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"Image has announced two publications from writer Steven T Seagle for its Man of Action imprint. At San Francisco&amp;#039;s WonderCon, it was revealed that a new children&amp;#039;s book Frankie Stein and a collection of Seagle&amp;#039;s The Crusades are planned. Frankie Stein sees him working with Soul Kiss artist Marco Cinello with a story about the eponymous character. The Crusades was originally a 20 issue series (and a one-shot), with art by Kelley Jones, that was published between 2001 and 2002 under DC&amp;#039;s Vertigo imprint and which has never previously been reprinted. &amp;quot;[Frankie Stein is] a kid\u00E2\u20AC\u2122s book - a picture a page and an oddly metered text - that sort of classic storybook feel,&amp;quot; Seagle told Newsarama. &amp;quot;But it&amp;#039;s more in the vibe of a fractured fairytale - we&amp;#039;ve skewed the point of view. So a Frankenstein monster child who&amp;#039;s been raised his whole life in a castle breaks out for the first time on Halloween night - only to find that the world is full of monsters!&amp;quot; Seagle explained that the delay on the Crusades books was due to the specific plans the creators had for the collections. &amp;quot;Kelley and I have always had a very specific vision for what we wanted this collection to be \u00E2\u20AC\u201C two volumes in hardcover called &amp;#039;Knight &amp;amp; Dei&amp;#039;,&amp;quot; said Seagle. &amp;quot;But the term &amp;#039;creator owned&amp;#039; only gets you so far when you\u00E2\u20AC\u2122re at a major publisher. &amp;quot;Out of the blue, DC/Vertigo decided to put out The Crusades collection this year and it was going to be a softcover of the first story arc only - which was not what Kelley and I wanted at all. &amp;quot;[Vertigo editor Karen Berger] expressed our wishes to [former DC president and publisher Paul Levitz], and right before he announced his step-down, he reverted the rights to us, which we had been requesting for about five years, so we could do the project the way we saw it. I have to thank them for that.&amp;quot; Frankie Stein is due out in the autumn and the first volume of The Crusades is expected in July. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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