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“Mumbai Confidential Book 1: Good Cop, Bad Cop” - Graphic Novel Review by FBC’s Sam Rhodes!
I’m not a noir expert, but I’ve seen the classics: Chinatown, The Maltese Falcon, Touch of Evil, Out of the Past. You get the idea. I love this genre, I love the thrills, I love the characters, the twists, the violence, and treachery. It’s a genre where nothing means what you think it means, and everyone has a secret, a dark past, and ulterior motives. It’s a genre with a deep and ongoing history, and Archaia’s new hardcover graphic novel, Mumbai Confidential, from writer Saurav Mohapatra and artist Vivek Shinde is an inky, burning fuse of a story that deserves a place alongside the classics.
5 Femme Fatales out of 5!
ARCHAIA PANEL OF THE DAY - RETURN OF THE DAPPER MEN
The friendship between these two travellers is more important than either of them realize.
Drunk on Comics has a Strange Attractors review!
“I met Charles Soule at C2E2 when he was featured at the Archaia Entertainment booth. We chatted a bit as I flipped through his OGN Strange Attractors, and I liked the concept enough to buy it on the spot. Now I’ve read it, and I can assure you it’s worth the investment.
First of all, it’s an embossed hardcover. It just feels good in the hand. (Try that with digital.) The art by Greg Scott is perfect. It feels like a movie unspooling with clever camera angles and expressive faces – important, because this is a thinking story not an action story. New York City is featured as both a setting and a character and Greg captures both her grime and opulence perfectly. The colors by Art Lyon & Matthew Petz do an amazing job of making the important moments stand out by using limited palettes on them, while making the rest of the scenes feel vivid and real. The colors are muted, not gaudy, until the effects kick in and then they pop with power.”
You can read the rest of the article on the Drunk on Comics website!
ARCHAIA PANEL OF THE DAY - STORYTELLER
More of the beloved Henson classic, telling stories by the fireplace about all kinds of people and their exciting adventures.
Comics and gaming collide in our graphic novel, HAWKEN: GENESIS, based on the HAWKEN game! Here’s a cool review on @comicsbeat:
Archaia, who makes a strengths out of the crossroads between comics and other visual media, has taken on another estuary zone in HAWKEN: GENESIS, bringing a comic based on a free internet gaming hub, HAWKEN to readers. Flood zones between visual media can be tricky, especially in gauging the right audience for a comic, since there’s not a one to one correspondence between gamers and comics readers in this case. But there is overlap, and Archaia are setting out to find out just how wide that swath is, and how much interest gamers might take in comics and comics readers might take in gaming. What they’ve produced, however, is a graphic novel true to the traditions of comics, featuring the aspects of the comics medium that can even more fully explore the world of HAWKEN in a sci-fi tradition. Add to that a commitment to bringing in comics artists who are well-versed in the medium to interpret the world of gaming into sequential narrative.
Read the rest of the review on ComicsBeat!
“All will be revealed.” Don’t miss our new graphic novel, STRANGE ATTRACTORS, out now in print and digital! Here’s an excerpt from a review by @pipedreamcomics!
It may seem like lazy reviewing to compare Strange Attractors to movies rather than other comics, but its difficult not to as this feels much more cinematic than comic-like. As well as looking like a smart art house movie, it reads like a Woody Allen-esque love letter to New York, but with a mathematical undertone instead of jazz and angst, and really could only work in a city as steeped in modern mythology as the Big Apple.
You can read the rest of the review on Pipedream Comics’s website!
What is Archaia’s connection to STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS?
Zachary Quinto! Quinto, who plays Spock in the film, is one of the founders of Before the Door Productions, a production company we worked with to produce two awesome graphic novels: Lucid and Mr. Murder Is Dead!
MR. MURDER IS DEAD
Written by Victor Quinaz
Illustrated by Brent Schoonover
Murder… Intrigue… Old men doing bad things… Gould Kane is long into his retirement as a top cop. He was once the basis for the world-famous comic strip detective The Spook. But when a not-so-nice man, once nicknamed Mr. Murder, is found dead, the events that unfold could lead Gould to a new and perhaps even greater profession in his twilight…as a very bad man. Mr. Murder Is Dead lives in several worlds. It’s all at once a throwback to the great staples of noir and pulp, while at the same time examining the real-life ramifications of our characters’ choices.
Mr. Murder is Dead is a “who didn’t do it” set in the fading world of Golden Age comic strips. A criminal’s lament to all things past, present and meaningless.
LUCID
Written by Michael McMillian
Illustrated by Anna Wieszczyk
Welcome to the world of Lucid, the action-packed pop-fantasy that draws inspiration from the spy genre, Arthurian legend and 21st-century folklore! Dark forces are conspiring to prevent humankind from reaching its true potential. Thankfully, as newly appointed “Protector of the Realm,” Agent Matthew Dee uses his skills as a covert spy and Combat Mage to ensure America’s freedom from the grip of evil.
You can pick up Mr. Murder Is Deador Lucid at your local comic book shop, wherever books are sold, or at the Archaia webstore. Both titles are also available in digital format on comiXology.
THIRD EYE PICKS OF THE WEEK: STRANGE ATTRACTORS HC — Here’s one that we sneak-peek debuted at our Free Comic Book Day signing last week, and that I’m really excited to see on the shelves this week!
This is going to be one of those killer graphic novels that you’re going to see all over the Top 10 lists at the end of 2013, and we’re telling you now, Third Eye Faithful: make sure you snag yourself a copy of this gorgeous book as soon as ya can; cause it’s a must-have.
In order to set himself up with a cushy job post-graduation, Heller Wilson takes on a subject for his PhD thesis at the behest of his advisor.
This leads him to meet with Dr. Spencer Brownfield, a disgraced Columbia professor who spent his career researching Complex Theory, the idea that one can use mathematics to predict the large-scale outcomes caused by minute changes in environment.
At first, Dr. Brownfield seems crazy, but Heller soon discovers that the doctor’s research might be the only thing keeping New York City from destroying itself from the inside out.
Both in terms of storytelling and artwork, this book is pure quality comics all over the place. A great, compelling plot with gorgeous art that compliments the storytelling perfectly; combined with the incredible design and layout of the book by Archaia, who’ve wowed us with their MOUSE GUARD series, among others.
We highly recommend snagging Strange Attractors this Wednesday, and giving it a shot. It’s a big, pretty hardcover with a powerful story inside.. and it’s only $19.99.
Trust us: you can’t go wrong with this one.
FINALLY. The Killer Vol. 4 gets a real release date. Your favorite assassin is back. June 26 in comic shops.
Ozalids (full-color proofs sent by the printer before going to press) of several upcoming Archaia books!
The newest Archaia original graphic novel hardcover Strange Attractors goes on sale in comic book stores on May 15 and wherever books are sold on May 28!
STRANGE ATTRACTORS Original Graphic Novel Hardcover Retail Price: $19.95 U.S.
Page Count: 128 pages
Format: hardcover, 6.625” x 10.25”, full color
Genre: Sci-Fi
Ship Date: May 15 in comic shops, May 28 wherever books are sold
Rating: T – TEEN (12 and up, may contain mild violence or mild profanity)
Written by Charles Soule
Illustrated by Greg Scott
Cover by Dan Duncan
In order to set himself up with a cushy job post graduation, Heller Wilson takes on a subject for his PhD thesis at the behest of his advisor. This leads him to meet with Dr. Spencer Brownfield, a disgraced Columbia professor who spent his career researching Complex Theory, the idea that one can use mathematics to predict large-scale outcomes caused by minute changes in environment. At first, Dr. Brownfield seems crazy, but Heller soon discovers that the doctor’s research might be the only thing keeping New York City from destroying itself from the inside out! Includes a bonus section of complexity maps created by Robert Saywitz.
There’s a gallery with preview pages at our website- so go check out more about Strange Attractors HERE!
ARCHAIA PANEL OF THE DAY - BLACK FIRE
It’s better to be cautious when you live in a world where you can’t trust your comrades… the world is dark and full of horrible things in Black Fire.
ARCHAIA PANEL OF THE DAY - EVERLAST
When the world has gone to pieces sometimes the only thing keeping you going in being able to do some kind of good… no matter how small.
Nerdspan reviews Pantalones TX! If you have yet to read this amazingly over the top adventure about Chico and his exploits in his hometown of Pantalones TX then head on over to their article to find out more!
“Yehudi Mercado is an animator, and it shows. While he has called Pantalones, TX : Don’t Chicken Out, “Smokey the Bandit meets Peanuts,” his characters’ thick-bordered profiles are more reminiscent of the Hanna Barbera school of limited animation, i.e. the cartoons that begin with Huckleberry Hound, Snagglepuss, or Yogi Bear, and end with Adult Swim. The setting, Pantalones, is a pop-up book city in an over the top angular desert that recalls the backdrop of Warner’s Road Runner cartoons. And just as the characters in a seven minute reel go all out to earn your laughs, so too do the hero and the villain of the piece, Chico Bustamante and Sheriff Cornwallis, have an animated work ethic. Cornwallis, unlike Wile E Coyote, isn’t a dunce cap Da Vinci, but he’s a jack of all trades of a different stripe; he not only enforces law and order in Pantalones, but also teaches a one-room school for Chico’s class and runs a chicken stand–and still has time to read Evil Sheriff magazine. As soon as our hero Chico finishes one Rube Goldberg plan, he hatches another one, which keeps Sheriff Cornwallis busy.”
Read the rest of the review HERE!
ARCHAIA PANEL OF THE DAY - IRON: or the war after
Hardin has barely escaped with his life to procure an important document that could change everything… but will he be able to follow through with his task?
