'So, rather than a longtime dream realized, this project is more like a fantastic new dream unfolding before us.' 'Kevin and I had talked for years about combining a novel and an album in some fashion, but I guess the idea had to grow up as Kevin and I did - gaining maturity and confidence in our own separate crafts, while gaining the life experience necessary to give the story its scale and depth,' Peart says. 'Who knows, we might have ice follies someday or a Broadway musical.'Įven if songs such as Carnies, BU2B and Seven Cities of Gold never make it to official show tune status, Clockwork Angels has grown far bigger than Peart ever imagined. 'It's just a beautifully painted world in the music that I tried to capture in the novel and now tried to turn into a different direction,' says Anderson, who's working with artist newcomer Nick Robles. Anderson, who wrote the Clockwork Angels novel and is also penning the comic-book adaptation. Rush lyricist/drummer Neil Peart hatched the coming-of-age story of a naïve youngster in a turn-of-the-century world of airborne steam liners, pirates, carnivals, working alchemy and wind-up contraptions with novelist Kevin J.

The music of the Canadian progressive-rock trio makes its way to the comic-book page beginning in March with the six-issue Boom! Studios miniseries Clockwork Angels, based on the group's 2012 concept album of the same name. For fans who adore comic books and also live for the rock band Rush, their steampunk dream begins to turn its gears next year.

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