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Marc Silvestri’s Soldier Stories cover revealed!

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Top Cow is giving veterans a platform to share their experiences in the service through sequential storytelling with a new anthology Soldier Stories, coming this November 9th, 2022. With the release less than a month away, Top Cow has revealed the Cover B variant by artist Marc Silvestri.

The anthology will feature an excerpt by the late Denny O’Neil, writer and editor of many marvel and DC Comics, including The Amazing Spider-man and Green Lantern/Green Arrow.

Soldier Stories features four compelling tales of military conflict, all written by veterans who served from the Vietnam era to Afghanistan. These first-person accounts of real-life warfare have been reimagined across a variety of genres from sci-fi to horror to personal memoir. What’s it like to wait out a chemical attack? How does it feel to abandon your allies? In a world of push-button warfare, has killing gotten too easy? How do you go on when the war is over but the struggle is not?These are personal stories, compelling stories, stories that will haunt and surprise you. Because every soldier has a story.

  • “Terps” by Brian Anthony and John Bivens
  • “Game Over” by Jalysa Conway, Annapaola Martello, and K. Michael Russell
  • “All Clear” by Megan Ferrell Burke, Arturo Lauria, and Kelly Fitzpatrick
  • “The Great Man” by Rev. William J. Bellamy, Cecilia Lo Valvo, and Ryan Cody
Soldier Stories Marc Silvestri

Veterans will tell their stories in Top Cow’s Soldier Stories

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Top Cow gives alternative veteran voices a platform to tell their stories in Soldier Stories. The anthology is set to release the week of Veterans Day on November 9th to honor veterans, including the creators of this anthology: Brian Anthony (USA), Jalysa Conway (UAF), Megan Ferrell Burke (USMC), and Rev. William J. Bellamy (ARNG). Ken Pisani (AMP’D), is a Los Angeles Times best-selling author integral in organizing and making this anthology happen.

These stories will allow readers to step briefly into the boots of men and women who bravely served, to witness heightened versions of the sacrifices that they made during their time in the military. Soldier Stories features four compelling tales of military conflict, all written by veterans who served from the Vietnam era to Afghanistan. These first-person accounts of real-life warfare have been reimagined a cross a variety of genres from sci-fi to horror to personal memoir. What’s it like to wait out a chemical attack? How does it feel to abandon your allies? In a world of push-button warfare, has killing gotten too easy? How do you go on when the war is over but the struggle is not?

These are personal stories, compelling stories, stories that will haunt and surprise you. Because every soldier has a story.

  • Terps by Brian Anthony and John Bivens
  • Game Over by Jalysa Conway, Annapaola Martello, and K. Michael Russell
  • All Clear by Megan Ferrell Burke, Arturo Lauria, and Kelly Fitzpatrick
  • The Great Man by Rev. William J. Bellamy, Cecilia Lo Valvo, and Ryan Cody

Soldier Stories will come to comic shops on November 9th and features covers by Billy Tucci and Marc Silvestri.

Soldier Stories

Preview: Infinite Dark #6

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Infinite Dark #6

(W) Ryan Cady (A) Andrea Mutti, K. Michael Russell (CA) Nick Robles

Paranoia reigns supreme on the Orpheus, as fledgling leaders must choose between two terrifying unknowns. Meanwhile, Deva Karrell investigates nightmarish crimes with an unlikely ally.

Infinite Dark #6

Preview: Infinite Dark #5

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Infinite Dark #5

(W) Ryan Cady
(A) Andrea Mutti, K. Michael Russell
(CA) Nick Robles​

The passengers of the void ship Orpheus survived the end of the universe, station-wide sabotage, and even the machinations of an Entity from beyond the stars. All that’s left now is to survive each other.

Review: Infinite Dark #1

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The universe ended, but onboard the void station Orpheus, a skeleton crew of humanity survived: the last two thousand souls, waiting for a second big bang that may never come. Now, two years into their voyage, Security Director Deva Karrell investigates the station’s first murder-and the otherworldly motives behind it.

Humanity surviving some calamity on a spaceship/station is a story that is a dime a dozen. There being a murder on a spaceship/station is a common story too. However, the location being a space station that has survived the end of the universe? That’s pretty unique.

Writer Ryan Cady delivers a first issue that builds up the tension to a point the story shifts. What begins as a sci-fi story becomes horror by the end. Much of the first issue focuses on the reality these survivors live in. They’re the last of humanity. They witnessed the rest die. And they witnessed the universe die. Now, they’re surrounded by nothing and internally are struggling with that reality. They are experiencing survivor’s guilt.

Now, a crime has been committed and that leads to that twist. While the comic could easily devolve into a person who has lost their mind and that spreading across the ship resulting in carnage and death, it would seem we’re getting something different. That last panel especially left me pondering where this is all going.

The art by Andrea Muti with color by K. Michael Russell and lettering by Troy Peteri is solid mixing in the two genres quite well. There’s an unease in the art that emphasizes the coldness of it all. That’s helped by the color which uses lots of cold blues and grays and only goes elsewhere for emphasis.

The issue is a fantastic debut that blends genres and delivers an ending that’s something that’s unexpected. It seems the comic is going in directions that’s unexpected and will explore some really interesting topics. With a unique setting, this is a start that’s a hell of a debut.

Story: Ryan Cady Art: Andrea Muti
Color: K. Michael Russell Letterer: Troy Peteri of A Larger World
Story Editor: Alex Lu
Story: 8.25 Art: 8.25 Overall: 8.25 Recommendation: Buy

Image Comics provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review

Preview: Infinite Dark #1

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Infinite Dark #1

(W) Ryan Cady (A/CA) Andrea Mutti (C) K. Michael Russell (L) Troy Peteri

The universe ended, but onboard the void station Orpheus, a skeleton crew of humanity survived: the last two thousand souls, waiting for a second big bang that may never come. Now, two years into their voyage, Security Director Deva Karrell investigates the station’s first murder-and the otherworldly motives behind it.

Science Fiction and Horror Collide in Infinite Dark

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Image Comics and Top Cow have announced an all-new, sinister ongoing science-fiction series—Infinite Dark—by Ryan Cady and Andrea Mutti with colorist K. Michael Russell that will hit stores this October.

In Infinite Dark, the universe has ended, but humanity has survived. For years, the passengers and crew of the vessel Orpheus found the endless void between realities to be a surprisingly peaceful home.

Then they found a body—bloodied, brutalized, and surrounded by inscrutable runes. As Security Director Deva Karrell investigates the Orpheus’ first murder, she’ll come face to face with a horror from beyond the confines of time itself…

Infinite Dark #1 will launch from Top Cow and Image Comics this October 2018.

Cassie’s back in the gory, sexy, twisted, funny Hack/Slash: Resurrection, Vol. 1

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Cassie Hack returns in Tim Seeley’s Hack/Slash: Resurrection, Vol. 1 with Tini Howard as the new series writer along with artists Celor and K. Michael Russell. The trade paperback collects issues #1-6 and hits stores this April.

In Hack/Slash: Resurrection, Vol. 1, Cassie Hack has been living off the grid, but when a new monstrous threat arises to torment the kids at Camp Indigo River, it’s time for Cassie to pick up the baseball bat once again.

Hack/Slash: Resurrection, Vol. 1 (Diamond Code FEB180576, ISBN: 978-1-5343-0666-0) will hit comic shops on Wednesday, April 25th and bookstores on Tuesday, May 1st.

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