Interview by Terry Bunch

While at San Diego Comic Con 2010, we had planned on interviewing Nick Percival about his new graphic novel, Legends: The Enchanted. However, several airline screw ups left Nick heading back to London and not to San Diego. We followed up with Nick afterward to do our interview.

1. Metal Life Magazine: "Legends: The Enchanted" is your first graphic novel where you wrote and drew everything yourself. Tell us about the story and what readers can expect.

Nick Percival: 'Legends' takes the beloved fairy tale characters of old, such as Red Riding Hood, Jack the Giantkiller, Goldilocks, Hansel & Gretel, Rapunzel, etc and violently drop kicks them into a dangerous gothic style, post industrial, decayed world. The graphic novel re-interprets these classic characters, now known only as The Enchanted as harsh, conflicted adult versions, protected by ancient magic and modern hi-tech weapons.

The Enchanted are looked upon with fear and distrust by normal everyday folk and despised by their dark counterparts, known as The Wicked. Most of the Enchanted operate as vigilantes, outlaws, bounty hunters and so on - trying to find their place and purpose in a land that is growing increasingly hostile towards them. Armed with a hard attitude, unique abilities and customized weaponry, the Enchanted's world is shattered when they discover that some unknown enemy has found a way to break through their mystic immortality and begins slaughtering them one by one beginning with the brutal killing of the half bionic/half wooden warrior, Pinocchio.

These events force the remaining Enchanted to form an uneasy alliance as they fight for their survival, while trying to unravel the origins of the mysterious killer that is tracking them down and who seems to know more about their past and powers than even they do.

Add to that mix, punk-rock giants, bionic fairies, wolf creatures, demon street gangs, a bio-mechanical witch and her sister, big powered up motorcycles, seedy nightclubs, cybernetic forests, the Troll from under the bridge and all manner of twisted creatures and characters and hopefully there's something for everyone.

2. Metal Life Magazine: What inspired you to create a new story about these characters from fairy tales?

Nick Percival: It's material that's always interested me and certainly the original texts that the Brothers Grimm collected together were very dark and downbeat, so the source material is very rich to use as a good starting point - full of weird and bizarre characters as well as the more familiar ones that we all know.

The book contains a lot of themes and ideas that I'd planned to explore for a long time both in the storyline and visuals. I wanted to create a dark, compelling tale of my own where I could use characters from these fairytales and then revamp them, give them a new hard look and gritty style and introduce a serious threat that would bring them all together in a unique adventure set in a unique looking world.

3. Metal Life Magazine: The artwork is stunning, as expected from you. How did working on the art differ in this book since you also wrote the story?

Nick Percival: Thanks very much. For one thing, it can be tempting to only play to your strengths as an artist and just include all the cool things you want to paint since you're in control of the storyline but for 'Legends' I was very disciplined in wanting the art to service the story. So while there are still the big, head kicking 'money shots' in there, I worked hard at making sure it was the strongest artistic job I could do with the storytelling as well. I played around with a lot of cinematic lighting, heavy shadows, textures, FX and wide screen style action to give it an epic feel - something fully painted art is particularly good at.

 
4. Metal Life Magazine: Did you find yourself adjusting the story to fit the art and vice versa?

Nick Percival: I made sure the whole script was written before working on any of the interior pages and I'd created a large amount of character concept paintings and environmental and creature stuff alongside the script. So by the time I was ready to start on the interior art, I had a pretty solid idea of how I wanted the world and the cast to look. Some things did change artistically along the way - I was always trying to push the art more and more - making it more extreme and detailed but still, as mentioned before, making sure it also told the story clearly and dramatically.

5. Metal Life Magazine: Our readers are fans of heavy metal music and we couldn't help noticing that almost every page of this book could be a cover for a heavy metal CD. Have you done any artwork for music related projects?

Nick Percival. That's one area that I haven't explored yet and it'd be cool to do so. I'd love to do some cover stuff for heavy metal bands - the whole genre and imagery associated with the music is very much in line with a lot of the work I've produced in the past and, as you say, there's a lot of images in 'Legends' that would be a great fit for that style of music. So, yep, open to any serious offers on that one…

6. Metal Life Magazine: Do you listen to music while you draw/write? What types of music do you typically draw inspiration from?

Nick Percival. When I'm actually drawing, it's normally stuff without lyrics, since I'm focusing on creating the art from just a blank page and need to concentrate a bit more. I listen to tons of different movie soundtracks - all different styles depending on the type of image I'm working on. When I get around to the painting, it gets a bit more fun and I actually 'watch' DVDs. Normally it's stuff where I don't have to pay too much attention to what's going on the screen, since I'm looking at my own monitor as I digitally paint. I have a massive DVD collection and worked through hours and hours of TV shows, movies, commentaries, everything when I was doing 'Legends'. Some really cool stuff, down to some real crap - anything is good for background noise and it's a good way to catch up on a load of stuff I've missed, albeit in a kind of bizarre edited way, since I occasionally miss some of what's going on, if I'm focusing too much on actually doing what I'm supposed to be doing. I finally got into 'Dexter' as I was on the last few pages and that kept me going while I was finishing the graphic novel. Great show.

7. Metal Life Magazine: Has there been any progress on the "Legends: The Enchanted" movie?

Nick Percival: Since Ron Howard and Imagine Entertainment have come on board to produce, I believe it's in the process of going out to their stable of scriptwriters and talking about the possible directors they'd like to work with. I think it would adapt very well for film, certainly visually and it'd be great to have a strong, visual director on board to interpret the look of the graphic novel. I hope to be involved as much as possible, so it's moving at its own pace as everything does in Hollywood. I'm quite realistic about these things, so only when I finally see it on the big screen in 3D, will I totally believe it all.

8. Metal Life Magazine: Tell us about your impressions of working with Radical Publishing.

Nick Percival: I've worked with a lot of comic book publishers in my career, including the big ones like Marvel Comics. Radical, I think are quite unique. I'd created the script and a ton of concept stuff on Legends before Radical existed and became involved, so I knew where I wanted to go with the project. Since their involvement, I've had some constructive input and been left to develop it myself and get on with it, which is a great scenario for any creator. We had some tough deadlines near the end, which always seems to happen on any project, so I was prepared for that and I think everything has been handled very well. Radical have done a stellar job on the production and marketing of the book and they really have a love for the material, so I'm certainly pleased with the final result.

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Interview by Terry Bunch

While at San Diego Comic Con 2010, we had planned on interviewing Nick Percival about his new graphic novel, Legends: The Enchanted. However, several airline screw ups left Nick heading back to London and not to San Diego. We followed up with Nick afterward to do our interview.

1. Metal Life Magazine: "Legends: The Enchanted" is your first graphic novel where you wrote and drew everything yourself. Tell us about the story and what readers can expect.

Nick Percival: 'Legends' takes the beloved fairy tale characters of old, such as Red Riding Hood, Jack the Giantkiller, Goldilocks, Hansel & Gretel, Rapunzel, etc and violently drop kicks them into a dangerous gothic style, post industrial, decayed world. The graphic novel re-interprets these classic characters, now known only as The Enchanted as harsh, conflicted adult versions, protected by ancient magic and modern hi-tech weapons.

The Enchanted are looked upon with fear and distrust by normal everyday folk and despised by their dark counterparts, known as The Wicked. Most of the Enchanted operate as vigilantes, outlaws, bounty hunters and so on - trying to find their place and purpose in a land that is growing increasingly hostile towards them. Armed with a hard attitude, unique abilities and customized weaponry, the Enchanted's world is shattered when they discover that some unknown enemy has found a way to break through their mystic immortality and begins slaughtering them one by one beginning with the brutal killing of the half bionic/half wooden warrior, Pinocchio.

These events force the remaining Enchanted to form an uneasy alliance as they fight for their survival, while trying to unravel the origins of the mysterious killer that is tracking them down and who seems to know more about their past and powers than even they do.

Add to that mix, punk-rock giants, bionic fairies, wolf creatures, demon street gangs, a bio-mechanical witch and her sister, big powered up motorcycles, seedy nightclubs, cybernetic forests, the Troll from under the bridge and all manner of twisted creatures and characters and hopefully there's something for everyone.

2. Metal Life Magazine: What inspired you to create a new story about these characters from fairy tales?

Nick Percival: It's material that's always interested me and certainly the original texts that the Brothers Grimm collected together were very dark and downbeat, so the source material is very rich to use as a good starting point - full of weird and bizarre characters as well as the more familiar ones that we all know.

The book contains a lot of themes and ideas that I'd planned to explore for a long time both in the storyline and visuals. I wanted to create a dark, compelling tale of my own where I could use characters from these fairytales and then revamp them, give them a new hard look and gritty style and introduce a serious threat that would bring them all together in a unique adventure set in a unique looking world.

3. Metal Life Magazine: The artwork is stunning, as expected from you. How did working on the art differ in this book since you also wrote the story?

Nick Percival: Thanks very much. For one thing, it can be tempting to only play to your strengths as an artist and just include all the cool things you want to paint since you're in control of the storyline but for 'Legends' I was very disciplined in wanting the art to service the story. So while there are still the big, head kicking 'money shots' in there, I worked hard at making sure it was the strongest artistic job I could do with the storytelling as well. I played around with a lot of cinematic lighting, heavy shadows, textures, FX and wide screen style action to give it an epic feel - something fully painted art is particularly good at.

 
4. Metal Life Magazine: Did you find yourself adjusting the story to fit the art and vice versa?

Nick Percival: I made sure the whole script was written before working on any of the interior pages and I'd created a large amount of character concept paintings and environmental and creature stuff alongside the script. So by the time I was ready to start on the interior art, I had a pretty solid idea of how I wanted the world and the cast to look. Some things did change artistically along the way - I was always trying to push the art more and more - making it more extreme and detailed but still, as mentioned before, making sure it also told the story clearly and dramatically.

5. Metal Life Magazine: Our readers are fans of heavy metal music and we couldn't help noticing that almost every page of this book could be a cover for a heavy metal CD. Have you done any artwork for music related projects?

Nick Percival. That's one area that I haven't explored yet and it'd be cool to do so. I'd love to do some cover stuff for heavy metal bands - the whole genre and imagery associated with the music is very much in line with a lot of the work I've produced in the past and, as you say, there's a lot of images in 'Legends' that would be a great fit for that style of music. So, yep, open to any serious offers on that one…

6. Metal Life Magazine: Do you listen to music while you draw/write? What types of music do you typically draw inspiration from?

Nick Percival. When I'm actually drawing, it's normally stuff without lyrics, since I'm focusing on creating the art from just a blank page and need to concentrate a bit more. I listen to tons of different movie soundtracks - all different styles depending on the type of image I'm working on. When I get around to the painting, it gets a bit more fun and I actually 'watch' DVDs. Normally it's stuff where I don't have to pay too much attention to what's going on the screen, since I'm looking at my own monitor as I digitally paint. I have a massive DVD collection and worked through hours and hours of TV shows, movies, commentaries, everything when I was doing 'Legends'. Some really cool stuff, down to some real crap - anything is good for background noise and it's a good way to catch up on a load of stuff I've missed, albeit in a kind of bizarre edited way, since I occasionally miss some of what's going on, if I'm focusing too much on actually doing what I'm supposed to be doing. I finally got into 'Dexter' as I was on the last few pages and that kept me going while I was finishing the graphic novel. Great show.

7. Metal Life Magazine: Has there been any progress on the "Legends: The Enchanted" movie?

Nick Percival: Since Ron Howard and Imagine Entertainment have come on board to produce, I believe it's in the process of going out to their stable of scriptwriters and talking about the possible directors they'd like to work with. I think it would adapt very well for film, certainly visually and it'd be great to have a strong, visual director on board to interpret the look of the graphic novel. I hope to be involved as much as possible, so it's moving at its own pace as everything does in Hollywood. I'm quite realistic about these things, so only when I finally see it on the big screen in 3D, will I totally believe it all.

8. Metal Life Magazine: Tell us about your impressions of working with Radical Publishing.

Nick Percival: I've worked with a lot of comic book publishers in my career, including the big ones like Marvel Comics. Radical, I think are quite unique. I'd created the script and a ton of concept stuff on Legends before Radical existed and became involved, so I knew where I wanted to go with the project. Since their involvement, I've had some constructive input and been left to develop it myself and get on with it, which is a great scenario for any creator. We had some tough deadlines near the end, which always seems to happen on any project, so I was prepared for that and I think everything has been handled very well. Radical have done a stellar job on the production and marketing of the book and they really have a love for the material, so I'm certainly pleased with the final result.

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Reviewed by Tim Janson

When Radical Comics first came on to the scene a few years ago I really didn’t think they’d last long due to the production quality of their books.  Oh, not that the production was poor, in fact it was just the opposite—It was almost TOO good!  Square bound books printed on the highest quality stock with fully painted interiors...I mean how could these guys possibly survive in the competitive comic book marketplace without pricing their books twice as much as everyone else?  Hell, I still don’t know how they’re doing it but I don’t care!  The other thing you have to love about Radical is that they’ve had their success without venturing into the already too-crowded superhero genre.  Good for them!

Legends: The Enchanted is an all-new and original graphic novel written and illustrated by Nick Percival.  Think of it as Mother Goose & Grimm’s Fairy tales Meets Steampunk.  The fairytale worlds of the children’s storybooks are replaced by a world that is dark and industrialized.  Those characters are brought to life by Percival in stark reality... Jack the Giant Killer is a mercenary, hired by villagers to take care of menacing giants and other monsters with a seemingly endless supply of magic beans that confer various powers on him... Little Red Riding Hood hunts down mechanically enhanced werewolves with a pair of razor sharp scythes... Goldilox is a leather-clad badass who teams up with the gargantuan “Baby Bear” to rid the world of evil... Rapunzel Can control her long tresses to tear the heads off her enemies... they are joined by other members of the Enchanted: Hansel and Gretel, Jack Nimble, and Miss Muffet.   

As in most fairy tales the protagonist is an evil witch, a repulsive, rotting hag who finds a way to kill Pinocchio and destroy the charm that protects the Enchanted, making them mortal.  The Hag unleashes her ultimate weapon on The Enchanted, her son, the destructive troll who lives under the bridge, an unstoppable force!

Percival has done something damn near impossible...he’s breathed new life into old fairy tales that have become irrelevant in a politically correct world where it’s considered bad parenting to read children stories that have any hint of terror or the weird.  These fables have been replaced by The Wiggles and Elmo (who frankly are more terrifying than any wicked witch).  Legends: the Enchanted thus becomes a fairy tale for adults.

Percival’s art is both dazzling and brooding, with hints of influence of the great fantasy artist, Brom.  You can almost smell the stench of decay coming off the pages.  Think of a long abandoned manufacturing facility in any rustbelt city and multiply that a hundred times to get the feel of Percival’s world.  The story is self-contained in this book and hopefully we will see more new stories from Legends: The Enchanted in the future.

Reviewed by Tim Janson

When Radical Comics first came on to the scene a few years ago I really didn’t think they’d last long due to the production quality of their books.  Oh, not that the production was poor, in fact it was just the opposite—It was almost TOO good!  Square bound books printed on the highest quality stock with fully painted interiors...I mean how could these guys possibly survive in the competitive comic book marketplace without pricing their books twice as much as everyone else?  Hell, I still don’t know how they’re doing it but I don’t care!  The other thing you have to love about Radical is that they’ve had their success without venturing into the already too-crowded superhero genre.  Good for them!

Legends: The Enchanted is an all-new and original graphic novel written and illustrated by Nick Percival.  Think of it as Mother Goose & Grimm’s Fairy tales Meets Steampunk.  The fairytale worlds of the children’s storybooks are replaced by a world that is dark and industrialized.  Those characters are brought to life by Percival in stark reality... Jack the Giant Killer is a mercenary, hired by villagers to take care of menacing giants and other monsters with a seemingly endless supply of magic beans that confer various powers on him... Little Red Riding Hood hunts down mechanically enhanced werewolves with a pair of razor sharp scythes... Goldilox is a leather-clad badass who teams up with the gargantuan “Baby Bear” to rid the world of evil... Rapunzel Can control her long tresses to tear the heads off her enemies... they are joined by other members of the Enchanted: Hansel and Gretel, Jack Nimble, and Miss Muffet.   

As in most fairy tales the protagonist is an evil witch, a repulsive, rotting hag who finds a way to kill Pinocchio and destroy the charm that protects the Enchanted, making them mortal.  The Hag unleashes her ultimate weapon on The Enchanted, her son, the destructive troll who lives under the bridge, an unstoppable force!

Percival has done something damn near impossible...he’s breathed new life into old fairy tales that have become irrelevant in a politically correct world where it’s considered bad parenting to read children stories that have any hint of terror or the weird.  These fables have been replaced by The Wiggles and Elmo (who frankly are more terrifying than any wicked witch).  Legends: the Enchanted thus becomes a fairy tale for adults.

Percival’s art is both dazzling and brooding, with hints of influence of the great fantasy artist, Brom.  You can almost smell the stench of decay coming off the pages.  Think of a long abandoned manufacturing facility in any rustbelt city and multiply that a hundred times to get the feel of Percival’s world.  The story is self-contained in this book and hopefully we will see more new stories from Legends: The Enchanted in the future.

"The art is dreamy-good. Percival clearly summoning the likes of HR Giger and Simon Bisley, and does them both one up by telling a cohesive story, something less like a bad acid trip and more like someone just hitting away at your cerebral cortex with a steam-powered sledgehammer. These characters are sexy, they are savage, they are gloriously wicked. Entirely too much personality to be relegated under the label of anti-hero, this is aesthetically warped on more imaginative fronts than merely that. These Enchanted are not just the kids trying to reclaim their innocence in the confusing face of fastly approaching post-pubescence, they are exotic old warhorses in an unreal world, as bloodthirsty as they need to be in battling these insane things in the dark. The pages of this comic are full of their very own kind of life. Just the idea of Magic Beans as a drug of choice, and the crazy visuals that stem (pun intended) from that...

Percival is excitingly genius here. Really good. Buy this book so he will be obliged to make more of the same."

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"...the art, on the other hand, shows is right up front what Percival can do. It’s dark, gritty and at times frighteningly realistic considering the subject matter. Each panel is a swirl of color mixing the hues of pale, sickly flesh with vibrant background colors or the splash of blood as Jack the Giantkiller slays a jilted giantess. Even if you hated Percival’s writing, which you won’t, you’ll love the artwork as it could tell the story all by itself.

Let me sum it up this way: pick this up! You can’t go wrong for a buck."

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"There is one word to describe this #0 issue: intense! The comic opens with explosive action, and never lets up, even for one second. This is by no means a bad thing, because Nick Percival, still deftly manages to slip in strong introductions to several of the key players, as well as establish the plot of the larger story,  that of the death Pinnochio and the plot to eradicate the Enchanted. It’s an incredibly intriguing first issue, with a strong concept and plot, great characters, fantastic dialogue, and thrilling action scenes. Percival is known primarily for his artwork, and I believe this is his first published script, which is actually quite hard to believe, because this is an astonishing piece of work!

We are seeing a lot of comics coming out at the moment that re-purpose characters from children’s stories, including Fables, Jack of Fables, Grimm Fairy Tales, Escape from Wonderland, and the upcoming Fractured Fables. I’m a huge fan of Fables and its spin-offs, but I find all the other derivatives of this title to be unoriginal trash, particularly the Zenoscope stuff, which is basically a badly written version of Fables with huge boobs everywhere. Legends: The Enchanted is the first comic to bring something new into the mix, and use these characters in an original way i.e. not just rehash Fables. Legends is set in some sort of twisted and dystopic world, in which we find radically different version of the classic characters, trying to get by in this nightmare world. The concept feels like something tat Pat Mills would dream up, and I mean that as the highest compliment, because Pat Mills is one of my all-time favourite writers!

 If you haven’t been paying attention, Nick Percival also illustrates this comic, and the art is just breathtaking! The art work looks fully painted, but I believe it was painted digitally, or at least some digital effects were added later, which produces the perfect look for this dark and gritty world. The art is incredibly intricately detailed, and all the characters and environs look incredibly life-like. The best way I can describe the look of the book is to say that it looks like industrial music brought to life! It’s actually quite similar in style to the artwork of Clint Langley, who is the current artist on A.B.C. Warriors in 2000 AD. It’s just a beautiful looking comic, and I can’t wait to see the full hardcover!

Legends: The Enchanted #0 is an intense and powerful opening chapter of what is set to be an epic graphic novel. With an amazing story and beautiful artwork from Nick Percival, Legends: The Enchanted is sure to be an essential purchase. You can pick up this introductory chapter for only $1.00, which you would be a fool to miss out on!"

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"The first thing I have to call out on this book is the art. Man, that is some bea-utiful painted artwork. Creator Nick Percival has really got the goods. LEGENDS: THE ENCHANTED really is visually fantastic. I don’t think I’ve see artwork this remarkable outside of a European graphic novel. It’s really that good. I’m impressed. Pretty much out of the gate, from cover to back page Nick Percival has presented a painted world of grimy glory. LEGENDS: THE ENCHANTED is worth picking up for the artwork alone. This is the work of a real pro.

But as we all know art is only one part of the puzzle when it comes to graphic storytelling. Not to worry. Percival adds to the quality of LEGENDS: THE ENCHANTED by providing an interesting narrative to back up his stunning artwork. The story itself is pretty standard stuff for comicdom: A lone drifter with a chip on his shoulder walking the land righting wrongs. There’s really not much new about that…but the world that Percival is able to flesh out with both his writing and artwork is a fantastic place of fairy tale characters gone wrong in some mad apocalyptic wasteland. It’s basically MAD MAX meets FABLES. Actually that might be a bit too simplistic a comparison, as it seems as if Percival has crafted something uniquely bizarre with LEGENDS. This is something new, something fresh and most of all…something unique. To offer it up as just a copy of something else is to do it a disservice. Trust me when I say that in the pages of LEGENDS: THE ENCHANTED Radical Comics has given me a glimpse of a new and freakish world that I’ll be excited to visit again.

The best thing about LEGENDS: THE ENCHANTED however is the price. At a measly one dollar, LEGENDS is more than worth its weight in gold. Sure, this first issue is just a primer for a hardcover graphic novel coming out in March, but it’s still a great deal for a book that’s brimming with quality like this one is."

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“Rich: Why did you decide to create "Legends"?

Nick: Legends: The Enchanted contains a lot of themes and ideas that I’ve wanted to explore for a long time both in the storyline and visuals. Classic fairytales and folklore have always been a strong interest of mine but I also wanted to create a dark, compelling tale of my own where I could use characters from these fairytales that everyone would be familiar with and then revamp them, give them a new look and style and introduce a threat that would bring them all together in a unique adventure.

Rich: What genre is "Legends"?

Nick: I think it’s a real mix of action, urban fantasy and horror with some healthy dark humor thrown in for good measure.

Rich: Who are the Enchanted?

Nick: The Enchanted are a fragmented group of powerful characters whose origins are taken from the classic fairytale stories. Imagine the X-Men but inspired by the Brothers Grimm and then given a twisted, gritty polish with horror spiked battery acid. These characters exist as vigilantes, outlaws, bounty hunters, warriors and such trying to get on with their lives in a dangerous creature infested world. Using their wits, super-natural powers and customized weaponry, they discover that someone (or something) has found a way to break through their mystic immortality and started hunting them down, killing them one by one, beginning with the murder of Pinocchio – a powerful warrior man built from bionics, muscle and wood.”

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Creator, Writer and Illustrator of LEGENDS: THE ENCHANTED, Nick Percival talks with Chris Arrant of Newsarama

"There are these stories that have been passed down through generation – first as oral stories told around campfires and candlelight, and then transcribed to the written form. They are stories about fairies, goblins, princesses, trolls, talking animals and magic. Intended not only for children, these stories were partly to pass the time but also to learn morals and safety from the community, such as the Cry Wolf story.

But in modern times, these fairy tales have been regelated to the light all-ages arena, and while some of those can be entertaining --- few retain the dark elements they had in their earlier incarnations. But in the upcoming Radical Publishing series Legends: The Enchanted, these fairy tales get their edge back.

The Enchanted are the supernatural immortals such as Pinocchio, the Red Hood, the giant killer Jack, Goldilox. These aren't the children's storybook versions, but dark reimaginations made of steampunk and dark magic. In this miniseries, the murder of one of their own pulls together the group to find (and fight) the murderer in the ever-changing world.

The miniseries comes by way of European artist Nick Percival, who has worked extensively for 2000AD as well as Marvel's recent Dead of Night miniseries. But now Percival comes into his own writing and drawing this lush and bloody tale. For more, we talked to Percival by email from his home in England."

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Nick Percival, the creator, writer and illustrator of LEGENDS: THE ENCHANTED, talks About his steampunk fairytale in this interview with THINGS FROM ANOTHER WORLD.

"While fairytales are eternal, passed down for thousands of years, the popular notion is that these classic fables are just for kids. Well, not anymore. Artist and writer Nick Percival has created a dark, steampunk wonderland: Legends: The Enchanted, an upcoming graphic novel from Radical Publishing. However, you can get a sneak peek of this epic with issue #0, out January 27, with a cover price of just $1 ($0.80 if you pre-order from TFAW.com now). Read on to learn more about Percival’s vision and to get a glimpse of his haunting, twisted world!"

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Check out this recent interview with the creator of LEGENDS: THE ENCHANTED, Nick Percival, and CBR featuring awesome, never-before-seen preview images of this upcoming and highly-anticipated new title.

"Get ready for a new journey into the world of fairy tales and fables. In 2010, Nick Percival and Radical Comics take the beloved fairy tale characters of old and thrust them into a gothic, steampunk world in "Legends: The Enchanted." The publisher will release a special $1.00 preview issue in January, followed by the full graphic novel in April. According to Percival, the graphic novel centers characters known only as The Enchanted - harsh, adult versions of the characters we know and love.

"The Enchanted are looked upon with fear and distrust by normal everyday folk and despised by their dark counterparts, known as The Wicked," says Percival. "Most of the Enchanted operate as vigilantes, outlaws, bounty hunters and so on - trying to find their place and purpose in a land that is growing increasingly hostile towards them. Armed with a hard attitude, unique abilities and customized weaponry, the Enchanted's world is shattered when they discover that some unknown enemy has found a way to break through their mystic immortality and begins slaughtering them one by one beginning with the killing of the half bionic/half wooden warrior, Pinocchio."

CBR News recently spoke at length with Nick Percival about his take on the characters in "Legends: The Enchanted," what sets the story apart from the other adaptations of fairy tales in the comics world, and how his previous work in comics all add up to one amazing view on the fairy tale tradition."

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