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Logline:

“ Peace is quiet. Noise is rebellion ”

VOLUME is a four issue tale of teenage rebellio andsuperpowered punks. It’s a fun action romp that blends Riot Girl attitude with dystopian scfi, all sent hurtling straight toward you in a furious blur of music and color.

Creative Team:

Summary:

In the messed-up world of tomorrow a populist dictatorship -known simply as THE REGIME - have made music illegal, preaching a perverted version of law and order called ‘PEACE IS QUIET’. Standing up to this onerous silence is ESSA, a teenager sick of living in the bland and colorless world the Regime has created.
She’s 16, fed-up, and her only weapon is one killer rock song.

See, when ESSA listens to her favorite track - a bellowing punk anthem called GARBAGE HEART - she doesn’t just feel invincible, SHE IS INVINCIBLE , imbued with superhuman strength and durability from listening to the song. What follows is a chaotic mess of color, punk music, and robot punching...needless to say, it’s going to get noisy.

Quotes:

Writer and co-creator Christof Bogacs says, "VOLUME has been rattling around in my head for a while now. This is me venting all my pent-up teenage rage in an immature display of punching, explosions and song lyrics. The best part is I get to pull Skye and Nadia into the fray with me ... and now Scout as well! As a fan of books like Long Lost and Heavenly Blues, I couldn't be more excited to be working with Scout to bring this punk-drenched power-fantasy to life."

Artist and co-creator Skylar Patridge added, "Volume is a really special story, not only in its message but also in its execution. We wanted to create a world devoid of color, stifled by the confines of conformity -- then smash it with color and punk music. It’s a story of youth, identity and reluctant rebellion in the face of authoritarianism."

Editor and co-creator Nadia Shammas concluded, "VOLUME is a story that encapsulates the way teen girls are silenced and undervalued, and the way their voices are louder than ever."

LOGLINE:

With humanity struggling to survive on Mars an astronaut crosses into a distant solar system on a hunt for a new world.

CREATORS:

Writer: Himkar Tak @hstronic (BOY-1)

Artist: Brent David McKee @brentdavidmckee (The Bowery Boys, Outlaw Territory)

Colorist: Sebastian Cheng 

SYNOPSIS:

Every decade so far we’ve been able to work together and pool our scant available resources to send an explorer into space. Every time we pin our hopes and dreams on these voyages. That one of these Voyagers might return with news of a new world. But none have ever come back. And now we are out of time. Mars is out of water and on the brink of civil war. We have one last chance but its a long shot. Our best Astronaut suffers PTSD. We're counting on him to bring back news of air, water, life. If not, this is our last stand. On this cold, breathless, desolate planet.

HS Tak Quote:

“Brent's work on this book is honestly some the best work I've ever seen in comics and with their innovation, team, and guidance SCOUT coming on as our 'HOUSTON'; there's no better navigator. I also quickly want to thank Dr. Wesley Traub from the Exoplanet Exploration Program at NASA JPL talking me through this narrative. The men and women there never lost their wonder and that's what I tried to capture in this saga.”

Brent David McKee Quote:

“Getting to work on Redshift with Himkar and Sebastian has been my best experience as a professional comic book artist. Himkar is incredible to collaborate with on anything from storytelling to costume/spacecraft designs, on top of being an amazing writer. And colorist Sebastian Cheng, well, makes me look better than I am.”

LOGLINE:

No-nonsense FBI agent Ellie Tewksberry doesn’t believe in Santa… until a fed-up St. Nick snaps and kidnaps the world’s kids. Now Ellie must team up with her wannabe-elf ex-husband to save their son—and Christmas!

THE CREATORS:

Clay Adams (CO-WRITER): is as a voice actor, with roles on TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: FAST FORWARD and several seasons of YU-GIOH. His feature script, THE ECLIPSE, placed second in the horror category of the FADE In Awards. He has written and directed for Georgia Public Broadcasting and holds a BFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU.

Alexandre Philippe (CO-WRITER):  most recent movie is MEMORY: THE ORIGIN OF ALIEN, an acclaimed documentary about the making of Ridley Scott’s classic film.His other award-winning docs include LEAP OF FAITH: WILLIAM FRIEDKIN ON THEEXORCIST, 78/52: HITCHCOCK’S SHOWER SCENE, and the cult classic THE PEOPLE vs.GEORGE LUCAS.

Fabio Ramacci (ARTIST): is an Italian artist who has published with Star
Comics and Sergio Bonelli Editore. He recently contributed to the horror anthology Modern Dread.

Ilaria Chiocca (COLORIST): Italian comic artist and colorist. She has
published two euro-manga style books with Kasaobake as co-author and co-artist.

STORY SUMMARY:

Ellie Tewksberry isn't the world's best mom. How can she be, when she’s too busy fighting evil as a top FBI agent? But when her son Byron runs away, you better believe she’ll use all her grit and experience to bring him home alive.

She’s gonna need it, because plucky Byron’s made it allll the way to The North Pole in search of his dad—a wannabe-elf who ran off years ago to join Santa at the workshop.

But not only isn’t Dad there, Byron’s timing sucks. Mrs. Claus just bit the big one in a tragic toy accident, and Santa vows to make all the world’s brats pay.

When Ellie catches wind of his scheme—to use monster toys to kidnap every child on Earth—she teams up with the Easter Bunny and St. Patrick’s Day Leprechaun to try and bring him down.

But when that fails, she must swallow her pride and work with her ex-husband, Witherspoon…the one man who understands Santa's operation better than anyone she knows.

Turns out, he’s just the man for the job, wielder of an ancient Santa-killer weapon. Together, they must finally put family first and confront the not-so-jolly St. Nick at his icy stronghold.

And maybe—just maybe—learn to live happily ever after…

CREATORS:

Todd Dezago, writer   —  Spider-Man, Tellos, X-Factor, Impulse

Craig Rousseau, artist  —  Impulse, Batman Beyond, Kyrra the Alien Jungle                                                     Girl, Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane

THE STORY:

There are places in this world where the fabric of reality has worn thin, where strange and terrible creatures have crossed over to lurk in the shadows and the night.There is an organization dedicated to finding these creatures and                sending them back whence they came, sealing the rift behind them and protecting mankind from horrors unseen.The organization is called BEDLAM. Its agents are… THE PERHAPANAUTS! A BIGFOOT. A MOTHMAN. EL CHUPACABRA. A GHOST. Join our team of incredible cryptids as they travel to the four                  corners of this world where they encounter even more weird and bizarre creatures from folklore, myth, and local legend! #paranormal, #cryptozoology, #meninblack, #talkingweasel

"Craig and I are beyond thrilled that the fantastic folks at Scout/Black Caravan thought enough of our little comic, THE PERHAPANAUTS, to want to re-package and re-publish it for a whole new generation of Readers who might have never seen it before. One of the biggest challenges in producing your own independent comics is finding your market and, though THE PERHAPANAUTS have been around for a while now, we are surprised again and again at shows and conventions when folks tell us that they’ve never seen or even heard of our crazy, cryptid, action-packed, paranormal adventure comic!?!

With SCOUT’S ever-growing popularity, their genre-spanning stable of incredible titles — Star Bastard! Yasmeen! Electric Black! — and their dedication to helping smaller, independent titles BE SEEN, we feel warmly welcomed into the Scout/Black Caravan Family."

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LOGLINE:

Frank returns home from WW1 to his family’s farm to find them missing sending him on a physical and psychological journey that tears apart his mind, body and soul.

Meet The Team:

 Written by Jordan Thomas with art by Clark Bint

Summary:

Frank At Home On The Farm is a period, body-horror, mystery that tells the story of a man returning from the First World War to find his family mysteriously missing from their farm. This sets in motion a series of events that claw and tear at Frank's mind, body, and soul.

Tormented by nightmares of the front line, the mysterious voices that plague him and disturbed by the townsfolk's lack of knowledge or interest in his family's whereabouts, Frank becomes more and more isolated on the farm as he tries to uncover where his parents have vanished to... all under the watchful eye of the farm's animals.

 From Writer/Creator Jordan Thomas:

"I'm incredibly excited to be working with all the great people at Scout. The series they have been releasing recently are all unique and outstanding and I'm thrilled that Frank At Home On The Farm is going to be joining them."

Frank returns from the trenches of World War I expecting to be greeted by his loving family on their farm. What he finds instead is a dark mystery, his family missing, and only the animals there waiting for him. This sets in motion a terrifying and horrific turn of events as Frank begins his desperate search for his missing kin in a tale that is equal parts The Shining and Twin Peaks.