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Predator vs Spider-Man AND Predator vs. Wolverine by Benjamin Percy (Comic Book Spotlight)

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TARGET: SPIDER-MAN IN PREDATOR’S GRITTIEST SERIES YET!

In Predator vs. Wolverine, we saw a single Predator stalk Earth’s greatest prey, the killing machine Wolverine.

In Predator vs. Black Panther, Yautja invaded Wakanda and nearly dethroned its king.

Now Ben Percy turns his twisted brain to Marvel’s most beloved property: Spider-Man!

A heat wave sends NYC into a blackout and Spider-Man on patrol as tempers boil across the city. But beneath its grimy sewers and subways lurks a threat unlike anything Peter Parker has faced before. Introducing “Skinner,” a Predator of no honor and no clan – only a thirst for blood. Exquisitely rendered by superstar artist Marcelo Ferreira! RATED PARENTAL ADVISORY.

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Worlds collide in the first-ever crossover between the Marvel Universe and the Predator mythos!

The bloodthirsty saga you’ve been waiting for! Wolverine has lived one of the longest and most storied lives in Marvel Comics history. Now witness the untold greatest battles of Logan’s life – across the ages, against a Predator! One Yautja seeks the greatest prey in existence – and finds it in Weapon X.

From the blood-ridden snows of the Canadian wilderness to the sword-slinging streets of Madripoor, Wolverine and a Predator will destroy everything in their paths on their way to the ultimate victory – or glorious death! Superstar writer Benjamin Percy brings the bloodiest hunters in all of pop culture to their knees! But will Wolverine’s adamantium skull join the bones of countless other prey? Or will he prove, once again, that he’s the best there is?

Collecting PREDATOR VS. WOLVERINE #1-4.

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Meet the Author

Benjamin Percy is an award-winning, genre-bending novelist, comics writer and screenwriter.

He is the author of seven novels — most recently The Sky Vault (William Morrow) — as well as The Unfamiliar Garden, The Ninth Metal, The Dark Net, The Dead Lands, Red Moon, and The Wilding. He has published three books of stories — Suicide Woods, Refresh, Refresh, and The Language of Elk. He is also the author of a book of essays — Thrill Me — which is widely taught in creative writing classes.

He writes Wolverine, X-Force, and Ghost Rider for Marvel Comics. He has also written for DC Comics, AWA Studios, and Dynamite Entertainment and is known for his celebrated runs on Green Arrow, Devil’s Highway, Teen Titans, Year Zero, Nightwing, and James Bond.

He has written three, ten-episode audio dramas for Marvel. Wolverine: The Long Night was listed as one of the top 15 podcasts of the year by Apple and won the iHeartRadio Award for best scripted podcasts. His latest series, Old Man Star-Lord, was listed by Entertainment Weekly as one of the Top Ten Podcasts of the year and stars Chris Elliot, Timothy Busfield, Vanessa Williams, and Danny Glover.

His fiction and nonfiction have been read on National Public Radio, performed at Symphony Space, and published by Esquire (where he was a contributing editor for a decade), GQ, Time, Men’s Journal, Outside, the Wall Street Journal, the Paris Review, Tin House, Glimmer Train, Ploughshares, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Cemetery Dance, McSweeney’s, and many other magazines and journals.

His honors include an NEA fellowship, a McKnight Fellowship, the Whiting Writers’ Award, the Plimpton Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, and inclusion in Best American Short Stories and Best American Comics.

He co-wrote the film Summering with the director James Ponsoldt, and it premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. He and Ponsoldt are currently collaborating on a TV adaptation of Urban Cowboy for Paramount+.

Learn more about him at www.benjaminpercy.com.

 

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KICKSTARTER Campaign —> BicentenniKILL by Matt Entin and Ed Kuehnel

Suspicious Behavior Productions is the comic book HQ of Matt Entin and Ed Kuehnel, two longtime friends and writers whose earliest collaborations hark back to the early 2000’s. Collectively, they have written on over ninety video games, as well as the comedy/horror film Lumberjack Manand the critically-acclaimed comic book mini-series, Invasion from Planet Wrestletopia — their first non work-for-hire (i.e. creator-owned) project.

 

 

What We’re Kickstarting:
BicentenniKILL

Matt Entin and Ed KuehnelEvery dollar earned from this Kickstarter will go towards paying artists to work on the digital  edition of the first issue of our next creator-owned mini-series, BicentenniKILL,and we’ve got some AWESOME rewards for our backers, including first edition print copies of the collected vollume of Invasion from Planet Wrestletopia which are ready to ship the moment this Kickstarter funds!

 


The Story of BicentenniKILL

 

“Vote as if your life depends on it” becomes reality for a small town police chief and his activist daughter when they are forced to defend it from power hungry animatronic historical figures brought to life by a mysterious comet.

July 3rd, 1976 — the eve of America’s bicentennial. Tensions between local politicians and counterculture “radicals” are at a boiling point when the town of Miniwaukan, Wisconsin, “the Sauerkraut Capital of the Midwest” votes to rebrand itself “Patriotism’s Front Porch” — a transformation led by its power-hungry mayor, Jack Peepgrass.

Things come to a head when a mysterious comet brings sentience to animatronic historical figures from the town’s a newly built Hall of Patriots, and the robots embark on a campaign of terror that culminates with a diabolical plan to fill an empty seat on the town council with an animatronic Grover Cleveland.

Standing in their way are activist Nina Harewood and her politically-neutral father, police chief Dennis Harewood, who clash over what it means to “protect and serve” when it’s the system itself that threatens the status quo.

Click  to pledge to their Kickstarter goal $4,999.00!

 

 

Donate and receive the following comic that’s in print and ready to ship:

Invasion from Planet Wrestletopia 


Invasion from Planet Wrestletopia is an action/comedy that follows the trials of “Rock ‘N’ Roll” Rory Landell, a pro wrestler who declares himself “galactic champion of the universe” on live television to get revenge on an unscrupulous promoter, Dick Drasin.

 

 

Click here for more info and to support their new comic, “BicentenniKILL!”

 

 

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KICKSTARTER Campaign —> BicentenniKILL by Matt Entin and Ed Kuehnel

Suspicious Behavior Productions is the comic book HQ of Matt Entin and Ed Kuehnel, two longtime friends and writers whose earliest collaborations hark back to the early 2000’s. Collectively, they have written on over ninety video games, as well as the comedy/horror film Lumberjack Manand the critically-acclaimed comic book mini-series, Invasion from Planet Wrestletopia — their first non work-for-hire (i.e. creator-owned) project.

 

 

What We’re Kickstarting:
BicentenniKILL

Matt Entin and Ed KuehnelEvery dollar earned from this Kickstarter will go towards paying artists to work on the digital  edition of the first issue of our next creator-owned mini-series, BicentenniKILL,and we’ve got some AWESOME rewards for our backers, including first edition print copies of the collected vollume of Invasion from Planet Wrestletopia which are ready to ship the moment this Kickstarter funds!

 


The Story of BicentenniKILL

“Vote as if your life depends on it” becomes reality for a small town police chief and his activist daughter when they are forced to defend it from power hungry animatronic historical figures brought to life by a mysterious comet.

July 3rd, 1976 — the eve of America’s bicentennial. Tensions between local politicians and counterculture “radicals” are at a boiling point when the town of Miniwaukan, Wisconsin, “the Sauerkraut Capital of the Midwest” votes to rebrand itself “Patriotism’s Front Porch” — a transformation led by its power-hungry mayor, Jack Peepgrass.

Things come to a head when a mysterious comet brings sentience to animatronic historical figures from the town’s a newly built Hall of Patriots, and the robots embark on a campaign of terror that culminates with a diabolical plan to fill an empty seat on the town council with an animatronic Grover Cleveland.

Standing in their way are activist Nina Harewood and her politically-neutral father, police chief Dennis Harewood, who clash over what it means to “protect and serve” when it’s the system itself that threatens the status quo.

Click  to pledge to their Kickstarter goal $4,999.00!

 

 

Donate and receive the following comic that’s in print and ready to ship:
Invasion from Planet Wrestletopia 


Invasion from Planet Wrestletopia is an action/comedy that follows the trials of “Rock ‘N’ Roll” Rory Landell, a pro wrestler who declares himself “galactic champion of the universe” on live television to get revenge on an unscrupulous promoter, Dick Drasin.

 

 

Click here for more info and to support their new comic, “BicentenniKILL!”

 

 

 

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Justice: A Tale of the Nepali Civil War (The Graphic Novel Book #1) by Ram Khatri (Book Review)

Justice is the story “with all too familiar human challenges,” says Paul Levitz, former president at D.C. Comics. He further adds that it seems like “the world keeps getting smaller” with the emergence of such graphic novels.

Ram Khatri’s Justice: A Tale of the Nepali Civil War is the story of a young girl’s brave journey to reclaim the life she left behind during the unforgiving conflict of the Nepali Civil War. With its sublime settings, diverse characters, and riveting narrative, the young girl learns the truth about the life that she left behind.

During the decade-long “People’s War” in Nepal, more than 17,000 people were killed. Thousands of innocent civilians were also abducted and beaten by both government and Maoist forces. Even today, years after the war has ended, it is unknown what happen to many of the nearly 1,400 people who went missing. While the people mentioned in Justice are fiction, the story is based on events that actually occurred during and after the Civil War era in the country.

The graphic novel has two sections. The first section was illustrated in color by Sandipan Santra while the second was illustrated in black and white by Ingrid Lilamani.

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I received a complimentary copy of this book from Reedsy Discovery.  I voluntarily chose to read and post an honest review.

 

Justice: A Tale of the Nepali Civil War (The Graphic Novel Book #1) by Ram Khatri is based on actual events that occurred during and after the Civil War era in Nepal. The people and places mentioned are fictional, but the story shows the magnitude war has on a country and its people despite using a fictional cast of characters. 

Before the graphic novel began, I read “A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR.” In it, the author informs the reader the book is divided into two sections. “The first section was illustrated in color by Sandipan Santra while the second was illustrated in black and white by Ingrid Lilamani. The purpose is to show how different artists from diverse backgrounds visualize the unique Nepali settings, characters, and its historical events.” As an avid reader of comics and graphic novels, this unique feature intrigued me because I have never witnessed any other book mimicking this setup. 

Going into the reading, I was unfamiliar with Nepal and enjoyed the brief overview of it. I learned many new facts. For instance, the currency is the Nepalese Rupee. Since geography is not my strong suit, I liked the zoomed-in image of Nepal on the map. 

Justice: A Tale of the Nepali Civil War (The Graphic Novel Book #1) shows war’s effects on a country. It affects every component: economy, citizens, and livelihood. Both illustrators did a lovely job of making the reader feel the family’s fear, sorrow, and regret. As the illustrated story demonstrates, no matter how hard you try to avoid getting involved, often, there’s no hiding from the battle. 

Justice: A Tale of the Nepali Civil War ends on a cliffhanger, making any reader eager to read what happened next for the major character. 

I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys reading comics and graphic novels. I would also recommend this book to those who want to share the effects of war with their children (elementary age and older).

 

 
 
 
Meet the Author
 
Translator of Kafka’s ‘The Metamorphosis’ in Nepali, Ram Khatri works in book publishing. He holds an M.S. in publishing from New York and an M.A. in English literature from Kathmandu. Ram is always fascinated by truly diverse, unrepresented, and heartwarming stories that touch lives.
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