Omega Comics Presents #1 cover art
What do an undead mobster, a Chaplinesque cipher and a covert, counterterrorism team have in common? They're all featured in the first issue of Omega Comics Presents, a new comic book anthology series debuting Feb. 10, 2010.
The second title from Las Vegas-based boutique publisher Pop! Goes the Icon, Omega Comics Presents is a quarterly, black-and-white comic featuring a variety of features from some of the hottest new talents in independent comics. Anchored by the serial action epic "OMEGA," Omega Comics Presents will feature never-before-
The first issue features chapter one of Pj Perez's "OMEGA," "The Taking," in which a mundane school field trip to Hoover Dam takes a turn into nightmare territory when the students become hostages in a terrorist siege. In the issue's second feature, "Odd Job" (by Alex De-Gruchy and Robert Durham), a routine house clearing gig for young Hank goes awry when he comes across unexpected residents – the ghosts of a mobster and his wife. Issue one's third feature, John Dimes' "Making No Magnifisense,"
Omega Comics Presents will be $3.50 per copy and is available for preorder now at www.popgoestheicon.com. It will be available as a digital download and in finer comic stores on Feb. 10. Pop! Goes the Icon's titles are available for retailers through Haven Distributors (www.havendistro.com)
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