Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on May 18, 2014 9:34:09 GMT -6
www.icv2.com/articles/news/28645.html
After putting a dozen of its characters into a steampunk universe with Bill Willingham writing, Dynamite Entertainment is taking Battlestar Galactica into a steam-powered, alternative history with Steampunk Battlestar Galactica: 1880, a new series launching in August.
The book will be written by Tony Lee (Doctor Who, Hope Falls), with art by Aneke (Damsels) and covers by Ardian Syaf (Batgirl, Brightest Day) and Sergio Fernandez Davilla (Legenderry).
Writer Lee explained why he thinks the property is a good fit for steampunk treatment. "Of all the current science fiction licenses out there, Battlestar Galactica is by far (in my opinion) the best designed show to throw into a steampunk setting, with talks of colonials and hierarchies and strange mechanical creatures that threaten them, and the chance of creating clockwork Cylons with punchcard brains was too good an opportunity to miss," he said.
The story will take place in the Colonial Empire, and Professor Baltar's clockwork Cylonics have caused major devastation. Arch Duke Adama finds his son Apollo missing, and enlists Lady Athena to find him, by recruiting the disgraced Captain Starbuck from the Sky Pirate world of the Rising Star.
After putting a dozen of its characters into a steampunk universe with Bill Willingham writing, Dynamite Entertainment is taking Battlestar Galactica into a steam-powered, alternative history with Steampunk Battlestar Galactica: 1880, a new series launching in August.
The book will be written by Tony Lee (Doctor Who, Hope Falls), with art by Aneke (Damsels) and covers by Ardian Syaf (Batgirl, Brightest Day) and Sergio Fernandez Davilla (Legenderry).
Writer Lee explained why he thinks the property is a good fit for steampunk treatment. "Of all the current science fiction licenses out there, Battlestar Galactica is by far (in my opinion) the best designed show to throw into a steampunk setting, with talks of colonials and hierarchies and strange mechanical creatures that threaten them, and the chance of creating clockwork Cylons with punchcard brains was too good an opportunity to miss," he said.
The story will take place in the Colonial Empire, and Professor Baltar's clockwork Cylonics have caused major devastation. Arch Duke Adama finds his son Apollo missing, and enlists Lady Athena to find him, by recruiting the disgraced Captain Starbuck from the Sky Pirate world of the Rising Star.