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Silence #1 kicks off an intriguing magical adventure

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In this extraordinary Rock’n’Roll/Mythology mashup, Johanna Jones returns to her hometown of Anthem, a down-on-its-luck shipping town, to discover the ship her father sailed on has gone missing. She ends up aboard a yellow submarine named the Heart of Gold, headed directly into Hades’ Hexagon to find the missing crew, accompanied by her childhood best friend, a rich young addict, and a punk legend.

Story: Devin Kraft
Art: Devin Kraft

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Literati Press

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Devin Kraft’s Silence #1 rings out April 2023 from Literati Press

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Visionary creator Devin Kraft brings his music and mythology mash-up Silence to Literati Press Comics. Silence will be a 5-issue limited series launching with issue 1 hitting shops April 26 [Diamond Previews Code: FEB231563].

Silence is a story about music and its power to hold things together even as the world falls apart. Returning to her hometown of Anthem, a down-on-its-luck seaport, Johanna Jones discovers the ship her father sailed on has gone missing. She ends up aboard a yellow submarine named the Heart of Gold headed directly into Hades’ Hexagon to find the missing crew, accompanied by her childhood best friend, a rich young addict, and a punk legend. Along the way, the quartet will form unlikely bonds, face astonishing threats, and rock the @#$% out.

Kraft burst onto the indie comics scene in 2013 with Dragon Slayer, a story about the price of pride and revenge, which raised over $25,000 on Kickstarter. In addition to his hit Neverender (Sumerian Comics), Kraft also draws Samurai Odyssey and provided art for The Garden of Galahad. He has also worked as an illustrator and designer across many media.  Based in the DFW-metroplex, Kraft has lived in Tokyo and is originally from Roswell, New Mexico.

Silence will be available monthly beginning in April 2023 in comic book shops everywhere.

Review: Neverender #1

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The year is 2X19 and due to breakthroughs in artificial accelerants, mankind has taken to the stars. At the edge of civilization, the dominant sport is a civilized sword duel to the death.

In the city of riots, Merrick, a disaffected terrestrial youth fights for his survival. Smash the City. Smash the State. Burn it all, Escape to Space.

Story: Devin Kraft
Art: Devin Kraft
Design: Devin Kraft
Edited: Jake Ekiss
Tones: Vinh-Luan Luu
Backup Story: James Hussel

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comiXology/Kindle
Zeus Comics

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Review: Dragon Slayer: The Collected Edition Vol. 1

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Dragon Slayer: The Collected Edition Vol. 1

When it comes seeking “getback,” does anyone ever really get the revenge they seek? Wars are fought on perceived slights that may have been just misunderstandings. When people feel they have been disrespected they often seek to level the playing field. Retribution is never even keeled, even when one gets it. The taste of it is never enough.

Revenge is not as sweet as one perceives and rarely does the object of your disdain ever feel the way you want them to. As Snoop Dogg’s character in Baby Boy said: “No One feels sorry for you Homie”. This hate is what pushes you to the edge. In the first volume of Dragon Slayer, we get a tale of revenge and the three protagonists seeking to do so.

We meet El Diel, a mysterious outsider, who feels the weight of royal sovereigns and their power of over the kingdom he inhabits. We also meet King Aldebrand, a glory hound of a ruler, who savors the spotlight, and wants to destroy the beast of legend, a dragon, no matter the cost. As the dragon lays waist to their kingdom, all the inhabitants including Aldebrand’s soldiers encounter loss worse than they ever imagined, which leads the King to meet the Dragon in his lair with El not too far behind to get his own revenge. By book’s end, the two men face off in one epic clash, where they learn more about each other and themselves than they ever have before, leaving one to meet his ultimate end and the other to change his life for the better.

Overall, a powerful story of how revenge drives some men and what it ultimately means for those who get caught in the heat of battle. The story by Devin Kraft is layered, action packed and affecting. The art by Kraft is beautiful. Altogether, a great story that shows how revenge ravages everyone who seeks it.

Story: Devin Kraft Art: Devin Kraft
Story: 10 Art: 9.0 Overall: 9.5 Recommendation: Buy

Hunters, a New Comic Anthology from Lion Forge

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Lion Forge Comics builds on its promise of “Comics for Everyone” with the announcement of Hunters, an all-new fantasy epic told through a diverse cast of today’s top creative talent!

Famed warrior Azarias has gathered a small army of varied adventurers on a quest to gather the dust of a distant island god in order to save the life of their king. Along the way, they encounter numerous beasts and monsters, all in the process of gathering artifacts necessary to locate the island god before ultimately defeating it. Throughout the course of the adventure, the band disperses into small groups with individual objectives in order to cover more ground in shorter order. These individual side-story adventures reveal more about each of the many unique and intriguing characters and their different interactions in different combinations.

This very intricate and original fantasy universe is filled with a large cast of intriguing, complex, and diverse warriors deserving stories of their own, building to the ultimate encounter. While the primary storyline is told by series co-director Josh Tierney and illustrated by Miguel Valderrama, the individual short tales are told by a variety of their celebrated comic-industry peers in different visual styles.

Co-created by Paul Maybury and Josh Tierney, this epic anthology taps Miguel Valderrama, Carlos Valderrama, Afu Chan, Devin Kraft, Niami, Meg Gandy, Jared Morgan, Irene Koh, Kyla Vanderklugt, Benjamin Marra, Alexis Ziritt, Travel Foreman, Carlos Carrasco, Vlad Gusev, and Ramon Sierra for an epic high fantasy tale.

Hunters is published in partnership with Buño Books and is slated for release in June.