A whole lotta Angel going on...
Angel got a lot more guys around her this time around...
Despite all the recent loads on work and stuff like
Project 100, we've gone on and set the next
Angel Ace issue for release this December. The issue (which will be subtitled
Angel Ace NEXT) will contain not only my own art and pages, but will feature FOUR guest artists contributing their unique styles to chronicling the exploits and adventures of Angel and company.
First off there's
Jon Mallari, who's been contributing art and pages for us since
Angel Ace Again!#1. Jon's an up-and-coming manga artist who's working on his own comic,
Variable Edge. For now though, he'll be illustrating an action-packed flashback story featuring Angel and Kai during the days when they were both SIVA cadets...
Honoel Ibardolaza is, hands down, the finest local comic book artist I have never met but worked with. Heh. The master of the 'fake manga', Honoel is a winner of several Palanca awards for Children's books/stories, and has what seems like a gazillion uber-cool online comics. You can see his work on his popular site,
Homanga. Honoel is, incredibly enough, a longtime Angel Ace reader, and it was with great pleasure that I was able to rope him to illustrate an Angel story for Next. The story he'll be illustrating is a remake of a short story from the original series,
Night Flight; in it, Angel 'sleepflies' one night and suddenly finds herself in the middle of nowhere... and later in a stripmall crawling with armed thugs! Angel does DIE HARD! Heh.
Jeremy Arambulo is my cousin who's based in the US. Even years ago when we were kids, I've always known he has talent falling out of his ears. Anyway, he's a comic artist himself, having collaborated with a writer recently to release the comic
Styx Taxi. Jeremy's got a cool, expressive American Indie comic style that seems perfect for
The Gift, a short and comedic story where Mike and Rip trouble themselves with finding a special gift for their lovely new housemate, Angel.
Finally, Angel Ace Next will also feature a fanga (fan manga?) made by
Mike Ching, who's one of our longtime readers. The four-page work is an action-packed Kai story following our favorite martial arts assassin on one of her SIVA missions.
Ready to go solo? Next year, she will.
Mike's favorite character of course is Kai, so he, and a lot of other ninja girl fans out there, will be glad to know that I am planning on releasing a comic starring Miss Mishima sometime next year. It will be titled
KAI:K.I.A. and will feature Danger Girl-esque action full of fighting, intrigue, stealth and of course, fan service up the wazoo. HOHO!
WHEW!
That's that. Well, Angel Ace Next is slated for a December release, if everything falls into place. Gotta start cracking myself to get all this stuff ready.
DAMN I'm excited. HAHAHAHA...