EFFIGY #1-7 (Tim Seeley / Marley Zarcone)

Grand admirateur de la série Shade the Changing Man, le scénariste Tim Seeley (Revival, Batman Eternal) s’associe à la dessinatrice Marley Zarcone pour réaliser son rêve: proposer sa nouvelle série Effigy chez Vertigo.

*Chondra Jackson, ancien enfant star d’hollywood, retourne dans sa ville natale après une affaire sordide de Sex Tape. Sur place, elle tombe sur un crime faisant écho à un épisode de la série « Star Cop » qui l’avait révélée au grand publique. En enquêtant, Chondra découvre un culte qui vénère les célébrités et élimine la concurrence. *

Le premier numéro de Effigy sortira en janvier.

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[quote=« Tim Seeley »]Totally. It’s a weird reality when people know my name or people on TV shows but there are far more important people like researchers studying cancer that no one knows. Why am I someone that has to go on Facebook and Twitter to promote myself when what I do doesn’t seem that important in the grand scheme of things? That’s definitely a part of it.

And going to so many conventions, as I have in the past 12 years, I’ve spent a lot of time with actors and famous people and I’m always fascinated by what their lives become after they’ve been famous. Their job becomes appealing to those people that still love them for what they were but they are actually no longer actively famous anymore. I am fascinated by this lifestyle of I used to be on a thing. Everyone who works in any kind of entertainment industry is always counting down the days between this is what I do, and now I am no longer famous. [/quote]

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[size=150]INTERVIEW DU SCÉNARISTE TIM SEELEY[/size]

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Le site de l’éditeur: vertigocomics.com

ça a l’air sympa.

Je vais donner la chance au produit. Je ne connais Tim Seeley que depuis « Grayson », qu’il co-écrit avec Tom King, mais il proposer une vraie écriture très agréable et très fluide même si la série d’Espionnage DC joue beaucoup avec les ellipses. :wink:

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[quote]Effigy #1
Story by Tim Seeley
Art by Marley Zarcone
Cover by W. Scott Forbes
Publisher Vertigo
Cover Price: $2.99
Release Date Wed, January 28th, 2015
MATURE READERS
After a sex-tape scandal, former Hollywood child star turned Z-lister Chondra Jackson returns to her hometown of Effigy Mound, IL, to find a seemingly impossible crime – a fresh corpse in an ancient Indian burial site. Even weirder, the murder resembles a scene from an episode of her old TV show, Star Cop, a live-action children’s show about a kid detective.
As Chondra starts to investigate, she stumbles upon a bizarre cult that worships celebrities as eternal effigies. And these cult members aren’t just worshiping – they’re also ritually sacrificing anyone who defies their veneration of the beautiful and famous. Chondra’s probe takes her on a terrifying tour of burial mounds across the world, from Stonehenge to the Nazca Lines of Peru. But what is the link between the cult, Chondra’s hometown, and her own bloodline? Will Chondra become the hero detective she played as a child…or is she in fact the cult’s unwitting messiah?
Written by rising star Tim Seeley (BATMAN ETERNAL, GRAYSON, Revival) and illustrated by Marley Zarcone (Black Circle, MADAME XANADU), EFFIGY is a twisted murder mystery and conspiracy tale that examines celebrity, godhood, and the price of fame.[/quote]

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[size=150]INTERVIEW DU SCÉNARISTE TIM SEELY[/size]

Et l’entrée me semble réussi.

Le book nous raconte la vie de Chondra, une bébé star à la Culkin, qui entre dans l’anonymat relatif de la police. Souhaitant se débarrasser de son étiquette d’enfant-star, elle s’engage dans la police jusqu’au jour un drôle de meurtre va l’envoyer sur première véritable enquête.

A partir de là, il est très facile d’entrer dans l’histoire et le pilot de cette série présente très efficacement les différents acteurs et bien sûr le futur grand enjeu de la carrière de Chondra. Tim Seeley, co scénariste de l’excellente série Grayson, m’avait beaucoup plu dans son approche très fraîche de la série DC à tel point de donner sa chance sur ce « Effigy ». Même si certaines scènes sont complètement « crazy » (pisseriez-vous sur un chèque de 3 millions de dollars?), je crois qu’il a parfaitement rendu identifiable l’univers de la série en jouant avec certains clichés et certaines pratiques.

S’il faudra attendre quelques épisodes pour s’assurer de l’intérêt de la série, il ne fait aucun doute que le potentiel de la série est puissant et permettra, j’espère, de puiser dans les caricatures du show-business.

Niveau dessin, je m’attendais plus à un style se rapprochant de la couverture mais il n’en n’est rien. Le style de Marley Zarcone est assez épuré et se rapproche d’un style avec beaucoup d’arrondi, très agréable un peu à la manière de Pia Guerra (Y) mais un peu plus light.

En tout cas, ça commence bien et j’en suis très heureux.

A suivre donc.

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[quote]EFFIGY #3

Written by: Tim Seeley.

Art by: Marley Zarcone.

Cover by: W. Scott Forbes.

Description: Officer Chondra Jackson is teamed with a television-hating homicide detective and an obsessed fan to search for a killer at the « Star Cop Fan Corps Con. » Plus, Chondra reunites with a former co-star to get a glimpse of the life she left behind.

Pages: 32.

Price: $2.99.

In stores: March 25. [/quote]

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Source: www.comicscontinuum.com

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[quote]Effigy #4
Story by Tim Seeley
Art by Marley Zarcone
Colors by Ryan Hill
Letters by Jared K. Fletcher
Cover by W. Scott Forbes
Publisher Vertigo
Cover Price: $2.99
Release Date Apr 22nd, 2015
MATURE READERS ONLY
As Chondra Jackson explores the seedy side of convention culture, Grant pursues a murder suspect who doesn’t seem quite himself. Meanwhile, Edie descends into the dark and secret history behind her favorite TV show, Star Cops![/quote]

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[quote]EFFIGY #6
Art by: Marley Zarcone
Cover by: W. Scott Forbes
Written by: Tim Seeley
As Chondra and Grant close in on the murderer of Sheila Harmon, agents of the United Faith Organization close in on them! Faith, celebrity and death collide in the exciting conclusion to the first arc!
U.S. Price: 3.99
On Sale Date: Jun 24 2015[/quote]

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Source: www.dccomics.com

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[quote]Effigy #7
Story by Tim Seeley
Art by Mike Norton
Cover by W. Scott Forbes
Publisher Vertigo
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date Jul 22nd, 2015
Behind the vast Eternolos conspiracy is one man: Laurence W. Lauritz; a science fiction author turned cosmic messiah. Witness his humble beginnings in this twisted one-issue flashback courtesy of the creators behind Revival.[/quote]

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