This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is:
Brass Sun: The Wheel of Worlds
Story by . . . . . . Ian Edington
Art by . . . . . . . . I.N.J. Culbard
From Goodreads:
Wren’s father has revealed to her the secret of their world, that it is only one of many in a clockwork solar system; but it is dying and to save her home, she must first escape it.
The Orrery is a fully functional, life-size clockwork solar system, a clutch of planets orbiting a vast Brass Sun via immense metal spars.
But the once-unified collection of worlds has regressed into eccentric fiefdoms, and ice is encroaching on the outer planets as the sun is dying. Wren and Eptimus must find the key to restart the sun, but first must escape the world known as The Keep….
This is a wholly original new SF-clockpunk series from the bestselling artist of New Deadwardians and the hit writer of Scarlet Traces and Hunterkind.
Brant says:
We talk about worlds within worlds and what tickle our fancy sci-fi wise. Joe runs with a theory that we have all changed intellectual positions due to Brass Sun. I rant a bit about other things in this week’s news that make me angry despite the interesting premise of the work before us.
Our hosts for this episode are Brant Eddy, Joe Preti, and Tobiah Panshin. On our next episode we will be reading Li’l Gotham, Vol. 1 & 2.
A special thank you to our Patreon sponsors for this month: Chris Bianculli, Bryan May, Kar Fedosh, Addison Appleby, and Kerfy Gonzo.
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On the subject of continuation: new chapter of Brass Sun was already published in September-December 2015 issues of 2000 AD, slightly more than a year after previous one (where this collection stops). It looks like that they’ve kept to the yearly schedule through the whole run and next one should be starting around that time this year.
Also I’d like to thank you for your work. I only recently started listening to the podcast and it’s already sucking me in. And doing terrible thing to my TBR pile so maybe I should be angry?
Thanks for the info. That didn’t turn up in any of my searches about the book, but it’s great news to hear. I’m looking forward to getting my hands on it.
And thanks for listening. If you need to be mad at us, blame Joe.