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American Reaper Gets Big Push At San Diego

Published Wed, 30 Jun 2010 05:18:12 -0500

Last updated Tue, 06 Jul 2010 02:09:56 -0500

It was announced back in 2008 that Pat Mills and Clint Langley, famed 2000AD creators, had formed a company called Repeat Offenders to make graphic novels with a future aim of turning them into films.

Indeed, a certain Mrs Sting, Trudie Styler's optioned the first one for Xingu Films, American Reaper, before it was published.

Then… nothing.

Until recently when the Repeat Offenders site went live. And everything looks very active indeed.

For a start it seems that pages from American Reaper will appear in the Sidekick section of SFX which will be given away for free to every San Diego attendee. But rumours are that there will be much bigger news to accompany it.

Interestingly Mills and Langley's first story together, Dinosty, is also listed as a production as is something called Wardog, which looks very Slaine-like (Langley being the main artist on Mills' Slaine, as well as ABC Warriors).

There is clearly a story or two lurking there waiting to be told, although I imagine we'll have to twiddle our thumbs until an announcement is made. Probably in Hall H by the sound of it. Should be a few fun questions to ask at San Diego however…

As a side note Langley's first actual drawing with a pen in a decade (all his interior work and the covers he does for folks like Marvel are done electronically) appears on the current 2000 AD with a breakdown on the (unofficial) 2000AD covers blog.