
Hello Pulp friends :)
So let's get this December started, shall we? :D
Planning to bring the
PULP/NOIR back to
Pulp Sunday after the
Horror Octoberand
SciFi November. That means also more
Black Beetle tales! :)
We left
Black Beetle in his free-fall from an 18 story building in the prologue of "
NO WAY OUT", remember? Well, as mentioned that story has developed to be a 6 issue mini and you will be able to see what happen next hopefully in 2010 (really pushing things around to make the mini hit the stores next year).

Meanwhile, since I can't keep BB away from Pulp SUnday, I decided to do a short web-tale of our beloved hero. "
KARA BOCEK" will be set a few years before "
NO WAY OUT" and will introduce some of the elements that will be part of the BB bigger arcs later. The change of settings is not just temporal but also geographical as we are now in
Constantinople (today's Istanbul), Turkey and not in
Colt City.
Expect
Casablanca vibes in this ;)

Just worked on this "lobby card" (inspired by a pulp movie ;)) and the couple of concepts you see in this post (introducing
Elsa Vogel) and now I need to layout the whole story in
the next few days so I can have Sunday strips going on Pulp Sunday for the
whole month.
Hope you guys dig the poster & the concept and will be on board for this ride. And please, let me hear from you because if it's just me and BB it's half fun :)
Cheers,
Francesco
All images © 2009 Francesco Francavilla.
BLACK BEETLE &
COLT CITY created by, ™ and © 2009 Francesco Francavilla