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December 2013/January 2014
Off Registration December 2013/January 2014
Contents
Off-Background: David Liss pg 6
Comics:
Excerpt from Angelica
Tomorrow
pg 10 The Silomanx pg 21 December, Part 1 pg 27
Retrospective: Off Registration: Year One pg 41
Eagle’s Eye Review by Paul pg 48
Hanna
Founder & Publisher April Brown
Editor in Chief Scott O. Brown Reviews Paul Hanna Photography & Design April Brown Digital Content April Brown Cover Art Daniel Govar Contributors: David Liss & Allen Byrns Excerpt from “Angelica Tomorrow”
Scott O. Brown & Earl Geier “The Silomanx”
Amin Amat “December”, part one
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Dear Loyal Readers, I can’t believe this is our last issue of our first year! I want to give my deepest thank you to all of you, our readers. Wihout your support we would not have made it this far. And I want to give a great big thank you to all of our advertisers, feature artists, and contributors. I have enojoyed working with each and every one of you. And I cannot forgot to say thank you to Paul Hanna for his insightful reviews, and Daniel Govar, who has provided us with all of our amazing covers. We have some great things planned for year two so stick around. We will be back for another great and amazing year. See you in February 2014! Thank You! Sincerely, April Brown Publisher/Owner
by: Scott O. Brown
Off-Background: David Liss
David Liss is an American writer of historical novels, essays and short fiction, recently branching out into comics with books like THE SPIDER, BLACK PANTHER, and SHERLOCK HOMES: MORIARTY LIVES. We took a few moments to speak with David about his career and latest project, ANGELICA TOMRROW, from 215 Ink. 1) Why don’t we get started with a little background for our readers. Who is David Liss? I’ll resist the impulse to answer this question sarcastically. Or bombastically ,for that matter. I’m a full time writer – the day job is writing novels, but I also write comics an short fiction. I’m probably best known for my historical fiction, but I also write historical fantasy, horror, and I have a young adult science fiction series I’ve just sold, so ‘m pretty much all over the map. 2) Historical fiction can be an eclectic literary genre. What drew you to it? Do you work in that genre to explore current issues through the lens of the past, or to unpack historical events or details in their own context? I decided to write my first novel when I was in graduate school studying 18th century British literature, so I went with the old adage “write what you know” and wrote about 18th centu-
ry England. I’ve always liked reading historical fiction, but I was surprised to discover how much I enjoyed writing it. The bottom line is that historical fiction, like pretty much any genre, is a big canvas and you can use it for just about anything. I usually don’t write about the present disguised as the past (though I have done that a couple of times), but am more inclined to write about the past in a way that illuminates the present. In other words, I like to show the formation (or reformulation) of ideas or movements or assumptions in their historical context. 3) Which of your books would you recommend to your comics fans and vice versa, and why? I first got into comics because Bill Rosemann, who edited my work at Marvel, though the main character of my first novel was sort of like an 18th century Luke Cage, so I’m inclined to recommend that book, A Conspiracy of Paper, to comics fans. That said, I usually like to get a sense of what people enjoy reading before I make that recom-
mendation. I would also say it is easier to recommend novels to comics readers than the other way around since there are a lot of novel readers who don’t read comics or know much about the medium. Right now I usually recommend Mystery Men, since it is historical, and it requires no previous knowledge of any characters or continuity. I think once it’s available, Angelica Tomorrow or my forthcoming Moriarty series would be the most logical suggestions since they’re the most outside the superhero tradition. 4) With that background in historical fiction, what drew you to the comics industry? How do your processes differ between the two media? I’ve always seen myself as a narrative junkie – I like stories in all their forms and enjoy lots of different media – prose, film, television, comics. When Marvel offered me the opportunity to write comics I jumped at it. It did take a while for me to get a handle on the script format, and my novelistic impulses definitely got in the way at first, but now I have a fairly intuitive sense of the rhythms of a script, and I can transition between the two media without much difficulty. 5) Talks to us about ANGELICA TOMORROW. What is it about? What inspired its creation?
This is really a story about misfits. George is a teenager whose life has been disrupted by a car accident that’s left him paralyzed from the waist down. One night he happens upon an murderous cyborg who then loses her memories and becomes a sweet and naïve, if extremely dangerous, friend. Basically, it’s the story of a couple of misfits trying to navigate a world which is extremely inhospitable to them. I’ve always been drawn to coming of age stories and teen dramas, especially those with a fantastical element. There’s something about the high school experience that magnifies the emotional component of a story because teenagers feel things so strongly, but they are not yet in command of those feelings, and they don’t have full authority over their lives. So this is the kind of story I’ve often wanted to write, and I was glad to have the opportunity to do so. 6) Tell us a bit about the artist, Allen Byrns, too. What is your collaborative process like? When I first started talking to 215 Ink, they floated several artists as possible collaborators for this story. I loved Allen’s art as soon as I saw it. It is so moody and atmospheric that it seemed the perfect match for the concept. He has been great to work with – really easy going and sensitive to the material. I love the mood he’s brought to the story, and pages have such an amazing, hypnotic look 7) You’re also writing some mainstream comics like THE SPIDER and BLACK PANTHER. Can you tell us a bit about your plans for those characters during your tenure on the books? Because of the nature of the comics industry, I tend to work on the level of arc rather than big picture. Maybe guys like Bendis and Brubaker can sit down and say, “Here’s what I’d like to do over the next two years,” but I don’t have that kind of clout. I usually have a broader narrative I want to project, and I move in that direction, but you never know when the plug is going to be pulled. The cancellation of Black Panther, for
example, took me totally by surprise, but that said, with maybe three issues to work with, I was able to wrap up the overall narrative in a way that was true to my original concept. 8) What other projects (comics or novels) do you have simmering that we can expect to hear about soon? On the prose side, I have a historical novel, The Day of Atonement, coming out in autumn, 2014. This is a revenge thriller set in 18th century Lisbon about the last days of the Portuguese Inquisition. Then, in spring of ’15, we’ve got Randoms, the first volume of a young adult sci fi trilogy. I’m also working on a collaborative novel called Century, in which the five members of my writing group are each producing a novella, and together these five novellas tell a single story. On the comics side, I’ve got The Spider and The Shadow Now running currently, and a Moriarty miniseries launching soon. I’m also working on my first graphic novel, though it has not yet been announced, so I can’t way what it’s about or who is publishing it. 9) Okay, I was going to wrap this up with the last question, but I have to admit I’m curious: what was it like to be an encyclopedia salesman? It was a totally insane experience. Really, everything I know about door-to-door encyclopedia sales went into my novel The Ethical Assassin (just optioned for film!), which is depicts exactly what it was like, except in real life I wasn’t involved in any murders or drug deals. Thank you,David! Meanwhile, we appreciate your time as well as this sneak peek of ANGELICA TOMORROW. For more information on ANGELICA TOMORROW and 215 Ink, please visit www.215ink. com, and dont’t forget to visit David Liss at www.davidliss.com
Angelica Tomorrow (excerpt)
Writer: David Liss Artist: Allen Byrnes
The Silomanx
Writer: Scott O. Brown Artist: Earl Geier Letters/Colors: Scott O. Brown Special thanks to Sebastian & Samantha
“YOU’RE NOT GOING FEEL ANY BETTER IF YOU DON’T EAT YOUR BREAKFAST.”
|T CAN’T BE THAT BAD. AT LEAST | THINK IT’S FOOD.
ARE YOU STILL ANGRY ABOUT MOM?
NO.
| DON’T WANT TO EAT MY BREAKFAST.
OKAY. DAD.
MAYBE WE SHOULD GO TALK TO THE DOC--
--TOR.
COME ON, HANNA! WE HAVE AN APPOINTMENT.
WE’LL GET ICE CREAM AFTER.
FINE.
|T SAYS HERE THAT WE’RE TO TRY THIS ANTIDEPRESSANT FOR THIRTY DAYS. YOU NEED TO TALK TO ME ABOUT HOW IT MAKES YOU FEEL, OKAY?
YOU KNOW, HANNA, IF YOU DON’T WANT IT, |’LL EAT IT.
HERE.
YOU MAY AS WELL TAKE ONE NOW, HONEY.
OKAY.
|T SAID IT WAS A SILOMANX.
WE’LL CALL MOM TOMORROW. |’M SURE THEY WON’T LET HER TALK TO US THIS LATE.
HANNA?
DADDY?
| DIDN’T WANT |T SAID... |T SAID IT COULD TO LOVE MOMMY ANY MORE. EAT MY LOVE.
|T’S OKAY, HANNA. |T’S OKAY TO BE SAD OR MAD. BUT YOU DON’T HAVE TO STOP LOVING HER.
“THE SILOMANX: A RARE PARASITE THAT LODGES ITSELF IN THE BLOODSTREAM OF ITS HOSTS WHERE IT ABSORBS DOPAMINE, SEROTONIN, AND OTHER ‘LOVE’ AND ATTACHMENT HORMONES.”
WHERE THE HELL DID YOU FIND SOMETHING LIKE THAT, BABY GIRL?
DON’T FORGET YOUR MEDS. THIS SHOULD GET RID OF THE SILOMANX.
BUT IF ONE PILL CAN GET YOU TO TALK, | THINK A WHOLE BOTTLE JUST MIGHT KILL IT.
“WE NEED YOU TO TAKE EXTRA, ALL RIGHT?”
OKAY, DAD.
LAST ONE.
UHHHH |S THIS OKAY TO DO? | DON’T FEEL SO GOOD.
HANNA!
!?
A--
WH
HANNA, | DON’T KNOW WHERE YOU ...|T FEELS FOUND THIS... LIKE SO MUCH NOTHING.
daddy... ...don’t let it eat your love
TOO LATE. |T’S FEASTING.
The End.
December, part one
Story & Art: Amin Amat Letterer: April Brown
JAPAN Countryside. Winter. 1977 All of us have an origin, a starting point. Most can remember it, some of can’t recall, and a few don’t want to.
Yet what is important, that is if you want, is that our origins say a lot about us.
December ART & STORY: AMiN AMAT
LETTERER: APRiL BROWN
Before we grow into the person we become,
at times an act made during this moment can influence us many years later.
And this begs the question, if such an act occurred, would you be able to remember it? Would you then embrace it?
COME CLOSER.
YES SHE IS. YOU REQUESTED ME TO BE HERE WITH HER BUT DID NOT MENTION AS TO THE URGENCY.
IS THE CHiLD SAFE?
VERY WELL. YOUR ANCESTORS, BY AN ACCiDENT OF GOD, DEVELOPED SUPERNATURAL POWERS ONLY CARRiED BY THE WOMAN OF YOUR LiNEAGE THAT WOULD MANiFEST iTSELF EVERY OTHER GENERATiON.
FOR CENTURiES, THOSE iN POWER FOUGHT FOR THE CONTROL AND POSSESSiON OF YOUR ANCESTORS LiNAGE.
AND THAT STRUGGLE CONTiNUES EVEN UP TO THiS DAY
THANKFULLY TONiGHT, WE WiLL BE ABLE TO CELEBRATE THE END OF THiS LONG BLOODY WAR. AFTER TONiGHT, YOUR FUTURE LiNAGE WiLL BE FREE.
EVERYONE iS iN POSiTiON.
GO!
BAN
G!
NO!
WHAT DO WE…
NEW YORK CiTY, AUTUMN. 1997
MR. STEVENS, WE ARE iNCREDiBLY iMPRESSED BY YOUR NEGOTiATiON SKiLLS RELATED TO THiS CLiENT. HE HAS AVOiDED OUR NEGOTiATiONS OFFERS FOR OVER A DECADE
YOUR ACHiEVEMENT iN THiS ACQUiSiTiON HAS CREATED QUiTE A STiR iN THE TOKYO BRANCH.
SO MUCH SO, THAT WE PERSONALLY FLEW iN iN ORDER TO EXPEDiTE THiS FiNAL PROCESS AND AM HAPPY TO SiGN FOR THiS PURCHASE.
WE ARE VERY PLEASED WiTH THiS ACQUiSiTiON. IT’S BEEN A LONG ROAD TO GET HERE. THANK YOU YUKA-SAN. ALL THE BEST FOR THE GROWTH OF THE COMPANY. IT WAS AN HONOR TO BE CALLED iN TO HELP.
WELL DONE MR. STEVENS.
M A L S MR. STEVENS, KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK. THE TOKYO BRANCH WiLL MOST CERTAINLY BE iN TOUCH WiTH YOU SOON. VERY WELL DONE!
HA HA
HA
HA
HA
HA
NOW iT’S TiME TO BREAK OPEN THAT
DOM!
HA HA HA
HA
HA
HA
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GOOD EVENiNG MR. STEVENS. I HOPE YOU WERE OUT CELEBRATiNG. IT’S WELL DESERVED.
BEE
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MR. STEVENS! THiS iS YUKA NOGUCHi. CALL ME ONCE YOU GET iN.
BE BEEP EP BEEP YES I WAS! ALL PART OF THE JOB.
HA HA! PLEASE NO NEED TO BEMODEST! I BELIEVE YOU RECEIVED AN ENVELOPE.
NOT FROM ME. FROM THE TOKYO BRANCH HEADQUARTERS.
HEADQUARTERS?
YEAH I DID. WAS THAT YOU?
HAVE A SAFE FLiGHT AND WELCOME TO JAPAN!
NARiTA AiRPORT. TOKYO, JAPAN. FALL. MR STEVENS-SAN!
TAXi!
NiCE LiMO AND THANK YOU FOR THE COCKTAiL.
MR. STEVENS. I HOPE YOU HAD A COMFRTABLE FLiGHT. YOUR LiMO iS READY.
PLEASE ENJOY MR. STEVENS. AS A TOKEN OF GRATiTUDE ON THE ACQUiSiTiON YOU MADE. THE TOKYO HEADQUARTERS BROUGHT YOU OVER SO THAT AS YOUR LiASON DURiNG YOUR STAY.
WHATEVER YOU MAY NEED, LET ME KNOW AND iT WiLL BE DONE. ALL EXPENSES WiLL BE PAID BY THE TOKYO OFFICE. HERE’S YOUR HOTEL MR. STEVENS. I WiLL PICK YOU UP LATER TONiGHT. ARiGATO MR. STEVENS.
STAR HOTEL, STRETCH LiMO, SAKE COCKTAiLS, ALL EXPENSES PAiD.
THAT’S RiGHT MR. STEVENS. YOU HAVE ARRiVED...
..TO THE BED.
KTOSYTO. IS iT TiME
ALREADY?
UH??
HA HA! SLEEP WELL? HOPE SO, IT’S TIME TO SEE TOKYO!
HERE WE ARE. AT THE BEST CLUB iN ALL OF TOKYO!
THiS CiTY iS AMAZiNG. WAIT? WHAT...CLUB?
YES, VERY EXCLUSiVE. MEMBERS ONLY CLUB.
YOU ARE NEVER GOiNG TO BELiEVE THiS PLACE!
OH, OK
WOW!
THiS CLUB HAS BEEN AROUND FOR A LONG TiME. AND iT HAS A LONG TRADiTiON AS WELL. DURiNG MUCH OF THEiR EXiSTENCE THEY’VE COLLECTED QUiTE A NUMBER OF ARTiFACTS AND PRiCELESS ART.
COUPLE HUNDRED YEARS ID’ SAY. BUT NOW TO THE PART OF THE TOUR THAT’LL REALLY LEAVE YOU…
I CAN SEE THAT. SO HOW OLD ARE THESE PiECES?
HE WASN’T KiDDiNG.
..BREATHLESS!
ROULETTE TABLES, BLACKJACK DEALERS, AND THE COMBiNED AROMA OF CiGAR SMOKE AND SAKE. IT WAS QUiTE A CLUB.
WHOA.
HA HA! WELCOME TO CLUB DORAN-SO!
WHAT IS THIS PLACE REALLY?
One of the oldest established members only club.
At one point after the war, it was just a small hut near the riverbank.
How did it grow to this?
MEMBER FEES.
YOU HAVE GEISHAS HERE?
NEVER SEEN ONE BEFORE?
NOT UNTiL JUST NOW.
COME MR. STEVENS. THERE’S A TABLE RESERVED FOR US.
I’M SPEECHLESS. I WOULD HAVE NEVER BELIEVED THAT SUCH A BEAUTIFUL PLACE EXISTED. IT’S LIKE AN EXOTIC MOVIE SET.
REALLY? I’M GOING TO HAVE TO CHECK THOSE OUT.
ACTUALLY, QUITE A NUMBER OF MOVIES WERE FILMED HERE BY A FEW OF THE MEMBERS.
It Certainly Felt Like A Movie. One Long Ass Flight Took Me From The Dirty Lovable Streets Of Midtown Manhattan To This Sake And Cigar Smelling Club Of Colors Surrounded By The Sounds Of A Language I Barely Knew
WE CHATTED FOR AN HOUR OR SO, BUT iN ALL REALiTY I WAS iN A SENSORY OVERLOAD WiTH THiS PLACE. SO MUCH SO THAT iT WOULD BE A SURPRiSE
BUT SHE DiD.
IF ANYTHiNG SERiOUSLY CAUGHT MY EYE. NEVER SEEN A GEiSHA iN MY WHOLE LiFE. AND NEVER SO UP CLOSE. I WAS OVERWHELMED. THE DETAiLS iN HER KiMONO, THE PRECiSE APPLiCATiON OF HER MAKEUP, THE TiGHT CLEAN LiNE OF HER HAiR.
IMPRESSED AS I WAS, I WAS MORE SO LOST WHEN I LOOKED CLOSER AT HER FACE.
SO MUCH SO, THAT I NEVER SAW THESE GENTLEMEN SHOW UP.
GOOD EVENiNG …. MR. STEVENS-SAN
LiTTLE DiD I KNOW WHAT WAS TO COME NEXT…
Retrospective: Year One
ISSUE 1 Featuring: Fred Van Lente
Stories: Fred Van Lente & Ryan Dunlavey “Action Philosophers: Karl Marx”
Lee Nordling & J.J. Dzielowski “Kite in the City: Never Everlasting”
Ferran Xalabarder “Game Over”
Scott O. Brown & Devon Jopling “Katy Quick: Runner’s Thighs”
April Brown Comics Nation: Up, Up, & Away
Reviews by Paul Hanna:
The Comic Book History of Comics & Hulk: Season One
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ISSUE 2 Featuring: Pat Mills
Stories: Pat Mills & Clint Langley Excerpt from “American Reaper”
Erica Heflin & Elias Martins “Dream Honeymoon”
Ricky-Marcel Pitcher & David Velasquez “Inbox”
Scott O. Brown & Horacio Lalia “Island of the Bird”
Dan Mazur
Comics Nation: Boston
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Marshall Law: The Deluxe Edition
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ISSUE 3 Featuring: Horacio Lalia
Stories: Horacio Lalia & Edgar Allan Poe “The Tale-Tell Heart”
Scott O. Brown & Horacio Lalia “Surface Patterns”
Walt Mancing & Horacio Lalia “The View of Mumbichi Valley”
Carlos Diaz
Comics Nation: Argentina
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ISSUE 4 Featuring: Joe Caramagna
Stories: Joe Caramagna & Scott Koblish Excerpt from “The Further Travels of Wyatt Earp”
Marc Bryant & Mal Jones
“Randy Babylon in Penguin Derby”
Ricky-Marcel Pitcher & Todor Hristov “Reach for the Sky”
Dan Mazur “The Last”
Stu Chaifetz “Fargo”
Matt Dembicki Comics Nation: Washington, DC
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ISSUE 5 Featuring: Steven Butler
Stories: Barry Gregory & Steven Butler Excerpt from “GALLANT COMICS #1”
Bill Everett & Sam Decker “Aman, the Amazing Man”
Harry Shorten & Lin Streeter “The Viking Attack”
Charles Nicholas & Will Eisner “The Origin of Blue Beetle”
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Gallant Comics Featuring the Amazing Man John Aman #1-2
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Eagle’s Eye Review By: Paul Hanna Paul Hanna is a cartoonist who lives in Massachusetts. His interests include basketball, baseball, and finding a bigger role for comics in academic libraries. Follow him on Twitter at @paulhanna.
Angelica Tomorrow #1 Writer: David Liss Artist: Allen Byrns 215 Ink
good idea, adding what might end up being a boymeets-girl romantic angle to the mix. The story is about a high school kid named George Williams, who, after an accident, is confined to a wheelchair and falls into a depression involving lots of alcohol and a couple friends who are more like associates in commiseration. A plane suddenly crashes nearby, and Angelica, female cyborg killer, emerges from the burning remains. Before the cyborg can kill George, it malfunctions and reverts to a “base” program that is much gentler. To put it another way, the cyborg has an abrupt onset of amnesia and forgets its cruel, homicidal ways. The story carries forward with the two characters from there. The linework embraces a look that sometimes evokes early Vertigo Comics, although much more raw – sketchy, moody drawings that skew more on the abstract side of the spectrum. The color palette favors a dark, grimy look with occasional blur effects that are usually somewhat overwrought, making it so the reader has to decipher what’s happening in some panels. On the whole, however, the colors themselves balance the art well enough. Allen Byrns’s illustrative talent is pretty obvious to begin with, which makes it more noticeable when he tries to do too much with the digital effects.
For some reason, I like the idea that killer cyborgs can be strangely lovable when they are not tearing apart the skulls of their victims. Having said that, I much prefer The Terminator over its sequel. Angelica Tomorrow is not quite in the same vein, but it makes a fun, even funny, story out of the bad-cyborg-turned-
The pacing and sequential work is also uneven at times, which is frustrating because the story has a tendency to grasp a good storytelling rhythm or beat, only to stumble moments later. Moments involving the “killer” version of Angelica do not succeed in building the tension they are trying to evoke; the scene that introduces us to Angelica begins suddenly and intensely with a plane crash. It should quickly escalate after such a jarring moment, but the whole sequence is peppered with panels that use an objective perspective showing characters’ profiles. This has the effect of disengaging the reader a little bit and does not fully unlock the tense emotion built into the scene. In fact, when coupled with dialogue, these moments are
further softened because the words cause us to linger on the objective panels longer. On the other hand, there is a sequence later in the story where George is having lunch at school; it hits the emotional beats pretty much on the money. A scene that gives us some exposition also succeeds in building emotional tension because we have the chance to read the emotion on the characters’ faces.
One of the unique joys of comics has to do with how often they fly under the radar. This tends to result in a lot of creator-owned efforts where the story shows the creator’s id running more freely than it would in a more mainstream effort. Comics let us witness this occurrence more often than most other media, which are often reined in by virtue of being mainstream. As readers, we see creators’ imaginations cut loose in different, quirky, exciting ways. That is one of the real pleasures of Angelica Tomorrow.
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