NEW CrossGen trades!

[BrianT]

There are new CrossGen trades scheduled to be released next year:

February 25, 2007:
Sojourn Vol. 5: A Sorcerer's Tale by Ian Edgington and Greg Land.

May 25, 2007:
Negation Vol. 3: Hounded and Negation Vol. 4 both by Tony Bedard and Paul Pelletier.
The Path Volume 3: Death And Dishonor by Ron Marz and Mathew Smith.
Sigil Volume 5: Death Match and Sigil Volume 6: Planetary Union by Chuck Dixon and Scott Eaton.
Scion Volume 6: Royal Wedding by Ron Marz and Jimmy Cheung.
Way Of The Rat Volume 3: Haunted Zhumar by Chuck Dixon and Jeff Johnson

The books will be published by Checker Book Publishing.

[Cammy]

Wow, this is exciting news! I had heard about Sojourn but I didn't know about the rest. I'm glad we get to see those stories collected now.

[KevinTBrown]

Amd hopefully the creators will actually get paid for their work too..... As much as I think this is good news, I'd wait to see if that's the case first.

[brentac]

Loved CrossGen. Easily the best comics that were being put out at the time. I really wish they could have finished Negation: War. Okay, I really wish they were still around, but would have settled for the War to be finished.

[BrianT]

Amd hopefully the creators will actually get paid for their work too..... As much as I think this is good news, I'd wait to see if that's the case first.

KevinTBrown

They'll probably receive royalties, but I wouldn't expect more than that.

[Leaf93]

Sweet! I'll probably get the Sojourn one, but probably not the others cuz I think I have most of the individual issues for the others. I miss Crossgen. Negation, Route 666, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Sojourn, Meridian were all amazing titles.

[Spenser for Hire]

Great to see these characters back in print.

[Ron Marz]

Amd hopefully the creators will actually get paid for their work too..... As much as I think this is good news, I'd wait to see if that's the case first.

KevinTBrown

Hah! That's a good one.

[Greg Waite]

CrossGen had some cool titles. (I've browsed their site when they were around.)

I guess nobody caught on with Brath like I did huh?

[Augustine]

Great to see the titles being put out again in TPB form, maybe it'll spark some more interest in the titles and get them jump started a new.

[BrianT]

Sweet! I'll probably get the Sojourn one, but probably not the others cuz I think I have most of the individual issues for the others. I miss Crossgen. Negation, Route 666, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Sojourn, Meridian were all amazing titles.

Leaf93

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang was the only CrossGen book I bought regularly (the only other CrossGen books I own are the $1 Sojourn issue and the FCBD Way of the Rat). It'll be interesting to see, if they ever get to a KKBB trade, if they include the never published KKBB #6.

[Leaf93]

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang was the only CrossGen book I bought regularly (the only other CrossGen books I own are the $1 Sojourn issue and the FCBD Way of the Rat). It'll be interesting to see, if they ever get to a KKBB trade, if they include the never published KKBB #6.

Brian Thomer

That'd be awesome if they ever did that. I'd buy it in a second even though I have all of the other issues.

And Greg: I liked Brath too. But I only have a few of the issues, but the ones I have were quite strong.

[Katar_Hol]

Great!! Sojourn, Sigil and Negation are on my list! Too bad nothing about Ruse!

[KevinTBrown]

Hah! That's a good one.

Ron Marz

So are you guys (the creators) getting anything from these trades then???

[grimston1]

Did Sojourn end in mid story arc? I have talked to Chuck Dixon about how El Cazador would have wrapped up.

I know that there were a lot of unpaid employees and broken promises from Crossgen. I still miss the books and I thought they had one of the best displays areas at shows. They also had a lot of free sketches and give-aways.

[Ron Marz]

So are you guys (the creators) getting anything from these trades then???

KevinTBrown

I doubt very highly that any creators will see a dime. I've certainly heard nothing about it. And, to be fair, it's really not Checker's responsibility. CrossGen left people holding the bag, not Disney, not Checker.

I assume Checker paid a licensing fee to Disney to get this stuff into print, and for access to the files. It would be a nice gesture on Checker's part to track down the creators and throw a couple of bucks our way, but I don't expect it. I'm just hoping to get a few comp copies.