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Top Cow Receives Over 500,000 Votes So Far For Pilot Season 2010

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TOP COW RECEIVES OVER 500,000 VOTES FOR PILOT SEASON 2010

LOS ANGELES, Calif., November 17, 2010 – With the recent announcement that all five Pilot Season 2010 titles have been made available for free digitally for the remaining weeks the polls are open, Top Cow Productions, Inc. has seen a surge in votes with the publisher seeing a count of over 500,000.

With polling stations and readers of Top Cow site (www.topcow.com), digital distrubtion partners like DCBService.com, DriveThruComics.com, MyDigitalComics.com, Graphic.ly, and WOWIO, as well as various comic news sites and blogs, readers spanning over 45 countries are coming out in full force to get their favorite pilot published into a full miniseries.

Polls for Pilot Season 2010 will close on November 30, 2010.

For more information on Pilot Season, readers and a polling station, please visit www.topcow.com.

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Read Pilot Season 2010 For Free And Vote, Also Join Us At Smodcastle’s Bagged and Boarded Live!

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READ PILOT SEASON 2010 FOR FREE AND VOTE

WRITERS MAKE APPEAL AT SMODCASTLE’S BAGGED & BOARDED LIVE!

LOS ANGELES, Calif., November 15, 2010 – Top Cow Productions, Inc. wants your votes for Pilot Season 2010, and to ensure fans can be educated voters, they are offering readers the opportunity to read all the contenders for this year’s Pilot Season for free.  In addition, the publisher invites fans to join them at this week’s Bagged and Boarded LIVE! at the SModCastle in Los Angeles to hear their pleas.

Up until the end of the voting period on November 30, 2010, 39 Minutes, Asset, Crosshair, Forever, and 7 Days From Hell will be available for free through many of Top Cow’s digital distribution partners including Wowio, MyDigitalComics.com, DriveThruComics.com, with more to come, as well as through select comic book and pop culture news sites like Comic Book Resources and Newsarama.

To further make their case, Asset writer and Top Cow publisher Filip Sablik, Crosshair writer Jeff Katz, Forever creator and Top Cow President Matt Hawkins and 7 Days From Hell writer Rob Levin will join Bagged and Boarded’s Matt Cohen and Brendan Creecy at the SModCastle (6468 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA).  Tickets to the show are available for purchase here: http://smodcastle.com/tickets.html.  If fans are unable to attend the live show, the show will be available online shortly after its recording, or fans can head to the Top Cow YouTube page for video pleas from the creators themselves.

Polling stations are now set up at the Top Cow site (www.topcow.com) with additional polling stations to appear on various comics news sites, blogs and social media platforms.  Readers can vote multiple times a day up until the polls close on November 30, 2010.

Pilot Season is an annual initiative Top Cow began in 2007 that borrows its concept from the television industry: “Pilots” are submitted for consideration to be “picked up for a season,” except instead of TV executives deciding their fates; it’s the fans who decide by voting online.

Previous winners of Pilot Season include: Cyblade, Velocity, Twilight Guardian, and Genius.  Velocity can currently be found at your local comic book shop shelves, with Twilight Guardian and Genius debuting in 2011.

For more information on Pilot Season and to vote, go to www.topcow.com.

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Top Cow’s Pilot Season 2010 Hits Over 100,000 Votes

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TOP COW’S PILOT SEASON 2010 HITS OVER 100,000 VOTES

LOS ANGELES, Calif., November 11, 2010 – As announced on GeekWeek Live!, within a week since the polls have opened, Top Cow Productions, Inc. is proud to announce voting for Pilot Season 2010, an annual initiative by the publisher where fans decide a book’s fate, has hit over 100,000 votes.  The winner of Pilot Season 2010 will be announced Wednesday, December 1.

“100,000 votes in just 11 days!” exclaimed Atom! Freeman, Top Cow Director of Sales & Marketing. “If the candidates I voted for in the last general election had worked as hard as our cadre of creators in getting out the vote, I wouldn’t have cried quite so much last Tuesday.”

With polling stations set up at the Top Cow site (www.topcow.com) and various comic news sites, blogs and social media platforms, readers spanning over 30 countries are making their voices heard for what title they want to be made into a series and to appear on their local comic shop shelves. The vote leader at the time of this press release was 39 Minutes, but competition has been fierce and Top Cow encourages everyone to “Take Control.”

Polls for Pilot Season 2010 will close on November 30, 2010.

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We Create, You Decide. Pilot Season 2010 Voting Opens.

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WE CREATE, YOU DECIDE

POLLS OPEN FOR TOP COW’S PILOT SEASON 2010

LOS ANGELES, Calif., November 3, 2010 – Just because November 2 has passed doesn’t mean your vote have to stop voting.  Top Cow Productions, Inc. is proud to announce that the voting polls for Pilot Season 2010 are now open, allowing readers to vote for their favorite title out of the five one-shots that were put out at this past month.

Polling stations are now set up at the Top Cow site (www.topcow.com) with additional polling stations to appear on various comics news sites, blogs and social media platforms.  Readers can vote multiple times a day up until the polls close on November 30, 2010.

Pilot Season is an annual initiative Top Cow began in 2007 that borrows its concept from the television industry: “Pilots” are submitted for consideration to be “picked up for a season,” except instead of TV executives deciding their fates; it’s the fans who decide by voting online.

Below are the titles in contention this year along with a campaign plea from each book’s writer(s):

39 MINUTES by William Harms

“By voting for 39 MINUTES, you’ll give a voice to all of the poor downtrodden bank robbers of the world.  If you don’t speak for them, who will?”

ASSET by Filip Sablik

“ASSET is about the dangerous side of love in the digital age.  You meet that perfect person online thanks to next generation personality profiling and everything is hearts and flowers.  Only they aren’t your perfect match, they’re an enemy spy and they’re going to get you killed.  Vote for me, David Marquez and Bill Farmer if you’ve ever been punched in the jeans by love.”

FOREVER by Brad Ingelsby

“I think we’ve created a world and a central mystery that people will want to return to. The history of Longevity and its miracle drug Forever is inextricably linked to Ryan’s personal history which should make for a thrilling journey, full of surprises.”

CROSSHAIR by Jeff Katz

“CROSSHAIR should win because it’s classic action hero style wish fulfillment with a paranoid psychological thriller twist. Justin Weller is a true man of action who protects his family and his honor at all costs and is the type of hero our ever more dangerous world needs right now.”

7 DAYS FROM HELL by Bryan Edward Hill and Rob Levin

“Phil Noto. ‘Nuff said.”

Previews for each book are available at www.topcow.com.

Review – 7 Days From Hell #1

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Pilot Season: 7 Days From Hell #1 COVA_stampedPilot Season is a competition that Top Cow puts out pitting various comic projects against each other.  The winner gets a limited series.  The final entry to the 2010 entries is 7 Days From Hell written by Bryan Edward Hill and Rob Levin with art by Phil Noto.  So what’s the series about and how does it rank up?

Ex-pat turned mercenary John Bishop is mortally wounded, but spared from Hell by a renegade demon seeking redemption. The price of John’s salvation? He’s reborn as the demon’s personal assassin and charged with ridding humanity of our worst criminals, sadists, and murderers…with a seven-day deadline for each kill. Redemption can take a lifetime. John Bishop only has 7 days.

I really liked the comic and concept.  It definitely is up there as far as this batch and is one of the two comics I’m debating voting for.  What’s interesting is the comic book might work better as an ongoing than a limited series.  The series just has so much potential as Bishop must one complete his mission and two plot on how to escape his fate.

While the first issue is pretty straight forward and the mission is rushed due to length, the story is very entertaining.  This is one of the stronger ones of this batch, and Top Cow should really think about giving this a shot as a series instead of a limited series.

Entertaining, lots of potential, and pretty fun.  This comic is a buy and I definitely encourage you to consider it for your vote this Pilot Season.

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Review – Pilot Season: Forever #1

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Pilot Season: Forever #1 COVA_stampedForever #1 is a very interesting concept, and one I’m very mixed about.  I love the concept, and there’s enough mystery enough for me to want to see more, but I’m still not 100% sold on it.  That being said, it’s original and a definite buy for the week.

In the not-so-distant future, a pharmaceutical company called Longevity™ has developed a drug which extends human life and counters the debilitating effects of aging almost indefinitely. When a young doctor, who owes his very life to Longevity™, gets his dream job at the company; he soon learns that immortality comes at an unthinkable price.

Created by Top Cow President Matt Hawkins (Lady Pendragon, Pilot Season: Alibi) and written by screenwriter Brad Ingelsby (The Honeyfields) with art by Thomas Nachlik (The Flying Friar), Forever follows in the footsteps of science fiction like the stories of William Gibson and Philip K. Dick.

Written by Brad Ingelsby, there’s a fascinating mind trip here and I’d love to see where it goes.  This is a concept and series that would benefit from a longer format.  And that’s the issue here, the format is too short with one issue.  As an original graphic novel, this potentially would be awesome, in one issue, I’m intrigued but not completely sold.

The art by Thomas Nachlik is solid.  I liked a lot of the scenes and the character design is unique and interesting.  Again, there’s tons of potential as where some of the trippy images could go in a longer format.

But, in the end Pilot Season is a contest.  Does Forever take the lead?  Unfortunately no, 39 Minutes still is the one I’m voting for.  But, I’d love to see this as a longer form graphic novel and given the freedom to break some ground visually.

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Preview – Pilot Season: Forever #1

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PILOT SEASON: FOREVER #1

(W) BRAD INGELSBY  (A) THOMAS NACHLIK  (Cov) BAGUS HUTOMO

Pilot Season Begins Anew as a 5-Week Event in 2010!

In the not-so-distant future, a pharmaceutical company called Longevity™ has developed a drug which extends human life and counters the debilitating effects of aging almost indefinitely. When a young doctor, who owes his very life to Longevity™, gets his dream job at the company; he soon learns that immortality comes at an unthinkable price.

Created by Top Cow President Matt Hawkins (Lady Pendragon, Pilot Season: Alibi) and written by screenwriter Brad Ingelsby (The Honeyfields) with art by Thomas Nachlik (The Flying Friar), Forever follows in the footsteps of science fiction like the stories of William Gibson and Philip K. Dick.

32 PAGES   FULL COLOR   PILOT ISSUE $3.99

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Review – Pilot Season: Crosshair #1

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Pilot Season Crosshair #1 COVA_stampedIf you could take the television show 24 mash it with the movie classic The Manchurian Candidate and put it in comic book form, you’d come pretty close to Crosshair #1.  Created and co-written by Top Cow founder Marc Silvestri and co-writer Jeff Katz with art by Allan Jefferson the comic is a kinetic and at times confusing look at a man who knows he’s programmed to kill the President in 48 hours and the only person that can stop him is…. himself.

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After settling into the life of loving husband and devoted father in the suburbs, a former assassin for the CIA learns he’s been brainwashed to kill the President of the United States. To his horror, Justin Weller has discovered that in less than 48 hours something or someone will trigger his suppressed program and send him into deadly and irreversible action. Weller must discover his triggering mechanism and uncover who is behind the conspiracy that will pitch the world into chaos.

Created and co-written by Top Cow founder Marc Silvestri (X-Men/Dark Avengers: Utopia) and co-writer Jeff Katz (Booster Gold) with art by Allan Jefferson (War Machine), Crosshair introduces a new kind of action comic.

I love the concept, the execution on the other hand is a bit scattered.  The story isn’t linear, instead we’re given out of sequence scenes, which would be fine and work on television, but doesn’t quite get pulled off on the comic page.  Instead the comic comes off as having ADHD and at times incoherent and at other times, just plain silly.

Again, the concept is great, and art pretty solid.  This is an action comic with the comic version of cut scenes and jump scenes.  It’s kinetic, and jumpy, in a bad way.  Pilot Season is a contest after all, so out of the three releases so far, this one trails in my opinion and it’s a distant third at that.

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