Pre-Con

It's been a little while since our last post. We have been working on completing the next installment in the raptor series: "Raptor Samurai," which is going to be available TOMORROW at Wizard World Chicago! We also hope to get it up on Drive-Thru this weekend for digital download.

Wizard World Chicago is a mere 29 hours away, and we couldn't be more excited! Evan Thomas (Raptor Samurai penciler) will be joining us at the booth (#3652), along with Tal Rich http://www.facebook.com/lacaena, who will be modeling as the character Kross from our new series: Kross and Vengeance (coming this fall).

Daniel and Evan will be taking commissions at the convention, and Daniel will be doing some artwork for one of our lucky facebook fans! (Drawing date TBD).

Along with that, Daniel will be working on interior pencils for K&V and Battles #1 at the con, and hopes to have some teasers online this weekend. Antic #3 will resume immediately upon our return from the con...expect that in September.

We will be updating FROM THE CON, so keep an eye out for Pics, posts and Interviews from Wizard World Chicago!!!

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!

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 (...)

G Force

As you may already know, G2 has brought on two new artists to the staff: Michael Brewer (inks) and Evan Thomas (pencils/color). They are very talented guys and we are excited to have them on our projects for this year!

Michael is now on board for the Kross and Vengeance book, due to start in June/July, and working on our FREE PREVIEW for K&V, which will be given away to a lucky 500 people at the beginning of June. Michael was the mastermind behind the inks for Raptor Sniper, and will continue to ink for other "Raptor" books to come.

Evan was brought on to do some prints and character bios, but we thought that his talent should be used in our books as well. Evan will be signed on to do the pencils for Raptor Samurai, which will be the first book that all four members are collaborating on together, thus creating the "G Force." (cheesy, i know but i think its cool!)

In bringing on more members to the G2 Staff, we hope to get books out at a more steady pace so that fans will be able to expect titles from us on a monthly basis. That being said, the submission floodgates will open sometime tonight (5/11) on the website; so get drawing!

G2 in Mid Ohio and Chicago/Potential Release Dates

Adding to our list of cons for the year, G2 signed onto the MidOhio Comic Con, now sponsored by Wizard World, and one of our favorite cons, the Wizard World Chicago Con, which is where we had our first big con experience. We have always felt a great deal of inspiration when attending the Chicago con, which is where we have come up with ideas for books like Raptor Sniper, and the in-development League of Tards book. The MidOhio con takes place in late October and Chicago is in August again. We hope to catch up with some old fans, and meet plenty of new ones. In keeping with our plan to release new books for each con, we are planning to release Antic #3 at the upcoming Cape Con in Cape Girardeau, and a second Raptor Sniper book, Raptor Samurai (due to popular demand!) at the Chicago Con. In between we will be releasing the first installment of Kross and Vengeance (with Michael Brewer on inks) from the pages of The Triad sometime in late June or early July, and we are looking to release a slightly delayed Triad #4 in May. This is the big 48 page finale and Daniel is working to make it super awesome! Just a reminder to check out our newest feature - prints for purchase online. Check out the Evan Thomas Raptor Sniper: Black Ops full color print for just $5.00. Also, if you haven't gotten your copy of Raptor Sniper: "One Shot" you can order online now, or get a digital copy at Drive Thru Comics!

GEM CITY and the state of G2

Hey G2sians (pronounced gee-two'-z-nz)!!! Welcome back to Daniel Gracey - G2 creator/owner - who was just visiting the Gem City comic con in Dayton, Ohio!!! We at G2 love the Ohio bunch and we are looking forward to being a part of some of Ohio's future cons, including the Mid-Ohio con later this year. Dan had great fun at the Dayton show and sold many books, specifically the Antic books, which are now sold out!!! (Don't fret - you can still get your own copy if you order online, or if you want digital, check out DriveThruComics.com!) He also sold tons of prints; we are planning to release prints for online purchase on the 15th of this month!!! Finally - I want to give a shout out to Evan Thomas - Eric met him in Columbus! Evan did some outstanding print artwork for future Raptor Sniper titles. We are hoping to use his work at the Cape Girardeau CAPECON in June - we'll be sure to keep you posted on the outstanding art this talented artist is providing the comic world! Check out the G2 Facebook site to see Evan's Raptor Sniper artwork!

SPACE Con/New Allies

Hey everyone from Eric in Columbus, Ohio where G2 is making their presence known in the Small Press/Alternative Comics world. I've met some great people here, and have seen (and purchased) some great artwork/comics!

To start, G2 - Eric and Daniel - personally appreciate each of the fans that purchased our books today - we had a great business day, but more importantly, we got our stories and artwork into the hands of fanboys/girls and other creators alike - thanks to everyone who purchased, and to everyone who showed interest in G2!

Our appreciation also to Packrat Comics and Laughing Ogre Comics (www.laughingogrecomics.com) who both purchased G2 comics to sell in their stores! We appreciate their help in getting the G2 product into the hands of fanboys and girls in this market! We hope the books do well, so they will carry them on a regular basis! If you are a resident of Columbus, be sure to request our books in these stores!

And while there are far to many to mention all of them here, it's been fun meeting some of the other creators, including another team from St. Louis - inlcuding Matt Bryan, Aaron James Ford (www.aaronjamesford.com) and Kevin Wolf (http://pangaea.egocomix.com/); Kevin also has a bio on www.inkanddrinkcomics.com. Our next door neighbor here at the con is www.peculiarcomics.com - the creator known simply as ED with the most innovative marketing idea I have seen yet at a comic con - business cards with stick on fake moustaches - BRILLIANT - I saw dozens (just shy of 100 in fact) of fake moustaches roaming about the con. One of my favorite creators with inventive stories and deeply imaginative artwork was Richard Errington of InterVerse Comics (www.interversecomics.com) - and I bought #1-3 of his title Bushidan (produced with Rowel Roque) which I will read promptly upon my return to St. Louis. I was intrigued by every one of his titles. Another great story was described by Douglas Hufford - whose digital comic "Yuri - The Gypsy Hunter is available digitally at www.yurithecomic.com. Last but not least - one of my favorites on the originality scale is the Plastic Farm title by Rafer Roberts, with artwork contributed by Jacob Warrenfeltz, who also contributed to DC Conspiracy's SHEAR TERROR anthology, which was the first published work of everyones favorite G2 artist Daniel Gracey (find out more about Jacob at http://www.dcconspiracy.com/about.htm! I'll let you check out Rafer's work at www.plasticfarm.com and you can see for yourself just how outrageously interesting this work is!

Finally, I need to give a shout out to the guys at Broken Icon Comics, specifically Eric Watkins. Their work is outstanding (they currently offer four titles on their site) and they are a real down-to-earth team of guys that get excited about promoting the indie scene, and they LOVED Daniel's artwork! You can find podcasts and updates on their Facebook page, including a photo of the G2 booth with our Eric and their Eric proudly holding G2 titles. Also, check out their website at www.brokeniconcomics.com for a podcast interview with Eric of G2 -that's me! They should be giving us an update as to when the podcast interview will air, along with a review of the Triad books!

I know I've missed a few great teams, but I'll be updating Facebook with more as the weekend progresses, and going into next week! Thanks for following us!