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All Hail Monocyte #3
Kasra Ghanbari and Menton3 are stealing the hearts’ of horror fans with their beautifully bleak Monocyte. This book is unparalleled in comics right now, no other book is doing anything close to what the Monocyte team is doing. Monocyte tells the tale of a distant future, where two feuding immortal races meet face to face with death, who appears in for form of a poetic necromancer. Filled with Betrayal, bloodshed, and philosophical musings, you can expect to have your mind blown over and over again. This book offers a cerebral look into the horrors of immortality, and you won’t be disappointed. Check the preview for issue #3 below plus some clips from Saltillo’s accompanying soundtrack album. Read on for the skinny…
WRITTEN BY: Kasra Ghanbari and Menton3
ART BY: Menton3
PUBLISHER: IDW
RELEASE: March 21
The Olignostics are dying, and their fate now rests with the excommunicated Grod. Monocyte turns his attention to the Antedeluvian metropolis and their leader, the Green Man, but is confronted by the Antedeluvian elite guard, who test Monocyte against his greatest foes, light and life. Meanwhile, the liberated Olignostic slaves strike back at their former masters. Also features a cover by Ben Templesmith, an incentive cover by Eisner Award-winner George Pratt, and side stories by the legendary Bill Sienkiewicz and Pratt.
A few weeks ago, Artoffact Records released the Saltillo: MONOCYTE soundtrack album which is meant to accompany the comic mini-series. Menton3 is an incredibly talented, multifaceted, artist and this album is part of his solo music project, titled Saltillo. The man does it all! The album has been a stellar success, topping the Amazon charts for Electronica music. For more info on the MONOCYTE album, head over to the facebook page. You can checkout the BD review right here and some song clips below!
IDW Dark and Paramount recently joined forces to launch limited comic book tales set in the worlds of Smile and A Quiet Place, and we’ve learned today that they’ll continue hanging around in those franchise universes with two brand new limited series tales.
Entertainment Weekly has exclusively revealed this afternoon that IDW Dark’s Any Given Smile debuts in September, while A Quiet Place: Rising Tides arrives in November.
First up, from writer Stephanie Williams and artist Pablo Collar, Any Given Smile puts a football-themed twist on Parker Finn’s successful Smile movie franchise.
The five-part limited series is “set in January 1995, during the American Arena League football championship game in St. Augustine, Florida. The rising superstar of the Sharks, backup quarterback Dupree, is feeling the pressure from his teammates, the fans, and also the city’s gambling underworld, to whom he owes a considerable debt. Meanwhile, a sports journalist investigates a string of suicides that may be connected to the big game. At the very least, they are connected to a sinister entity that preys on the minds of its victims.”
From writer Declan Shalvey and artist Luke Sparrow, A Quiet Place: Rising Tides will also be a five-issue limited story. The comic book tale “brings the creatures to the Florida Keys, where a father-daughter duo attempt to survive on water in a houseboat.”
EW further details, “This tense family reunion coincides with the arrival of the vicious creatures that hunt through sound. Grace and her dad find safety on the open ocean, but she’ll have to make landfall sooner or later; the father’s oxygen tank and their supplies are running low, while a hurricane swiftly approaches.”
Learn more about both comic books over on Entertainment Weekly.
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