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

Just where is The Liberty Brigade --
over 5 years ago – Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 12:56:45 AM

I want to thank everyone for your complete patience with us as we go about finishing the set of books comprising this graphic novel and opening tale of the Liberty Brigade.  We are awful late and just cannot say "thank you" enough for you, the loyal backers for your patience and continued support -- here is where we are:

1.  The Graphic Novel - the was solicited as an 80 page story and is now clocking in at 112 pages.  Every single page has been penciled, inked and colored.  We are just working on some patch panels and recoloring and finalizing the dialogue.

2.  Heroes Origins - this was going to be 20 pages in the graphic novel BUT instead, as we said before, it is now a separate comic book that has doubled in size and is 40 pages cover to cover.  The copies are all printed and here onsite.  

3.  The #0 Issue - printed by Ka-Blam and here onsite.

4.  The Source File comic - printed and here onsite.

5.  The Villains origin (regular plus variant covers) - this is an additional purchase and is printed and here onsite.

So, in addition to the extra 50 pages of art/story, we also added 3 more "thank you's" for your amazing patience and they are:

a) The Barry Kitson print - this is printed and here onsite.

b) The Liberty Brigade:  Lost Scenes.  This 10 page comic book features art by DC artist Geraldo Borges and has been penciled, inked, lettered and colored and awaits printing.  We've been putting up some of the interior pin-up pages for you all to see.

c) The Coming of the Liberty Brigade - this will be 6-8 pages by artist Mike Lilly.  The last page is being inked by Bob Almond and Mike is working on the cover.   We are not too far away from completion.

So, we are up to about 70 extra pages which we think round out and make the story everything we want it to be and everything we owe to you-- our most patient backers.  And, yes, we should have stopped adding things and just finished everything but we really wanted a phenomenal story for everybody and I think you are going to see we've poured ourselves into every page.

Last, everyone should have this on/before Labor Day.  I know it that is a few months away but we need to wrap up the two books (color/print) and then get the graphic novel fully lettered.  We actually should beat this date but we put in a little wiggle room.  Darrin and the whole team are in finalization mode as we move to wrap up the final 2 free books and get them and the graphic novel to the printer.     Please give us this time as we are nearly there and are working to get this finished and finalized.

March Update - Progress Continues
over 5 years ago – Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 09:58:53 PM

Lots going on here at Brigade HQ -- 

- On the main Graphic Novel with over 100 pages, we are adding some patch panels here and there to help the actions/story flow -- an example is below where Barry Kitson has done a new panel for us.   Dialogue is continuing and then off to Mark Waid for edits.  The FREE "LOST SCENES" Book has been penciled, inked, colored and dialogued and we await one more page of colors we need to send to colorist Chris Ivy before the book goes off for lettering and then the printer - should have it in the last page in hand within 2 weeks and off to the printer in March.  The free COMING OF THE LIBERTY BRIGADE by Mike Lilly - Mike has a single interior page to pencil and then the cover as well; Bob Almond is ready to ink and Chris Sotomayor has colored all the completed pages already.  

Below some artwork as we move as quickly as we can to wrap things up on it and we hope to get it to the printer in April.  We are hoping and working to see if we can get the graphic novel to the printer at the same time.

January Status
over 5 years ago – Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 06:15:36 AM

The books have arrived (#0, Sourcebook, Heroes Files, Villains Files and the Free print for all of you for being so patient -- see) photo.  

AND, we are on the last page of the first of the TWO free books for being so darn patient -- The Liberty Brigade:  The Lost Scenes.  The cover is below (changed from Director's Cut) and so is the work in progress on the last page.  We plan to get the page colored and lettered, proofed and off to the printer in February.

And here is the inked opening page from the second free book, THE COMING OF THE LIBERTY BRIGADE with art by Mike Lilly - yes, you can't see much from it as it is a bit of a surprise story.  Mike is wrapping up the last page of the book and then the cover.  This too will be colored, lettered and proofed and probably hit the printer in the first/second week of March.

 And here is part of the last page of this book from Mike - The American Eagle v. Nazi Mephisto -

Which leaves the graphic novel -- we are 2/3 through lettering and should get that off to the printer after we have the two free books done for all of you - thank you again for your patience  -- these two free books are terrific and I know you will all be thrilled.  

For those who are upset, I apologize again, note that we have added a free print, two free comic books and numerous pages to the graphic novel -- it will all be ready soon.

Brief Update!
almost 6 years ago – Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 11:34:22 PM

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Happy Holidays and Xmas Gift
almost 6 years ago – Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 08:33:11 PM

.....I know we are the latest project on Earth but please know we are working very hard to wrap it all up.  Several of you have asked about whether we were doing anything special for all of you for all of your patience and the answer is a resounding yes -- I am happy to be able to announce the following two books which are going to be printed in a 1,000 issue print run and never reprinted in this particular format again.  This will be delivered free to all of you that ordered the graphic novel and digitally to those who were digital only.

FIRST - The Liberty Brigade:  The DIrector's Cut - this has a several scenes we wanted to have in the main story and just couldnt' fit in so we had DC/Marvel artist Geraldo Borges do them anyway and we wrote in the text that we would have used.  This will never be reprinted again in this format as a stand-alone book.  It is just a THANK YOU for all of you who stuck with us!

Second, we have a second book as well THE COMING OF THE LIBERTY BRIGADE and we'll show off art for that right after the New Year.  Again, it will  NOT be reprinted as as stand-alone comic and is a thank you for all of your patience.  

Thank you for sticking with us, thank you for understanding how hard we are working to make this great and thank you for your patience -- it is so very appreciated -- back to finishing the main book.  For those who want to know, every single page is penciled, inked and colored.  We've been working on patch panels here and there and finishing the dialogue/lettering -- back soon.

Below - The Liberty Brigade:  The Director's Cut - a sampling of the pages as our thank you to all of you!  The book is free to you guys and we will have it at the printer shortly...