WATCHDOGS After Sam Garrison and his pregnant wife buy a bargain home, they find the reason it’s such a bargain—the home is in a crime-ridden neighborhood, plagued by gangs and drugs.

Sam and his neighbor, Mark Buchanan, decide to take the law into their own hands to clean up the mean streets as the masked vigilantes ™ ™

called the Watchdogs. Van Lente CHURILL A

But well-meaning Sam is drawn into Mark’s web, and Mark’s darker agenda. Can Sam make it out ® alive, and as the man he used to be?

Visionary creators and Brian Churilla bring you Watchdogs. Wrestle not with monsters, lest a monster ye become. –Friedrich Nietzche

ISBN 1-934220-05-1

Fred Van Lente

DIRECT SALES Brian Churilla $11.99 U.S. / $14.99 CAN ™ p latinumstudioscomics.com www.

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Written by: Fred van Lente

Art by: Brian Churilla

Colors by: Andy Walton

Letters by: Scott O. Brown

LOGO BY: Tina Andreakos

Cover by: Brian Churilla, Andy Walton and Zachary A. Pennington

Book design: Zachary A. Pennington

Edited by: Paul Cibis and Jim McLauchlin

Created by: Scott Mitchell Rosenberg

For press and promotional inquiries, please contact: Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, Chairman Adam Rosenblum Brian Altounian, President & COO [email protected] Sean O’Reilly, VP Publishing and Animation 310-807-8100 Adam Rosenblum, editor-in-chief Zachary A. Pennington, VP CREATIVE DESIGN

WATCHDOGS. First Edition. First Printing 2007. ISBN #978-1-934220-05-4. Published by Platinum Studios Comics, a division of Platinum Studios, Inc. 11400 Olympic Blvd., 14th Floor, , CA 90064 through a joint venture with , Inc. WATCHDOGS, the Watchdogs logo, and the names and likenesses of all featured characters are trademarks of Platinum Studios, Inc. © 2007 Platinum Studios, Inc. All rights reserved. PRINTED IN CANADA.

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WATCHDOGS_interior_CS3_zP.indd 62 9/12/07 3:59:38 PM WATCHDOGS_interior_CS3_zP.indd 63 9/12/07 3:59:43 PM FRED VAN LENTE’s graphic novels include The Silencers (Image/Moonstone), Scorpion: Poison Tomorrow (Marvel) and Cowboys & Aliens (Platinum) with Andrew Foley. He is also the co-creator of the Xeric Award-winning, Ignatz- nominated, kid-tested, mother-approved Action Philosophers (Evil Twin) and a writer for the line. Learn more about him than you can possibly stand at his official web site, www.fredvanlente.com.

BRIAN CHURILLA is a cartoonist living in Portland, Oregon with his wife, cat and dog. Current projects include the zany pan-dimensional romp of a , The Engineer, as well as the dark, brooding Spaghetti Western from Hell, Lonesome Gringo. Aside from comic book work, he is also currently working on a children’s book on inspired by Homer’s Iliad. You can check out more of his work at www. brianchurilla.com.

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WATCHDOGS_interior_CS3_zP.indd 64 9/12/07 3:59:51 PM Scott Mitchell Rosenberg’s passion for reading comic books started when he was as a child. Both his creative and business sense, combined to turn this passion into a career in the comic industry. Scott started his life in the comics business at the age of 13 with a comic book mail order service. Years later after successfully running (the largest independent comic book publisher) and selling it to Marvel in 1994, Scott used his hiatus from the business world to create the Macroverse; which details the storylines, characters and concepts of the universe of what he dreamed Platinum Studios would one day bring to life. Some of the stories from the Macroverse include: Cowboys & Aliens, The Weapon, Consumed, Ghosting, Atlantis Rising, and Unique.

Although Scott is back to being a businessman by day, one of his true passions is the creative process that goes into making a compelling story. Scott also executive produced , , and .

With his previous company, Malibu Comics, he published The comic books, and sensing a movie, brought the comic to Sony where it became a billion- dollar movie franchise. Scott is currently working on producing more than ten comic to film movies.

Scott has a great super hero team that keeps him grounded, his wife of 15 years, Pam and daughters Kendall and Karlee.

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