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Behold the new moorereppion.com in all it's glory! After much swearing, gnashing of teeth, etc our new website is finally ready. This means we have no further need of Blogger (sorry Blogger, we had some good times though, didn't we?) as our homepage will become our Blog.

We're going to leave the old Blog here as an archive however because, even though we can import the posts to WordPress, the formatting of them is wrong for the new site.

So, don't forget to update your bookmarks! See you at moorereppion.com.

More Drac-ety Yak plus first look at Colton Worley's artwork

The Complete Dracula page 4 by Colton Worley.

Those nice chaps over at Newsarama have been kind enough to do a fair bit of writing about The Complete Dracula over the last few days and you, you lovely people, have been getting all excited and saying lots of very nice things about it, so thanks for that. We really, really appreciate it.

Just in case you missed it first time around here are the links:

Series announcement http://www.newsarama.com/comics/010927-Complete-Dracula.html

Interview with Moore & Reppion http://www.newsarama.com/comics/010930-Moore-Reppion-Dracula.html

Today they've posted an interview with our amazing artist Colton Worley but, not only that, they've also posted the first four pages of the book! Head over to http://www.newsarama.com/comics/020903-Dracula-Worley.html and feast your eye's on the man's genius.

New Moore & Reppion stuff out now!

The trade paperback edition of our 4 part Top Cow/Dynamite Entertainment crossover mini The Darkness vs. Eva - Daughter of Dracula is out this week.

If you missed it the first time around, here are a couple of pages to whet your appetite.

You should be able to find the book at your local comic shop but, if you don't fancy the walk, you can order a copy from Forbidden Planet international by clicking the banner below.

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Also out this week is Mike Raicht's Creature Feature #2 from Th3rd Wold Studios. Which features a 12 page story called "Imago" written by us and drawn by 2000 AD legend P J Holden.

Here's a taste of the schlocky horror goodness:
CF #2 also features horrific tales written by Stuart Moore (IRON MAN, WOLVERINE), Mike Raicht (ARMY OF DARKNESS) and Brian Smith (ADVENTURES OF DANIEL BOOM: LOUDBOY) with art by Alberto Ponticelli (UNKNOWN SOLDIER), Jacob Chabot (MIGHTY SKULLBOY ARMY), and Brian Smith.

Again, all good comic shops should have CF #2 in stock but if they don't (why those lousy...!) then click on the banner below to visit the official Th3rd World store.


Sod the recession, cheer yourself up and go and buy some comics!

The Complete Dracula coming in April 2009

Coming April 2009

THE COMPLETE DRACULA #1

Written by Bram Stoker, Leah Moore and John Reppion, art by Colton Worley, covers by John Cassady.

Dynamite presents an unprecedented comic book series that tells the complete story of the Lord of the Undead -- Dracula! For the first time in 112 years the tale that Bram Stoker intended to tell is told (including "Dracula's Guest"!). If you thought you knew how it began or how it ends, you were wrong! A five-issue issue odyssey of life, death and the blood that flows within us all!

This fully painted series features a massive 32 pages of story and art per issue, each page fully-painted in a rich, moody style by Worley, all under covers by modern master John Cassaday! Moore and Reppion also provide bonus material such as script pages, annotations and samplings of the original text by Bram Stoker!

40 pages, $4.99.

At last we can talk about this project! We have been working on The Complete Dracula since late 2007 and the finished scripts add up to over 120,000 words (which isn't all that far behind the 166,000-ish words of the original text really). It's been a mammoth undertaking but we have really enjoyed it and can't wait for people to see what Colton has done with the artwork.

Here's to the year of the vampire!

Doctor Who - The Whispering Gallery first look

Ben Templesmith has posted a couple of finished pages and some WIP shots of The Whispering Gallery over on his Blog.

Not bad eh?

Don't forget, Previews catalog order number: DEC084084.

What's happening to www.Moorereppion.com?

Just a quick post to let you all know, the domain name www.moorereppion.com is now showing a placeholder as we have switched from Godaddy to One.com, for our domain name hosting, and from Geocities for our web storage.

We discovered we were paying tons to Godaddy and Geocities for all the different bits and bobs of the website, and it was cheaper and simpler to have it all in one place.
We should have a proper placeholder up soon, and then we can get the new website underway. In the mean time, the forum is still the same, and this blog will be the same so we can let you know whats going on as it happens.

Leah

Rescheduled Astral Gypsy signing Sat 24th January 2009

We will be signing at The Astral Gypsy (mega talent Al Davison's shop/studio) in Coventry, UK on Saturday 23th January 2009 in the afternoon.

Please do pop in and say hello.

Out with the old (dont panic).

Happy 2009 to you!

To celebrate this glorious new year we have finally switched our site over to a new host (www.one.com). This means that www.MooreReppion.com may be down (or at least not have very much stuff on it) for a short while.

www.MooreReppion.Blogspot.com and johnreppion.proboards33.com will remain online for the duration however and, though they will probably change cosmetically, their content will be left as is.

We'll do our very best keep you updated. Thanks in advance for your patience.

Signing tomorrow canceled. Sorry.

I regret to announce that tomorrow's signing at Astral Gypsy, Coventry, UK is now canceled due to Leah's ill health.

She's okay, just an allergic reaction to some medication. Don't worry I'll look after her.

Blog Buddies 4.

I'm not going to patronise you, you know who Ben Templesmith is already. Oh alright then I'll patronise you. Mr. Templesmith is the Eisner award winning artist and co-creator (with Steve Niles) of 30 days of Night. He's also worked on loads and loads of stuff from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to his self penned books Wormwood Gentlman Corpse and Welcome to Hoxford. Oh and he's brilliant. I mean stupidly talented. The sort of artist we could only dream of working with... but we are!

As regular readers of this Blog (are there any such people? Hands up!) will already know, Leah and I have written a Doctor Who one-shot for IDW entitled "The Whispering Gallery" which Ben is drawing. And here is the cover:

Those of you wishing to keep track of what Mr. Templesmith is currently working on (usually a lot of stuff) should add http://bentemplesmith.blogspot.com to their bookmarks.

Doctor Who - The Whispering Gallery is due out late February 2009 and the Previews catalog order number is: DEC084084.

You can read an interview with Leah and myself about the one-shot over on CBR.

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Matt Timson is an incredibly talented chap who has been working as a professional illustrator for a good few years now. The thing is, like a lot of pro illustrators making decent money, Matt foolishly always wanted to be a comic artist. I know, beggars belief doesn't it? Well now he is one and a bloody good one at that!


We first became aware of Mr. Timson via his work in The End Is Nigh and his collaborations with the legendary Paul Scott in OmniVistaScope. Leah and I pestered him for a long, long time and eventually he agreed to help us develop our retro-futuristic horror detective concept Deadeye - stories from which have already appeared in Image Comics' Popgun Vol 1 & 2 with more to come in the future (watch this space!).


Anyway, these days Matt is busy working for Top Cow on a (brand new, out this week) series called Impaler, the blurb for which goes like this:

Millions of vampires have descended upon America. In a desperate bid to defeat them, the U.S. military nuked New York City but unfortunately, it was too little, too late. The vampire horde had already advanced westward, but how far? A team of soldiers sent to rescue a politician's plane that crash-landed in New Jersey find out the hard way. Humanity's only chance may rest in the hands of vampire hunter Vlad the Impaler and his new companion, a depressed New York City detective who wishes he was dead.

The series is already getting rave reviews and Matt's artwork is quite rightly being praised as some of the nicest looking stuff around. Do yourself a favour and pick up a copy at your earliest convenience (I'm getting mine on Saturday).

For those of you curious about the master's process there's a very insightful step by step for Matt's cover to Impaler #1 here on ComicMonsters.com.

To keep up to date with Matt's griping and grumbling keep a beady eye on http://matttimson.blogspot.com

Signing at Astral Gypsy, Coventry December 20th

We will be signing at The Astral Gypsy (mega talent Al Davison's shop/studio) in Coventry, UK on Saturday 20th of December from 3-5pm.

Hope to see you there. It'll be an ideal opportunity to pick up some last minute Xmas gifts!

My interview with Bryan Talbot now online at steampunkmagazine.com

An interview I did a little while back with comic book legend and genuinely lovely chap Bryan Talbot is now online at

www.steampunkmagazine.com/inside/.

I especially like Leah's accompanying portrait of Mr. Talbot! Go read.

Oh okay, we ARE writing Doctor Who!

We were told to keep this quiet (even though Rich Johnston actually posted about it in LITG in late October) but I've just read this entry over on IDW Publisher and Editor-in-Chief Chris Ryall's Blog which pretty much gives the game away anyway.

WE ARE WRITING DOCTOR WHO! Got that? DOCTOR WHO! And BEN TEMPLESMITH is drawing it! How $%&*ing amazing is that? It's a 22 page one shot entitled The Whispering Gallery which should be in shops in February 2009.



Above are some concept images which Ben posted on his Blog earlier in November, looks like it's going to be good doesn't it?

Out now, coming soon and after that.

Dynamite Entertainment's Savage Tales #10 arrived in shops this week featuring the final part of the second act (got that?) of our micro mini Battle For Atlantis with industry legend Pablo Marcus on art duties. We're very pleased with the story and always really enjoy working on BFA; we've tried to make it as authentically "classic" as we can, as if we were writing for the original Savage Tales back in the 1970s.
Also in this issue: the first part of a brand-new Red Sonya two-parter by Mike Lieb and Diego Bernard, part two of Valaka by Doug Murray and Lui Antonio and part one of a brand new Hercules story by Doug Murray and Fabiano Neves.

You can see preview pages from ST #10 HERE

This issue is part of our £1 sale so, if you haven't picked up a copy yet, head over to moorereppion.bigcartel.com and place an order.

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Mike Raicht emailed over the lettered pages for our Mike Raicht's Creature Feature story Imago last night and Leah and I were really happy with the finished product. Imago was drawn by the infamous PJ Holden (in his pre-iPhone super-stardom days) and will be published in Creature Feature #2 sometime in late December/early January.
Keep an eye on www.th3rdworld.com to make sure you don't miss out!

In the meantime you can order a copy of #1 HERE (if you haven't already got one) and read a review/creator interview HERE

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Prior to enjoying possibly the best con ever at Thought Bubble Leeds (proper write up to follow at some point - here are some other people's in the meantime http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/?p=10301) on the 16th of November, we managed to turn in a one shot script for IDW which we are very, very excited about. We're working with an artist whose work we both love and with characters that we honestly never imagined we'd get the chance to write. Less cryptic news to follow ASAP but certain rumourmongers have already hinted at the project so, if you can't wait, get Googling.
[EDIT: see moorereppion.blogspot.com/doctor-who]

In the next week or so we'll be putting the finishing touches to a five part Dynamite Entertainment mini series we've been working on for just on a year now. Each issue has 32 pages of story in it but that doesn't even begin to explain how dense the series is in terms of reference research and the sheer amount of stuff we've had to cram into every panel and page. It's a piece of writing that we're both extremely proud of and we can't wait to be able to talk about it properly and for people to actually read it.

We're almost half way through another five issue Dynamite mini which has some similarities with the one previously mentioned and have quite a few other potential projects on the horizon. 2009 is already looking like a very busy year.

£1 SALE NOW ON!

As of today, all back issues in our Big Cartel shop are reduced to just £1 each. They make ideal gifts for yourself or others and we're more than happy to sign and dedicate at no extra cost.

So head over to http://moorereppion.bigcartel.com and spend some money!

Blog Buddies 3

Eric Orchard is a Canadian illustrator whose amazing work we were introduced to via the magic of the interweb maybe six months or so ago. I honestly can't remember what steam of conciseness Googling or linkage first brought either Leah or myself to Eric's website but, as so often occurs in the world of comics, it didn't take long for us to realise that the old six degrees of separation rule - or in this case more like two degrees - applies yet again.

It turns out that Eric is currently collaborating with our old chum Shane Oakley on a Steampunk series entitled The Girls of Fogg Academy. You can keep up to date with Mr. Orchard's biographical posts about the world of Fogg by clicking HERE.


There is something genuinely magical about Eric's work, whose style reminds me variously of people such as Brian Froud, Arthur Rackham and David Petersen but which is definitley wholly his own.

Keep an eye on http://ericorchard.blogspot.com/ to see what he comes up with next.

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Magpie Killjoy is the brains behind and contributing editor of the wondrous Steampunk Magazine, which I myself have also had the pleasure of contributing to. A self described "proud anarchist, author, accordionist, steampunk, photographer, vegan, designer, editor, activist, what-have-you", Magpie can now add Blogger to that list.


Covering music, politics, art, history, writing and everything in between, Magpie's http://www.birdsbeforethestorm.net is a must bookmark site for anyone interested in... well, anyone interested in reading a really articulately written and genuinely engaging Blog really.

You can also download Killjoy's darkly brilliant Demo 08 for free HERE.

Happy Guy Fawkes' night

Remember, remember the Fifth of November,

The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,

I can think of no reason

Why the Gunpowder Treason

Should ever be forgot.

Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, t'was his intent

To blow up the King and Parli'ment.

Three-score barrels of powder below

To prove old England's overthrow;

By God's providence he was catch'd

With a dark lantern and burning match.

Holloa boys, holloa boys, let the bells ring.

Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King!

Happy Halloween 2008

A mini mixtape to get you in the festive mood. Artwork by Dave Hitchcock.

Winners of the signed Gothic competition are now up on our website HERE.

A message from our sponsor... sort of...

As regular readers may already be aware, Asylum Books and Games is a shop in Aberdeen run by the infamous Tequila Mike; a thoroughly lovely chap who, at every major UK comic convention, furnishes us with all the latest in awful zombie comics as well as keeping us up to date with the likes of Elephantmen and The Goon. We're shockingly bad at picking up monthlies so Mike's efforts, and those of his dedicated staff, are greatly appreciated.

I'm sorry to say that we only had quite a brief drink and a chat with Mike and his orderlies (or are they inmates?) on the Saturday night at Birmingham. My liver, however, thanks me for the fact.

You can find Asylum Books and Games at

29 Adelphi
Aberdeen
Scotland
AB11 5BL

Telephone: 01224 574637 Fax: 01224574637

E-Mail: info@asylum-booksandgames.com

Or visit the website at www.asylum-booksandgames.com

Look out for in store signings and appearances and hopefully Leah and myself will get back up there in the new year.

Accent UK signing in Borders, Liverpool

Just like the poster says, the Accent UK guys will be in store at the Liverpool branch of Borders on Saturday the 25th of October talking about self publishing, signing and selling books.
Leah and I will also be there helping out and scrawling our signatures on things, so please do come down and say hello.

What better Halloween present could there be than a signed copy of Zombies?

You can find full contact details and directions to the shop on the Borders website.