En juillet, le scénariste Si Spencer (X-Force, Numbercruncher) lancera Bodies chez Vertigo. Il s’agit d’une mini-série en huit numéros qui suit quatre enquêtes similaires se déroulant à quatre époques très différentes: à la fin du XIXème siècle, pendant la deuxième Guerre Mondiale, dans le présent (2014) et dans le futur (2050). Chaque numéro sera divisé en quatre chapitres de six pages illustrés respectivement par Dean Ormston, Phil Winslade, Meghan Hetrick et Tula Lotay.
The initial pitch was, « four time periods, four detectives, four murders – same M.O, same location, same victim…. someone’s being murdered — forever » ….and that pretty much covers it. Four detectives are each investigating a brutal and inexplicable murder, each believing it has something to do with a larger case they’re already engaged in. They’re all wrong – it’s far bigger than that. …]
Other than that, I can’t tell you much without spoilers other than the basic thumbnail sketches – Edmond Hillinghead is a buttoned down Conan Doyle fan trying to bring science to a police force that essentially exists to protect the rich; Charles Whiteman is a Polish émigré, career-criminal who fled the Nazis and signed up with the London police; Shahara Hassan is a fast-tracked female Muslim detective in the London Mets and Maplewood is an amnesiac cop trying to police the few survivors of an apocalypse while struggling to remember who she is at any given moment.
BODIES #1
Art by: Tula Lotay, Phil Winslade, Meghan Hetrick-Murante, Dean Ormston
Cover by: Fiona Stephenson
Written by: Si Spencer
VERTIGO brings you the miniseries of the summer, with four detectives, four time periods, and four dead bodies – all set in London. Edmond Hillinghead is an 1890s overachiever who’s trying to solve a murder no one cares about while hiding his own secret. Karl Whiteman is our dashing 1940s adventurer with a shocking past. Shahara Hasan is 2014’s kickass female Detective Sergeant, who walks the line between religion and power. And Maplewood, an amnesiac from post-apocalyptic 2050, brings a haunting perspective to it all. Si Spencer (HELLBLAZER: CITY OF DEMONS, THE VINYL UNDERGROUND) executes a centuries-spanning murder mystery like nothing you’ve ever seen before, with four sensational artists illustrating a six-page chapter in each issue: Dean Ormston, Phil Winslade, Meghan Hetrick and Tula Lotay.
U.S. Price: 3.99
On Sale Date: Jul 30 2014
Bodies #2
Story by Si Spencer
Art by Dean Ormston, Phil Winslade, Tula Lotay, Meghan Hetrick-Murante
Colors by Lee Loughridge
Cover by Francesco Francavilla
Publisher Vertigo
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date Wed, August 27th, 2014
With four bodies lying on mortuary slabs, speculation mounts from a century ago to the present day as to the identity of the victim. In wartime Britain and a forgetful future, however, living strangers are causing confusion. A hooker’s kiss, a fine young cannibal, a fascist mob and a suspect who literally falls from the heavens will send muddy ripples through history. The time-travelling serial-killer story heats up!
BODIES #3
Art by: Tula Lotay, Meghan Hetrick-Murante, Phil Winslade, Dean Ormston
Cover by: Paul Pope
Written by: Si Spencer
As the present-day murder investigation explodes, we learn more about Whiteman’s and Maplewood’s unexpected pasts, while Edmond sees a most unsettling view of the future. Perverts, Pipettes, Poland and the Paranormal collide in the chapter we call “Suspects.”
U.S. Price: 3.99
On Sale Date: Sep 24 2014
Bodies #4
Story by Si Spencer
Art Tula Lotay, Meghan Hetrick, Phil Winslade, Dean Ormston
Colors by Lee Loughridge
Cover by Jenny Frison
Publisher Vertigo
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date Wed, October 22nd, 2014
A night in the pub winds up in two very sticky ends for Whiteman and Edmond, while in 2050 Maplewood and Bounce go up on the roof to wait for the big parade. In the present day, what should be a walk in the park for Shahara leads her straight to the morgue.
Bodies #5
Story by Si Spencer
Art by Dean Ormston, Phil Winslade, Meghan Hetrick, Tula Lotay
Colors by Lee Loughridge
Letters by Taylor Esposito
Cover by Brian Bolland
Publisher Vertigo
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date Wed, November 26th, 2014
While Whiteman is summoned to the high court, Edmond is busted out of jail, which leads each to very different near-fatal encounters. Shahara has lost the most important part of her case while Maplewood comes face to face with hers. The killers are approaching…and the wind begins to howl.
Bodies #6
Story by Si Spencer
Art by Dean Ormston, Phil Winslade, Meghan Hetrick, Tula Lotay [hide…]
Cover by Eduardo Risso
Publisher Vertigo
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date Wed, December 24th, 2014
MATURE READERS
Four time periods, four detectives, four murders, identical M.O, identical location, same body – and now four murderers step into the frame, all very different yet all unnervingly familiar. It’s time for our detectives to face their quarry, but which is the hunter and which is the prey?
Bodies #7
Story by Si Spencer
Art by Dean Ormston, Phil Winslade, Meghan Hetrick
Cover by Tommy Lee Edwards
Publisher Vertigo
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date Wed, January 28th, 2015
MATURE READERS
Coppers undercover, coppers under lovers, coppers on drugs and genocide uncovered. The penultimate tick of the tock before the courtroom dock, the future shock, the hangman’s drop and the doomsday clock.
Je suis enfin parvenu à mettre la main sur un tpb (seconde impression qui, comme la première, semble être vite épuisée) et ça m’est tombé des mains. Ça commence bien, et puis après, ça part dans un truc incompréhensible. Grosse déception…
