turner's new project takes wing

Note: This can be found as a sidebar in 'Up From the Depths', Wizard #112

Second Note: The project he talks about here called Dragonfly, eventually became Soulfire which began publication at Aspen in 2004.

Wizard: After 20 issues at sea, Michael Turner will finally air-dry. Dragonfly is Turner's next project, the tale of a dragonfly-winged faerie girl and the teen she trains to save the world. The new Top Cow ongoing series is slated for an August 2001 debut. "It's a futuristic fantasy," Turner says. "Picture Peter Pan meets Merlin meets 'Blade Runner'."

In Dragonfly, a world populated by humans and bizarre inhuman creatures alike is trapped by the might of an evil sorcerer who's concentrated all magical power in his hands and has a mechanical dragon at his command. Enter our reluctant heroes. "This late-teens kid has a gift - the power to bring magic back," Turner reveals. "But the kid needs to be trained by the faerie girl to bring magic back and save the world."

Turner started working on the project in late 1999 and did serious revisions while in the hospital, redesigning the look of all the main characters. "I also made it more fun," Turner says. "It'll now be more a cool, fun thing to read, rather than oh-my God, knuckle-biting serious. It'll have a lighter tone than Fathom."

Oh, yeah - Fathom. "I gotta stress this is not a replacement," Turner says. "I'll be doing 20 issues of Fathom. By the time #18 comes out, I'll be starting this."