4 short stories, combining for 64 pages of introspective and genre-bending comics!
- THE MARVELOUS MISADVENTURES OF THE MELANCHOLY MAN A Supernatural Coming-of-age tale of the empathic boy who turns others' woes into Gold. Young Midas must learn to find balance in a life where a simple touch could mean healing someone's mind at the cost of his own. This first story finds him entangled in a childhood conflict that forces him to face down the moral pendulum, and leads him to making an acquaintance with a familiar figure to any longtime comic book fan. A meta-textual exploration of self-sacrifice & self-preservation
-REFLECTIONS AND OTHER LITTLE DEVILS A grim & moody mystery from the creative team of AREA 51: THE HELIX PROJECT featuring Carlos Mancebo, a grizzled detective, as he investigates a string of suicides linked to addresses from a stretch of properties involved in a failed eminent domain seizure attempt. His discoveries & drug ladden flashbacks lead him into the gullet of a SAW-like murder case that…puts his long dead, drug-addled marriage into question? Carlos' story spirals into a sharp-edged story of perception, control, and addiction.
-TIME FLEETING, WAR IMMORTAL A Dante-esque historical fantasy following two nearly immortal soldiers as they reconvene throughout every great battle in human history to settle a conflict that which spans from a time before time to the end of all existence as we know it. This is a timeless tale about the changing landscape of war, conditioned adversity, and of course, that we will never have enough time.
-BEAR MARKET BUSINESSMAN Centuries in the future, a neon-adorned New York City weighs down upon the world's richest man who somehow has everything and nothing at all. On the edge, he must figure out how the key to survival is choosing to live.
