They produced the series' concept within two days and won approval from DC Comics.
The two pitched several ideas for series, but were ultimately assigned Black Orchid because all other characters they wanted to work on were in use at the time. It could well be that as McKean launches into the second decade of his professional life, and into richer, increasingly artistically daring territory, he may soon be in a class all his own.Gaiman and McKean developed the series after meeting with Jenette Kahn, Dick Giordano, and Karen Berger in early 1987. “Dave McKean is in the first rank of comics artists. “Neil Gaiman is, simply put, a treasure house of story, and we are lucky to have him in any medium.” – Stephen King “ brilliant book that should not be passed up.” – IGN It’s classic Gaiman!Ĭollecting the entire three-issue miniseries with an introduction from writer and journalist Mikal Gilmore, and an extensive behind-the-scenes gallery of sketches and preliminary texts from Gaiman. Beginning in the cold streets of a heartless metropolis and ending in the Amazon rainforest, this book takes the reader on a journey through secrets, suffering and self-rediscovery. So begins Black Orchid, one of comics’ most remarkable and transformative creations. Her body is consumed by flames, and her killer walks free. In an anonymous corporate boardroom, a superhero is shot through the head. She shall avenge her own death while she tries to reconcile human memory and these new botanical origins, untangling the webs of deception and secrets that led to her death. After being viciously murdered, Susan Linden is reborn as the Black Orchid, a ghostly, ethereal hybrid of plant and human.
Featuring spectacular art by Gaiman’s frequent collaborator, Dave McKean. Pin-Up & Adult –You must be 18 or olderīefore introducing the modern version of The Sandman, Neil Gaiman wrote this dark tale that reinvented a strange DC Comics super hero in the Vertigo mold.
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