terrific ideas, bumbling execution"
a really good artist can massage this into gold. that's one of the great things about comics. that and talking gorillas.

― Hyuk - L (James Blount), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, that might be true. And I wouldn't put it past him to use a talking gorilla, for that matter.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Unfortunately Jerry Ordway is on few peoples' lists of "really good artists".

― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 00:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Smax was kind've a Top Ten sequel, right?

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 06:27 (twenty-one years ago)

it was the enos to the original's dukes of hazzard.

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 07:37 (twenty-one years ago)

does anyone know what happened to the prequel The 49ers?

― zappi (joni), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 09:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah! That sounded cool!

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)

what happened to The '49ers: Gene Ha is slow.

― kit brash (kit brash), Thursday, 14 October 2004 00:30 (twenty-one years ago)

What has he done besides Top 10?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 14 October 2004 00:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Some Adventures of Sperman covers.

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Thursday, 14 October 2004 03:34 (twenty-one years ago)

"Current Projects: At work solely on The 49ers, the prequel to Top 10. It chronicles the return of Jetlad to the US after fighting in WWII, and the founding of modern Neopolis. Romance and action as only Alan Moore can twist it."

― kit brash (kit brash), Thursday, 14 October 2004 06:49 (twenty-one years ago)

five months pass...

not sure if this has been linked here before: 49ers preview - http://www.dccomics.com/media/excerpts/3041_x.pdf

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

Awesome, I can't wait for this.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

bump

― wtf, di filippo!, Friday, 3 June 2005 06:32 (twenty years ago)

STOP W/ THE 49ERS DEEEELAY!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 3 June 2005 12:55 (twenty years ago)

Tho, I guess, w/ that PR scandal w/ the lesbian wedding and the off-color jokes, it's not surprising it's delayed. (That was for Blount.)

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 3 June 2005 12:56 (twenty years ago)

Hey, I used to be a 9ers fan!

― Leeeeee (Leee), Friday, 3 June 2005 13:15 (twenty years ago)

Then it's for you too, babe! Shooby-da-doo-wah! YEAH!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 3 June 2005 13:22 (twenty years ago)

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