sent to 380 people this week, it's .… ------------------------- ANIMORPHS ~ weekly ~ NEWSLETTER ------------------------- ISSUE #133 WEEK OF FEBRUARY 18, 2001 <HI EVERYONE!> So how was everyone's Valentine's? This past week has been HUGE! The Oscar nods were released and my semester 2 classes started. Sorry, I didn't send AW last week but there is a lot of HUGE news this week, it's so amazing! Read on! &&&&&&&&& AW FORUM &&&&&&&&& Last week's forum: Was the event that happened in #50 the right thing to do? Why or why not? "I think so. Jake was giving those kids a chance to do what they otherwise would have never been able to do. And after the war, if humans live, they could get new DNA from their parents and other family to make themselves a new body to live in. All in all, a good choice." - Sib **Spoiler Alert!!!!** "I think that giving the diabled kids a chance to fight WAS just. Not only did it give them a chance to overcome their disibilities, but it gave them a chance to defend themselves and their friends. As for the blind kids, it gave her her site back. I think that KA had a good plot line for this story, and her and the GW's did a good job proposing it." - Reana "I haven't read the book, but I know what happens. To me, I think it was the right thing to do given the circumstances. How were they going to win if they didn't do it? It was the right time, but it was also good of them to wait this long..." - Tyler This week's forum question is: What do you think of the #54 The Bgeinning cover? Is it appropriate? Send in your forum responses to aw_newsletter@hotmail.com with "forum" as the subject. Or respond at the AWN website, http://awn.ani-news.com %%%%%%% AW POLL %%%%%%% Last week's poll question was: If the 6 Animorph members (Jake, Rachel Cassie etc, including Ax) were on Survivor, who would be the first to be voted off? Jake 0 Rachel 0 Tobias 0 Cassie 3 Marco 6 Ax 1 This week's poll question is: Will you read and follow K.A.'s brand new series, Remnants, when it comes out? Send in your poll responses to aw_newsletter@hotmail.com with "poll" as the subject, or respond online http://awn.ani-news.com ====== NEWS ====== -- #53 COVER AND SUMMARY Yes, the cover to #53 The Answer was posted this past week. I don't like it much and it's got a double morph (someone else already morphed that animal and first I thought it was a lizard). I won't say what animal Jake is morphing into, just in case you don't want it spoiled. I myself didn't want it spiled, but I gave into temptation. You can see the cover here at Amazon.com: http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0439115272.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg The Answer comes out in April (so does Entertain the End, Everworld #12)! The summary also came with the cover, but it DOES contain SPOILERS for books #51 and 52 so read at your own risk: The subtle invasion is over. Hoards of Yeerk reinforcements are landing on Earth every day, and Visser One is constructing an enormous new Yeerk pool by blasting giant holes in the ground‹obliterating whatever gets in the way. The Animorphs' plan to enlist the help of the U.S. military has failed. Now, Jake and the others find themselves trapped in what will soon be the new Yeerk pool. There is no way out . . . unless help comes in the most unexpected form. The Taxxons. -- #54 COVER In addition to #53, the cover to the final Animorphs book was also released! This one I have not seen, and am NOT going to see (but thanks to MAS, I've seen it). As much as I want to see it, I'm not going to. I'll post a link for you to see it if you want (VERY FUZZY image thanks to Morphz): http://www.morphz.com/book/books/bk54big.jpg And here's a VERY, VERY clear image of David Mattingly's sketch for the cover thanks to MAS: http://www.bglcorp.com/animorphs/books/images/big/bk54.jpg There's a note that you MAY be able to see who dies from looking at the cover...! The Beginning starts May 2001! -- K.A. HAS A NEW SERIES Yes, there is life after Animorphs and Everworld which are both ending. We've all been wondering what K.A. will do now that two of her series are ending. will she stop writing or start a new series? The answer has been revealed! Also coming in May (or June) 2001 (besides #54), Remnants will begin! Remnants is the title of K.A.'s new series, and we already have the title of the first book, it is #1 Mayflower Project! The series is set in the year 2011 and in #1 the world is going to be destroyed by a huge asteroid that's going to hit. That always seems to happen huh? The Mayflower Project is a mission to destroy the asteroid, the Project consists of 80 people. The new series has been described as a Animorphs, Everworld and Chronicles plot style and it will be narrated in the third person (unlike Animorphs). This means it's not gonna be narrated by a single character. According to Jeff, there are a lot of characters ranging from children, adults and aliens. The print will be the same as Animorphs, but the content will be a lot darker than "happy" Animorphs book plots. Currently, two books have been written and K.A. is contracted to do 6 in total so far. Wheather or not it will expand to over 6 books is up to the readers and how well it sells. As for the cover artwork, David Mattingly has not been contacted in doing the covers for Remnants, we'll see who soon enough! I'll be posting in AW all info on Remnants that becomes available, so keep your eye out for it! A Remnants newsletter? Who knows.... -- ANIMORPHS COVER CHANGES Thanks to A-N.com, #51 (and all books after that) has a new back of the book slogan. It used to be 'We can't tell you who we are, or where we live...' etc., but now the official new back-of-book slogan is: "Here's the deal these days: they know exactly who we are. They know exactly where we live. We've got a few secrets left, and we're gonna use them. But just know that the end is coming. And we don't know how much longer we can do this. How much longer we can fight. What about you? Where will you be where it ends? Think about it. Think hard. Because the countdown has already begun...." Cool huh? Also on the cover of #51, on top of the Animorphs logo, "It's countdown time. Only three more books until the end..." is written. And in the preview for book #52 in the back of the book, the words 'Extinction Express' and "Only Three Books Left Until The End!" are shown. I guess Scholastic is trying to tell everyone Animorphs is ending. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ ON THE BOOK CHARTS +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ #50 The Ultimate comes dropped off the Top 150 Book Charts, and there are no Animorphs books currently on the charts. <><><><><><><><><><><><> WEB PAGE OF THE WEEK <><><><><><><><><><><><> Yahoo! Clubs - Animorphs Secret Hungout http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/animorphssecrethungout ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CLOSING REMARKS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Thanks for reading this week's issue! Send your comments, forum, polls and any information to me at aw_newsletter@hotmail.com Thanks again and see 'ya next week! - Guillermo < QUOTE OF THE WEEK > sent in by CBrown5257: "Is our children learning?" - PRESIDENT George W. Bush ********************************************************************** ** Get all the latest news, polls, and forums at the Animorphs Weekly Newsletter's Official site! All that and more only at http://awn.ani-news.com ********************************************************************** ** ANIMORPHS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER #133 is copyright (c) 2001 by Guillermo Larocca (aw_newsletter@hotmail.com) NO NEWS SHOULD BE POSTED ON ANY ANIMORPHS WEB SITE OR NEWSLETTER WITHOUT GIVING ANIMORPHS WEEKLY PROPER CREDIT AND LINKING TO http://awn/ani-news.com