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Chris Ryall and Nelson Daniel’s Dreamweaver Giant-Syz Special Conjures up a Spellbinding Dark Fantasy

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Writer Chris Ryall is teaming up with frequent collaborator, artist Nelson Dániel for the Dreamweaver Giant-Syz Special, hitting shelves this March as part of Syzygy Publishing’s lineup of titles at Image Comics. The dark fantasy one-shot, which will be perfect bound and feature a cardstock cover, explores how magic is passed from one person to another, and how acquiring magical powers can be a curse rather than a gift. Featuring stunning art and spellbinding storytelling, every fantasy fan will enjoy this powerful tale with macabre twists and turns.

“Power is wasted on the young!” So thinks Cutler Carlton, the magic-based Dreamweaver, anyway. Until he’s forced to realize that he can no longer handle the responsibilities he’s taken on. So he transfers his powers of illusion to the much-younger Bella Howard—without ever asking if she’s amenable to such a thing—in the process wrecking both of their lives in this extra-length exploration of heroism and birthright, and the ways that magic can make lives better and worse, sometimes at the same time!

Dreamweaver Giant-Syz Special will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, March 19:

  • Cover A by Ashley Wood (Cardstock) – Lunar code 0125IM327
  • Cover B by Nelson Dániel (Cardstock) – Lunar code 0125IM328
Dreamweaver Giant-Syz Special

Preview: Dread the Halls

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Dread the Halls

(W) Jordan Hart, Chris Ryall (A) Lee Ferguson, Jimmu Kucaj, Walter Pax, Fabio Veras (CA) Maria Wolf (CB) Marguerite Sauvage (CC) Jordan Hart

“Be of Good Fear!” Long before Americans celebrated horror on Halloween, the Victorians did it gathered around a fireplace on Christmas Eve. Dread the Halls honors this macabre tradition by wishing you and yours “Happy Holidays” with stories of ghosts, ghastly abominations, and vile creatures.

Dread the Halls

Jordan Hart and Chris Ryall gift-wrap four tales of terror to fuel your yuletide nightmares this December with Dread the Halls

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Image Comics and Syzygy Publishing deliver ye great tidings in time to spread the “dread” this holiday season!

From Syzygy Publishing, co-created and written by Jordan Hart and Chris Ryall, comes Dread the Halls—an extra-length one-shot collection of four not-so-merry tales of terror featuring mesmerizing interior art by Lee Ferguson, Jimmy Kucaj, Walter Pax, and Fabio Veras—perfect for ‘curdling’ up next to a burning Yule log.

The perfect stocking-stuffer, Dread the Halls includes visually-stunning cardstock covers by red-hot artists Maria The Wolf and Marguerite Sauvage, with a wrapping-paper variant by Jordan Hart and holiday homage cover by Lee Ferguson.

For fans of Creepshow, The Deviant, Hello Darkness, and Epitaphs from the Abyss—this creepy holiday crossover title is sure to spike your cup of cocoa. 

Pre-order from Diamond Distribution (OCT240413), Lunar (1024IM300), or Syzygy Publishing/Image Comics direct. Final orders due November 4th. Dread the Halls drops December 4th.

SDCC 2024: New comic publisher Panick Entertainment debuts!

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After a lot of teasing and hints, Panick Entertainment makes its debut at San Diego Comic-Con 2024. The new publisher is “dedicated to modernizing horror and sci-fi comics for readers and rattling the status quo of genre comic storytelling.”

Panick is headed by Kris Longo, the former publisher of Heavy Metal Magazine and is the CEO. Adam Schlagman, the former DC film exec is the head of studio, and Doug Pasko is COO. Charles Christopher Chiang is the company’s CFO and Mark McCann is the chief creative officer. Chris Ryall is serving as a chief advisor.

Actor/writer David Dastmalchian is launching a new horror title through the publisher with longtime associate Leah Kilpatrick. The comic is a five-issue mini-series.

You can get a first look and find out more details at a San Diego Comic-Con panel taking place this Thursday, 7/25 at 4pm to 5pm in Room 29AB. Check out the description of the panel below:

PANICK Entertainment is a new publisher dedicated to modernizing horror and sci-fi comics for readers and rattling the status quo of genre comic storytelling. Join industry veterans and co-founders

Kris Longo (Heavy Metal, DC Comics), Adam Schlagman (DC Comics; executive producer, Shazam!),

Doug Pasko (executive producer, The Outpost, Mythica 1- 5), and Chief Advisor Chris Ryall (Syzygy/Image) for the first look anywhere at their launch slate of books and projects for late 2024 and 2025, including works from Special Guests Shannon Eric Denton (founder, Monster Forge Productions), Dirk Blackman (writer, Underworld: Rise of the Lycans), Brendan Columbus (writer, Savage Circus), and Tehani Farr (artist, Conan). The first 100 people to arrive will receive a free SDCC exclusive print from PANICK and artist Christopher Lair (artist, Never Never)! And who knows, perhaps a special guest or two may drop in! GET NERVOUS!

Panick Entertainment

Get ready for two Tales of Syzpense in June

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The split-book revival is under way at Syzygy! Beginning in June, Tales Of Syzpense will present two titanic, 12-page tales of shock and awe, plus additional bonus material, published by Image Comics.

Up first—courtesy of Lore co-creators T.P. Louise and Ashley Wood—the lead-off mystery of “Les Mort 13” plays out on the surreal and mysterious island of Southport after a run-in with Eris, the goddess of strife…

Next, Chris Ryall and Nelson Daniel will present readers with the story “Dreamweaver,” about an aging adventurer with a mystical secret who looks to pass on his abilities to the next generation of hero… until they have much greater success than he did, and he decides he wants those abilities back at any cost.

Each issue will also feature two “Les Mort 13” covers by Wood, a “Dreamweaver” cover by Daniel, and a Syzpenseful tribute cover to famous split books of the past.

Tales of Syzpense #1 will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, June 21:

  • Cover A by Wood – Diamond Code APR230091
  • Cover B by Daniel – Diamond Code APR230092
  • Cover C 1:10 copy incentive Daniel Tribute – Diamond Code APR230093
  • Cover D 1:25 copy incentive Wood – Diamond Code APR230094
Tales of Syzpense #1

Discover Onyx by Gabriel Rodriguez, Jay Fotos, and Chris Ryall this September

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Locke & Key artist and co-creator Gabriel Rodriguez, colorist Jay Fotos, and writer Chris Ryall bring readers the complete, extra-length tale of a cyborg warrior who calls herself Onyx. The exciting Onyx one-shot story will land on shelves this September and be published by Image Comics and Syzygy.

Onyx arrives in a near-future Nigeria beset by overpopulation and food shortages alongside another alien entity that corrupts all lifeforms in its presence. Is Onyx here to save the planet or, in its final throes, will she help hasten its destruction?

Onyx one-shot (Diamond Code JUL220072) will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, September 28.

Onyx

Sam Kieth and Chris Ryall’s The Hollows arrives in July

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Critically acclaimed artist Sam Kieth and writer Chris Ryall team up for a science fiction adventure in the upcoming The Hollows. This dystopian one-shot story will hit shelves from Image Comics in July.

In this specially priced, extra-length comic, readers are transported to a near-future Japan, where spectral, once-human husks prey on the unfortunates who couldn’t find salvation in the skyscraper-like trees that now dominate the decimated landscape. A discredited scientist works furiously to find a cure, until a one-eyed orphan girl and her pet, uh, Urp, force him to rethink everything he knows…

The Hollows one-shot will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, July 27:

  • Cover A by Kieth – Diamond Code MAY220038
  • Cover B by Ashley Wood – Diamond Code MAY220039
The Hollows

Zombies vs. Robots Returns to Print in March 2022

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The original Zombies Vs. Robots title is back to reclaim its turf and introduce itself to a new world! Eisner Award nominated duo Chris Ryall and Ashley Wood take the reins with a lineup of four classic adventures—each loaded with automaton-versus-automaton action—in ZvRC: Zombies Vs. Robots Classic. These remastered issues will hit shelves in March from Image Comics and Ryall and Wood’s Syzygy Publishing imprint.

Each issue of ZvRC will present an iconic tale and feature new Wood covers, and new stories and additional material, too, as well as the multi-part, entirely untrue Secret History of Zombies Vs. Robots. In the premiere issue, readers will be treated to a 26 page “Which Came First?” origin story, an all-new back-up tale in the spirit of a Kanigher/Kubert war comic, and more!

ZvRC: Zombies Vs. Robots Classic#1, which will feature three new covers by Wood as well as a blank sketch cover, will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, March 30.

Joe Hill’s Rain Launches Chris Ryall and Ashley Wood’s Syzygy Publishing

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 A graphic adaptation of Joe Hill’s Rain will serve as the debut offering from Syzygy Publishing, Chris Ryall and Ashley Wood’s new publishing venture. This first, five issue miniseries will kick off the new line of comics, graphic novels, and art books—from the Zombies vs Robots co-creators—beginning in January 2022. 

The award-winning creative team consisting of writer David M. Booher, artist Zoe Thorogood, colorist Chris O’Halloran, and letterer Shawn Lee will come together to bring Joe Hill’s Rain to sequential form. Ryall and Wood contribute editorial and logo/production design, respectively.

Rain first appeared in author Joe Hill’s acclaimed novella collection Strange Weather, and tells the story of a seemingly normal August day in Boulder, Colorado—the skies are clear and Honeysuckle Speck couldn’t be happier. She’s finally moving in with her girlfriend, Yolanda. But their world is literally torn apart when dark clouds roll in and release a downpour of nails—splinters of bright crystal that shred the skin of anyone not safely under cover. 

Rain makes vivid this escalating apocalyptic event, as the deluge of nails spreads across the country and around the world, threatening everything young lovers Honeysuckle and Yolanda hold dear. 

Rain’s debut issue features a primary Klimpt-inspired cover illustrated by Thorogood; while Elizabeth Beals offers up a vibrant variant cover. Wood also pays tribute to Klimpt in a special painted 1:25 copy incentive cover. 

As an added highlight, each issue of Rain will feature a bonus story from Unnamed, an upcoming series by Ryall and Wood following immortal hunters in pursuit of a fanged creature and set during swingin’ ’60s London. 

Rain #1 (of 5), a 32-page, $3.99 comic, will hit shelves on January 12, 2022:

  • Cover A by Thorogood – Diamond Code NOV210023
  • Cover B by Beals – Diamond Code NOV210024
  • Cover C Blank cover – Diamond Code NOV210025
  • Cover D 1:25 copy incentive by Wood – Diamond Code NOV210026
  • Cover E 1:50 copy incentive De Liz – Diamond Code NOV210027
  • Cover F 1:100 copy incentive Thorogood sketch – Diamond Code NOV210028

Review: ROM: Dire Wraiths

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Rom: Dire Wraiths

The first season of the epic Right Stuff on Disney+ is more than good television. The show gives us a behind the scenes look at some iconic figures, astronauts. Hearing these names growing up, and especially in school, we tend to give them a reverence that makes them infallible. The series shows them as very much human. It also showed what made them so heroic, embracing that indomitable spirit that we all aspire to. ROM: Dire Wraiths uses those iconic space explorers for a new twist on history.

Going into space seems so farfetched for so many of us that we often tether it to science fiction stories. We often think about aliens and unidentified flying objects. This is often met with skepticism and never really with actual thought. In ROM: Dire Wraiths we get a story that uses the real-life events of the Space Race and asks what if “we ran into a dangerous alien race while exploring space?”

We’re taken to 1969, where three astronauts are on the Adventure One, a secret mission that monitors alien life when they detect traces of life on the Moon, which looks to be more than they could ever imagine. Wraith soldiers are holding camp and look to send a message to any humans from Earth, as they ascend on the astronauts right before they plant the flag. From there, a battle with ROM and other forces begins in a battle to end the Wraith threat.

Overall, ROM: Dire Wraiths is a nice story that is an interesting prequel to a well-established hero. The story by Chris Ryall has echoes of Harlan Ellison and Richard Matheson, which is both exciting and scary. The art by the creative team is gorgeous. Altogether, a story that should bring this character a bigger fan base.

Story: Chris Ryall Art: Sal Buscema, Guy Dorian Sr., Ron Joseph, and Luca Pizzari
Story: 9.0 Art: 9.0 Overall: 9.0 Recommendation: Buy

IDW Publishing provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review

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