PREVIEW: Grace Randolph And Russell Dauterman's Supurbia

[Rich Johnston]

Grace Randolph is one of Bleeding Cool's newest contributors, landing with a bang with her two weekly comic book video blogs as Think About The Ink. She's written for Marvel's Her-Oes and for Boom's Muppet comics, but I was most looking forward to Supurbia, her own superheroes-as-desperate-housewives comic. All superhero fiction is about power fantasy, and targetting the suburban family as a way to find people trapped and powerless in the lives they have built for themselves seemed rich with possibility.

Then I saw the art. And I'm sorry Grace, but I'm not going to be buying this just for the writing anymore. The art by Russell Dauterman has a raw quality, remind me of early Matt Wagner and Sam Kieth, with a clever sense of colour. TAke a look at the first issue, out in March.

Damn.

[drachenfells]

Yeah, that certainly looks like it will be worth picking up

[Blackfist]

[joeglass]

Okay, I know I am totally setting myself up to get laid into here, but I had been toying with the idea of doing a superhero drama with a Desperate Housewives twist for a while now. I even used the working title 'Welcome to Superbia'. But with all my concentration being on my current two projects (The Pride and Stiffs), it was put on a back burner, the only evidence of it being 'Superbia' and some brief character descriptions/plot points scrawled out in my Moleskine.

When I heard about this coming, I just thought 'Damn, beaten to the punch again!'

Now I see it: I am glad I didn't progress it...because Grace Randolph is kicking ass with this concept! And the ART! WOW! I am already hooked, and it's been a while since that happened off a small preview like this. Now I'm glad I didn't push this one forward as Randolph would have kicked my ass with how much better hers is lol! I cannot wait to pick this up and see where she takes it, it's already looking far better than the germs of ideas I was coming out with. Love it when that happens

[WarrGrinn]

Nice, very nice.

[Jay Kay]

Some of the characters/ideas feel a little cliche' (the Batman & Robin analogues in this universe are having sex! What a twist! Never seen THAT before!), but the writing itself doesn't look bad. Depending on what the overall story is, it could be interesting.

[ShinAkuma666]

Love the art and the concept, will add this to my watch list.

[GraceRandolph]

Thanks for all the great comments, everyone, and I'm glad you'll be keeping an eye on SUPURBIA! Russell, our editor Eric Harburn and myself are all really excited about this project and can't wait to share more of it with you!

[Harry M]

Thanks for all the great comments, everyone, and I'm glad you'll be keeping an eye on SUPURBIA! Russell, our editor Eric Harburn and myself are all really excited about this project and can't wait to share more of it with you!

Grace is Image publishing this? And when is it due for release? It looks great, congratulations!

[GraceRandolph]

Grace is Image publishing this? And when is it due for release? It looks great, congratulations!

Thanks, Harry! And it's from BOOM! Studios actually - out March 14th!