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Beyond Real
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The Matrix meets The Wizard of Oz in BEYOND REAL: The Complete Series, a mind-bending psychedelic journey through the nature of reality - and who we really are.
QUESTION REALITY.
When struggling artist June is injured in a severe car accident that leaves her boyfriend in a coma, she begins to experience strange visual phenomena. When June discovers that the world she considers "reality" may be a computer simulation, she must set out on a journey of possibility and peril into the metaphysical layers of the simulation to reach the world's creator and save her true love from death.
Beyond Real explores simulation theory, the creative spirit, the nature of reality, and the struggle for self-determination.
Are we real - or are we living in a computer simulation?
What is reality? Is death an illusion?
Enter the world that is ... Beyond Real.
Beyond Real, written by Zack Kaplan (MINDSET from Vault Comics) is joined by a slate of spectacular artists including Fabiana Mascolo, Toni Fejzula, Jordie Bellaire, Vincenzo Riccardi, Dennis Menheere, Jorge Corona, and Liana Kangas.
Collects the entire six-issue mind-altering and acclaimed series!
For fans of: Everything Everywhere All At Once, The Matrix, Alice In Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, What Dreams May Come (Richard Matheson), Promethea (Alan Moore & J.H. Williams III), The Invisibles (Grant Morrison), Flex Mentallo (Grant Morrison & Frank Quitely), Ghost in the Shell, Nonplayer (Nate Simpson),Permutation City (Greg Egan), Sea of Tranquility (Emily St. John Mandel), The Restoration Game (Kevin MacLeod), The Peripheral , Agency,and Neuromancer (William Gibson) ,Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow (Gabrielle Zevin), and Neil Gaiman,
"Visually arresting. Unlike anything ... seen before. 10/10" - Kabooooom!
"As close to perfect as my be possible. 10/10" - The Pullbox
"A visual feast. 9.5/10" - AIPT
"Mind-blowing and visually stunning. 9/10" - Capes and Tights
"A sci-fi mindf*uck in the best possible way. 9/10" - Derry Comics
The Nasty
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The Ring meets Empire Records in THE NASTY, a coming-of-age horror story splattered with dark comedy, as a group of horror movie-loving teens bites off more than they can handle when the most sought-after video nasty ever slips through their fingers, and they are forced to film their own video nasty slasher movie - where evil, screams, and nightmares bleed into reality.
Keep telling yourself: "It's Only a Movie. It's ONLY a Movie! IT'S ONLY A MOVIE!!!
Isn't it?
CALLING ALL SCARY MOVIE FANS!
MACABRE MAYHEM! SATANIC PANIC!
Scotland, 1994.
Eighteen-year-old Graeme "Thumper" Connell still has an imaginary friend: the masked killer from his favorite slasher film. Thumper is obsessed with horror and always has been. He fills his time with scary VHS rentals and hanging out with his friends and fellow fans, The Murder Club. But everything changes when his local video shop acquires one of the notorious films known as "video nasties" -- films so scary they're the target of the British Moral Decency League's crusade to ban and burn.
But it's only a movie, right?
It's all just imaginary, isn't it?
The Nasty is a story about the perception of evil, the power of genre, the love of fandom, the need to create art, oh, and crap-your-pants TERROR! Become a bonafide member of The Murder Club: pick up this book!
For fans of Stranger Things, Stand By Me, IT, The Monster Squad, Donnie Darko,Empire Records, My Best Friend's Exorcism (Grady Hendrix), Silver Nitrate (Silvia Moreno-Garcia), Horror Movie (Paul Tremblay) and other books by Grady Hendrix, fans of Stephen King and Neil Gaiman, Little Monsters (Jeff Lemire & Dustin Nguyen), The Closet (James Tynion IV), The Me You Love in the Dark (Skottie Young & Jorge Corona), Giant Days, Afterlife With Archie, Killadelphia (Rodney Barnes & Jason Shawn Alexander), and Proctor Valley Road.
PRAISE FOR THE NASTY
"... dips slyly into the politics of censorship, and celebrates the passionate community that comes from rebelling against it." -- Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
"... a perfect blend of history, heart, and kitsch." -- Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
A "Horror Comics To Watch For in 2023" - Fangoria
"This rollicking dark comedy...brings Britain's 1980s "video nasty" moral panic into the spotlight in a delightfully updated way." -- Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
"There is no other title I have been more excited about than this because it is a love letter to horror while tackling the conservatism we are seeing rise in pop culture today..." - Fangoria
"If you're a fan of slasher movies, creative plot twists, and 90s nostalgia, you need The Nasty in your life." -- You Promised Me Comics
"The Nasty is a bloody valentine to slashers and the outsiders who love them."- AIPT
"A blood-splattered love letter to VHS and horror. " -- Dave Scheidt (Avatar The Last Airbender, Adventure Time, Mayor Good Boy)
"This is an over the top kind of story..., and it makes the horror FUN!" - Big Comic Page
"The Nasty is a love letter to slasher flicks and a generation of kids who loved them. Tender, funny, surprising, endearing, with an emerging horrific twist. We had Faces of Death as the taboo underground horror tape that was whispered about but it wasn't cursed. The Nasty takes a fun nostalgic trip down memory lane and elevates it to a new level of horror. - Lotusland Comics
"The Nasty is a wholesome horror romp... pay(ing) homage to horror classics." - Jake's Take Horror Journal
"Everything about this story is pumped full of nostalgia and slasher movie goodness that will keep the pages turning so quickly that you might just burn a hole in the comic." - You Promised Me Comics
Sainted Love Vol. 1
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THE TIME MACHINE meets MIDNIGHTER & APOLLO in SAINTED LOVE Vol. 1: A Time to Fight - a steamy, genre-blending gay, science fiction, era-spanning, adventure-packed graphic novel!
A SEXY, TIME TRAVEL ROMANCE TOO POWERFUL TO BE CONTAINED IN A SINGLE ERA!
New York City, 1907.
Malcolm "Mac" Irina is the greatest inventor the world's never heard of, and his lover, John Wolf, is the toughest bare-knuckle boxer in the city. Irina's crowning invention, the Chronocorridor, is nearly complete. He dreams of whisking himself and Wolf away to a time when they can live and love freely. But when crazed Detective Felt raids Irina's lab, the couple dive into the freshly powered-up portal to escape capture.
Sainted Love is a steamy time-traveling adventure series, equal parts romance and science fiction as two heroes fight for their love while journeying across centuries of history. It's sexy, it's exciting, it's fast-paced. It's a gay romance that sees queer heroes become legends themselves as they explore and adventure through iconic times in queer history, from the passion of gay saints Sergius and Bacchusto to the Lavender Mafia of the 1970s, and in between. Irina and Wolf first think they need to return home, but they soon realize that their real calling is elsewhere in time, to places where they're free to love and exists as who they are and eras that desperately need their help.
Steve Orlando (Eisner and GLAAD Award nominated writer of Scarlet Witch, Spider-Man 2099, Wonder Woman) and Giopota (artist+creator of beloved webcomic Mothersea) hurl you across time with Irina and Wolf, as they encounter famous queer people throughout history and fight back against all who would see their names and love erased!
SAINTED LOVE Vol. 1: A Time to Fight collects issues #1-3 of the acclaimed series and successfully-funded Kickstarter!
For fans and readers of: Doctor Who, Black Mirror, Quantum Leap, The Time Machine (H.G. Wells), The Star Rover (Jack London), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Mark Twain), Check, Please! (Ngozi Ukazu), Paper Girls (Brian K. Vaugh/Cliff Chiang), Moonstruck (Grace Ellis, Kate Leth, Shae Beagle), The Prince & The Dress Maker (Jen Wang), Bingo Love (Tee Franklin, Jenn St. Onge, Joy San, Genevieve FT) Sunstone (Stjepan Sejic), Money Shot (Tim Seeley), Midnighter and Apollo (Steve Orlando)
PRAISE FOR SAINTED LOVE:
"...a giddy mashup of sci-fi adventure and queer romance." -- Publishers Weekly
"This is slick comics storytelling and lots of fun." -- Publishers Weekly
Unnatural Order Vol. 1
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ZERO DARK THIRTY meets LORD OF THE RINGS and GAME OF THRONES in UNNATURAL ORDER Vol. 1: The Prisoner, a genre-blending tale of dark fantasy, science fiction, and action adventure by writer/creator Chris Yost (co-creator of Marvel's X-23 and writer of films (THOR: Ragnarok) and series STAR WARS: THE MANDALORIAN) and artist Val Rodrigues where the world is not how it's supposed to be.
EVERYONE WANTS TO CHANGE THE WORLD.
One will transform it.
One will save it.
One will destroy it.
After the fall of the Britons and the Roman invasion of Hibernia, the captive known only as the Druid is released, sending a darkness across the world...an age of horrors, of fire, and entrails. As the innocent burn in the Wicker fields, those who would resist learn of the existence of a man who even the Druid fears. For it is this prisoner, a soldier from a different time, who alone knows the Druid's secret: this is not how the world is supposed to be.
Collects issue #1- 4 of the gripping, genre-bending, action-packed sci-fi dark fantasy series!
For fans and readers of: Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, Rainbow Six (Tom Clancy), Rainbow Six: SIEGE (video game); Timeline (Michael Crichton), The Man in the High Castle (Philip K. Dick), The Castaways in Time series (Robert Adams), Seven to Eternity (Rick Remender / Image Comics), Black Science (Rick Remender & Matteo Scalera / Image Comics), Vanish (Donny Cates /Image Comics), Barbaric (Michael Moreci & Nathan C. Gooden / Vault), Brandon Sanderson's Dark One (Vault), Monstress (Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda / Image Comics), The Sacrificers (Rick Remender / Image Comics), Briar (Christopher Cantwell & German Garcia / BOOM!) Coda (Simon Spurrier & Mattias Bergara / BOOM!), Once Upon A Time at the End of the World (Jason Aaron & Alexandre Tefenkgi / BOOM!), Something is Killing the Children (James Tynion and Werther Dell'Edera /Image), Grim, W0rldtr33 (James Tynion, Jordie Bellaire, Fernando Blanco / Image), Conan the Barbarian, and Hellboy
From writer Chris Yost ,(co-creator of X-23, writer of X-men, Amazing Spider-man, Batman, Avengers, and more!), films (Thor: Ragnarok and Secret Headquarters), and television/streaming (Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Cowboy Bebop) and in-demand artist Val Rodrigues!
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