
You may have noticed that the last couple weeks have been strange for us. We’ve been pretty light on content and especially light on articles written by Shelby Peterson. We’ve brought in some great guest writers to help us out and much of our posting-schedule was rearranged to free us up during the week of June 18 – 22. You also might not have noticed. THAT’S FINE – MY FEELINGS ARE BARELY EVEN HURT.
The reason for this general work-slowage is that we were tapped to do a six-page preview of the Foster Anthology. What’s that? Foster isn’t a comic book produced by DC Comics and therefore writing about it doesn’t fit in with Retcon Punch’s mission statement? Well, that’s narrow-minded of you, imagined-reader.
Foster is Brian Buccellato’s creator-owned comic series that blends elements of horror and 70s crime cinema. It’s three issues deep at present and the writing is haunting and compelling and Noel Tauzon’s art conveys a real sense of gritty danger. The individual issues have been selling out (even in their second printings) and the whole thing is gradually approaching phenomenon status. The Foster Anthology (due out in time for San Diego Comic Con) contains eight short stories that take place in the Foster universe. The creative line-up on this bad boy boasts some awesome names: Steve Buccallato, Troy Peteri, Mike Johnson, Aaron Gilespie, Kyle Higgins, Rod Reis, Vince Hernandez, Robert Napton, Dan Smith, Sterling Gates, Hector Collazo, Eric Wallace and Don Hudson join Brian and Noel on this project.
We got a chance to see a couple of these stories and talk to a couple of the creatives involved. So we’ll be posting some of that interview content and slapping up some original artwork from the series, and you can even look for our fancy feature in the upcoming issue of Foster (check Dog Year Comics’ website for a list of shops where you can pick up this series).