“…Grabs you from the first and keeps going…(Colleen Doran) does it with aplomb, with soul and with a sense of joy…”
Neil Gaiman
“The New York Times” best selling author of Sandman, Neverwhere, American Gods, MirrorMask
“An elegantly drawn, complex cast of characters crowd through her pages and fill her multidimensional story with a complex weave of emotion and wonder.”
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The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Edition
St. Martin’s Press
World Fantasy award-winning author/artist of Sandman and Stardust
“Doran weaves plot within plot in a complex and compelling pattern that leaves the reader desperately seeking the next volume. Deep social and political stories combine with rip-roaring action, romance, betrayal, passion and hate peopled with fascinatingly complex characters in an epic fantasy adventure which older teens and adults will love.”
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Diamond Bookshelf
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With the kind permission of my boss Jim Valentino of Shadowline, the fine Image Comics imprint that brings you many popular books like Morning Glories, behold the cover of the new edition of A Distant Soil Volume I. This will be released with new edits, new lettering, cleaned up and restored art, and, obviously, new covers and design. This will be the first new edition since 1997. Scheduled for June 2013. New comic book series in spring 2013. Run continues until end of story with issue 50. Information about our extensive digital restoration project is HERE.
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Jason and Liana are the children of Aeren, a fugitive from the planet Ovanan, a world of powerful, beautiful and ageless psionics. Both children possess extraordinary powers. Jason, only 17 years old, is a disruptor, capable of short circuiting the energy systems in machines as well as in living beings. Liana, 15 years old, is the most powerful form of psionic in the known universe: she is an Avatar, a being who can draw on the life force of all the Ovanan people and wield that force as a weapon. Avatars are the religious leaders and protectors of Ovanan, but only one Avatar can exist at a time, and as long as Liana lives, she is a threat to Ovanan which has sent its massive warship the Siovansin to assassinate her.
Rieken, the leader of the Ovanan Resistance movement, and his bodyguard D’mer have also come to Earth in human guise to save her. They gather a brave team of human men and women to travel to the Siovansin to destroy the Hierarchy, the center of Ovanan’s corrupt government. Antonio Minetti, a policeman; Brent Donewitz, a teen gang member; Serezha Kirov, a Russian dissident; Corrine Brenegar, a clothing designer; Dunstan Achenlock, a magician whose powers are real; Christopher D’Errico, a medical student; Reynaldo Cabrera, a homeless boy; Bast, an Ovanan living in exile on Earth; and the legendary Sir Galahad from the other-dimensional world of Avalon, all join forces to protect Liana and Earth. Reserved Rieken, however, has a terrible secret he is hiding from his champions, a secret that will test the loyalties of his followers, and challenge everything they believe and, ultimately, the fate of the world will rest on the slender shoulders of the fledgling Avatar Liana. Warring factions within the Resistance threaten everything Rieken fights for and threaten the future of Earth and Ovanan alike.
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For collectors, we have a limited number of first edition GN’s still available. My BOOKSTORE IS HERE. I’ve acquired more than a dozen Volume I from a number of retailers and other sources for sale at this site. Otherwise, Volumes I and IV are completely sold out from publishers and distributors. (UPDATE: SALE IS RUNNING NOW. Go ye forth and get bargains. We’ve been able to get about 14 more copies of ADS Volume I in, including three from Diamond Distributors. I think they scraped the walls of the warehouse to find those.)
My previous edition covers are now for sale HERE. Volume II cover has already sold. These are already reduced prices, but I accept payment plans. I will also consider a reduced price if you buy more than one painting.
Congratulations! I’m trying to decide if, having already nabbed vols 1-4 from Colleen’s store, I should just wait on vol 5 or nab this anyway, but it’s -great- to see it being available again!
Thank you so much! It really depends if you want to wait or not.
It’s going to be next summer until this new edition comes out, and it will be months between each edition after that.
Also, in the end, there will only be four volumes: the current volumes 3 and 4 will be combined into one book!
For collectors: don’t wait. Volumes I and IV are pretty much gone.
I’ll have copies of books at NYCC, so you can always pick them up there!
Will the end of A Distant Soil be labelled vol 4 or V? It’s going to be an odd thing to see on my shelf!
woo hoo! It’s officially official! glad to hear it.
All the GN’s have the subtitles on them, so I doubt there will be confusion. The actual titles are “A Distant Soil: The Gathering” etc.
I think the question is, will there be a volume 5 of the current GN series, or will the finale be in the new set as vol 4? (meaning the current GN set won’t have a final book) that’s something I was wondering too, although it would be kind of weird making two versions of the same volume when it comes out…
No. But I don’t think it’s a big deal. I think finishing the story is a big deal. If anyone has suggestions…maybe we should just make a #5 sticker and slap it on there!
I’m serious, I would make a special sticker for anyone who wants it…Proof of purchase for the final volume can get a #5 sticker for the last one. If you want absolutely want it.
Hooray! It’s on my ever growing “my student loan is paid off now I can buy so many comics” watch list for 2013!
no, no stickers! It’ll ruin the collectability value!
I am tempted to suggest that the best way to deal is to make limited-editions with vol 5 and regular HCs vol 4!
I think you just added another layer of confusion the world doesn’t need! LOL!
Love the new cover art here! Looking gorgeous!