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Preview: Adventure Finders: The Edge of Empire #2

ADVENTURE FINDERS: THE EDGE OF EMPIRE #2

Writer(s): Rod Espinosa
Artist Name(s): Rod Espinosa
Cover Artist Name(s): Rod Espinosa
32 pgs./ T / FC
$3.99

The gigantic caravan of Lord Justinius Biverius is quickly falling apart. Impressive in size, it was slow and ponderous. Now, it is nothing but a wounded beast. The verbolg army is quickly overwhelming them all. Clari has just rescued Asogog from being a circus slave. Asogog turns out to be a very capable warrior, and now he helps her navigate the chaos as they try to save what is left of their portion of the caravan. Will they come back in time to save their friends, the orphans and the nursemaids?

ADVENTURE FINDERS: THE EDGE OF EMPIRE #2

Preview: Adventure Finders: The Edge of Empire #1

ADVENTURE FINDERS: THE EDGE OF EMPIRE #1

Writer(s): Rod Espinosa
Artist Name(s): Rod Espinosa
Cover Artist Name(s): Rod Espinosa
32 pgs./ T / FC
$3.99

Clari is as bubbly as Barbie, as noble as She-Ra, and as violent as any anime warrior princess you’ve ever seen! Young Clariette and her friends Jolfe the Wizard and Ariarra the Healer are tossed directly into a full-scale battle as thousands of orcs, beasts and ogres attack the gigantic convoy of the noble Lord Justinius as they prepare to take up their post guarding Clariette’s home town of Good River!

When all seems lost, an unexpected ally appears!

ADVENTURE FINDERS: THE EDGE OF EMPIRE #1

Journey with Rod Espinosa’s Adventure Finders: The Edge of Empire

Action Lab Entertainment presents Rod Espinosa‘s Adventure Finders! An fantasy adventure story told in the spirit of Lord of the Rings, Adventure Finders is driven by empowering female characters. The fantasy epic is written in the unique style of Rod Espinosa, author of The Courageous Princess, Neotopia and over 50 comics and children’s book titles!

Clari is as bubbly as Barbie, as noble as She-Ra, and as violent as any anime warrior princess you’ve ever seen! Young Clariette and her friends Jolfe the Wizard and Ariarra the Healer are tossed directly into a full-scale battle as thousands of orcs, beasts and ogres attack the gigantic convoy of the noble Lord Justinius as they prepare to take up their post guarding Clariette’s home town of Good River!

Adventure Finders: The Edge of Empire continues where the story left off after Adventure Finders: Newly Hired Adventurers, which is currently available on comiXology. However, this new arc is 100% accessible to new readers looking to join in on this epic fantasy quest. Pre-order the first issue of The Edge of Empire story arc with the Diamond item code JUN191317.

Adventure Finders: The Edge of Empire

Preview: Adventure Finders Vol. 1: Newly Hired Adventurers

ADVENTURE FINDERS VOL. 1: NEWLY HIRED ADVENTURERS

Digital Only
Writer: Rod Espinosa
Artist: Rod Espinosa
Cover Artist: Rod Espinosa
148 pgs./ T / FC
$5.99

She wants so much more than what her small town has to offer! This is the dream of starry eyed fishmonger Clariette de Artegnean. She and her cousins Jolfe Endarion and Deren Mumbasi have always dreamt about being adventurers and fighting monsters to save the kingdom. But first, Clari has to survive another day at school where a new teacher has taken over! And he’s not pleased with Clari’s endless questioning.

Two things happen that send them on the road to adventure. One was the arrival of a new girl — young Sister Ariarra Popplevensie of the Moon Goddess order. A healer and spirit caller, Clari immediately sees how useful she can be in her future adventure group.

The second event is the arrival of the adventuring group the Warriors of Dawn! The young cousins along with their new friend Ariarra, the spirit caller, sign up to be hirelings to the Warriors of Dawn. They make plans to go on the road –but will Clari’s strict parents put a stop to her plans?

This graphic novel collects episodes 1-4 for a grand tale 148 pages long!

ADVENTURE FINDERS VOL. 1: NEWLY HIRED ADVENTURERS

Rod Espinosa’s Adventure Finders is coming to Action Lab Entertainment!

Adventure Finders is Lord of the Rings with a bit of Game of Thrones in there for plotting. The big difference being this is a female centered adventure. It will also appeal to gamers and RPG players since it draws a lot of elements from classic Dungeons and Dragons, which freely built their games around inclusion.

Creator, writer and illustrator Rod Espinosa commented that he believed readers would enjoy Adventure Finders because:

I believe a lot of female centered stories still miss much of what it really means to be female centered. Books like Elfquest get it. It’s not about women being just as aggressive as the men. Or acting like a man in a woman’s body. It’s a whole new way of dealing with situations and adventures laid out.

Male centered fantasy deals a lot with just the combat aspects. The men never have to worry about feeding children or protecting the women. They blow into town, fight and party, and then leave. This is about a story of adventurers who care about the whole package. Not just saving the village from monsters, but keeping them alive afterwards.

Individuals matter. In the story, the mere act of saving one street child has had enormous reverberations throughout the entirety of book 1. That’s the focus of my book. Everyone, including the disabled and the helpless, matter.

Clari and her friends are like most do gooders. Essentially, Adventure Finders is if you dropped devoted UNHCR people in the middle of medieval fantasy. They not only fight wars out of necessity, but our heroines focus on child welfare and the plight of women in general in their world. They care about fairness a lot. The entire first book is essentially just escorting a caravan of women and orphans to a promised land. But the adventures that ensue turn out to be epic in scope.

Join in on Rod’s adventure by pre-ordering Adventure Finders on comiXology now!

Dark Horse to Release Courageous Princess Trilogy

Dark Horse Comics is set to publish Rod Espinosa’s epic trilogy The Courageous Princess.

Once upon a time, a greedy dragon kidnapped a beloved princess . . . But if you think she just waited around for some charming prince to rescue her, then you’re in for a surprise. Princess Mabelrose has enough brains and bravery to fend for herself!

The Courageous Princess: Beyond the Hundred Kingdoms will be released on March 11, 2015, to be followed by The Courageous Princess: The Unremembered Lands in June 2015 and The Courageous Princess: The Dragon Queen in September 2015, forming the Courageous Princess trilogy.

Espinosa’s The Courageous Princess was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Title for Younger Readers in 2002.

The Courageous Princess beyond the hundred kingdoms The Courageous Princess the unremebered lands The Courageous Princess the dragon queen

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