Saturday 9 May 2020

Domino Lady and the Black Bat by Douglas Klauba

We've been told so many times over the years that the Black Bat / Domino Lady graphic novel is "coming soon" that, at least speaking for myself, it has ceased to generate any excitement. The image below, however, revived that spark when I came across it on comicartfans.

Douglas Klauba, Domino Lady and the Black Bat, soon to be published for Moonstone Books.
As you'll see on the link, its "art type" is listed as "cover". There was already an image from the project shared a year and a half ago which appeared to be a cover shot. Unless that one has been replaced, the above image could be a variant cover, much like the softcover and hardcover editions of Moonstone's last Black Bat anthology displayed different art.

Whatever the case may be, I absolutely love Mr. Klauba's work here. It might just need to grace the walls of my secret crime fighting lab. :-)

Wednesday 6 May 2020

Update On The Airship 27 Update

The 62nd edition of the Airship 27 podcast was released last week and during this episode, Ron Fortier and Rob Davis added a few more details about the Black Bat novel the publisher hopes to publish by end of summer. 

The book will be in the 60,000 word range and its writer will be one Jon Carter. I'm looking for Mr. Carter on social media but striking out at the moment.

Interior illustrations will be handled by Clayton Hinkle. Samples of his work were also a little tricky to come by, but I did locate his deviantart profile under the nickname "gombuck". It displays all of one image but it just happens to be a Black Bat page so that worked out nicely. 


The full-sized version seems to indicate that this was a page for a Moonstone Books project but I would be hard-pressed to identify which one. 

Man, it's nice to have something to look forward to. The theory that I mentioned in the previous post was that this book would be Gordon Dymowskis "The Politics of Crime" story that was scheduled to be published by Pro Se Productions in late 2018, if memory serves. That is not the case but hopefully "Politics" is still somewhere on Pro Se's radar and we can get both books this year. 

In the meantime, if you're interested in Airship 27's just-released or upcoming projects, give the podcast a listen right here.