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Preview: Don’t Forget Your Briefcase

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Don’t Forget Your Briefcase

(W) Eliot Rahal (A) Phillip Sevy

A ten year old child who carries a briefcase to school mistakenly takes the President’s “Nuclear Football” and accidentally causes a international espionage incident in this political satire about how great power is rarely handled responsibly.
Everywhere the President goes, there is a military liaison who follows, carrying a briefcase with the codes to launch a nuclear strike––and it’s just been lost. This is the story about what happens when a ten-year-old boy finds a nuclear football and accidentally brings the world to the brink of annihilation.

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Preview: Don’t Forget Your Briefcase #5

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Don’t Forget Your Briefcase #5

(W) Eliot Rahal (A) Phillip Sevy
(C) Warnia Sahadewa (L) Frank Cvetkovic

It’s one minute to midnight… and the nuclear football is still in play. Will Honken and Katrina save Elmo and stop President Longe from accidentally destroying everything in existence? How will Viktor use the secrets of America’s atomic arsenal to his benefit? Is white-hat black pilled Dumb@$$ P@yne the world’s most annoying anti-hero? Find out in this exciting conclusion that will hopefully leave you asking yourself… “Why the @#$% did we think the world our grandparents built was ‘good?”

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Preview: Don’t Forget Your Briefcase #4

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Don’t Forget Your Briefcase #4

(W) Eliot Rahal (A) Phillip Sevy (C) Nia Sahadewa (L) Frank Cvetkovic

Assassins, coverups, and incarceration—oh, my! Elmo finds himself in jail with Colonel Honken, who is currently suffering through a pretty bleak identity crisis. Meanwhile, the President meets with the man who killed her predecessor. It’s a jam-packed issue where each character has to confront the unpleasant reality they thought they knew. Plus, a new character helps Colonel Honken uncover “the truth.’

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Preview: Don’t Forget Your Briefcase #3

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Don’t Forget Your Briefcase #3

(W) Eliot Rahal (A) Phillip Sevy (C) Warnia Sahadewa (L) Frank Cvetkovic

The Kremlin is falling, and Colonel Honken is literally one doorbell away from securing the nuclear football before anyone even notices that it’s missing. Until a bomb goes off—a truth bomb! Is Elmo really adopted? Is Viktor Elmo’s father? Who is lying? Who is telling the truth? Is General Yourke going through a really bad divorce? Either way, a heartbroken Elmo runs away from home, once again putting the codes to America’s atomic arsenal back in the sticky hands of an upset child.

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Preview: Don’t Forget Your Briefcase #2

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Don’t Forget Your Briefcase #2

(W) Eliot Rahal (A/CA) Phillip Sevy (C) Nia Sahadewa (L) Frank Cvetkovic

The Nuclear Football is loose, and absolutely no one can know that it’s in the dangerous hands of a small child. Colonel Honken is sent on a recovery mission to clean up her mess by the General of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Meanwhile, Katrina is trying to figure out how to keep her status as a Russian double agent a secret when a long-held family lie is revealed to Elmo and changes his entire world.

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Don’t Forget Your Briefcase #1 is an intriguing and unexpected start

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Don't Forget Your Briefcase #1

Everywhere the President goes, there is a military liaison who follows, carrying a briefcase with the codes to launch a nuclear strike––and it’s just been lost. This is the story about what happens when a ten-year-old boy finds a nuclear football and accidentally brings the world to the brink of annihilation. Don’t Forget Your Briefcase #1 ranges from the absurd to grounded family drama in a debut that’s packed with the unexpected.

Going into Don’t Forget Your Briefcase #1 I expected a straightforward thriller about the nuclear football winding up in the wrong hands. It’s a concept we’ve seen many times before where someone winds up with a bag that looked like theirs but wasn’t. Then, it puts them in danger as the original owner(s), usually bad people, try to get it back. But, this debut written by Eliot Rahal surprised me as so much more in many ways.

Rahal has a gift of blending the serious and straight forward with humor and heart and Don’t Forget Your Briefcase #1 is a fine example of that. Opening with a briefing about the case, we pivot to a young boy whose name is Elmo, carries is dad’s briefcase to school, and is having issues with bullies. It adds a bit of shock and heart to the story and as a parent, I couldn’t help but feel a lot of sympathy for the young boy and what he’s going through. There’s teases of more in his past but it comes together to add a way to connect with a character that’ll be at the center of the luggage switch.

But, Rahal doesn’t leave it there. How the briefcase gets switched is an over the top scene that takes things to extremes in multiple ways (the reporting on the event!) and then there’s the final page which was completely unexpected. It all comes together for a comic that’s a great opening chapter.

Phillip Sevy‘s art is solid. With color by Nia Sahadewa and lettering by Frank Cvetkovic, the comic bounces around from grounded family drama, to comedic satire, and then over the top lunacy. It does it all in a way that it flows together and nothing seems out of place. Sevy and Sahadewa’s colors make the event where the briefcase is switched beyond comedic bordering on Tarantino films where blood flows for insane lengths of time taking things from bloody action to comedic camp.

Don’t Forget Your Briefcase #1 is a great debut that’s entertaining and will get you to want to come back. Where I expected it to be just a general “chase” story as those with the nuclear football attempt to get it back to where it belongs complete with misunderstandings and those who want it, it’s far more than that.

Story: Eliot Rahal Art: Phillip Sevy
Color: Nia Sahadewa Letterer: Frank Cvetkovic
Story: 8.25 Art: 8.0 Overall: 8.25 Recommendation: Buy

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Preview: Don’t Forget Your Briefcase #1

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Don’t Forget Your Briefcase #1

(W) Eliot Rahal (A/CA) Phillip Sevy (C) Nia Sahadewa (L) Frank Cvetkovic (CB) Marguerite Sauvage

Everywhere the President goes, there is a military liaison who follows, carrying a briefcase with the codes to launch a nuclear strike––and it’s just been lost. This is the story about what happens when a ten-year-old boy finds a nuclear football and accidentally brings the world to the brink of annihilation.

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Don’t Forget Your Briefcase in this dark hilarious nuclear thriller

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This case is going to blow!

Mad Cave Studios has announced Don’t Forget Your Briefcase, a five-issue political farce by best-selling author Eliot Rahal and acclaimed artist Phillip Sevy. Joined by colorist Warnia K. Sahadewa and letterer Frank Cvetkovic, this team is set to deliver a thrilling, darkly comedic take on nuclear warfare and the chaos of global power structures.

Everywhere the President goes, there is a military liaison who follows, carrying a briefcase with the codes to launch a nuclear strike—and it’s just been lost. This is the story about what happens when a ten-year-old boy finds a nuclear football and accidentally brings the world to the brink of annihilation.

Don’t Forget Your Briefcase is a story of control, destruction, and what happens when power falls into the wrong hands—literally.

Don’t Forget Your Briefcase #1 launches on June 25th, with Cover A by Phillip Sevy and Cover B by Marguerite Sauvage. 

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