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IDW To Feature America’s Army in Digital Distribution Agreement

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IDW and the U.S. Army announced today they have entered into an all-new digital distribution agreement to feature the U.S. Army’s America’s Army Comics on virtually every digital platform — the IDW Comics app; Comics by comiXology for iOS, Android, Kindle Fire, Nook, Windows 8 and the Web; Apple iBooks; Amazon Kindle; Barnes & Noble Nook; and Kobo.   The America’s Army Comics let readers delve into the storyline behind the highly successful America’s Army PC game that provides players an inside perspective and virtual role in the U.S. Army.

For over eleven years America’s Army players have been able to experience Army-influenced training and missions as they learned about the necessity of teamwork and leadership for success.  The America’s Army Comics were created as a way to let players further explore the game’s storyline and character plots of Soldiers’ lives when deployed or at home.  Initially launched for America’s Army 3, the new America’s Army Comics are setting the stage for the upcoming America’s Army: Proving Grounds game to be launched later this year.

America’s Army Comics tell the story of U.S. Soldiers deployed to Czervenia, a tiny foreign nation in the middle of a chaotic conflict. From a seemingly insignificant nation of Czervenia, President-General Adzic and his army set upon a campaign of annihilation against the neighboring Republic of the Ostregals, setting in motion a mysterious plan that could change the course of world power forever. America’s Army must create new experimental combat teams, forged together in secret Proving Grounds, and uncover the General’s insidious plot before time runs out.

Today’s announcement kicks off with the release of four America’s Army Comics — America’s Army Issue 1: Knowledge is Power, America’s Army Issue 2: Rise to the Challenge, America’s Army Issue 3: Under a Watchful Eye and America’s Army Issue 4: Escalation.  Over the coming months, the Army will release new issues that further the plot for the game’s missions and maps.

The America’s Army comic series is produced by Michael Barnett and written by M. Zachary Sherman.   At the upcoming San Diego Comic-Con, M. Zachary Sherman and comic book artist Scott Brooks will be signing special edition art and comics at the IDW booth.

Award Winning HBO Documentary “Superheroes’ A Film By Michael Barnett To Screen At Comic Con Film Festival 2011!! And Will Premiere On HBO August 8

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Official Press Release

AWARD WINNING  HBO “SUPERHEROES’ – A FILM BY MICHAEL BARNETT

WILL UNVEIL AT SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON 2011 ON JULY 23 

AND IS SET FOR WORLD BROADCAST PREMIERE ON HBO

AUGUST 8, 2011 AT 9PM ET/PT

Forget the fictional comic books and their fancy high-budgeted adaptations.  Throughout the nation, real, true superheroes exist among us bravely battling crime and other contemporary maladies including homelessness and bullying.  SUPERHEROES  – a film by Michael Barnett chronicles the lives of these dedicated real people as they protect and support their own communities from New York to Seattle to San Diego to Orlando.  They patrol the dark and dangerous streets of their cities, seeking out criminals, evildoers and villains.

A 2011 Slamdance Film Festival winner, SUPERHEROES goes deep inside the world of real-life caped crusaders.  From all over America, these everyday citizens don masks, homemade costumes and elaborate utility belts in an attempt to bring justice to evildoers everywhere.

Meet the Superheroes:

  • Mr. Xtreme: Evildoers Beware!  Mr. Xtreme is a man of conviction and purpose with a loathing of apathy and indifference, he sets out on nightly patrols to deter violent crime before it occurs.  An imposing figure of neon and camouflage, Mr. Xtreme will stop at nothing to protect his community from the villains and goons that reap crime and fear throughout greater San Diego.
  • Zimmer (The New York Initiative): Super is as super does.  Which for Zimmer means living his most authentic self.  Young and restless  and “out” and proud in the best, most productive sense, his work combines his deep interest in technology and computer science, with his impassioned sense of justice that leads him to patrols on the meaner streets of his adopted home in Brooklyn, NY.
  • Dark Guardian: In the shadow world of street drug peddlers, Dark Guardian stands alone as a beacon of light.  Seemingly unafraid, he heads out to parks where drugs are being sold in plain sight of passersby and children, and does everything within his power to drive those dealers out of the park—hopefully never to return.  New York based.
  • Life: He didn’t grow up with much, but that didn’t stop him from giving to others.  He is Life, tirelessly and selflessly working on behalf of Manhattan’s homeless population.  Minimally costumed in a mask and tie-and-jacket, he sets out every day, delivering the smaller necessities of a life lived on the streets in a large metropolis.  Raised in the Jewish tradition of leaving the world a better place than the way he found it, he was imbued at an early age with strong values of charity, courtesy and kindness.
  • And Many more…

SUPERHEROES will be available for all to experience when it has its world broadcast premiere on HBO on August 8 at 9PM ET/PT as part of the HBO summer documentary series.  For more information on the film, please go to the film’s website:  http://www.superheroesthemovie.com