I’m very glad to see Neal Adams getting more exposure lately and lending that spotlight to a new book that he’s doing covers for. Additionally, Adams also serves as Executive Editor and provided character designs. Below are all the details about this thrilling new graphic novel along with the complete, epic creative team! Check it out and plan to pick this up at Comic-Con (check out below on how to pick this up if you will not be at Comic-Con)!
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Thrilling, provocative, and timely, THE RECONCILERS from comics legend Neal Adams, acclaimed artist Shepherd Hendrix, award winning writer/co-creator Erik Jensen, and co-creators R. Emery Bright and Jens Pil Pilegaard, is a graphic novel of epic adventure, with a compelling visual style, and uncanny topical punch.
It is 2165. The world has entered a new dark age as ordinary people scratch out a living in the squalid ruins of their grandparents’ civilizations. The concept of nationhood is dead. Mega-Corps rule all aspects of life, and maintain control by mining and selling the only energy source left – “Liberty Ore,” a rare and mysterious blue-green substance buried beneath the Moon’s surface.
After a protracted and crippling war between Mega-Corporations, EXECUTIVE OUTCOME (EO), a powerful, enigmatic security organization declares military conflict illegal. Pursuant to EO’s Book of Outcomes, disputes between corporations may only be resolved through Reconciliation – bloody, globally televised trial-by-combat spectacles designed to enthrall and pacify the masses. The “best of the best” of these professional killing teams is owned by one MAXIMILLIAN SOKOR, professional despot, hero of the Holy Outcome, and Executive Chairman of the largest of the Major Corporations.
But when SEAN HEXHAMMER, a working class “ore-jockey” for a small-time wildcat mining outfit discovers the largest Liberty Ore deposit known to man; his actions shake the tenuous order of the world and bring the tormented past Hexhammer had buried roaring to the surface. Hexhammer is forced to return to the violent life he abandoned and assemble an unlikely team of Reconcilers to fight for the future.
It’s Pale Rider meets Blade Runner; if Pale Rider had been set in a dystopian 23rd Century it would probably look a little something like The Reconcilers.
Guided by comics legend Neal Adams, the graphic novel’s creative team is comprised of notable up-and-comers in the comics and entertainment industry: multi-award winning writer/actor Erik Jensen, Two-time Eisner nominated artist Shepherd Hendrix, award winning writer-director Jens Pil Pilegaard and actor-writer-producer R. Emery Bright.
The graphic novel’s heart lies in the diversity of all of the “Vikings and Warriors” involved in the project. The company is ethnically, culturally and spiritually varied, with associates hailing from various part of the globe – Liberia, Denmark, Turkey, Central America, and the Islands of Cuba, Manhattan and California.
Viking Warrior is donating a portion of the profits from book sales at Comic-Con to victims of the Gulf oil spill. The graphic novel which retails at $14.99 is currently available for pre-order on Amazon or via Pay Pal at www.TheReconcilers.com. The book is expected in stores this Fall.
For additional information please visit www.TheReconcilers.com
NEAL ADAMS
Neal’s had legendary “runs” on Batman, X-Men, Green Lantern – Green Arrow and Deadman. Adams rescued Batman from his campy TV show, and transformed him into his present “Avenger of the Night.” When people say “modern Batman,” they mean Neal Adams’ Batman. His run directly led to the realistic incarnation seen in The Dark Knight Returns, and the “Dark Knight” movies. He godfathered a generation of new talent, brought down the comic’s code by introducing “relevant comics” and gave America its first black comic book superhero. While fighting for creator’s rights, he convinced publishers to return original art to its creators, improved standards of comic book production, forced publishers to pay royalties… and crusaded against work-made-for-hire in the copyright law. In addition, Neal has launched a successful production company – Continuity Studios – which produced the popular Nasonex Bee Campaign and introduced us to the concept of Motion Comics. He designed the popular Terminator, T2-4-D ride, and the Spider-Man Rides at Universal Studios. While setting-up his own characters with various Hollywood Studios and Produces, Neal is currently writing and drawing Batman Odyssey, for DC, a 12 issue series, and writing and drawing a 5 issue series of Wolverine for Marvel.
R. EMERY BRIGHT
R. Emery Bright, writer, actor and producer, has created pilot projects for television and written, produced and starred in short and feature length films. Emery has made notable guest star and recurring roles in television favorites, The Wire, Dark Angel, Angel, The Practice and Law & Order, among others. Emery’s film work includes Deep Impact and Arizona Seaside. He has performed in numerous theater productions, notably Othello with Patrick Stewart, Garland Wright’s last production of The Tempest,Talk Radio, SubUrbia, among others. Originally from Liberia in West Africa, Emery currently lives in Washington D.C. with his wife Lisa, their son, Julian, and dog Maggie.
SHEPHERD HENDRIX
Shepherd Hendrix, an award-winning artist, started his comics career in 1991 as an inker, working on such projects as Bernie Wrightson’s Captain Sterna and Swamp Thing with Tom Yeates before moving on to other creative roles such as storyboard artist for video games (Lord of the Rings: The Third Age, The Godfather – EA Games) and television, as well as background design for animation (Extreme Ghostbusters, Men in Black – Sony Animation). Recently, Shepherd has made a comeback to comics with the Eisner nominated and Glyph Award winning Stagger Lee and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to U.S. History.
ERIK JENSEN
Erik Jensen is an actor, writer, and director. He starred in the FOX telefilm Virtuality (by Battlestar Galactica creator Ron Moore; directed by Peter Berg) and as NY Yankee Thurman Munson (opposite John Turturro) in the miniseries The Bronx is Burning. Film credits include Black Knight, The Love Letter, and Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2; he has appeared on TV in CSI, Damages, Alias, The Good Wife, Rescue Me, Century City, Love Monkey, The Dark, New Amsterdam, Law & Order, Deadline and Gravity among many others. He’s appeared Off-Broadway at the Public Theater, MTC MCC, Naked Angels, and as Lenny Bruce at the Wilma Theater. With wife Jessica Blank, Erik co-authored the play The Exonerated (Lortel, Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Fringe First, Herald Angel Awards, and award from the NACDL, the American Bar Association, and Amnesty International). Erik and Jessica adapted the film version for Court TV, which starred Danny Glover, Susan Sarandon, Aidan Quinn, and Delroy Lindo. Erik and Jessica also co-authored the hit play Aftermath and the book Living Justice (Simon and Schuster, 2005), and co-adapted Jessica’s novel Almost Home into a film for Jon Bon Jovi’s production company (slated for 2010).
JENS PIL PILEGAARD
Jens Pil Pilegaard is an award winning filmmaker and screenwriter who spent the better part of the last decade writing and directing independent films and selling and optioning screenplays to Hollywood. He is a member of the writers guild of America in 2009, his first feature film Arizona Seaside, was released to critical acclaim and won several awards, including best feature film , and best cinematography. When Pil is not working on his next project, he can be found pursing his other passions, photography, animal rights and mixed martial arts.
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