RSAM, K&V, TRAD-COM, AND WWCCx2!!!

As is typical of the G2 team, there are tons of plans and projects in the works - so we're here to give you a quick rundown of things past and present, and most importantly, the future!!!

As far as what is past, the G2 "Storm" hit Chicago much like we had hoped it would. We sold some books, saw some old fans (thanks Tony, Justin and Jose!) and made some new ones, and of course played a great game of "Hotel Sniper" this time without the Hotel Security. Tal Hertweck, G2's very own model, drew a lot of attention on Friday and Saturday as Kross, the latest and greatest character starring in the forthcoming Kross & Vengeance book due out early next year, with preview pages and a brief glimpse of Kross in the conclusion of Triad #4 (part 2!) Dan and Tal had an awesome photoshoot which you can see now on Facebook, and we will see in more detail in upcoming previews and perhaps a few prints. Tal also drew the attention of Chicago radio station WGTR, and was joined by Eric Glastetter in giving the station an exclusive teaser interview revealing some of the intricacies of "Kross & Vengeance!" Evan Thomas was in Chicago at the G2 booth as well, and did a little book-signing along with Dan and Eric on the Raptor Samurai book, which was wildly popular!

Speaking of the Raptor Samurai - Dan assures G2 readers that "Raptor Samurai" will be available for digital download and in print through the website by 10 pm tonight (8/17/11) - so be sure to get your copy today! And if you haven't picked up "Raptor Sniper: One Shot" yet, now is the perfect time to get caught up on the story of Billy William the Veloci-er... the Utahraptor. Sadly, we'll be slowing down a little on the Raptor series (just until early 2012) to get some other projects done, including "Antic" #3 and "Battles #1: Marathon"; "Triad #4, Part 2"; and Dan's pet project, "Trad Com" - a precursor to "Antic #1"! G2 will be revealing this comic page on 5 foot, oil painted canvas at the MidOhio Comic Con in October!

We are also continuing to sponsor and publish new talent as part of the G2 Studios commitment to the next generation of graphic story-telling. Keep watching for the release of "Lucid World" by creative team James Pinard, Miguel Guerra, Michael Brewer, and Sanju Nivangune. We are also going forward with projects from Autumn Richardson (Writer, "All Hell") and Aiden Lowell (Writer, "The Moirae"). In addition we are continuing to accept submissions.

On a very important side note: Congratulations to Amanda Carrie Kateri Bruns for winning the exclusive Wizard World G2 sketch of her favorite superheros! She chose to have the G2 team sketched in costume. Evan sketched himself as a Raptor, a tribute to one of his favorite subjects, Raptor Samurai, while Dan chose to show himself as G2Man! Although Eric probably should have chosen to have himself portrayed as The Angel of Death, he chose to be represented by "The Punisher" (almost the same thing, right?) - and he plays the part well! Check out the finished sketch on G2's Facebook page!

One final thought: though the Raptor series will take a backseat to some of the other key projects we have planned for the year, Eric is hard at work finishing up the script for the next humorous book from G2, "The League of Tards" and will soon begin writing "Raptor Sniper: Black Ops" and "Raptor Sniper: Zombie Apocalypse", while developing the spin-off books, "Ape-Sh*t: Tales of the Reverend Simian" and "DOSK: The Department of SideKicks." Look forward to a long future for these characters! Thanks to all our fans, old and new, and thanks for reading G2 Comics!!!

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!