Charmed Comic coming in summer 2010

[Criminally Vulgar]

I kept forgetting to say that I [pre-]ordered issues #0-3 last night! Oh, the joys of having a credit card. ;D lol

But since this is actually the first time I've ever bought anything online (not counting my BOS DVD set, which took almost a month to come in), I have a couple of questions that hopefully you all can answer. First off, around how long does it take for the things to come? And secondly, if you pre-ordered something, will it come to your house the day it's released? Or will it be sent out the day it's released? :S

Also, I agree with David, it seems like the last page will be the writers' way of opening things back up again. It's a pretty clever way, I just hope that they have a damn good explanation as to how it happened, seeing as it's been said time and time again that evil can't touch the Book...

I also hate the ComicVine review. It sounds like an essay that an eight-year old could've wrote...

[Terry]

Jeffrey:

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I doubt Nomed would help bring back the Source as he totally despised the old ruling demons. Now, at least he wouldn't try to revive the Source's body for sure but I didn't say he wouldn't try to summon the powers of the Underworld for himself... hum.

[David]

And secondly, if you pre-ordered something, will it come to your house the day it's released? Or will it be sent out the day it's released? :S

It all depends on the site, some sites send stuff out before the official release date because they get it in stock early, some send it out after. It all depends on the particular company. But from my experience stuff doesn't take that long to come.

And in response to

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I doubt Nomed would help bring back the Source as he totally despised the old ruling demons. Now, at least he wouldn't try to revive the Source's body for sure but I didn't say he wouldn't try to summon the powers of the Underworld for himself... hum.

I can't see this happening, I think what they are going to do will be to have both a new demon or demons and then have

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The Source

involved in some way as well.

[Criminally Vulgar]

Jun 18, 2010 22:53:28 GMT David said:

And secondly, if you pre-ordered something, will it come to your house the day it's released? Or will it be sent out the day it's released? :S

It all depends on the site, some sites send stuff out before the official release date because they get it in stock early, some send it out after. It all depends on the particular company. But from my experience stuff doesn't take that long to come.

Mmkay. :/ The reason I ask is because I'll be moving to my college dorm in early July, and it'd suck if it only got mailed to my house after I'm already across the ocean. lol It'd also be really nice if it were to come the day before I leave, that way I'll have something nice to read on the plane.

I also tried so hard to avoid spoilers on #4, but it seems it's inevitable already. lol

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The Source? Is this really the "enemy so powerful not even the Power of Three may be able to stop it from destroying us all"? Because, correct me if I'm wrong, but the girls did stop it... three times, at least. And, like I said a while back, "The Source" (as in the Charmed and Dangerous Source) already had his comeback in season 8, and although it had so much potential, they just undid it all with a simple blast of Piper's hand. It felt like just a little "lol jk" kind of thing.

Hmm... I like the theory about the evil magic being "the source", while the sisters kept vanquishing the "outer shell"- it explains season 4's arc perfectly, but what about the rest of the series? How could this evil magic have completely disappeared and gone completely unnoticed/unmentioned, and then all of a sudden reappear, five years later, in someone who was vanquished five years ago...? Hmm... :s

But we'll have to just wait and see.

[Glenn]

Jun 18, 2010 23:13:20 GMT Criminally Vulgar said:

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Hmm... I like the theory about the evil magic being "the source", while the sisters kept vanquishing the "outer shell"- it explains season 4's arc perfectly, but what about the rest of the series? How could this evil magic have completely disappeared and gone completely unnoticed/unmentioned, and then all of a sudden reappear, five years later, in someone who was vanquished five years ago...? Hmm... :s

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The Triad had been "vanquished" as well by Cole, but in fact, they took their time to rebuild. Returned as spirits and finally made their return 5 years later. This could be something that would have happened to the Source's essence.

I just hope that if they'll vanquish him again, that it will not take the Hollow to help them.

Technically, the Power of Three never really vanquished the Source.
When it was Cole, the Po3 could vanquish him since he was half human, which made the Source weaker.

The half faced Source was vanquished by the Po3 while being attacked with upper level fire balls. He was weakened as well, so the Po3 could vanquish him.

And the Seer was never vanquished by the Power of 3. The Charmed Ones just protected themselves using the Po3 spell when the Seer vanquished herself because she couldn't handle the strength of her baby.

So the Power of Three may not be able to vanquish the 'real' Source.

[zomgas]

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I agree with CharmedObsessed. The Source is a power that will continue to exist as long as there is evil in the world. That's why its name is "Source".

Btw Paul Ruditis replied to me after i asked him on what Charmed Issue is he currently working on:
@paulruditis: Wrapping up issue 5. Had to take a break in the middle to work on something else.

EDIT: I found 2 covers for Issue 4. Both are made by Dave Hoover. I found them here: boompanda.com/show_items.php?kw=charmed

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[Glenn]

I love those covers!

The first one looks mysterious, with the smoke, the red, the black, the skull in the smoke, etc...
And Piper is using her powers I really like the glow on her hands. I wonder what is coming out the Book though.

The second cover will probably the one which I'll buy. Looks like Paige is in danger. I can see the swirl of the logo at the top

[David]

Both of those covers look really great, and I can't wait to see the pencil one coloured in. The coloured one is my favourite and that's the one I'll probably be getting.

Thanks for sharing

[zomgas]

i love both covers although the second looks like a page that could be inside the issue. But my favourite is the first one because of the amazing colours. What i find off is again Phoebe's likeness. It seems that Alyssa Milano gives a hard time to the artists.

[Glenn]

Yea, I find Rose the best drawn.

It's so hard to choose between them I like the first one, but I would want to buy the second one because it's drawn.

[David]

What i find off is again Phoebe's likeness. It seems that Alyssa Milano gives a hard time to the artists.

Actually, I think they are photoshopping the girls' faces into the comics. For example, it looks a lot like they've used this still for Phoebe's face here. Now I'm not sure if they are using these stills and copying them, or leaving the girls faces blank and adding them later in Photoshop. But it looks like that's what they have been doing.

[Glenn]

I think they do use stills.

I went to check on TFAW when they would ship Issue #1, and it says they'll be shipping it on June 30. It sucks that it will arrive a month later though. I had to change the shipment option.

[zomgas]

The only one who made the girls fantastic is Greg Horn. And i dont think he used stills.
As for david Seidman, he uses stills for sure.
For example this:

[Active Engaged]

I cannot even begin to say how much I love that cover, the coloured one. Everything just looks so magical, but in a dark creepy way. The smoky skull looks amazing and so do all the colours.

About the faces-being-photoshopped thing, they sometimes look a bit off.. Which makes me wonder if they photoshop, or if they just copy it in detail.

[David]

Jun 19, 2010 11:20:41 GMT zomgas said:

The only one who made the girls fantastic is Greg Horn. And i dont think he used stills.
As for david Seidman, he uses stills for sure.
For example this:

That's the photo cover though, it's supposed to be photos. GH's cover is beautiful and the faces look much better on that one, although I can easily tell where her got Rose and Alyssa's shots from so I'm not sure if it was Photoshopped or drawn. I don't see why they wouldn't draw them, they do on the Buffy comics and the likeness' they have to the actors on those comics is really spot on.

[zomgas]

I have to say i wanted more from Issue #4 covers after the amazing Issue #3 cover by David Seidman

[Criminally Vulgar]

Jun 19, 2010 10:33:08 GMT David said:

Both of those covers look really great, and I can't wait to see the pencil one coloured in. The coloured one is my favourite and that's the one I'll probably be getting.

Thanks for sharing

Same here! And I agree with everyone, the first cover is awesome! I find it so amazing that they've been able to continuously amaze me like this. It just keeps getting better and better! ;D

I think I like the concept of the second one, though not necessarily as a cover, though that's just my opinion. Also, I think that it's actually Phoebe being attacked on the bed, with Piper and a blonde Paige at the door. I believe it's been addressed somewhere before, but I agree with whoever said it- Paige is made blonde-ish to give her a distinct look from the others. Piper has straight, long, dark hair, Phoebe has dark, curly hair, while Paige has wavy medium-lengthish blonde hair. That way, we can easily tell them apart in scenes were we can't really see their faces, or their clothes, or other things that we would normally use to distinguish them by.

As for the photocovers, I always just assumed that they are photos, thus "photocover". So they're not drawn at all, just blended together using Photoshop or something. Not that that's a bad thing, since I actually prefer the photocover (which is the one I ordered) for #0 over the other cover, I'm just saying that I don't think that "photocovers" can capture the girls' likeness, because they are the girls' likeness (i.e. actual pictures).

The one thing I don't really like about the first cover for #4 is that the expressions on the girls' faces are almost (if not) the same as the ones used in #3, the firestarter one. Especially on Piper and Phoebe. But I still love the cover, and I will definitely be preordering that one.

Thanks for all the updates, zomgas!

[zomgas]

No problem guys.
Btw if you look at cover #1 and cover #4 you will see that the clothes are the same.
Phoebe's and Paige's clothes at least are identical. Do you think this is another way they will use in order to make us identify each sister?

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And i think that the first cover of Issue #4 symbolises that the girls have to fight everyone thats why they face every direction since all the San Francisco is against them (see synopsis for issue #4)

[Temporal Death]

I don't mind the photocovers at all. Thanks for posting these. As for the clothing issue... I think David S is simply lazy. But I love that #4 cover, even if the girls' faces are off and more pudding/custard like.

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Seriously? Are they trying to pee all over Zankou by not only taking away that title of his (which they used to describe the Source in #3's synopsis), but they're also making old Two-Face use Zankou's tactics?

Brava, Ruditis and the other one. Brava.

[Active Engaged]

Jun 19, 2010 12:04:05 GMT Criminally Vulgar said:

I agree with whoever said it- Paige is made blonde-ish to give her a distinct look from the others. Piper has straight, long, dark hair, Phoebe has dark, curly hair, while Paige has wavy medium-lengthish blonde hair. That way, we can easily tell them apart in scenes were we can't really see their faces, or their clothes, or other things that we would normally use to distinguish them by.

I said that. But if that is so, then why is Paige a brunette on all the covers? Wouldn't it make more sense to make her a blonde?

I don't think that's the case, Zomgas. It'd be awful if they kept them in the same clothes throughout the entire series. Although, in the Buffy comics, 4 comics corrispond to one episode, so maybe that's the case here. They did mention that they were establishing a 5 issue arc, so maybe the sisters keep the same clothes because it is just one story. I don't know if that makes sense.