After storming out of her crappy coffee shop job, perpetual NYU grad student Olive Hopkins decides to throw a massive pity party for herself using the last of her meager savings. She discovers the next morning that not only does she have a massive hangover: she’s somehow been transported into The Ninth Kingdom, a fantasy realm straight out of that section of the Barnes and Noble she always avoided. How’d she get here? How’s she going to get home? Most of all: where can she get a good slice and a pack of Camel Lights? She’s dying here.
"The team of creators spin such a yarn that the $2 price is almost maddening."
"…provides a refreshing change from your run of the mill tights and fights books."
"Church’s script is crisp and full of personality, and Allison’s Art is stylized to the book in a way that’s perfect."
"The agreeable Wander is a natural expansion on the webcomics Church has been producing over the last several years."
Paste Magazine
Olive is exactly the protagonist that a high fantasy book needs to be interesting in 2012.
Wander: Olive Hopkins and The Ninth Kingdom, by Kevin Church and Grace Allison, uses humor and wit to create a tone that invests the audience in the story without them realizing they’re being entertained by a story about elven obsessions and magic wand
Wander: Olive Hopkins and the Ninth Kingdom is my jam.
KINSKI #1 now for sale! Get it now!
KINSKI #1
by Gabriel Hardman
$.99 – Ages 12+ – Frustrated with his dead end career as a chicken feed rep, Joe is looking for something. Turns out that “something” is a four-month-old black lab puppy named Kinski. Joe is going to save this dog. What at first seems like a simple rescue mission escalates into a righteous crusade…but crusades don’t usually work out so well, do they? Kinski is written and drawn by Gabriel Hardman.
I’m drawing the five girls from Madoka Magica, and as an effort to actually use my Tumblr, I’ll be uploading the lineart of one girl each day.
So I’m starting with Madoka, of course! She gets Kyubey, as well. Lucky her.
Brand new series, Kinski by @gabrielhardman, is available for pre-order!
Go grab it now so and get it first thing on 5/15! Easy as pie.
There’s what?
A new two-page WANDER comic for free over at the Monkeybrain Comics site?
By Kevin Church, Les McClaine and Grace Allison?
Well, why didn’t you say so?!
Relevant Links:
Buy Wander from Comixology
An original print I’ll have available at conventions this year! Find me at Anime St. Louis, Stumptown Comics Festival, ACen, and Rose City Comicon.
Here you go! A 6-page full-color, with-all-the-words-and-plot-intact preview of Wander: Olive Hopkins and the Ninth Kingdom #3! We’re aiming to wrap this up in the next two or three weeks and get it in your hands soon after.
We’ve said this before, but it bears repeating: thank you for waiting for this issue. Creator-owned comics like Wander and the rest of the Monkeybrain line require more time and energy from a smaller group of people and having readers who are as patient as you have proven to be is a godsend. As far as we know, we’ve gotten most, if not all, of the health hexes and scheduling curses out of our system and it should be smooth sailing after this. The script for issue #4 is already in the can and #5 is plotted so we’ll be underway with those issues as quickly as we can be.
In the meantime, it would help if more readers found Wander and enjoyed it. The sidebar on our site has a link to buy the either (or both) of our first two issues along with reviews from MTV Geek, The Beat, ComicBook.com and Paste Magazine among others. Do us a favor and tell your friends if you haven’t, and if you have? Maybe you could remind them!
Again, thank you.
Happy Valentine’s Day, Pokefans!
FIRST LOOK: PHABULA #1 - Monkeybrain Comics
A young girl travels across a dangerous landscape of scorcerers and
monsters in search of a means to lift a curse, and along the way she
will have to challenge the greatest forces of her world.
Monkeybrain Comics launches another great new title! Phabula is from creator Dalton Rose. He has been drawing Sacrifice for writer Sam Humphries and Theremin for writer Curt Pires. Phabula is his first personnel work published. Follow him on twitter @daljamros and on Tumblr at daltonjamesrose.tumblr.com. Find his website at daltonjamesrose.com.
$.99 – Ages 15+
Get it tomorrow Wednesday, February 6th!
