HELENA CRASH #4
Having barely survived her duel with White Demon, Helena tries to get back to normal. But she realizes there’s no turning back when she discovers Hemingway has been abducted by Rojo’s men. Down but never out, Helena comes up with a plan. A plan that involves a good old-fashioned death race!
HELENA CRASH #1
From writer Fabian Rangel Jr (Space Riders) and artist Warwick Johnson-Cadwell (Tank Girl) comes a new pulse pounding, caffeine fueled, sword swinging, machine-gun firing, car crashing sci-fi adventure comic! In a future where coffee is illegal, Helena is a courier, delivering black market goods to anyone who can afford her services. When Rojo, a ruthless crime boss, asks her to assassinate his rival, the alien mobster known as White Demon, Helena finds herself in the middle of a gang war! To survive, Helena must use all of her skills, and seek help from her friends to stay ahead of her enemies!
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DOC UNKNOWN Vol. 3: The War for Gate City
Doc Unknown is a series of great fun that saw it’s success surge through ComiXology Submit and Kickstarter. Doc Unknown is a self-publishing dynamo with its 2 successful Kickstarters keeping the series going the last four years. After seeing such success with the first installments, writer Fabian Rangel Jr (Extinct, Los Muertos) turned a four issue mini-series into a brilliant and fun epic of Golden-Age inspired heroics. Add the heavy black shadows, strong jaws, and choice colors of Ryan Cody’s illustration and readers are left with a perspective more akin to the pulp noir books of the 1940s. All that’s missing are colorful and interesting villains for the good doctor to smack around.
Just kidding! There are tons of them! There are many foolish villains for Unknown to break the teeth of! Especially in this, the thrilling conclusion!!
We find our hero…having a deserved night out with his special lady-type friend, Helen. It is New Year’s Eve, and there isn’t anything like a penthouse party with loved ones to soothe a hero’s sore knuckles. But alas, Warren (that’s the Doc’s real name) sees an impossible green light shining off a rooftop blocks away. Warren finds that he is the only person that can see this light, and must depart from the festivities without delay. Not even a page later does Doc Unknown swing his foot into the jaw of the dreaded Sub-Creatures of Min Yao! I don’t know what they are, but they’re scary and he swings his heel right into one. Before that page is done, he punches another one’s teeth out in the proper pulp way!
A few wild fists and one big green teleportation light later and the Doc comes to in an abandoned apartment surrounded by three cloaked figures: The Conjurer, the Apparition, and another Doc Unknown?! It is revealed to Warren mere moments after the reveal of his doppelganger, that there are “legions” of other Doc Unknowns living in hundreds of other timelines. But that particular detail isn’t important right now, because these three would-be kidnappers have to warn Warren of the coming war and the hand he is to play in it!
This whole series is fantastic! The energy is actually non-stop, and it has every potential opportunity for a ridiculous thing to happen set up to happen one after the other with a new ridiculous thing! And yes, that is what a story is supposed to do. The difference here is the timing, and pacing is faster and in no way drags out. No punches are in the least pulled, especially when the book wraps up. Doc Unknown goes through 2 separate fistfights, gets projected through time and space twice, meets a wizard both when he’s old and young, and fights with a demon using shuriken and smoke bombs before expelling it back to the “Hidden Realm.” And that only puts you at maybe 20 pages into this volume, give or take a page or two.
Give this volume a look and definitely take a look at the whole series. In the meantime, I’m going to work on a nickname for fans of this series.
I see nothing I don’t like about this book. It is some of the most fun anybody can have reading a comic. Fistfights, gunfights, possession, mystics, wizards, kung-fu, ambushes, warrior cults, inter-dimensional hero guilds, and some other outrageous sweetness grace the pages of just this volume. I have to insist that if you’re interested, you should go back and read this series before this volume, but you don’t have to in the least. Volume 3 stands on its own as one hell of a thrill ride.
ComiXology is going to C2E2!!
We’re sponsoring artist alley and will have a bunch of tables over there where some incredible comiXology submit creators will be selling their comics. Come by and buy something from one of our guests or ask us a question at one of our panels and get a free comiXology t-shirt (seen below)! We’re also giving our high quality prints of the art you see above designed by Ted Naifeh (Courtney Crumrin, Princess Ugg), featuring the cast of Fabian Rangel Jr’s Doc Unknown. Each day will have a different color, so these will be extremely limited runs. Make sure to head over to our neck of the woods early and snag one for yourself!
ComiXology @ C2E2 2015
Limited edition comiXology Submit posters to be given away at C2E2 2015 in celebration of Artist Alley sponsorship
Poster features characters from Fabian Rangel Jr.’s comiXology Submit smash hit Doc Unknown as rendered by superstar creator Ted Naifeh
Each day of the show features one of three different pulp color themes
April 21st, 2015 – New York, NY – ComiXology Submit is sponsoring Artist Alley at this weekend’s C2E2 convention, and to celebrate, comiXology is giving away special limited edition posters each day of the show from April 24th through April 26th at the McCormick Center in Chicago, IL. These posters feature Fabian Rangel Jr.’s comiXology Submit smash hit Doc Unknown as rendered by superstar creator Ted Naifeh (Courtney Crumrin and the Night Things, Princess Ugg) and are limited to 500 copies daily, with a new pulp color theme offered each day. Posters will be available first come, first served to those that stop by the comiXology Submit tables in Artist Alley where Rangel Jr. and Naifeh will be signing.
“ComiXology Submit empowers creators and cartoonists to get their work directly to fans across the world. Fabian’s runaway hit series Doc Unknown epitomizes that,” said John D. Roberts, comiXology co-founder and Director of Submit “We’re excited to have Ted Naifeh, who has long history of super successful creator-owned work, to do his take on Doc Unknown. I can’t wait until fans get their hands on these posters.”
In addition to the poster giveaway, comiXology will also be giving away t-shirts and Kindle Fire tablets at their panels and John D. Roberts will be doing portfolio reviews in Artist Alley.
ComiXology Submit, comiXology’s digital self-publishing portal, enables comic creators and cartoonists the ability to easily reach comiXology’s global audience of comic, graphic novel, and manga fans.
Those interested in submitting work to comiXology Submit should visit submit.comixology.com. Once the work is uploaded and approved, comiXology transforms the work with its immersive Guided View reading technology and makes it available across comiXology’s cloud-based digital comics platform. “Submitters” and comiXology split profits equally with submitters maintaining full ownership of their work.
Comic book, graphic novel, and manga fans interested in finding works available through comiXology Submit can visit here.
See below for all the details of comiXology’s location and events at this weekend’s C2E2:
comiXology Artist Alley Tables:Table # T2 - T6
Portfolio Reviews with John D. Roberts: 2-3 PM CST on Friday April 24th & Saturday, April 26th
Panels:
ComiXology Submit: The Future of Self-Publishing
Room S405a
Date: Fri. April 24
Time: 7:45 PM - 8:45 PMJoin John D. Roberts (Director of comiXology Submit) along with breakout Submit creators Art Baltazar (Aw Yeah Comics), Enrica Jang (Red Stylo Media) and Fabian Rangel, Jr. (Doc Unknown) for a tell-all discussion on how you too can create, submit and reach the ranks of comiXology Submit stardom!
Comics: Where to Begin?
Room S405a
Date: Sun. April 26
Time: 3:45 PM - 4:45 PMJoin comiXology’s marketing maven Chip Mosher, with The comiXologist Podcast hosts Matt Kolowski and Kara Szamborski, along with our comics industry special guests Nick Barrucci (Publisher of Dynamite Comics) and Stephanie Cooke (Talking Comics podcast) as they become your guides through the awesome world of comics!