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JMS AT RASTB5M SAID:
OCT.26.1998
[Rising Stars] follows the events
after the small town of Pederson, Illinois, is struck by a mass of energy from an unknown, but
non-terrestrial source. Everyone who was in utero at the time of the flash is affected,
resulting in 113 individuals who develop abilities of a most unusual and highly individual
form. (The power is to some degree shaped by who they are, just as they are shaped to some
degree by the power.)
To read more about why this comic series remains unfinished, please visit our
JMS Comics forum or read
JMS' comments on our Rising Stars Act
3 page.
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Act 1, Born In Fire, comprises issues #1-8 and covers the events of how 113 children were
endowed with extraordinary super-powers. There is also a trade
paperback that collects all eight issues.
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Act 2, Power, comprises issues #9-16 and covers the events starting ten years after Act 1 where
the Specials are beginning to fight back against oppression by the government. There is a
trade paperback that collects these eight issues.
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Act 3 has yet to be named and it comprises issues #17-24. It comprises the events about a dozen
years after Act 2 and will take us through the aging Specials and their eventual death. There
will most likely be a trade paperback that will collect these eight issues once this series has
been completed.
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It was getting too cumbersome to have all the trade paperbacks and novelizations mingled in
with the single stand alone bonus issues on one page so we have split them up. There are
paperback novelizations of Act 1 and Act
2 as well as trade paperbacks of Act 1,
Act 2. Finally, they released a collected edition of the bonus
issues called Visitations.
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There were some bonus Rising Stars issues that don't quite fit in with the traditional issues
that are listed in each Act. They published a Prelude/Preview,
#0, #1/2, #1
Black and White and #1 Sketch Covers issues.
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There are now two spin-off series in the works because Rising Stars has proven to be very
popular. The first one is called Rising Stars: Bright and was
written by Fiona Avery. The second one will also be penned by Avery and will be called
Rising Stars: Untouchable. It will feature Laurel Darkhaven and is due out around August
2003.
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J. Michael Straczynski wrote a script for MGM and Atlas Entertainment which will hopefully become a major motion
picture adaptation of his popular comic book series. We don't have anything on this page except
for comments from JMS about the progress of this project.
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