The Liberty Brigade - Graphic Novel - 100+ pages of action!!

Latest update
over 6 years ago – Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 08:30:51 PM

As always, thank you for your continued patience as we move to finalize this book.  I'm sure everyone is disappointed in the time it is taking and I'm so sorry for that.    The Villains Origin book is being converted to .pdf and will be sent to buyers in .pdf later this month (take it to the bank) and the Sourcebook just wrapped and should be in .pdf not long after.  Hardcopies will go out all at the same time. Heroes Origin book - our wayward artist (I won't name him) swears he needs just 3 weeks and given the artwork quality, we will wait.  And, the big book is nearly done and ready for the final dialogue.  Here are two more panels from the Heroes Origin book to whet folks whistle -- 

1) Issue #2 - yes, as we wrap issue #1 with Ron Frenz and Barry Kitson, we have already plotted issue #2 with Doug Braithwaite and Barry Kitson.  Doug has finished his part of the book (both pencils and inks) and Barry will move to issue #2 once he finished #1.  We are NOT going to solicit #2 until it is completely done -- lesson learned.  Issue #2 will sport a cover by Alan Davis among others and that too is done.  None of this is slowing issue #1 down at all as we are down to our final 10 or so pages.  Here is the redesign of two Golden Age Characters -- White Panther and Lion Man who will make an appearance in issue #2.

2) Issue #3 - Ron Frenz has already finished a cover for issue #3 as has Joe Benitez.  Plot is done and we'll announce who we are teaming with Barry in short order.  Again, this book will not be solicited until it is done.   I thought I'd show off Ron's pencils.  Obviously, Issue #3 will have a few space characters linking up with The Liberty Brigade.

Quick Update
over 6 years ago – Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 12:21:07 AM

Here is the opening panel to our Origin of the Heroes comic featuring 1-page origins of many of the heroes found in The Liberty Brigade -- Ian Richardson (pencils),  James Pascoe (inks) and Chris Ivy (colors) for the prologue/epilogue for this issue.

First Update of 2020
almost 7 years ago – Sun, Jan 19, 2020 at 11:46:03 PM

Barry Kitson continues to WOW us with his artwork -- check out this amazing splash page

Also, MORE GOOD NEWS - we have finally proofed the Villains pdf where we are now happy with it and it should be ready to go out to purchases in .pdf form in the next week or so -- we'll update you when that happens.  And, Right Behind that is the Encyclopedia.

As for the graphic novel, we are in the home stretch of the pencils but we then need scripting time, inking, etc.   I want to thank every single person for your continued patience.  I hope these very frequent updates show you how hard we are all working on this book.

Almost the End of Year Update
almost 7 years ago – Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 11:10:13 PM

Ok - we are on the upteenth proofing of the Villains Book and believe it ought to be done this week - we jut have a few words on the cover and we are then done with this one and to bed.  

On the encyclopedia, we are doing a few rewrites on a few characters --

On the Heroes Origins - we still wait on a SINGLE artist to wrap his pages (and yes, this artist knows he is very very very late -- stay tuned) -- in the meantime, we are working on the cover and we wanted to share the raw pencils and the first step inks on the Heroe's Origins cover by Chris Malgrain - hope you love it.

And, the graphic novel - we are about 15 pages left - Barry is getting back on the saddle after a nice x-mas and I should have more to show shortly.  

And for everyone, I know the book is way late and a lot of that is simply underestimating what it took to do a 200+ page project -- we've learned a huge amount and every page screams quality (we think) so be patient and we hope to wrap it up as fast as we can..

Almost X-Mas Update
almost 7 years ago – Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 09:12:19 PM

Quick update for all -- the final (gosh, we hope so) round of edits were just made to the Villains Origin book so everything says we should get that out by Xmas to you in .pdf.  We are now turning the editing attention to the Encyclopedia and hope that is out quickly to each of you in .pdf as well.

In terms of art, Chris Sotomayor has colored 85 pages of the graphic (including the graphic novel bonus stories)-- here is a panel for you all to see -- and Barry just turned in pencils to page 73 and is now onto page 74.  Here is a panel for you all.

I'll be scripting pages throughout the holiday as we move into the final stages -- please do know that Barry has a several DPS pages that have 30+ characters per page so please be patient as his work is truly outstanding.