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mllesays (mllesays) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-07-20 10:14:00

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char: amethyst/amy winston, char: tim hunter, creator: neil gaiman, publisher: dc comics, title: the books of magic

Gemworld as envisioned by Charles Vess
I had never heard of Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld until the scans were posted here. But upon going back through some old Neil Gaiman stuff, I realized that Gemworld gets a mention in the original Books of Magic miniseries (in issue #3, with art by Charles Vess).

Minor, I know, but I love seeing Vess' take on Gemworld.

They even drop in Zerox (this one, um, may not be Vess. In fact, I think it's Paul Johnson. I don't have the trade in front of me D:). Someday, Gemworld will exist again!

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	mllesays 2009-07-20 03:40 pm UTC (link)
	It had better, or I'll cry. Agreed. What did you wonder about them? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	greenmask 2009-07-20 03:41 pm UTC (link)
	If I should read them! :D (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	mllesays 2009-07-20 03:48 pm UTC (link)
	Right, of course! The first four issues that Neil did are... interesting. They're just a tour through the magic parts of the DCU. The series proper, when it started, fell kind of flat for me, so I didn't read beyond its first trade. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-07-20 06:23 pm UTC (link)
	I think you've sort of got that the wrong way round. The four issue mini seres wasn't "the first four issues", it WAS the series proper. It was the ongoing series which wasn't the series proper... if that makes sense. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	mllesays 2009-07-20 06:27 pm UTC (link)
	Erm, yes. I said "series proper" because it wasn't originally intended to be a series, but then began as one after Neil's issues. So we mean the same thing, just expressed in slightly different ways. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

jlroberson
2009-07-21 11:25 am UTC (link)

Yeah, Neil's was pretty self-contained: it was really just a survey through the magic parts of the DCU. (which repurposed most of them for Vertigo) The series came reasonably later--this was still DC "special format," while the series came out once Vertigo was already well underway. I'm not sure if they had any definite future development of Tim in mind at the time--he was basically just the Guy Who Listens and Learns you need to provide a reason why everyone's talking about this stuff.

I will say this: I still maintain there are many elements of Tim that are suspiciously similar to the later Harry Potter. But I also imagine that even if there are Neil doesn't care to make a fuss.(and besides, it's not like he's hurting, and Tim isn't owned by him)

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mllesays
2009-07-21 12:23 pm UTC (link)

Yeah, I realized the key word I left out of those other two comments was "ongoing." Neil's miniseries was, as you say, self-contained; about 3 years later, the actual ongoing series started.

I remember reading something Neil had said/written in regards to Tim Hunter and Harry Potter — he was very gracious, basically saying that certain ideas get repeated unknowingly, the collective unconscious and all of that. He's a classy dude.

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