Paper Moon

I am in America OH MY GOD. Tomorrow I have been promised fifteen whole minutes at an actual real American comic book store OH MY GOD. And I am obviously largely MIA from the internet, but I will pause to squee a bit about two new Virgin series that were just plugged in their newsletter.

Project: Kalki has finally been revealed after quite a lot of teasing. Here is the AWESOME-SOUNDING PLOT:

Project: Kalki is a horror/science fiction story called by Comic Book Resources an "example of a mythological world that transcends geographic boundaries," which tells the story of a maniacal man who hires a geneticist to clone the DNA of a ancient Indian God to usher in the destruction of the world.

So basically, zombie Krishna clones.

Repeat: zombie Krishna clones.

Again: zombie Krishna clones.

It's... It's like they're writing comics just for me. Wow.

Aaaaaaaand this one flew under the radar until now:

Beyond, an original science fiction story by Deepak Chopra and adapted by Ron Marz (Green Lantern, Star Wars), follows a brutal physical and spiritual journey of a desperate husband searches for his missing wife while on vacation in India. His quest propels him across dimensions and into realms beyond anything he could possible imagine to reclaim that which is most important to him... his wife and his sanity. Click here to take a look at the trailer.

Mmm, looks okay. I may or may not check it out, depending on budgeting. I'd be all over it in an instant if the otherwise cliché setup were gender-reversed. Because such is the nature of clichés: they're only interesting when they're subverted.

Oh, and as long as I'm fangirling Virgin: Mukesh Singh has been nominated for a Russ Manning Promising Newcomer Award. (The complete list of nominees is here.) Also nominated is Barry Deutsch for Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword, which I haven't read yet, but which I'm dying to read due to Rachel's review.