We were pretty damn stoked that “Roundeye” by Tony Harris finally found a home at Image Comics, but it looks like that’s not the only long-awaited Harris project with some news coming out of ECCC. Back in April of 2010, we had reported news coming out of C2E2 that post-“Ex Machina” and I suppose instead of the end of “War Heroes”, Tony Harris would be working on a book entitled “The Further Adventures of the Whistling Skull” by Harris and B. Clay Moore for Wildstorm. However, with the death of Wildstorm came the mysterious absence of this comic — until now.
As explained in an interview with Gavin Lees for Bleeding Cool, Tony Harris revealed that the book would be coming out from DC later this year and that Harris is working on the sixth issue (of six) right now. The book, originally described as a pulp noir book taking place in the 1940s about the mantle of Whistling Skull for a person destined to fight a shadowy evil, Calling it “Sherlock Holmes on mescaline”, the book is now described as a story of the Whistling Skull and his mentally handicapped sidekick Kunckles who are going up against a great evil.
The book is a creator-owned title with a proposed 40 issue saga. Harris hopes for it to have a “Hellboy”-esque release schedule (arc by arc as specific minis) based on sales, adding that if the story doesn’t finish at DC, it’ll finish somewhere else. Harris and B. Clay Moore plot the book, Moore writes the scripts, Harris draws, Ben Abernathy edits and Hank Kanalz oversees the entire project.. Harris hopes the book will be ready by SDCC this year, but adds that DC has only green-lit the first six issues.
For the full interview and a few page teasers from Emerald City, check out Bleeding Cool.
