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AfterShock Comics Emerges from Chapter 11
Top Independent Publisher of Critically Acclaimed Creator-Owned Comics to Return to Comic Shops and Bookstores
SBS Options The Normals Comic Book
via WorldScreen: Australia’s SBS has optioned AfterShock Comics’ The Normals graphic novel by Adam Glass for a TV adaptation. The Normals centers around one man who finds out his perfect life and family may be an illusion, leading him on a crusade to save what he believes is real. The adaptation is being produced by Werner Films and distributed by Rive Gauche Television. Werner Films’ Joanna Werner and Stuart Menzies are executive producing alongside Glass and AfterShock’s Jon Kramer, Carrie Stein and Lee Kramer. “Think about your ‘life’ for a moment–the people you’ve known, the ones you’ve loved and all the stuff...
Orlando and MacDonald Pit Father Against Son in “Bulls of Beacon Hill”
via Multiversity Comics: AfterShock Comics have announced “Bulls of Beacon Hill,” a searing crime thriller from writer Steve Orlando, artist Andy MacDonald, colorist Lorenzo Scaramella, and letterer Carlos M. Mangual. The comic follows Doctor Christopher Boldt, a surgeon running for Boston City Council. Unbeknown to the wider public, his father, Orin Paige, is one of Boston’s most notorious gangsters. Until now, Paige had been happy “to deny any connection to his queer son, who he sees as a liability in the mob world. Now, Chris’s political aspirations have put father and son on a collision course. A collision course bathed...
Fawkes & Fritella team for ALL NIGHT & EVERY DAY
Via The Beat: AfterShock Comics is expanding its series of ‘One-Shock’ done-in-one specials this December. The publisher has announced All Night & Every Day, a new one-shot from writer Ray Fawkes, artist Andrea Frittella, colorist Sara Colella, and letterer Matt Krotzer. Here’s how AfterShock describes All Night & Every Day: It’s time to party! While celebrating is the last thing grief-stricken introvert Michaela wants to do, her friends drag her out for the night and end up trapping her in a hellish curse: a party that never ends, with no way to escape…not even by dying! Now she must navigate the labyrinth of the legendary Banquet Hideous all...
AfterShock Announces “Maniac of New York: Don’t Call It a Comeback”
via Multiversity Comics: AfterShock Comics have announced a third volume of writer Elliott Kalan and artist Andrea Mutti’s hit horror satire, “Maniac of New York: Don’t Call It a Comeback.” The latest installment sees New York celebrating the demise of serial killer Maniac Harry, with Maniac Task Force Director Gina Greene now disappeared to parts unknown. Zelda Pettibone, the NYPD detective who helped her take him down, is struggling to resume her life, when a copycat emerges, attacking locals in Central Park. Kalan says, “The first thing readers will discover in ‘Vol. 3: Don’t Call It a Comeback,’ is how...