Our protagonist, abram pollux, is a rough around the edges character, not really likable, and. With peter fonda, brooke shields, fiona lewis, luke askew. Ipkiss wasnt necessarily hilarious, but it was that mask that turned him into a wild and crazy guy named big head in the comics, but referred to as the mask in the 1995 movie starring jim carrey. Out of the night and millions of other books are available for amazon kindle. Journals of a hero single issue comic books is the advertisement page in the back of my book. At first it looks like we are going to get a solid group of characters to interact with but then more and more and more characters are rapidly thrown at the reader. Usually, he just wants an odd job to make ends meet before leaving again, the implication being that hes either. In fact, by the end of it all, npcs in the tower are not happy with two people. American intelligence mechanics u s avengers vol 1 american intelligence mechanics marvel comics. I have the tendency to change my style a little bit for every book i do, and the thing that i wanted to do on this book was to have the colors be the. A book of my original characters, more to come hopefully.
Hell rarely raise the interest or curiosity of the townspeople or the big bad thats been slowly draining the town of all life and money. The drifter is an actionpacked debut novel complete with dangerous former military tough guys, a surprising discovery under an old rotted porch leading to big trouble, and a mean, smelly 150 pound dog named charles mingus you are going to love while the overall theme of this story is devoted to our combat vets, how they are changed by war and the difficulty of adjusting back into society. The mysteries are almost a bplot in that these characters are still. What begins as a pretty straightforward narrative soon takes a turn into landscapes of the surreal. Poster featuring many of the new heroes and villians from the upcoming rogue. If the artphotograph is not from me i will specify with credit and with links so you can enjoy and support the artistsphotographers. One of the cool things i am starting to do as a part of my drifter. See more ideas about comic character, superhero and comic book characters. Grifter earth0 as a former delta operator for the u. Modern comic book characters are often compared to gods nowadays, but for the most part, the majority of them are still mortal.
The main player character, the drifter suffers from a mysterious, terminal illness and is on a quest to find the cure. Dcs generation zero on free comic book day a sequel to flash. This is the character sheet for hyper light drifter. Drifter creators ivan brandon and nic klein on their gorgeous. George burns stars as a former vaudevillian who befriends a young runaway, played by fourteenyearold brooke shields, who is being chased by drug dealers. The 50 greatest comicbook characters movies empire. Writer ivan brandon wolverine, men of war and artist nic klein captain america, thor reunite to bring you a scifi ongoing series joining the dark revenge themes of unforgiven with the mindbending scifi universebuilding of dune. Image comics ongoing series drifter is as beautiful as it is baffling.
Brandons script, taut and full of unique character voices, challenges pollux as he struggles to come to. Previously in drifter, abram pollux barely survived a crash landing on ouro, a lawless backwater planet, only to end up on the wrong end of a bullet. Still, neither characters nor plot have been particularly engaging so far, and i. See more ideas about comics, image comics and comic art. Movies marvel dc comics character more dc comics the hulk batman heroes animation superman comic books movie. Well, to be honest this issue doesnt do quite enough to separate the story and character from things weve seen before it, but the world is interesting enough to give this. What we have so far is a book thats light on plot, minimalist on character, but huge on atmosphere and worldbuilding, and those are good things to have right out of the gate. Rogue has the involuntary ability to absorb and sometimes also. Abram pollux, is a rough around the edges character, not really likable, and is struggling to find his way in this new world that appears to have threats at each and every turn he makes. Writer ivan brandon wolverine, men of war and artist nic klein captain america, thor reunite to bring you a scifi. Drifters volume 1 tpb but hellsing creator, kohta hirano still had something crazy up his sleeve when he created his new series, drifters. Rogue is a fictional superhero appearing in american comic books published by marvel comics, commonly in association with the xmen. A drifter named beaudray demerille wins a young orphan named wanda in a poker game and takes her gold prospecting in the grand canyon. Mar 2, 2016 writer ivan brandon and artist nic klein will launch a new arc of their dark scifi series drifter this april.
Drifter begins new arc this april bounding into comics comic art, comic. Created by artist jim lee and writer brandon choi, he first appeared in wildc. Drifter is a large, spiralbound book of brightly colored drawings each accompanied by a short text. He was on the verge of his biggest score when he was. Age of apocalypses darkest versions of classic heroes. The drifter a peter ash novel paperback march 7, 2017. Like a gust of wind, the drifter quietly blows into a troubled town. The creations of bon kane, bill finger, jerry siegel, joe shuster, stan lee. Starring archetypal characters that avoid the wrong side of clich, on a world where. What the book does from here is anyones guess but the first issue at least establishes a good core cast and a decent mystery. Published june 10th 2015 by image comics first published january 1st 2015. Polluxs struggle for survival quickly became a journey. The greatest comicbook characters in the canon have been debated and argued over for decades.
Writer ivan brandon freely refers to this book as his and artist. Take this quiz and find out which comic book character you are from the marvel or dc comics universe. An encounter with a neutral faction of cybertronians changed his outlook, and he joined the autobots to try to bring. Anna haifisch is a germanbased artist who works primarily in illustration, including comics, posters, and books. Lies beneath is a singleplayer survivor horror from drifter entertainment, the studio behind gunheart 2018, rise of the gunters 2018, and the quest version of robo recall 2016.
When dc chose to integrate wildstorms characters into the dc universe through flashpoint. Drifter begins new arc this april drifter, indie comic. Drifter is an intriguing blend of two very unique genres. Driftercomic professional, traditional artist deviantart. Brandons dialogue is solid with an equal balance of narrative perspective from a character lost in a maze without much hope of having answers simply handed to him on a silver platter. Honestly, if todays comic market has taught creators. The book is backed up by stellar artwork and has few downsides to the comic book. Drifters volume 1 has been added to your cart add to cart.
The point of a comic is to tell a story, and to do that you need to lay groundwork, build a world, give a bit of a backstory, introduce characters. Ivan brandon and nic klein team for new image series drifter frank. Hes lowkey, and usually the quiet one thats not looking for trouble. Weak, neurotic stanley ipkiss first found the magical mask in dark horses mayhem series in 1989. Goran parlov comic book artists, comic book characters, comic book. Comic book network wiki is a fandom comics community. The world and the characters are defined and realistic. This is a good book to check out if you are looking for something different on the racks these days. A homeless man walks up to you in the street and begs you for spare change. Army, cole cash made a living for himself and his girlfriend gretchen as a con man. I always appreciate stories that start off by grabbing hold of your attention so hard that you simply cant put the book down.
In its frantic rush to survive itself, mankind has spread across the universe, colonizing and stripmining countless planets. The biggest success stories of superhero comic books all originated 40. You might not realize it from how often someone like superman has avoided death, but he is still just a mortal being. With george burns, brooke shields, lorraine gary, ray bolger. Ardent fans of complicated weirdwest comics, like east of west. Destiny 2 made players the heroes, but with the arrival of forsaken, that. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. The very fact that he was played by carrey tells you that the masked character was wildly. Both of these genres despite their overt differences share a number of tropes and narrative structures, and drifter effectively uses these commonalities to create a story that could arguably be described as the best of both worlds. Nick petrie received his mfa in fiction from the university of washington, won a hopwood award for short fiction while an undergraduate at the university of michigan, and his story at the laundromat won the 2006 short story contest in the the. Grifter cole cash is a fictional comic book superhero who has appeared in books published by wildstorm productions and dc comics.
A comic book with a very unique design, voice, and art style, drifter is quickly shaping up to be one of images best new launches in a year full of great debuts. This will also include some of my comic book ideas. Writer ivan brandon wolverine, men of war and artist nic klein captain america, thor reunite to bring you a scifi ongoing series joining the dark revenge themes of unforgiven with the mindbending scifi. Journals of a hero comic series characters from my comics. Grifter was created by jim lee and made his first appearance in wildstorms wildc. And thats a status thats shared by almost all of our most iconic comic book heroes. So its pretty incredible to think that theres still room for such characters to become even more powerful by actually attaining the power of a god.