COLOSSIANS

    COMING SEPTEMBER 2008.

Colossians is a character-driven space opera. It's set in the Embassy System, a galactic hub of business and cultural exchange, with several inhabitable planets, moons and asteroids. It is here that the reader is introduced to the unwitting personalities that are on the verge of something that could rock all civilization as we know it.

In the first issue you'll meet the Manx (above), a tough-as-nails chick with a heart of gold and a sordid history she's trying to leave behind. There's also Foxx, a crafty self-reliant pirate and opportunist, and Jason Foster, aka Savage, a young man with special secret abilities who is indebted to Foxx for saving his life. Their paths will collide over the actions of a religious zealot named Trogg, who's made a long list of enemies.

As the series progresses, and as many questions get answered, the players will have to do some serious soul-searching and make radical decisions that will tear apart friendships- as well as the universe as they know it! The characters will evolve and develop naturally and realistically- there are no Brady Bunch endings here. Believe me, what we've got planned for the Manx, Foxx and Blam will NOT be expected, as well as the elements that will be revealed about Jason's past.

Colossians is my own pet project, that's literally about 25 years in the making. The concept made a stumbling appearance in Cross Press Comics Magazine #1, which was the 1995 precursor to Megazeen. Characters have also appeared in Megazeen #1 and #3. However, it's best you forget about all of that, because those appearances have no relevance to what you'll see in Colossians #1.

One of the major cool things for me, working on this, is that some of my favorite Megazeen artists have rallied behind the project to make it happen. It is literally an all-star comic of artists doing what they are all very, very good at. The first issue is penciled by Kneon Transitt, written and iked by Joe Endres, colored by Hale Burhkin and Mark Melton, with cover by Jeff Slemons. The second issue s tentatively penciled by Dan Barlow. The plan is to allow the story to develop in four-issue intervals.

Look for the first issue in late 2008, and issue 2 in 2009.