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Preview: Supermom: Expecting Trouble Volume 1

Posted on March 21, 2020 by Graphic Policy Team

SUPERMOM: EXPECTING TROUBLE VOLUME 1

Writer(s): Gordon Mclean
Artist Name(s): Caio Oliveira (Pencils and inks), Fahriza Kamaputra (Colors), Frank Cvetkovic (letters)
Cover Artist(s): Caio Oliveira (Pencils and inks), Fahriza Kamaputra (Colors)
128 pgs./ T / FC
$5.99
Digital-First

Superhero Voltra is out to stop her arch nemesis Vincent Croupe from trying to take over the world. There’s just one problem: she’s pregnant… and he’s the father. Cue the world’s strongest mother versus the world’s evilest father fighting over the fate of mankind and their child. If that’s not enough there’s also terrifying monkey clowns, giant flesh monsters, pyromaniac romantics, a superhero baby shower, the fact that the baby might be taking after daddy and 100 other problems for Voltra to survive in this action comedy filled with big laughs, crazy fights and a shocking twist or two.

Preview: Supermom: Expecting Trouble #1

Posted on March 12, 2020 by Graphic Policy Team

SUPERMOM: EXPECTING TROUBLE #1

Writer(s): Gordon Mclean
Artist Name(s): Caio Oliveira (Pencils and inks), Fahriza Kamaputra (Colors), Frank Cvetkovic (letters)
Cover Artist(s): Caio Oliveira (Cover A), Tanya Roberts (Cover B)
25 pgs./ T / FC
$2.99 (Digital-First)

Superhero Voltra is out to stop her archnemesis from taking over the planet. There’s just one problem: she’s pregnant… and he’s the father. Cue the world’s strongest mother fighting the world’s evilest father over the fate of both the world and their unborn child in this action-comedy filled with big laughs, crazy fights, shocking twists and (most importantly) evil monkey clowns. What more do you need?

Action Lab’s Adventure Finders: The Edge of Empire and Supermom: Expecting Trouble are Out March 4

Posted on February 3, 2020 by Graphic Policy Team

ADVENTURE FINDERS: THE EDGE OF EMPIRE TPB

Writer(s): Rod Espinosa
Artist Name(s): Rod Espinosa
Cover Artist Name(s): Rod Espinosa
124 pgs./ T / FC
$14.99

Having survived their first small encounter with the mountain torbulds, Clari and her friends finally reach the city of Bridge Town and find it in a state of war. Remembering her promise to her friend Mecomi, Clari prepares to escort the orphans back to the safety of the mountain village. They ride with a massive caravan of 20,000 sponsored by Lord Justinius Biverius, who is to take up a cushy post guarding Good River, Clari’s hometown.

Little do they know, the caravan is about to run into terrible danger!

ADVENTURE FINDERS: THE EDGE OF EMPIRE TPB

SUPERMOM: EXPECTING TROUBLE #1

Preview: Exit Generation #2

Posted on October 25, 2015 by Graphic Policy Team

Exit Generation #2

(W) Sam Read (A) Caio Oliveira (CA) Ramon Villalobos, Joe Mulvey

To rescue their loved ones from the insatiable Ruleians, Jack and Mo seek the aid of a pair of antisocial outcasts, and get way more than they bargained for. Meanwhile, the humans trapped in orbit by their hungry extraterrestrial kidnappers find an unlikely ally! The sci-fi, punk rock adventure from writer Sam Read (Find) and artist Caio Oliveira (Super Ego) continues; make sure you jump aboard!

Review: Exit Generation #1

Posted on September 23, 2015 by Brett

It’s 2055. Ninety percent of the world’s population have abandoned a resource-depleted Earth in search of a better home in the cosmos. Those left behind find themselves in an unexpected paradise… and Jack is bored out of his mind. He dreams of action inspired by 80’s movies and punk rock. But when a legion of carnivorous aliens arrive, Jack learns you should be careful what you wish for…

Exit Generation #1 is an interesting comic, in that it’s not what I expected at all. I had previously read writer Sam Read‘s work with his ComixTribe comic Find, which I thought was an amazing release. Find, and Exit Generation, share some similar themes, but beyond that the two works are very far apart tonally.

Exit Generation really revolves around Jack in this new world. Unless we really come to like or enjoy Jack as a character, the comic might not win us over. And I think that’s where my issue with the comic is. Jack isn’t like-able in the first issue, though I have no doubt that he’ll grow and become a hero over time. And because Jack didn’t win me over, I found the comic just ok.

What I did find enjoyable and interesting is the world Read has set up. With most of the human population gone, there’s an excess of goods and materials, which creates an interesting world I wish we could explore more before the twist towards the end. It’s a fascinating concept that could turn into a hell of an exploration and idea.

Cao Oliveira‘s art is very solid with each character having a distinct look and feel about them. The world looks and feels familiar with something just slightly off in the presentation, which makes it futuristic and alien in a weird way. Almost like a junk planet.

Exit Generation is an interesting debut overall. I like the concepts, I’m just not completely sold on the end result. It might have been due to high expectations set by Read’s Find, but I found the first issue of Exit Generation to be good, just not great.

Story: Sam Read Art: Caio Oliveira
Story: 7 Art: 7.5 Overall: 7 Recommendation: Read

ComixTribe provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review

Preview: Exit Generation #1 (of 4)

Posted on September 22, 2015 by Graphic Policy Team

Exit Generation #1 (of 4)

Story: Sam Read
Art: Caio Oliveira
Colors: Ruth Redmond
Cover A: Ramon Villalobos
Cover B: Joe Mulvey
August / 32 Pages / FC / MR / $3.99
DIAMOND ID: JUL151204

Featuring covers by Ramon Villalobos (E is for Extinction) and connecting variants by Joe Mulvey (SCAM), EXIT GENERATION is a breakneck sci-fi adventure, full of DIY spirit.

Kickstarter Spotlight: Hugo Broyler: a fast-paced future-noir thriller

Posted on July 22, 2015 by Graphic Policy Team

by Mike Kennedy
Publisher/President
Magnetic Press

Hugo Broyler: a fast-paced future-noir thriller on Kickstarter, featuring a murderer’s row of top comic industry artists from around the world.

Nearly two dozen comic industry super-stars have joined writer Mike Kennedy (Star Wars: Underworld, Superman: Infinite City, Lone Wolf 2100, Dead to Rights, Bleedout) and illustrator Francisco Paronzini (Stormwatch PHD, The Immortal Iron Fist, Dead to Rights, Star Wars Tales) in the launch of a Kickstarter campaign for the original graphic novel Hugo Broyler, a fast-paced future-noir thriller, where smart cars roam the streets and hacking is indistinguishable from possession and insanity.

This stylish, full-color blockbuster is packed full of high-speed action and psychological intrigue, and is brought to life by a killer lineup of top comic industry artists contributing pieces from around the world, including cover art by Eduardo Risso (100 Bullets), and pieces fan-favorites such as Bengal (Batgirl, Naja), Ben Templesmith (30 Days of Night, Wormwood, Squidder), Zach Howard (Wild Blue Yonder, The Cape), DJet (Poet Anderson), Matteo De Longis (VOX), Francisco Ruiz Velasco (Pacific Rim, Hellboy), Nathan Fox (DMZ, Haunt, Blue Estate), Ben Caldwell (Prez, Dare Detectives), Rafael Albuquerque (American Vampire, Blue Beetle), Leandro Fernandez (Punisher, Hulk, The Names), Marcelo Frusin (Hellblazer, Loveless), German Peralta (Moon Knight, Axis: Carnage), Max Fiumara (BPRD, Abe Sapien), and Renato Guedes (Wolverine, Superman), Caio Oliveira (Super-Ego, No More Heroes), Daniel Warren Johnson (Ghost Fleet, Space Mullet), and Brydon Everett (The World of Cassyno).

Billed as a high-speed, sci-fi, grindhouse graphic novel, this breakneck thriller paints a future world where frictionless autos careen a ludicrous speeds in the popular sport of Static Velocity Levitation Racing, and international mega-corporations sponsor fearless racing teams who risk life and limb for fame and fortune. When former champ Hugo Broyler wipes out in the final lap of the latest championship, he’s left with little choice but to take wheel work for cash from a local crimelord. But the crash left him with more than just a few scars and a bad attitude – now he’s hearing voices, specifically the ghost of his former, deceased rival. Or maybe someone’s hacking his brain. Or maybe he’s just crazy…

Kennedy and Paronzini seek to raise funds to colorize, re-letter, and print the completed graphic novel, which will be supplemented with an additional 20 pages of world-building story material illustrated by the collection of guest contributors. This extra content will further flesh out the intricate world of cyber-crime, psychological manipulation, and levitation racing revealed in the main storyline.

The campaign offers copies of the book itself in soft- or hard-cover, original artwork, in-world artifacts and merchandise, as well as a mix of 70s/80s style paraphernalia that evokes a retro grindhouse flavor, with a future-sci-fi twist. This is just the first glimpse into the world of Hugo Broyler, says Kennedy, with future chapters, tabletop games, and interactive plans in the works.

Check out HUGO BROYLER today, and help them reach the finish line!

While we’re no longer picking crowd funding projects to spotlight on our site, we’re allowing project creators to make their case for their project on our platform. We remind individuals, we don’t endorse any of these projects, and that by supporting any crowd funding project, you’re taking any risks associated with doing so. – the Management

ComixTribe Brings Underground UK Hit Exit Generation to the Direct Market

Posted on April 16, 2015 by Brett

Today, ComixTribe announced it will bring the four-part science fiction adventure series Exit Generation by Sam Read and Caio Oliveira, with covers by artist Ramon Villalobos to the direct market.

Set in a near future, where a sudden depopulation of Earth has resulted in a comfortable but dull utopia, Exit Generation follows a bored punk named Jack, who is thrust suddenly into the unlikely role of savior when hungry aliens snatch his nearest and dearest. The first issue of this monthly series lands in comic shops and on Comixology in September.

In addition to four brilliant covers by Ramon Villalobos, EXIT GENERATION’s direct market release will feature a special variant, ComixTribe’s first ever set of four connecting covers by the most dangerous man in comics, Joe Mulvey.

Magnetic Press Debuts on comiXology

Posted on May 7, 2014 by Brett

Magnetic Press‘ anticipated graphic novels are coming to comiXology. The publisher announced a distribution agreement today with the digital comics platform. The graphic novels will be released as serialized chapters.

To celebrate the launch, the first chapters of their upcoming graphic novels Naja and Super-Ego are now available on the site. Naja tells the tale of a female assassin who feels no pain in search of the mysterious person who wants her killed and is written by JD Morvan with illustrations by Bengal. Super-Ego is a series created, written and illustrated by newcomer Caio Oliveira, recounting the madcap adventures of a psychotherapist dedicated to treating members of the superhero community.

Follow-up titles will include Zaya, by writer JD Morvan and artist Huang-Jia Wei as well as Meka, also by Morvan and Bengal with additional titles scheduled to debut in the fall.

Business

Breaking: Comic Industry Vets form Magnetic Press

Posted on December 11, 2013 by Brett

Comic industry veterans Mike Kennedy and Wes Harris announced today the formation of Magnetic Press, a new publishing label with a focus on premium graphic novels by talent from around the world. Magnetic’s two founders came together around a shared desire to create a compassionate home for innovative creators and projects that have been underrepresented in the current comic and graphic novel marketplace, including new talent deserving a debut and established talent looking to establish a solid presence in the North American and English language audience.

Publisher Mike Kennedy previously served as Publisher of Archaia Entertainment during the two years the company received back-to-back Eisner Awards for Best Original Graphic Album, as well as numerous other Eisner and industry awards and nominations. Prior to entering the publishing industry, Mike held roles as both Creative Director and Senior Producer in the video game industry, creating original IP and narrative game design for publishers such as Electronic Arts, Namco, and Microsoft. He has also been an avid writer, with numerous published titles to his name, including well-known properties such as Star Wars, Superman, and Alien Vs Predator.

Kennedy said in a release:

The most exciting aspect of any creative field is the opportunity to collaborate with and learn from amazing talent. There’s an electrifying amount of talent out there, from around the world, all deserving wider attention, and we are thrilled to create a publishing program that’s built from the ground up to support them in their effort to pursue what they are so passionate about doing.

CEO Wes Harris is the former VP of Publishing for BOOM! Studios, and has held senior roles at top entertainment companies such as Viz Media, White Wolf Publishing, and Meteor Entertainment.

I love the idea of books as an expression of who you are – what you choose to read, to display on your coffee table, and what that says about you. From the very start, from the talent we work with to the titles we select to the way the book feels in your hands, our top priority is creating a memorable reading experience and a book that you’re proud to have on your shelf.

Magnetic Press’s debut catalog launches in Spring of 2014 and features works from Award-winning creators from the US, UK, France, Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico. Debut titles include Eisner Award-winner Dave Dorman’s Wasted Lands, JD Morvan and Bengal’s Naja and Meka, F. Ruiz Velasco’s Culebra and Legion of Blood, Caio Oliveira’s Super-Ego, Prophet Hill, and Vivid, Francisco Paronzini’s Hugo Broyler, and Lucas Marangon’s Thinking Out Loud. Additional titles are also in the works, and details on each title, with previews, will be released soon.

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