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What In The World Ever Happened To Virgin Comics?

Published Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:00:22 -0600

Last updated Mon, 30 Dec 2013 16:56:20 -0600

It was a grand dream. A marrying of Indian and American comics industry, with muklti-media crossover expansion and a litany of Hollywood names attached. Guy Ritchie, Terry Gilliam, John Woo, Andy Diggle, Grant Morrison and the return of Dan Dare from Garth Ennis and Gary Erskine. So naturally it had to fail.

But remnants of projects have survived as Liquid Comics, And now they're reforming as Epic Cycle, a name that will not attract any trademark action from Marvel Comics' Epic brand at all, I'm sure.

Epic Cycle is a new graphic novel imprint set up by Liquid and movie producers L+E Productions intended to create IP for online, film and TV revenue paths. So basically Virgin Comics again, without the serialised comics or Richard Branson's handy beard to hang on.

Apparently L+E will define concepts and hire writers, while Liquid Comics will create graphic novels from these concepts.

The first three on their plate are H2O by Grant Calof, a story of the world's hunt for water underground after a worldwide drought.

Then A Thousand Arts by Stuart Moore places a Shaolin monk in Alaska using his martial art skills to fight ~~Sarah Palin~~ for his cultural heritage.

Then Ron Marz will write Purgatory about the scientific search by the Catholic church to prove the existence of the afterlife.

New graphic novels by writers we like, whatever the IP huntiness, what's not to love?

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