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Preview: Protectors, Inc. #6

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Protectors, Inc. #6

Story By: J. Michael Straczynski
Art By: Gordon Purcell
Cover By: Gordon Purcell
Price: $2.99
Diamond ID: FEB140620
Published: April 23, 2014

It began with two seemingly unconnected deaths: a young woman, washed up on the shore of Lake Michigan, and the Huntsman, whose death Protectors, Inc. insisted was an accident. But now the lines connecting those two events are becoming clear, and Lieutenant Detective John Riley finds himself on the edge of a conspiracy that may shatter everything the public believes about their heroes…assuming he can survive the investigation.

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Preview: Protectors, Inc. #5

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Protectors, Inc. #5

Written By: J. Michael Straczynski
Art By: Gordon Purcell
Art By: Mike Atiyeh
Cover By: Gordon Purcell
Cover By: Alina Urusov
Price: $2.99
Diamond ID: JAN140609
Published: March 26, 2014

In every good mystery, there’s a moment when the detective confronts the suspects to try and figure out which of them is the killer. But generally speaking, the suspects aren’t powerful enough to fly you five miles straight up, rip off your limbs, and drop you into the Atlantic. That’s the problem faced by Lieutenant Detective John Riley, when he finally comes face-to-face with the Protectors, one of whom may have murdered the Huntsman. Meanwhile, an autopsy on a woman presumed to have died in a boating accident reveals a grisly connection to the Protectors…

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Preview: Protectors, Inc. #3

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Protectors, Inc. #3

Story By: J. Michael Straczynski
Art By: Gordon Purcell
Art By: Michael Atiyeh
Price: $2.99
Diamond ID: NOV130514
Published: January 15, 2014

Lieutenant Detective John Riley gets the most important and possibly most dangerous assignment ever: to investigate the mysterious death of the Huntsman. Everyone around Riley wants him to classify this as an accidental death, or a death by natural causes. But Riley suspects murder, and intends to follow that suspicion wherever it leads…even if in doing so he jeopardizes a secret held for over fifty years at the very core of Protectors, Inc.

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Celebrity, Murder, and Super Powers Collide in Protectors, Inc.

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What’s it like to be a hero in a world without villains? In Protectors, Inc., the life of a superhero is wonderful, thanks to a bevy of corporate sponsors, an adoring public, polite rivalries, sports franchises, and best of all, no super-powered bad guys to worry about. Wonderful, that is, until a hero is murdered in such a way that the only possible culprit is an unknown person with superpowers, throwing the status quo into upheaval. Protectors, Inc. comes from a place of deep appreciation for genre fiction.

The latest project from writer J. Michael Straczynski and artist Gordon Purcell, Protectors, Inc. focuses on Lieutenant Detective John Riley’s search for the truth behind the murder of a being that shouldn’t have been able to be murdered by anyone. Nothing is as it seems, however, and Riley’s case will lead to a fifty-year-old secret, love affairs, and possibly even more death.

Protectors, Inc. #1 will be in stores on November 6, is currently available to pre-order from the September issue of Previews, and features two separate covers. Cover A (Diamond Code SEP130489) features art by Gordon Purcell and Mike Atiyeh, while Cover B (Diamond Code SEP130489) features art by Whilce Portacio and Mike Atiyeh.

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Flare Returns In 2012

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Comics’ shining goddess of light returns in May in the first of an all-new series of comic book adventures!

  FLARE #40 is coming hot off the presses! And if you’re not lucky enough to shop at Lone Star Comics in Texas, or at Minneapolis’s Comic Book College, or at Limited Edition Comics in Cedar Falls, Iowa, there’s only one way you’re going to be able to get your hands on this brand-new issue.

Visit the Heroic Publishing website, at www.heroicmultiverse.com, and order your copy of FLARE #40 today!

Retailers, too, can place discounted bulk orders for FLARE #40, as well as for the entire range of Heroic Publishing titles, by registering for an account with the Heroic Distribution webservice, at www.heroicmultiverse.com/heroicdist.

This brand-new, 40th issue of FLARE shines the spotlight on our glittering heroine’s police officer boyfriend, LUCAS MADISON. When Flare’s arch-enemy, naughty NYX, the Olympian goddess of night, decides she wants hunky Lucas for herself, and recruits help from APHRODITE in order to get him, how in the world is a mere mortal ever going to be able to resist the mind-altering potions of the Olympian goddess of love?

This brand-new 40th issue of FLARE also features the return of one of Flare’s classic artist, GORDON PURCELL. Gordon was the artist who defined Flare’s look, and was most identified with her during her most recent run of issues, starting with FLARE #20 and continuing through FLARE #35. This time around, Gordon is on tap for an extended run on FLARE, including the upcoming “Quest for Lady Arcane” storyline scheduled to run simultaneously in FLARE and WITCHGIRLS INC, and an all-new “Challenge of the Gods” sequence that will culminate with a double-sized anniversary issue in FLARE #50.

It was FLARE who redefined the way costumed heroines are treated in mainstream comics. It was FLARE who proved that a strong, independent female character can carry a solo title all on her own.

Now she’s back!

Look for FLARE #40 in May, FLARE #41 in August, FLARE #42 in November, and a new issue of FLARE every two months thereafter.

Copies of this special issue of FLARE are not being distributed through normal comic book distribution channels. FLARE #40 is available only through select retailers, and by special order from the Heroic Publishing website at www.heroicmultiverse.com.

Comic book retailers interested in carrying this and other popular Heroic Publishing titles such as Champions, Murcielaga She-Bat, and Liberty Girl should contact Heroic Publishing directly, and register online for a retail account with the Heroic Distribution comic book service.

For more information on Heroic Publishing comic book titles, visit the Heroic Publishing website at www.heroicmultiverse.com

Flare Webcomic Now Online

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Official Press Release

GORDON PURCELL RETURNS TO FLARE!

Beginning with FLARE #40, currently scheduled for a March 2012 release, GORDON PURCELL returns to lend his artistic talents to comics’ shining goddess of light, FLARE!

In this issue, the focus is on Flare’s police officer boyfriend, LUCAS MADISON. When Flare’s arch-enemy Nyx, sultry goddess of the night, decides she wants Lucas for herself, and recruits help from APHRODITE in order to get him, how in the world is a mere mortal ever going to be able to resist the mind-altering potions of the Olympian goddess of love?

This adventure serves as a prologue of sorts to an extended Flare storyline that will be drawn by Gordon, in which the goddesses of Olympus decide to hold a competition to determine which of them will be raised up as queen of the Olympian gods. Naturally, as an incarnation of the dawn goddess Eos, Flare will be a part of that. Current plans call for this extended “Challenge of the Gods” storyline to begin appearing in the summer of 2012, first as a part of the Flare online webcomic, updating every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at www.heroicpub.com/flareonline. Only after the webcomic sequences are complete will the storyline be collected into print editions of the Flare comic book, most likely beginning in the summer of 2013.

The FLARE comic book does resume publication in 2012, tentatively on a bimonthly schedule, with new issues appearing in March, May, July, and thereafter.

For more information, please visit the FLARE website at www.heroicpub.com/flare.

Flare Webcomic Now Online

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Official Press Release

COMICS’ GODDESS OF LIGHT SHINES IN HER OWN THRICE-WEEKLY WEBCOMIC

Just in case you haven’t yet noticed, FLARE has since mid-September been appearing in her own thrice-weekly online webcomic, updating every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at www.heroicpub.com/flareonline.

The Flare Online webcomic currenly features the full-color Sunday newspaper strips prepared for distribution by Creators Syndicate. All of those strips will be presented, for the most part in sequence, with an exception for the two strips created specifically for Christmas, in which Flare meets Santa’s li’l elfin granddaughter, Chrissie Claus.

Once the existing Creators Syndicate strips run out, new material will begin appearing in the FLARE webcomic.

The Flare webcomic already features the work of such talented artists as Mark Beachum, Tim Burgard, and Gordon Purcell. It’s well worth a visit, three times a week, on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at www.heroicpub.com/flareonline.

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