Between The Staples

As many may or may not know — I am an (associate) editor with Zeros 2 Heroes for the Comic Creation Nation campaign and working on Abigail’s War comic book.

Abigail’s War is a great story by Jennica Harper which has a lost innocence feel to it. The book is not your typical hero comic book but has more of a historic Vertigo feel. The “hero” is Abigail, a young witch, on the run from her past who is trying to find a brief moment to catch her breath while being caught up in the turbulence of the changing world her. Sandrine Replat is a french artist who is working extremely hard painting the pages with her stunning artwork. Ed Brisson has come on board to be the letterer on the book.

Our deadline for the beginning of July has made things a touch chaotic but in a good way. We are all working very hard to get the book complete. I am very fortunate to be apart of this amazing comic book creation process. Ensuring that everything is coming together on time and with the look and feel that the writer Jennica Harper envisioned. Zeros 2 Heroes ensures that the creators vision is supported throughout the process which is unlike some other companies which take the script and bang out a comic book. I work closely with Jennica and the art team along each step of the way.

Check out everything that is Abigail’s War here:
http://www.zeros2heroes.com/component/option,com_book/Id,10/

Check out the gallery of the artwork from the production of Abigail’s War here:
http://www.zeros2heroes.com/gallery/312

Read Jennica Harper’s blog on Zeros 2 Heroes here:
http://www.zeros2heroes.com/component/option,com_myblog/blogger,Yen/Itemid,110/

Check out our production blog about Abigail’s War and all the books that are in production for the Comic Creation Nation:
http://blog.zeros2heroes.com/

Also check out the Beta book Gustav Hayes: Lounge Singer of the Apocalypse by Morgan Jeske that I worked on here:
http://blog.zeros2heroes.com/category/gustav-hayes/

Did you love the ReBoot series? If so then go here and check out the new ReBoot Reborn online comic book made by Zeros 2 Heroes and Rainmaker Entertainment (who won a PopVox award for their ReBoot Reborn campaign) which went live on May 30th!

http://www.reboot.com/

Congrats to Zeros 2 Heroes & Rainmaker for winning a Pop Vox award for Best Digital Campaign for A ReBoot ReLaunch!

You can watch the PopVox Awards Webcast @ VIDFEST here:
http://2008.vidfest.com/2008/05/23/popvox-awards-live-webcast-vidfest-2/
(they win around the 9.30 min mark)Great job to everyone at Zeros 2 Heroes!

As you may or may not know, Zeros 2 Heroes is up for a Popvox award for our ReBoot Relaunch campaign!

Zeros 2 Heroes would love it if you would not only vote for Z2H in the competition, but use your network and influence to encourage as many other people as you can to do likewise. To make life easier, Z2H has set up detailed instructions on how to vote here:

http://rebootcomic.zeros2heroes.com/?p=464

Please go and Vote now!

Welcome to my Last of the Best Bang for yer Comic Buck. For over 10+ months, I have been doing the Best Bang, week after week and I only missed a few weeks. Sure the initial idea for the Between the Staples website was based on the reviews I wrote for the Happy Harbor website eons ago. Later I decided to make those reviews into its own website. It has been a great run and I would like to thank those at Zeros 2 Heroes for allowing me the Best Bang to be featured on the their blog website. I do feel that the Best Bang has lost its charm. Everyone and their dog are now blogging the bite sized reviews along with the old classic long ranting reviews. I feel it is time for a change so I plan to start putting my mind into other ideas for the website. I also will be directing my energy into other venues like my writing. I have spent much more time worrying about the Best Bang each week than doing my web work that pays for my addiction. That has to change so for now… this is the last Best Bang until it rises from the ashes in its new form.

So all that said, I am going to spotlight only a hand full of great books this week as I found that there was not much to be excited about. Batman, Might Avengers and the final wrap up for The Death of the New Gods (which obviously is being overlooked in Countdown which makes no sense). Given all the New Gods are gone and the Fifth World is close to coming together (or has), I find it fitting that their heads will be the ranking for the Last of the Best Bang. Comics from Hourglass Comics as I did not have time to make it to Elfsar Comics & Toys this week.

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