Monday, June 27, 2011

Cape Con Recap

What a tremendous opportunity to have been part of the CapeCon Comic Convention in Cape Girardeau, Missouri this past weekend! We met some outstanding new fans and made some new friends! Among those were the guys at Nerd Word; check out their Facebook page and just go ahead and click LIKE - they were a great bunch of guys who love comics, gaming and all of geekdom!
We also found a new home for some of our favorite titles - the Raptor Sniper book will now be available at the Marvels and Legends Store in Cape Girardeau, and The Hour of the Dragon Store in Sikeston, Missouri! The Raptor book is definitely a hot commodity - so be sure to get yours while you can (if you haven't already!) Also, look for the Raptor Samurai book to drop sometime in July - Evan Thomas is hard at work on the interior pencils, Michael Brewer is on inks, and Daniel will be taking on the role of coloring and lettering, as well as all that boss-like stuff like getting the book printed and in the stores. It's been a whirlwind project - and one that we've been producing as the script is being written. We really want to get that book into the hands of all our fans! As a sneak peek - Dan should be getting the prints for Raptor Samurai up online to purchase sometime later this week, along with prints for Antic 3 and Kross and Vengeance, the follow up to The Triad which is in the early stages of production and should see a late fall release this year yet.
Speaking of Kross and Vengeance - we're very excited to welcome aboard another addition to the G2 team - Tal Hertweck of FantasyFrox.com. She's a very talented seamstress and character model who will be donning her very own Kross costume for Wizard World Chicago. She appeared at Cape Con as "Revy" of the Black Lagoon anime series, the sultry "Black Cat" from the Spiderman comics, and "Cheyenne Freemont" the sexy female "Nightwing!" We are thrilled to have her with us, and we're sure the fanboys will be too!
A special thanks needs to go to Ken Murphy who coordinated the Cape Con and was a gracious host - we at G2 can be primadonnas sometimes (LOL!) We also want to be sure to thank every fan who stopped by and made a purchase, and those who just browsed. We met some up and coming young talent, and some great costumed characters! Thanks especially to Harley and Rorschach - you know who you are - for being our biggest new fans. Finally - thanks to Evan Thomas who joined us for the first time as part of the G2 team at the Cape Con! He brought his portfolio, his prints, and hammered out several commissions during his time at the booth. He was great to hang with and added a lot to the G2 booth!

Thursday, June 9, 2011

TRIPLE PUNCTUATION

It is another busy month for G2 Studios as Daniel, Eric and Evan head to Cape Girardeau, MO for CAPE-CON where we will be releasing (in PRINT) THE TRIAD #4: Part 1!!! So if you happen to be in southeastern Missouri on June 24,25, or 26, be sure to check it out!!! More info here::: http://www.cape-con.com/... We'll get to meet William Katt there, so I'm sure we'll come up with some kind of new crazy comic idea centered around the Greatest American Hero; or maybe we can just get the rights for that title itself!!! We get all our best inspiration at the cons!!!

Not only will G2 be releasing The Triad #4 in full print, but we will also be selling prints; right now it looks like there will be prints available for Antic #3, Raptor Samurai, and Kross and Vengeance!!! The artistic team will also be giving away a Kross and Vengeance black and white print with exclusive Daniel Gracey pencil art!!! We are planning to have 30 of these for the first 30 G2 customers at the Con!!! There is also discussion regarding a smaller version of the Lysandra Power Unleashed panel - one of my favorite renderings of Lysandra to date!!!

So what could possibly be next for G2 with everything already going on??? After talking with some freelance artists, inkers, and an expanded writing team, G2 is looking to publish several historical pieces, covering great battles throughout both ancient and modern history!!! To start, we are looking at either The Battle for Marathon, the beach where the Athenians battled the Persians to defend their freedom, or The Battle of Teutoburg Forest, where three Roman Legions were cut down by a united Germania!!! For modern warfare, we are looking at both the Tank Battle of Kursk between the Russians and Germans in WW2, or the Battle for Leyte Gulf in the Phillipines, specifically regarding the sinking of the Gambier Bay!!! So if you are a history buff, G2 hopes to have something coming your way late this year...

Finally, a character near and dear to our hearts is finding a home in a new title currently in development!!! Gamble, the superhero blessed with luck, (yet somehow deemed not worthy of the top 50 best comic characters by Talent House) will be making his way into his own comic, along with a stellar new team of heroes, sometime in first half of 2012!!! Script development will begin this Fall... We're still working on a great title for this one, and may put it to a vote in the future... But for now, the working title is "The Outcasts"... Again, we should see this in print sometime next year!!! -EJG (...)