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PREVIOUSLY: When nerdy Oliver falls in love with beautiful Casey, he has no idea that she’s been marked by her evil ex-boyfriend Gavin to be possessed by Kavaleth, Lord of Kaos. Now, Oliver must choose whether or not to make the ultimate sacrifice in order to save his girlfriend’s soul and the very earth from the all consuming demon Kaveleth. Kavelth is in control of Casey, and it couldn’t have happened at a worse time – while enjoying dinner with Oliver’s mom and brother (who happens to be a priest).
Oliver Casey Gavin In Love with a Demon Posessed Bad Ex-Boyfriend Written by: Asa Shumskas-Tait ILLUSTRATED by: Dennis Budd INKS AND LETTERING BY: Joe Caramagna COLORs by: Stu Chaifetz Cover by: Joseph Michael Linsner Created by: Scott Mitchell Rosenberg
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I myself wrote tons and tons before I got TOM SMITH COLORIST ON GHOSTING house without spiders, well, I don’t like them again. behind the scenes in this business and looked eagerly every How did you break into being a colorist? That’s a tough question. When I started out we were month, to no avail. still only doing color guides which were then sent to a What do these things have to do with one another? And what Back in 1989 after attending night classes at Joe Kubert separation house to do the fi nal page color separations. School here in New Jersey, I met Marvel’s promotional does that have to do with a blog? Well, I’ve been hesitant to We also need a name for the column and the best one we could They tried to follow our guides but most of the time the editor, Fabian Nicieza at my local comic shop and showed start up a blog even though all the people here keep pushing come up with internally was “DJ’s Shillbox”. I know you can do jobs were never as good looking as our guides were. him some samples of my work and he liked my work so me to do so and even though I love talking about comic books. better than that, so send your suggestions or letters in to: much that he offered me the coloring gig on an Iron Man Today with the advent of computer coloring I have [email protected] promotional poster drawn by Bob Layton. After that things Well, they found the way to win. They put a big piece of white complete control of the coloring and it allows me to always took off for me and now after 18 years of working for try new things all the time because if I do something I don’t paper in front of me every day on my desktop. They’re putting In the meantime…. Marvel, DC, and many different comic book publishers I like corrections are very easy to make. “Scott’s Blog” as a button our nav bar (thankfully only on our have now added Platinum to the list with Blood Nation and All the best, . The thing that I love about doing these comics is corporate site, www.PlatinumStudios.com). Why? Because Ghosting What advice do you have for the upcoming colorists that it gives me the chance to do something else besides or people that want to break into the industry? they know that if it’s staring me in the face, I’ll need to type. the bright and colorful superhero work I’m known for and By the way, I feel safe giving you that URL because most play around with the darker scarier side of coloring. Start small and always do your best work because if you Scott Mitchell Rosenberg of you would rather go to our comics site rush out a job it will always come back to haunt you. For movies, sound sets the emotional stage for a (www.PlatinumStudiosComics.com). The best advice I ever got was from THE KING himself viewer, in comics it’s the colors – what inspiration do Jack Kirby! When he told me years ago… “Don’t quit your you use to set the mood? day job kid—until you’re getting enough work to pay your I look at what works in the fi lms and try to capture that mortgage—and even then never feel secure enough that same lighting and mood created by the fi lms and try to you will always have work to pay it in this cutthroat biz!” $POHSBUVMBUJPOTUP+PSHF7FHB translate it to the comic page. XIPTFFOUSZ (VOQMBZ¡XPOUIJTZFBS£T Tough words but true! $PNJD#PPL$IBMMFOHF As you’ve been in the industry for quite a while, how was the transition from a traditional airbrush/paint Add`[dg STUFF THIS MONTH! (October, that is) STUFF NEXT MONTH! (November, genius) ATLANTIS RISING #1 By Scott O. Brown, Tim Irwin, and Andy Elder ATLANTIS RISING #2 By Scott O. Brown, Tim Irwin, and Andy Elder After more than a thousand years of peaceful coexistence, Atlantis and the surface world are on the The war between the Atlanteans and the surface world’s navy, goes into full force. Kaya is captured brink of war with the fate of both civilizations hanging in the balance. This issue begins the war and forced to provide information, and we learn of a secret weapon that both sides hope to use that will decide the fate of all humanity and Atlanteans. against the other. GHOSTING #3 By Fred Van Lente, Charles Carvalho, Tom Smith GHOSTING #4 By Fred Van Lente, Charles Carvalho, Tom Smith It isn’t easy being a pledge. Warren has been committed to a psych ward after his run in with Ghoster When the story began, we had four heroes (Josh, Warren, Maggie and Sarah), now one of them is dead and is warning that the ghost has come back to kill all the Omegas and Epsilons, and he may be right. another is in a mental ward. The other two are now looking for the truth behind Ghoster—is he really a One of our four heroes will meet their untimely demise, while two of the others might fi nd love…. ghost—or is this all part of the initiation? Oh, and by the end of this book, another hero will be dead. CONSUMED #4 By Asa Shumskas-Tait, Dennis Budd, Joe Caramagna and Stu Chaifetz KISS 4K #5 By Fred Van Lente In this shocking conclusion, Oliver must choose whether or not to make the ultimate sacrifi ce in As the KISS 4K try to fi nd out what has happened to their families, they are attacked by the order to save his girlfriend’s soul and the very earth from the all consuming demon Kaveleth. But Destroyer Cult’s henchman Exciter and his rogues gallery (Hard Times, Night Machine, Deuce, nothing is ever that simple in Oliver’s life. Charisma, and Strutter). UNIQUE TPB By Dean Motter, Dennis Calero HERO BY NIGHT TPB By D.J. Coffman, Jason Embury This volume collects the 3-issue miniseries by Dean Motter. Convinced all his life that he was This volume collects the 4-issue miniseries by D.J. Coffman. Jack King discovers the secret lair of schizophrenic because of strange visions of another world, Jon Geoffries learns that he is seeing the original Hero By Night packed with gadgets, a power ring and the journals he wrote in during the Earth’s twin, and that he is a Unique, one of the few people with no doppelganger on the other his decade as a famous crime fi ghter. Will Jack sell the treasure off, or will destiny lead him to world... and the power to move between them at will. Now he’s a target of ruthless enemies who become the next Hero By Night? plan to use the connection between these two Earths to control the fates of billions. PSC_PressPage_October07_zP.indd 1 10/1/07 10:39:24 AM L:6G:/EaVi^cjbHijY^dh8db^Xh!&&)%%L#Danbe^X7akY#!&)i];addg!Adh6c\ZaZh!86.%%+)(&%"-%,"-&%%^c[d5eaVi^cjbhijY^dh#Xdb Spiders, Blogs and October Comic Books I love a blank page, fi lling it up with brand new thoughts, and So it’s kinda like spiders, I think. If I were around them daily, brainstorming with others about what can go on that page they wouldn’t “bug” me as much (sorry!). If I write my blog daily, too. I actually THRIVE on putting together 1000-page bibles words will just fl ow. I hope. You can all write nasty comments of characters, and, at the same time, writing up business on it if I don’t. :-) ideas. So pushing keys on my keyboard is something I can do. The Letters Column E-mails? There can be hundreds in a day. The more complex You know what I miss? I miss the letters columns in comics. the better. So why is simple so hard? Fans and creators write them everyday on our webcomics site, CREATOR INTERVIEW: For a few years when I lived in a house that had lots of spiders, www.DrunkDuck.com, but we haven’t had them in our print I fi nally got over my aversion to them. Now that I live in a comics. I want ‘em. I myself wrote tons and tons before I got TOM SMITH COLORIST ON GHOSTING house without spiders, well, I don’t like them again. behind the scenes in this business and looked eagerly every How did you break into being a colorist? That’s a tough question. When I started out we were month, to no avail. still only doing color guides which were then sent to a What do these things have to do with one another? And what Back in 1989 after attending night classes at Joe Kubert separation house to do the fi nal page color separations. School here in New Jersey, I met Marvel’s promotional does that have to do with a blog? Well, I’ve been hesitant to We also need a name for the column and the best one we could They tried to follow our guides but most of the time the editor, Fabian Nicieza at my local comic shop and showed start up a blog even though all the people here keep pushing come up with internally was “DJ’s Shillbox”. I know you can do jobs were never as good looking as our guides were. him some samples of my work and he liked my work so me to do so and even though I love talking about comic books. better than that, so send your suggestions or letters in to: much that he offered me the coloring gig on an Iron Man Today with the advent of computer coloring I have [email protected] promotional poster drawn by Bob Layton. After that things Well, they found the way to win. They put a big piece of white complete control of the coloring and it allows me to always took off for me and now after 18 years of working for try new things all the time because if I do something I don’t paper in front of me every day on my desktop. They’re putting In the meantime…. Marvel, DC, and many different comic book publishers I like corrections are very easy to make. “Scott’s Blog” as a button our nav bar (thankfully only on our have now added Platinum to the list with Blood Nation and All the best, . The thing that I love about doing these comics is corporate site, www.PlatinumStudios.com). Why? Because Ghosting What advice do you have for the upcoming colorists that it gives me the chance to do something else besides or people that want to break into the industry? they know that if it’s staring me in the face, I’ll need to type. the bright and colorful superhero work I’m known for and By the way, I feel safe giving you that URL because most play around with the darker scarier side of coloring. Start small and always do your best work because if you Scott Mitchell Rosenberg of you would rather go to our comics site rush out a job it will always come back to haunt you. For movies, sound sets the emotional stage for a (www.PlatinumStudiosComics.com). The best advice I ever got was from THE KING himself viewer, in comics it’s the colors – what inspiration do Jack Kirby! When he told me years ago… “Don’t quit your you use to set the mood? day job kid—until you’re getting enough work to pay your I look at what works in the fi lms and try to capture that mortgage—and even then never feel secure enough that same lighting and mood created by the fi lms and try to you will always have work to pay it in this cutthroat biz!” translate it to the comic page. Tough words but true! As you’ve been in the industry for quite a while, how was the transition from a traditional airbrush/paint FOR THE COMPLETE1MFBTFWJTJUVTBU INTERVIEW, PLEASE VISIT to digital? Do you still use the airbrush or is digital the way to go? WWW.PLATINUMSTUDIOSCOMICS.COM STUFF THIS MONTH! (October, that is) STUFF NEXT MONTH! (November, genius) ATLANTIS RISING #1 By Scott O. Brown, Tim Irwin, and Andy Elder ATLANTIS RISING #2 By Scott O. Brown, Tim Irwin, and Andy Elder After more than a thousand years of peaceful coexistence, Atlantis and the surface world are on the The war between the Atlanteans and the surface world’s navy, goes into full force. Kaya is captured brink of war with the fate of both civilizations hanging in the balance. This issue begins the war and forced to provide information, and we learn of a secret weapon that both sides hope to use that will decide the fate of all humanity and Atlanteans. against the other. GHOSTING #3 By Fred Van Lente, Charles Carvalho, Tom Smith GHOSTING #4 By Fred Van Lente, Charles Carvalho, Tom Smith It isn’t easy being a pledge. Warren has been committed to a psych ward after his run in with Ghoster When the story began, we had four heroes (Josh, Warren, Maggie and Sarah), now one of them is dead and is warning that the ghost has come back to kill all the Omegas and Epsilons, and he may be right. another is in a mental ward. The other two are now looking for the truth behind Ghoster—is he really a One of our four heroes will meet their untimely demise, while two of the others might fi nd love…. ghost—or is this all part of the initiation? Oh, and by the end of this book, another hero will be dead. CONSUMED #4 By Asa Shumskas-Tait, Dennis Budd, Joe Caramagna and Stu Chaifetz KISS 4K #5 By Fred Van Lente In this shocking conclusion, Oliver must choose whether or not to make the ultimate sacrifi ce in As the KISS 4K try to fi nd out what has happened to their families, they are attacked by the order to save his girlfriend’s soul and the very earth from the all consuming demon Kaveleth. But Destroyer Cult’s henchman Exciter and his rogues gallery (Hard Times, Night Machine, Deuce, nothing is ever that simple in Oliver’s life. Charisma, and Strutter). UNIQUE TPB By Dean Motter, Dennis Calero HERO BY NIGHT TPB By D.J. Coffman, Jason Embury This volume collects the 3-issue miniseries by Dean Motter. Convinced all his life that he was This volume collects the 4-issue miniseries by D.J. Coffman. Jack King discovers the secret lair of schizophrenic because of strange visions of another world, Jon Geoffries learns that he is seeing the original Hero By Night packed with gadgets, a power ring and the journals he wrote in during the Earth’s twin, and that he is a Unique, one of the few people with no doppelganger on the other his decade as a famous crime fi ghter. Will Jack sell the treasure off, or will destiny lead him to world... and the power to move between them at will. Now he’s a target of ruthless enemies who become the next Hero By Night? plan to use the connection between these two Earths to control the fates of billions. PSC_PressPage_October07_zP.indd 2 10/1/07 10:39:29 AM ™ The BEST rock superheroes of all time return in the webcomic event of the year, now on-line at DrunkDuck.com! 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