Spinner Rack: Who Wants Some Free Comics?
I’m looking toward next week and a re-write of my novel… so I’m giving away some free books!
No new books coming out this week… unless I’ve missed something. Two weeks without a new comic on the shelf is very unlike me. But I definitely suggest visiting your favorite comic book retailer anyway! There are plenty of other good books to pick up up… and you can pre-order some of my upcoming titles while you’re there!
Today’s a stressful day for me. I’ve got a meeting in a few hours that is extremely important, a meeting which could bring about some tough decisions. I didn’t sleep well last night. I don’t know how much work I’ll get done today. But I’ll get through it.
THE FARAWAY is still live on Kickstarter, but only for EIGHT MORE DAYS! We’ve reached our funding goal, but we’re really hoping to do a little better with the campaign. If you haven’t thrown some support our way, please CHECK IT OUT!
We know the story, right? While playing a fantasy role-playing game, a group of friends accidentally transports themselves into a fantasy world. Therein, they meet a friendly magical gnome who grants them magical weapons and guides them through their adventures. They face dark forces, but they rise into the roles of heroes and reaffirm the lifelong bonds of friendship in the process.
Yeah.
This isn’t that story.
Our heroes are transported into a magical kingdom of warriors and wizards and dragons and catacombs, yes. They meet a friendly magical gnome, yes. They are granted magical artifacts of great power, yes. But, within minutes of arriving in the fantasy world, this group of five college students finds themselves thrown into an adventure that is more horror than high fantasy.
Our heroes have arrived, you see, in the DARKEST if dark fantasy worlds, where the “evil overlord” has already successfully conquered the realm and enslaved all of the free peoples. It is a nightmare realm populated by the most awful monsters and the most cruel sorcerers and warlords.
Think of it as a tale of survival horror... in a land like Mordor… if the corruption of Mordor spread across all of Middle Earth.
Trapped in this violent, vicious, unforgiving, terrifying (and terrifyingly lethal) realm, our heroes struggle for survival as, at every turn, they are faced with malignant monsters, foul magic, and fiendish foes.
Written by master of horror comics Cullen Bunn and illustrated by high-energy artist Vitalii Kalchenko, THE FARAWAY takes the familiar tropes of “gamers trapped in a fantasy world” and twists them into something reaaaaaal naasty.
If you missed the campaign for the first issue, don’t worry! You can grab that issue right along with issue 2!
To join the fun and back this awesome book, visit the campaign page now!
As of next week, I’ll be hurling myself headlong into the re-write of my upcoming novel BONES OF OUR STARS, BLOOD OF OUR WORLD. It means I won’t be doing a lot of comic work for about a month. I’m not forgetting comics, though, and for that reason I’m running a little contest. I’m giving away 50 comics/graphic novels, all autographed, to one lucky winner. There are a ton of ways to enter, so please join in!
And, just to keep you in the loop, here’s a look at books that are coming up in the near future!
Thanks for checking out this missive! My books can be found at (or ordered from) your favorite comic book retailer! I hope you’ll check them out!
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