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Review: Pandemica #1

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Diseases are breaking out all around the world in Pandemica #1. What’s strange is, the diseases seem to be racist and geared towards specific ethnic groups. Writer Jonathan Maberry uses the concept of designer disease to create a story of conspiracy and action.

The comic brings the band together. As the story unfolds we’re introduced to the individuals who will help unravel this mystery as well as provided hints as to who’s behind it. In that way, things are pretty standard. But, it’s the concept that’s truly interesting.

The concept of modifying a disease to infect one particular group isn’t the thing of science fiction and knowing that makes the comic all the more frightening. It’s a concept that hasn’t been used much in stories and something that deserves more attention.

Maberry peppers this science fiction with enough hints as to the real world to make the first issue all too real at times. Breakouts in immigration detention centers, actual conflicts, and a villain that probably falls in the white supremacist category add to the “realness” of it all.

The art by Alex Sanchez is good. There are interesting design and characters and what especially stands out is a break from a “standard” comic character design. Character’s faces and noses are at times rough and misshapen a little. They’re varied and with some being a more standard comic “beautiful” style one has to think this is deliberate. The color by Jay Fotos is drab adding to the melancholy feel of the comic. This isn’t so much an action comic as horror with a political spin. The art and color choice emphasize that.

The concept of the series is what stands out. Pandemica #1 is a standard gathering of the team. At times the storytelling is a bit choppy too. But, between the concept and the characters, there’s more than enough to return and check out more.

Story: Jonathan Maberry Art: Alex Sanchez
Color: Jay Fotos Letters: Shawn Lee
Story: 7.5 Art: 7.5 Overall: 7.5 Recommendation: Read

IDW Publishing provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review

Preview: Pandemica #1

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Pandemica #1

Jonathan Maberry (w) • Alex Sanchez (a & c)

War is brewing in America. A shadow government is preparing to launch “purity bombs” for ethnic cleansing. A small group of scientists and former SpecOps shooters stand in their way. Join the resistance—save the world! Pandemica by New York Times bestseller Jonathan Maberry (V-Wars, Black Panther: Doomwar).

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Pandemica #1

Defy Authoritarianism this September in Pandemica

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Jonathan Maberry – tells a dark, action-packed story of defiance against authoritarian abuses. Pandemica is a new comic book epic coming this Fall from IDW Publishing. Maberry is the New York Times Bestselling author of V-Wars and Rot & Ruin. –

The first issue of Pandemica depicts an America on the verge of war. A shadow government prepares to launch “purity bombs” for ethnic cleansing. A small group of scientists and former SpecOps shooters bands together to avert this disaster. Maberry joins artist Alex Sanchez and colorist Jay Fotos in inviting readers to resist the sickness that plagues the nation — and ultimately save the world!

The story reflects the fears about the direction in which the United States, and the world, is going. The story features a diverse cast who discovers that a secret organization is selling designer pathogens for use in ethnic cleansing.

In the announcement, Maberry said he’s working with scientists, including epidemiologists and molecular biologists, to make the bioweapons in the series as realistic as possible. Much of what’s presented is possible and groups and governments have actively worked to make these kinds of weapons.

Pandemica #1 is out this September.

Preview: Road of the Dead: Highway to Hell

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Road of the Dead: Highway to Hell

Jonathan Maberry (w) • Drew Moss (a) • Santipérez (c)

The five-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author introduces the world to the latest chapter of the zombie epic in this over-the-top wild-ride prequel to ROAD OF THE DEAD! The dead rose and are feasting on the living and a young scientist may hold the secret to a cure. Meanwhile, zombies and biker gangs want her dead, so it’s up to a bunch of losers in muscle cars and a hijacked tank to risk everything to save her.

TPB • FC • $15.99 • 96 pages • ISBN: 978-1-68405-478-7

Road of the Dead: Highway to Hell

Preview: V-Wars: God of Death One-shot

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V-Wars: God of Death One-shot

Jonathan Maberry (w) • Alex Milne (a) • Ryan Brown (c)

Michael Fayne was patient zero of the plague that exploded into the Vampire Wars. A cult of militant vampires wants to resurrect him. Luther Swann leads a strike team to prevent the rise of a vampire god. New York Times bestseller Jonathan Maberry returns with an all-new V-Wars tale.

FC • 36 pages • $4.99

V-Wars: God of Death One-shot

Preview: V-Wars: The Graphic Novel Collection

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V-Wars: The Graphic Novel Collection

Jonathan Maberry (w) • Alan Robinson, Marco Turini (a) • Photo (c)

V-Wars is set in a world transformed by a global pandemic caused by a millenia-old virus that, once triggered, affects individuals differently depending on their DNA, resulting in vampires as unique as their cultures. But the response from unaffected humans is like never before, leading to all-out war.

New York Times best-selling author Jonathan Maberry takes you on a non-stop thrill ride of action, horror, and suspense! These all-new tales chronicling the early days of the Vampire Wars offer the first salvo in the battle between humans and hundreds of new species of vampires! No matter how it ends, the world is going to bleed. Collects all 11 issues.

TPB • FC • $29.99 • 256 pages • ISBN: 978-1-68405-536-4

V-Wars: The Graphic Novel Collection

Preview: Road of the Dead: Highway to Hell #3

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Road of the Dead: Highway to Hell #3

Jonathan Maberry (w) • Drew Moss (a) • Santipérez (c)

An over-the-top wild ride prequel to ROAD OF THE DEAD!

Written by Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author and creator of V-Wars. With everyone around her dying and turning into zombies, and new threats rolling her way from every direction, Harriet knows she is running out of time and options. She has a possible cure to the zombie plague. Well… maybe. How many of her friends have to die to help her find out if she can save the world?

FC • 36 pages • $4.99

Road of the Dead: Highway to Hell #3

Preview: Road of the Dead: Highway to Hell #2

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Road of the Dead: Highway to Hell #2

Jonathan Maberry (w) • Drew Moss (a) • Santipérez (c)

An over-the-top wild ride prequel to ROAD OF THE DEAD! Written by Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author and creator of V-WARS.Scientist Harriet, tank crewman Skelly, and their crew of losers leave a trail of bodies—living and dead—behind them as they race for sanctuary through the zombie wasteland of North America. The road to hell is paved with bad decisions, heavy drinking, and a lot of blood on the asphalt.

FC • 36 pages • $4.99

Preview: Road of the Dead: Highway to Hell #1

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Road of the Dead: Highway to Hell #1

Jonathan Maberry (w) • Drew Moss (a) • Santipérez (c)

An over-the-top wild ride prequel to George Romero’s last film, ROAD OF THE DEAD! Written by Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author and creator of V-WARS. The dead rose and are feasting on the living. A young scientist may hold the secret to a cure. Zombies and biker gangs want her dead. A bunch of losers in muscle cars and a hijacked tank will risk everything to save her.

FC • 40 pages • $4.99

Deadlands Novel Releases from Tor!

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Deadlands GhostwalkersTor Books has announced a new partnership with Pinnacle Entertainment Group and Visionary Comics to publish a series of thrilling novels based on Deadlands, the hugely successful role-playing game set in the Weird West! The series begins with Deadlands: Ghostwalkers (A Tor Trade Paperback; $15.99; September 22, 2015) by New York Times bestselling author, Jonathan Maberry, out just in time for the Halloween season! Maberry has also won multiple Bram Stoker Awards and is an editor and comic book writer as well as a prolific novelist.

As a master of zombie fiction, Maberry pens an adventure unlike any other, where steely-eyed gunslingers rub shoulders with mad scientists and dark, unnatural forces. This is a place where the Great Quake of 1868 has shattered California into a labyrinth of sea-flooded caverns… and a mysterious substance called “ghost rock” fuels exotic steampunk inventions and causes plenty of bloodshed and flying bullets.

In Ghostwalkers, a gun-for-hire, literally haunted by his bloody past, comes to the struggling town of Paradise Falls, where he becomes embroiled in a deadly conflict between the besieged community and a diabolically brilliant alchemist who is building a terrible new weapon of mass destruction… and assembling an army of the living dead!

Tabletop gamers as well as fans of steampunk, science fiction, and alternate history will be swept up in this brand new installment set in the highly acclaimed and beloved world of the Deadlands RPG universe.

Maberry is the multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The King of Plagues, Patient Zero, The Dragon Factory, Ghost Road Blues, and Rot & Ruin, among others. He also wrote the novelization of the movie The Wolfman. His work for Marvel Comics includes Captain America, Punisher, Wolverine, DoomWar, Marvel Zombie Return, and Black Panther. His Joe Ledger series has been optioned for TV by Sony Pictures. He has been inducted into the International Martial Arts Hall of Fame.

DEADLANDS: GHOSTWALKERS by Jonathan Maberry
ISBN 978-0-7653-7526-1 | $15.99 | 448 pages paperback
ISBN 978-1-4668-4636-4| $9. 99 | eBook
On sale September 22, 2015
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