Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Polarity by Max Bemis Polarity (2013 Boom) comic books. Cover by Frazer Irving (W) Max Bemis (A) Jorge Coelho From the mind of SAY ANYTHING frontman Max Bemis comes POLARITY, a manic-depressive spin on the superhero genre. Timothy Woods is a bipolar artist stuck in the world of hipsters, meaningless sex, and vain art -- better known as Brooklyn. But after he survives a near fatal car accident, Timothy discovers that his mental instability is more than just a disorder, and that his bipolar medication hasn't just been subduing depression and uncontrollable mania. it's been suppressing his super powers! Now it's time for Timothy to stand up to his disease alongside an onslaught of wretched human villainy as he finally finds his place in the world. Each issue comes with a free download for a new original song written and performed by Max Bemis! Cover price $3.99. Limited 1 for 10 Variant Cover by W.Scott Forbes (W) Max Bemis (A) Jorge Coelho From the mind of SAY ANYTHING frontman Max Bemis comes POLARITY, a manic-depressive spin on the superhero genre. Timothy Woods is a bipolar artist stuck in the world of hipsters, meaningless sex, and vain art -- better known as Brooklyn. But after he survives a near fatal car accident, Timothy discovers that his mental instability is more than just a disorder, and that his bipolar medication hasn't just been subduing depression and uncontrollable mania. it's been suppressing his super powers! Now it's time for Timothy to stand up to his disease alongside an onslaught of wretched human villainy as he finally finds his place in the world. Each issue comes with a free download for a new original song written and performed by Max Bemis! Cover price $3.99. This item is not in stock. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available. Limited 1 for 25 Variant Cover by Frazer Irving (W) Max Bemis (A) Jorge Coelho From the mind of SAY ANYTHING frontman Max Bemis comes POLARITY, a manic-depressive spin on the superhero genre. Timothy Woods is a bipolar artist stuck in the world of hipsters, meaningless sex, and vain art -- better known as Brooklyn. But after he survives a near fatal car accident, Timothy discovers that his mental instability is more than just a disorder, and that his bipolar medication hasn't just been subduing depression and uncontrollable mania. it's been suppressing his super powers! Now it's time for Timothy to stand up to his disease alongside an onslaught of wretched human villainy as he finally finds his place in the world. Each issue comes with a free download for a new original song written and performed by Max Bemis! Cover price $3.99. 2nd Printing Variant by Paul Maybury. (W) Max Bemis (A) Jorge Coelho From the mind of SAY ANYTHING frontman Max Bemis comes POLARITY, a manic-depressive spin on the superhero genre. Timothy Woods is a bipolar artist stuck in the world of hipsters, meaningless sex, and vain art -- better known as Brooklyn. But after he survives a near fatal car accident, Timothy discovers that his mental instability is more than just a disorder, and that his bipolar medication hasn't just been subduing depression and uncontrollable mania. it's been suppressing his super powers! Now it's time for Timothy to stand up to his disease alongside an onslaught of wretched human villainy as he finally finds his place in the world. Each issue comes with a free download for a new original song written and performed by Max Bemis! Cover price $3.99. This item is not in stock. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available. Hastings Retailer Exclusive cover by Tradd Moore and Rico Renzi. (W) Max Bemis (A) Jorge Coelho From the mind of SAY ANYTHING frontman Max Bemis comes POLARITY, a manic-depressive spin on the superhero genre. Timothy Woods is a bipolar artist stuck in the world of hipsters, meaningless sex, and vain art -- better known as Brooklyn. But after he survives a near fatal car accident, Timothy discovers that his mental instability is more than just a disorder, and that his bipolar medication hasn't just been subduing depression and uncontrollable mania. it's been suppressing his super powers! Now it's time for Timothy to stand up to his disease alongside an onslaught of wretched human villainy as he finally finds his place in the world. Each issue comes with a free download for a new original song written and performed by Max Bemis! Cover price $3.99. ISBN 13: 9781608863464. Say Anything’s frontman Max Bemis makes his comic debut in this personal exploration of super powers! From the mind of SAY ANYTHING frontman Max Bemis comes POLARITY, a manic-depressive spin on the superhero genre. Timothy Woods is a bipolar artist stuck in the world of hipsters, meaningless sex, and vain art -- better known as Brooklyn. But after he survives a near fatal car accident, Timothy discovers that his mental instability is more than just a disorder, and that his bipolar medication hasn't just been subduing depression and uncontrollable mania. it's been suppressing his super powers! Now it's time for Timothy to stand up to his disease alongside an onslaught of wretched human villainy as he finally finds his place in the world. This collection collects the entire four-issue limited series along with an exclusive acoustic four song EP composed and recorded specifically as a companion to the graphic novel! "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Max Bemis is the lead singer and primary lyricist of the band Say Anything. He is also co-singer alongside Chris Conley of the supergroup Two Tongues, which features members from Say Anything and Saves the Day. Other side music projects include Perma as well as Max Bemis and the Painful Splits. A life long comic fan, POLARITY is Bemis’s debut as a comic creator. Jorge Coelho is a Portuguese illustrator and comic book artist. Coelho studied Graphic Arts and Communication at António Arroio School of Arts from Lisbon, and is an amatuer bass player. From Booklist : Unlikely hero gets unexpected super​powers, fights for justice, defeats the baddie, and gets the girl—typical superhero plot, sure. But Tim Woods’ powers come from his bipolar-disorder meds, and his fight for justice takes the form of a viciously satisfying takedown of Brooklyn hipster culture. Once Tim catches on that his manic episodes cause more than just public nudity and paranoia, he starts small—outing the hypocrisy of the hipster elite at a loft party—and moves up to the big leagues: defeating the crackpot psychiatrist who has been manipulating his patients to create an army of weaponized psychotics. Bemis’ tongue-in-cheek dialogue is insouciantly self-aware—I’m the guy reluctantly making it safe to be a douchey indie rocker in a gentrified former ghetto, you big ugly mammoth—but Coelho’s gorgeous full-color art saves it from being a mere joke by bringing vivid life to Tim’s mania and adding a much-needed touch of pathos in delicately rendered facial expressions. Though the plot is nothing new, the hipster-bashing trappings and entrancing art certainly make up for it. --Sarah Hunter. Say Anything singer debuts 'Polarity' comic in April. Max Bemis describes a bipolar manic episode as feeling like you have superpowers. So it's fitting that he's recounting his struggles with the disorder in comic-book form after albums of songs about them. The lead singer of the indie-rock band Say Anything makes his debut as a comic writer with Polarity , a new four-issue miniseries out in April from Boom! Studios and featuring the art of Jorge Coelho. Fronting a band fulfilled one dream, and now Bemis has moved on to another, after wanting to be a screenwriter when he was younger and writing "really terrible feeble comics" when he was a little kid, he says. "I've always had a wealth of ideas for comics, but I'd never actually tried writing. I was sort of nervous about approaching a medium that I had such passion for. It would be like how I felt before I wrote my first song being such a music fan — can I do this?" Polarity is loosely based on Bemis' own life and dealing with bipolar disorder — his worst times with it were in his early 20, the age of his main character, a Brooklyn artist named Timothy Woods. Surrounded by hipsters and superficiality, Timothy survives a near-fatal car accident and in the aftermath discovers that his bipolar medication has actually been subduing an incredible set of powers. The series also mirrors Bemis' own character arc that he lived: "finding out I have bipolar, dealing with the disease, being in denial that I had it, screwing off and then eventually taking responsibility of it," he says. "That was sort of a drama in and of itself, so in crafting this main character, my goal is to create the ultimate archetype of a guy like me dealing with this." During a manic bipolar state, Bemis, 28, remembers that he'd potentially have delusions and basically operate in hyperspeed. "It's almost as if you were on drugs — psychedelic drugs meets uppers." But when it happens to Timothy, the singer explains, "the crazier he becomes, the more powerful he becomes. It was kind of my way of telling an allegory about how it actually feels to be bipolar, which is that you do have these enhanced sensory experiences. "In this case, this guy can get enhanced strength and speed and can read people's thoughts. But it almost feels that way in real life." Bemis promises a lot of sardonic black comedy — his biggest influences as a writer and as a musician are Richard Lewis, Larry David and "Jewish comedians who berate themselves." He describes Polarity as the fusion of a Woody Allen movie and Spider-Man, but pretty dark as well. "It's more of a comedy than anything, but at the same time it has lots of pathos and exciting moments so it's not completely silly." With each issue, Bemis is also including a free download of a new original song that, when collected the others, be part of a four-track EP soundtrack for the series. When he's not reading or writing comics, Max Bemis is rocking with his band Say Anything. (Photo: Handout) While he has a number of ideas for tunes, Bemis actually hasn't written songs about his bipolar disorder, which was diagnosed in 2005, and that period of his life since Say Anything's earliest albums, including 2004's …Is a Real Boy and the 2007 concept record In Defense of the Genre . (The band released its latest, Anarchy, My Dear , last year, and on Tuesday releases a three-disc set of rarities, All My Friends Are Enemies .) "I've chosen to not harp on stuff that happened to me when I was 21," Bemis says, "but in this case it is happening to this character who is a very, very exaggerated, altered version of myself so I'll be able to easily mine those experiences for the songs." Especially on a personal level, his understanding of the illness has been deep over the years since he was in therapy dating back to his childhood, and he's learned how to communicate what it's like to be bipolar to fans, friends and family. What's helped for him is being able to compare it with a more superhuman aspect. "You feel like you have powers, and that's such an easy thing to explain," Bemis says. "How does Superman or The Flash feel at that moment if he was just a regular guy and it's an onset of this feeling that consumed him?" Bemis admits it's more fun on a base-line level to put those experiences in script form than in song. He knocked out the first draft of the first-issue script in one night, and enjoys just simply letting situations pour out while watching a movie and hanging out with his wife. (The couple are expecting their first child in the next few weeks.) He joins a growing list of musicians crossing over into comics, a group that includes Slipknot and Stone Sour's Corey Taylor ( House of Gold & Bones ), Coheed & Cambria's Claudio Sanchez ( The Amory Wars , Key of Z ) Tom Morello ( Orchid ) and Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance. While Bemis hasn't talked with Way at length about comics since around the time Way started working on Umbrella Academy . "It was nice to meet another complete nerd who was also the center of a band," Bemis says. "He of all people I admire the most as someone who did something really impressive outside the comic industry and used that to launch an amazing comic." One big difference in Bemis' situation is that "I'm not in a massive band like his. It affords me a little more spare time," he says, adding that his ideal world is continuing with Say Anything but also becoming a full-time comic writer with four or five titles every month. However successful Polarity is, Bemis will always keep comics as a major love of his life, after having grown up with them, moving on to music for a few years but then swinging back thanks to the works of writer Garth Ennis. Bemis remembers taking a stack of Preacher comics with him when he was sent off to a rehab hospital after one of his first bipolar meltdowns. "The floodgates were burst open and it's truly an obsession. Borderline unhealthy," Bemis says, laughing about his "massive" collection of comics and graphic novels. "All I do is read comics. I love creating music just as much as I love reading and creating comics, but at the same time it's even superseded listening to music for me in terms of what makes me happy and calms me down." William has a watering can. One might have expected Mr Bemis, of Say Anything fame, to centre his first comic around bipolar-disorder and the frustrations of how embarrassing hipster counter-culture has become. What was not expected was how bloody good it is. The story focuses on bipolar artist Tim Woods. Tim sees a counsellor, hangs out with people he hates, including his girlfriend whose only interests in Tim is that she gets to sleep with a mentally deranged artist. Despite all this Tim has lost any inspiration he had for painting thanks to a cocktail of mood suppressants that fights his ever bubbling mental state. Apparently Tim had to start taking them after he became convinced he was “an invincible superhero messiah who works in the nude”. We’ve all been there. After a particularly close encounter with an old flame, Tim downs a large glass of whiskey and binges on his mania. All goes well until he headbutts a covert agent whose head explodes in a deliciously detailed full- page piece. From this point the comic picks up its pace and barrels through Tim’s discovery that his entire regime of suppression has been hiding unimaginable superpowers brought on during his manic phases, and that he is not the only person aware of this fact. A particularly memorable scene finds Tim smoking crack from a skip when confronted with a horde of demons – who doesn’t enjoy a sentence like that. Whilst Bemis’ writing occasionally flirts with preaching, it never feels trite or forced and retains an ironic sense of humour throughout. Tim may as well be called Max as this is clearly a first hand account (minus the ultra-violence) from his time amongst the ‘arty’ scenesters, yet this never detracts from reading through the 4 issues of Polarity and instead imbues the whole thing with a desperate, funny humanity. Tim is no superhero, there’s no big speeches about morality in the direction of the comics’ villains, just screams of “YOU SUCK YOU SUCK YOU SUCK” as Tim punches a robot in the face. Gorgeous artwork from Jorge Coelho (Venom) and Felipe Sobreiro (Luther Strode) strides between creepy sepia tone flashbacks to full-page hallucination-style colour splashes that leaves the spaced out scenes of violence with a resonance that is sorely missed in much of the current New 52 DC crop, instead recalling Frank Miller era Dark Knight. The sharp, angular style fits perfectly with Bemis’ scathing polemic against the consciously apathetic New York twentysomethings who spend their days discussing pop-philosophy and drugs. As I’ve mentioned, this comic is good. It’s very good. If you’re looking for something off the beaten track this will cleanse the taste of Geoff Johns’ abysmal Justice League run perfectly. The tradeback also comes with a full download code for the accompanying EP Bemis has put together. Much like his Painful Splits project, it’s just vocals and guitar that sound like they were recorded in a swimming pool, but therein lies a certain charm that you can’t deny if you’re even a casual Say Anything fan. BOOM! Goes Bipolar With Hipsters, Car Crashes, And Superpowers. BOOM! Studios announced a brand new series, Polarity , from Max Bemis and Jorge Coelho that dives into the world of bipolar, struggling artist living in Brooklyn. After a brutal car crash, he finds out his mental issues weren’t so clinical after all. Every issue will come with a free digital download of a new song from Bemis himself. More below. Official Press Release: January 21, 2013 – Los Angeles, CA – This April, BOOM! Studios is pleased to launch POLARITY, an all-new four issue limited series, from SAY ANYTHING frontman Max Bemis. The highly anticipated series will be written by creator Bemis and illustrated by up-and-coming artist Jorge Coelho. Timothy Woods is a bipolar artist stuck in the world of hipsters, meaningless sex, and vain art — better known as Brooklyn. But after he survives a near fatal car accident, Timothy discovers that his mental instability is more than just a disorder, and that his bipolar medication hasn’t just been subduing depression and uncontrollable mania…it’s been suppressing his super powers! Now it’s time for Timothy to stand up to his disease alongside an onslaught of wretched human villainy as he finally finds his place in the world. “In perhaps what is the most exciting development to me in my artistic life since I formed Say Anything, I’m thrilled to announce that my first comic series, POLARITY, will be debuting in April through the wonderful folks at BOOM! Studios. I am an obsessive comics fan to say the least so this is the actualization of a long time dream, and I foresee myself continuing to write A LOT in the future, so this will, hopefully, be where it all begins,” says Bemis. “I think fans of my music in particular will be excited that the roots of POLARITY lie in the story that I created for the musical that never was, but became the blueprint for our first record …IS A REAL BOY. In many ways, this is that same story, told through a different medium,” added Bemis. SAY ANYTHING music fans will also want to note that every issue will come with a free download for a new original song written and performed by Bemis! Each song will not be available anywhere else and will be written specifically to accompany the comic project. “Max Bemis is one of the most exciting new voices I’ve worked with in comics,” said Matt Gagnon, Editor-in-Chief of BOOM! Studios. “He’s an astounding creative force who has inspired many with his music and has expertly, remarkably transitioned his artistic vision to comics. I can emphatically tell you that Max is a legit comic book fan and a student of the medium. Get ready for one of the breakout talents of 2013.” POLARITY #1 ships in April with a cover by Frazer Irving (UNCANNY X-MEN, HIGHER EARTH), along with retailer incentive covers by W. Scott Forbes (FORGETLESS, 27) and Irving. The first issue is a 32 page, full color issue that retails for $3.99 and is available for order under Diamond Code FEB130853.