The California Browncoats have got it going every way you can think of. Their booth at Comic Con will have Serenity variant ornaments, limited edition mugs, guests like Tim Minear, Keith R. A. DeCandido, Nancy Holder, Bret Matthews, and 11th Hour, and now I can announce that they’ll have something no one else will have: the first copies of QMx’s upcoming release, Blue Sun Travel art prints.
There will be 300 sets available for sale at the California Browncoats booth at the San Diego Comic Con next weekend, July 27-29. These will not be available anywhere else — they won’t even be mentioned on the QMx site — for another couple of weeks, so this is a great chance to get the jump on your friends and get some wonderful prints.
You’re looking at a set of 5 full-color prints, 17″ x 22″, on 100lb satin-finish paper. Included in the set are posters inviting you to travel to historic Serenity Valley, tranquil Miranda, exciting Persephone, beautiful Sihnon, and awe-inspiring Londinum. The detail and lush colors are amazing, and I think I see a familiar hand in that artwork… They’ll be $35, including tax.
Be sure to stop by their booth at A7/A8 for great stuff, wonderful people, amazing giveaways, charity works, and now the most exclusive Serenity item around. Check the California Browncoats site for more info about the weekend.
Gorram it… You have no idea how frustrating it is to live in San Diego and not be able to make it to Comic Con…
Oh, these are gorgeous! Are these what lexigeek has been working on? I want them bad. 🙁 Stupid comic con.
Simply astounding! Gorgeous!
But, ummm, there are two i’s in “Londinium”.
Actually, there aren’t. It turns out Nathan mispronounced Londinum in the episode Serenity. I double checked it with Geoff Mandel, who did the graphic design for the movie, and he confirmed it’s one “i”.
That said, I still say it the way Mal said it. 🙂
Like Aluminium…
Those are beautiful posters.
they will lbe released to buy else where wont they?
Yup! Check the quantummechanix.com site in a few weeks, or check back here and I’ll keep you posted.
These are so gorgeous. I wonder if I can give my Con-bound friend a mission of bringing a set back for me (in addition to checking out the LOST producers panel and the Joss Dark Horse panel)…
These are beautiful. I want them bad!
I agree with everyone else. I’ve started becoming a little more selective on what Firefly/Serenity stuff I buy because my house is starting to look like Joss Whendon threw up in there, but I’ll definitely be getting these!
“But, ummm, there are two i’s in “Londinium”.”
Well, apparently I’ve been corrected. By Joss.
*goes to hang his head in shame*
(in my defense, it’s spelled with one “i” in the script in the official companion and in the RPG.)
The Miranda one’s my favorite…
On Londin(i)um:
If Mal said it, doesn’t that trump what they intended? We could pretend Mal mispronounced it, or just accept it as Nathan Fillion’s contribution. I find the latter more satisfying, because not all of us are privy to background material.
300 is way too small a print run! Didn’t the Serenity blueprints sell way more? Will you reserve some for sale after the conference? I’d be surprised if you didn’t sell all 300 right there and then, otherwise.
On spelling: Joss has said it was indeed Londinium (see the “Pre-production memo” on pages 12-15 of the Serenity Visual Companion book). Yet ‘Londinum’ seems to have become common spelling among Browncoats: it’s used throughout the Role-Playing Game book, and in all the maps I’ve seen (including the one on page 12 of the Serenity Visual Companion!)
For “Londinium,” see the post higher up.
And there will be more than 300, this is a limited pre-release run just for the Comic Con. They won’t be officially announced for sale for another month or so.
Regarding the posters going back to the printers — are they (the revised ones) going to be printed with a little bit of digital ‘grunge’ on them?
I don’t wanna freak you guys out, but some people might prefer receiving ‘clean’ posters to digitally weathered ones (me, for example). That way, people who want a ‘dirty’ poster can DIY, and the rest will still be happy.
They remind me of some of the old WPA & travel posters from the 30’s-40’s, which I’m sure they’re meant to. Nice job. Applause and kudos to the artist(s).
… I’ve already pre-ordered mine through TFAW, for what it’s worth… Saw the description there noting that they will be shipped rolled. 😉
Thanks, QMx, and good luck.
-Mike
Don’t worry about the spelling, Lexigeek. They are gorgeous. 🙂
Cool!
interesting