Posted by
Icarus on Friday, May 16, 2008 1:05:08 PM
How often do publishers
not promote their products? Wouldn't some folks think that that's what some
might consider bad business practice?
IDW has agreed to publish
Charlie Foxtrot Entertainment's new graphic novel,
Finding Peace. But don't look for it at IDW's website.
It isn't there. They did produce a 46 second "
trailer" for the book, but the only way you can find that is if you dig through
IDW's forum.
Whether or not the book favor's American action against Islamo-Nazism is unknown to me. I do know that Charlie Foxtrot Entertainment is a company that is four square in favor of the men and women volunteer to serve in the American Armed Forces and who go in harm's way. CFE is also one of the few companies that produced a graphic novel,
Children of the Grave, that positively portrayed American soldiers fighting Middle Eastern bad guys.
Maybe it's a case of IDW webmasters not being on the ball and getting Finding Peace on the website. Given that IDW is quick to get almost every other release up, including notices on its prominent "
News" page, I believe that something else is at work here. Maybe CFE was just a bit too even-handed in how it dealt with conflict in a Middle Eastern country torn by internal strife.
UPDATE: IDW has allowed Newsarama.com to post a
53 page preview of "Finding Peace". The book looks amazing. The introduction notes how the artwork captures the battlefield sketches from the Civil War, WWI, WWII and elsewhere. I haven't seen much of what is referenced, but the work Nathan St. John did is truly captivating. It draws you into the story like nothing I've seen before.
As far as its politics, the book is here to, as Tom Waltz wrote in his dedication, honor "everyone in uniform fighting the good fight around the world." From what I see in those first 53 pages this is absolutely true. This looks like a great book. If only IDW would put more effort into it. It deserves as wide an audience as it can get.