Baltimore, or The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire

[Prof.Witchheimer]

that sounds great! just ordered the book





"New Regency has acquired screen rights to "Baltimore, or The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire," an illustrated novel by Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden. The authors will write the screenplay, and David Goyer will direct.

Just-published by Bantam, the graphic novel tells the story of the awakening of supreme evil on Earth. Lord Henry Baltimore is bitten by a demonic vampire bat on a WWI battlefield. The plague destroys his family, and Baltimore creates a team to hunt and fight the Red King, the embodiment of all evil."
http://www.superherohype.com/news/topnews.php?id=6353


from Amazon:
Mignola (HellBoy) and Golden (The Myth Hunters) create a haunting allegory on the nature of war, fusing the poignancy of Hans Christian Anderson's The Steadfast Tin Soldier, the supernatural chills of Dracula and the horrors of WWI and the subsequent influenza epidemic. Years after Capt. (and Lord) Henry Baltimore is infected by a demonic vampire bat while wounded near the Ardennes forest, he summons three friends to a mysterious meeting. Demetrius Aischros is the merchant sea captain who had taken Baltimore home to Trevelyan Isle, where they found Baltimore's family dead and his wife resurrected as a vampire. Thomas Childress Jr. is a nobleman and deserter who learns about the vampire infestation from Baltimore, his childhood friend. Dr. Lemuel Rose is the surgeon who treated Baltimore's war injuries. Together they help Baltimore face a final showdown with the terrible Red King. Stark monochrome illustrations from Mignola enhance this dramatic tale of war and fear. (Sept.)

[Erwan]

Yes, I saw it yesterday in library!! Of course it look great : it is from Mignola :mrgreen:  you are not very objective I know ::

I think I will sell it this week !

[Agis]

Thanks for the tip. I will order my copy immidiately!

[Prof.Witchheimer]

here an excerpt from the book:

http://www.randomhouse.com/bantamdell/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780553804713&view=excerpt

"As a boy he had kept to his room on rainy days and played with his tin soldiers, had cast them as enemies and caused them to kill one another on the battlefield of his blanket. But tin soldiers do not bleed. They go back in the box and live to fight another day."

[Malamute]

Thanks for the heads up. Its now on my  shopping list

[Plynkes]

Baltimore, eh?

First of all I thought that picture was Pete, all dressed up for a little fishing trip on Chesapeake bay.

I'm not really into Horror, but Great War horror can be cool. Like the old comic about the evil German pilot aided by giant bats. Wish I could remember what that was called.

[Prof.Witchheimer]

G8 and his battle aces "Scourge of the Sky Beast"?

[Plynkes]

No. it wasn't that. Something a little more recent. From the 70s, I think.


I love the name "Nippy Weston" though.

[PeteMurray]

Interesting! I'll have to check this out. Mignola's credentials for this sort of thing are impeccable.

The Baltimore peerage died out in the 18th century, but isn't there something like a "lost titles" desk in Buckingham Palace where you can pick these things up?

"Yes, excuse me? I think I left my Letter Patent here. Oldish, got 'Baltimore' written on it."

[Hammers]

That's the British for you. In Sweden they are nailed to the wall of the Great Hall of Peers so they don't get  lost. Hammarskjöld is in spot nr 135.

[Plynkes]

I might be able to get some kind of title. I'm of a line that claims descent from  some kind of dalliance between one of the Edwards (VII or VIII, I forget which) and a household servant or lady-in-waiting or something. No, seriously, I have a mad uncle who researches this kind of thing, it is his obsession, though nobody takes him seriously. He always puts his stamps on upside down with a tiny barbed comment at the Queen written underneath, in protest at our lack of recognition.

He's great fun, but a total nutjob. Who knows, there may be something in it.

Maybe if I start kicking up a stink, they'll give me a life peerage to shut me up.

[Hammers]

He's great fun, but a total nutjob. Who knows, there may be something in it.

 :: Mad dogs and Englishmen...

One hears claims everyone has noble blood if you scrutinize your true familly links close enough. Or none at all, because of how the genetic material mutates over generations. My father-in-law the evolutionary biologist made this very clear to me before I married his daughter.

On the other hand one hears people claiming all sorts of things. Myself, I have always had the firm position that peerage is above such tawdry practices as genetic research.

[Plynkes]

I should change my username to "The Royal Bastard." I like the sound of that.

[Prof.Witchheimer]

I should change my username to "The Royal Bastard." I like the sound of that.

check your rank above your sig pic  :mrgreen:

[Plynkes]

Thank you very much, Prof. That really is good of you to bend the forum naming rules for me like that.

I don't care about getting a peerage from the Queen now, this is a much higher honour.