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NEIL GAIMAN'S WHEEL OF WORLDS #0
Published by TEKNO COMIX. RARE COLLECTORS ITEM.
INCLUDES a reversible pull out poster featuring LADY JUSTICE on one side and the dread TEKNOPHAGE on the other!
Based on a Steam Punk Fantasy World and Characters created by NEIL GAIMAN!
Neil Gaiman, one of the most popular comics writers of the 1990s, was commissioned to design a line of comics and characters for newcomer Tekno Comics. Gaiman’s concepts were introduced to readers in this one-shot, which presented the background of the shared universe, and related the origins of the characters.
As the stories begins, Adam Cain and Mr. Hero (a robot, or “Newmatic Man”) have traveled to the dessicated Redchapel, on an alternate Earth called Albion, in search of Mr. Hero’s lost hand. Not long after, the lizard-like ruler of worlds known as the Teknophage arrives, intent on finally humbling the pair. The only thing saving them from certain destruction is the timely appearance of Lady Justice, who spins a tale so compelling that even the almighty Teknophage is moved to spare them.
Mr. Hero, a steam-powered clockwork man from the raw industrial planet Kalighoul that is stored on Earth for years until discovered by a mime, Jenny, and her simple-minded but dedicated strong man companion.
Lady Justice. She is Justice. Represented since the beginning of time as a robed woman, blinded, armed with naught but a sword and a sense of balance. A woman cut off from the masculine world of clues and hard realities, forced into the depths of her remaining senses: touch, smell, taste, hearing. A woman joined with her innermost self, focused only on her mission. A woman who cannot be deceived, cannot be fooled. A woman blind¨ to all but justice. In times of trouble, the spirit of Justice appears before women and offers them the chance to take revenge on their male abusers.
Adam Cain. Mysterious Man of Magic!
Together, they fight the Reptilian Tyrant, THE TEKNOPHAGE!
Also includes a section of sketches and notes around the creative process of designing Mr Hero, Adam Cain, The Teknophage and Lady Justice with NEIL GAIMAN and various artists, including Sandman artists Bryan Talbot, Rick Vietch and others. Gaiman himself does some sketches!
LONG OUT OF PRINT AND IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND.
COLLECTOR'S ITEM FEATURING A STEAM PUNK FANTASY SERIES CREATED BY NEIL GAIMAN FOR TEKNO COMIX, FOLLOWING HIS ACCLAIMED GRAPHIC NOVEL SERIES SANDMAN.
This is the hard to find first printings of the original WHEEL OF WORLDS Comic Book with lavish full color illustrations.
This is the RARE original 1995 published version of Gaiman's WHEEL OF WORLDS, and was never sold in any mass market retail outlets. It was only available to purchase through comic book specialty shops.
Brand new condition and is printed on high quality glossy paper to enhance the lavish artwork.
Book Description
Mr. Hero is a steam-driven automaton created by the villainous lizard, the Teknophage. Intended to be a force of evil, he instead proves noble. In the mid 1990's he was discovered and reconstructed by Jennifer Hale, a struggling street magician. Mr Hero teams up with Lady Justice and Adam Cain to take on The evil otherworldly business tycoon The Teknophage, a ravanous reptile creature from a hell-dimension.
Neil Gaiman wrote the award-winning graphic novel series The Sandman, and with Terry Pratchett, the award-winning novel Good Omens. His first book for children, The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, illustrated by Dave McKean, hasn't yet won any awards, but was one of Newsweek's Best Children's Books of 1997. Angels & Visitations, a small press story collection, was nominated for a World Fantasy Award and won the International Horror Critics Guild Award for Best Collection, despite not having any horror in it. Well, hardly any.Born in England, he now makes his home in America, in a big dark house of uncertain location where he grows exotic pumpkins and accumulates computers and cats. He is currently at work turning his first novel Neverwhere into a film for Jim Henson films.
Asked why he likes comics more than other forms of storytelling Gaiman said “One of the joys of comics has always been the knowledge that it was, in many ways, untouched ground. It was virgin territory. When I was working on Sandman, I felt a lot of the time that I was actually picking up a machete and heading out into the jungle. I got to write in places and do things that nobody had ever done before. When I’m writing novels I’m painfully aware that I’m working in a medium that people have been writing absolutely jaw-droppingly brilliant things for, you know, three-four thousand years now. You know, you can go back. We have things like The Golden Ass. And you go, well, I don’t know that I’m as good as that and that’s two and a half thousand years old. But with comics I felt like — I can do stuff nobody has ever done. I can do stuff nobody has ever thought of. And I could and it was enormously fun.”
1ST PRINT/ED MR HERO LADY JUSTICE TEKNOPHAGE RARE OOP!!
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