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So today we got our socks blown off by some of the greatest fan mail we have ever received here at Archaia. No, these staggeringly awesome pages of art are not ripped from the Cursed Pirate Girl book, but are instead a thank you letter from Daniel Ginex for sending him a few of our titles. Daniel is a librarian and teacher at Near North Montessori School in Chicago, which is where our Editor-in-Chief Stephen Christy went to grade school growing up. Daniel is an incredibly accomplished artist in his own right (as you can see from his illustrations here) and we’ve been proud to help Near North’s library build up a nice little collection of Archaia graphic novels for the kids who go to school there. Daniel, thank you for the support, and keep drawing!

STRANGE ATTRACTORS - On sale soon!

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?

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(via Review: Cyborg 009 #0 - Home - Comic Bastards)

We recently released CYBORG 009 Chapter 000 as an individual issue, check out what Comic Bastards has to say about the action packed re-imagined sci-fi epic!

ARCHAIA PANEL OF THE DAY - AN ELEGY FOR AMELIA JOHNSON

As Amelia’s condition worsens, she calls her 2 best friends, best friends that have never met each other until the tragedy of their mutual friend brings them together. Amelia has a special request, a task she asks of them both as one last favor to her- what could it be?