AFTERMAN JOE BRYANT & MIKE PALLOTTA WRITING
JEFF CHANG ART & LETTERS
ANNE LEE REGULAR COVER DESIGN
ANDREW WILSON VARIANT COVER/COVER ART USED ON PAGE 2
BRIAN DUNNING VARIANT COVER GRAPHICS
www.oldcollegecomics.com Afterman #1. Fall 2012. First Printing. Afterman is published by Old College Comics. Copyright Š 2012 Old College Comics. All rights reserved. Afterman (including all prominent characters featured herein), its logo and all character likenesses are owned and trademarks of Old College Comics, unless otherwise noted. Old College Comics and its logo are trademarks and copyright of Old College Comics. Except for short excerpts for review purposes, none of the contents of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the express written permission of the copyright holders. All names, characters, and events in this publication are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, or actual events, without satiric intent, is coincidental. Printed in the USA.
that’s the guy right there...
not too far away...
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I HAD ALL HIS COMICS.
SOME WERE BENT AND CREASED-THE PAGES TAPED BACK IN-BUT I HAD A COMPLETE RUN.
OF COURSE...I SOLD WHAT I COULD TO GET HERE...
BUT I MADE IT.
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Amelia! No!!
IN ONE FLUID MOTION DOCTOR BRIAN BENNETt BREAKS FREE FROM HIS RESTRAINTS AND FREES HIS WIFE FROM CERTAIN DEATH...
HOLY MOSES! i feel...more than human. i’ve evolved into what comes next--
what comes... after man!
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I read an article last week about this guy visiting la on business.
Ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time...
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Right in the middle of a bank robbery...
Afterman shows up. Couple of pows later the guy’s taking photos with the brian bennett. unreal.
What I would give to have been in that guy’s shoes.
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i’ve never been the flying type.
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i mean, i took the bus all the way out west, just to avoid flying.
back home, school and the hospital were the only two places i went-- and I always rode the L Train.
comics were all i had to get me through those visits.
it’s kind of hard to tell how crazy your mom’s getting when you take public transportation everyday.
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you never think the people you see everyday are gonna go. but when they do, you build yourself back up from nothing.
those comics left an impression on me. i always got the sense that afterman didn’t have one of those introvert/extrovert complex like so many heroes.
he was himself inside and outside the suit. he was just a guy.
once your mom stares at you without an ounce of recognition, nothing can shake you. no break-up, no beatings, nothing.
i couldn’t do anymore for her than the help at the home could. so i left for the one city i knew better than my own-long beach-home of afterman.
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clean slates are pretty rare...
you okay?
you..you’re...
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THE WHAT
GASLAMP
ABELINA VELIZ PEREZ
MISSING SINCE NOV. 2ND 2011
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THE FIZZ
POM-POM
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GET SMALL! NOW!
glllk--ahh!!
ALLEY-OOP!
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hnnnnn!
now what?
okay.
we wait.
it’s a beautiful thing. start digging.
cops have to be on their way. then we’ll make this quick.
the cops’ll be bustin some black kid’s head open. they’ll be late. always are.
true enough.
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oof!
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DICK!
Alright...
whos next?
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WAIT! NO!
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burn. nnnn. burn
no-nowhere to go. i’m fucked.
Skin burnt and curling up into charred little rolls
so fucked.
don’t worry...
ugh!
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IT’LL BE OKAY...
LOOK out!
let’s see the funny books twist this one around!
the death...
of afterman!
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I’M DEAD. AFTERMAN’S DEAD. AND I’M NEXT.
NO...!
oh god.
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fuck!
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BANDANA
holy shit.
to be continued...
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THANKYOU Without the people listed below, what you are holding in your hands (or tablet/future-doohickey) would have been impossible. It would all just be words on a computer and art on Bristol board. Their help, well-wishing, and crossed fingers gave us the means and willpower to put these comics together, the fulfillment of lifelong dreams for many of us. We are forever grateful. Barth Kelly Stewart & Patricia Lumb Clare Sassoon & Tom Kielty Marilee & John Bryant Eric Stolze Chelsea Stevens Cheryl & John McCutchen Dru Pallotta Natasha Yazid Alfredo Lozano Andre Shaw Nancy Gruber Jeff Gould Katie Wynne Alex Hattick J. Mott Chris Fabela Brian Dunning Gina Pallotta Liz Dupree Traci Lee Haley & Eddie Tucker Jason Ho Veronica Peshterianu Nicholai Christensen
Diane Dupree-Dempsey Alan Callaghan Raymond Thompson Dustin Williams Bea Ditzler II Lisa Williams Alan Passman Stephanie Johnson Kristin Battis Laura N. Davila Robert Negrete Leo Portugal Eric Pedersen Thomas Zook Alexandra Dempsey Gabriel Ferreira M.G. Dupree Adam Wallander Kyle Smith Josh Williamson Mike Scigliano and everyone at The Long Beach Comic & Horror Con
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As a bonus, a look at some of the concept art for Afterman by Jeff Chang (Left), and the full-sized cover art for the Afterman comic seen on page 2 drawn by Andrew Wilson, with graphics by Brian Dunning (Right)
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The search for a clean slate has brought Greg Martelli to the southern California port city of Long Beach, home of his idol: the b-list superhero Afterman. But when events put Greg in the midst of a giant brawl between Afterman and his nemeses, Greg’s preconceptions of who Afterman is, and his entire life, will change forever. Suggested for Mature Readers
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