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Uniques: Uniques Tales #5 "Around the World" Available Now!
Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:52:44 GMTThe next installment of Uniques Tales releases today. 'Around The World' is up on the Uniques website, and is fantastic and 100% FREE! Head over to the site and give it a read.
This one was a delight to watch unfold. We’re just editors/producers on these Uniques Tales stories; while the basic plots come from us, the creative team on each issue are the ones who do all the heavy lifting and turn a seed of an idea into a mighty redwood of a piece of work. And this particular story is an important one, moving us solidly into the Vietnam era of Uniques history, where people with powers are considered weapons to be used and disposed of by both sides of the conflict. In this story, you’ll read about one young boy discovering his powers for the first time, and see what happens to him as a result. It’s a tale well told, and we owe it all to our creative team.
And this is a team we were especially excited to work with. We've known Jason Richards since our days as freelancers with Palladium Books, and met while illustrating one of his Rifts supplements, 'Rifts: Arzno.' He's one of the nicest guys, and a great writer, and we were glad to get him on-board for this. And Jeremy Dale... fuggedabowdit. That guy is absolute tops. As is, of course, his lovely wife and inker, Kelly. This is to say nothing of the amazing colors brought to the table by Steve Downer. 
The cover and pin-up were provided by a couple people we know and love from deviantART – Sarah Jaffe and Rudy Vasquez (respectively). Their work brought a look and feel to the art of Uniques Tales that hadn’t been seen yet, and we’re immensely thankful that they and everybody else involved leant us their time and talent. 
So stop hanging around here gawking and head to www.UniquesComic.com to see the latest free story from The Uniques Tales. You’ll be glad you did.
-Adam & Comfort
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Uniques: Preview of Uniques Tales #5
Fri, 18 Jun 2010 18:04:53 GMTIt's getting to be that time again, another glorious story from The Uniques Tales will release July 7th! Today is a huge and super special day for us because our very dear friend and mentor, Mr. Bryan J.L. Glass, writer of the magnificent Mice Templar, Quixote, and other fine, fine works of comic fiction, has officially been announced as the writer for Marvel Comics' Thor: First Thunder! The latest story of The Uniques Tales is out! 'The Weight of Perfection' is now up on ye olde internets and available (as always) 100% free! FREE! Can't beat that bargain. Read it here, right now! The latest story of The Uniques Tales is out! '...As Defined By The Choices' releases today on the web and it's 100% awesome and 100% FREE! Get it HERE! This great piece of work features the creative skills of some of our highest-profile stars, including HARVEY AWARD WINNING writer Bryan J.L. Glass and the mega-smash artistic talents of Charles Holbert Jr. What's that' You want more' How'd you like a cover by indy wunderkind and cover-artist extraordinaire Jenny Frison! Yeah, she's more than a little amazing. And colors were provided by a certain couple you might know. (psst... that’s us!) The work being done on this project is just amazing. We're so pleased to have had the good fortune to have them all contributing their skills to our little Uniques-verse. Also featured in this story: Taskforce pin-up by Andrew Shirey Golden Age Liberty pin-up by: Teshika Silver Golden Age Ghost pin-up by: Corinne Roberts Andrew deserves special recognition, here, because he designed all the costumes for the Golden Age Taskforce, save for Virtue and Guardian Angel. We've been friends with Andrew for a while, and his ability to design characters and dig deep on concept drawings is just about unmatched. The guy should be a legend. He's that good at it. So that's all, folks. As always, the entire Uniques Tales series is available FREE from UniquesComic.com And what's more, you can get the 1st issue of the regular Uniques comic as a free PDF or CBZ download. 36 full-color pages for absolutely zero dollars. Enjoy! We’re happy to announce that the next installment of Uniques Tales will OFFICIALLY and REALLY FOR REAL release next Wednesday!
Page 1 of The Uniques Tales #5
The team is yet again pronominal. Jason Richards penned the story titled Around The World. Our amazing friends Jeremy and Kelly Dale penciled and inked it. The color will be done by Steve Downer with cover by the incredible young talent of Sarah Jaffe!
The story is almost finished now and we could not be more proud! More updates on this little masterpiece to come.
All for today - gotta get back to Rainbow In The Dark!
-Adam and Comfort
CommentsUniques: Congratulations Bryan J.L. Glass!!!
Fri, 11 Jun 2010 20:04:46 GMT
Bad ass huh' Like similar projects running around right now, First Thunder is a retelling - perhaps a re-imagining, in some ways - of Thor's origins. It maintains the classic story, but will be told with modern sensibilities. These characters are more than forty years old, in some cases, and if they're going to keep their resonance and meaning for new audiences they could use a little love here and there.
Did you know the first handful of Thor issues had him working for the US Government tracking down Russian spies' No lie. It was all red scare all the time. But what resonance does a clandestine war with the USSR have today'
With the new Thor movie coming up and all the attention the Thor comic will begin to receive from the Marvel movie going crowd, we can't think of a better writer to herald the God of Thunder's travails from Asgard to Midgard during this upcoming era of Thor excitement. Read thee more about the announcement here!
And of course we'd be a little remiss if we didn't once again mention that how excited we were by Bryan's Uniques Tales #3 story he so graciously contributed to our series last month. Given the importance of the Golden Age to Comic's mythos, Bryan was the obvious choice to have penned The first look at The Uniques World War II heroes in action!
Well, that's all for today you wacky kids. Congratulations once again to Bryan Glass, we wish you all the best of luck and fortune moving forward from here. We're just so happy to see such a good guy, and such a good friend of ours getting to go on and do such exciting things.
-Adam and Comfort
CommentsUniques: Uniques Tales #4 "The Weight of Perfection" Available Now!
Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:21:31 GMT
As with the previous stories, this one relied on a very talented and dedicated crew of creators. We knew this was going to be one of the "quiet" stories in the opening run of Uniques Tales, and believe it or not, "quiet" stories are often much harder to do well than the big, splashy action ones. We needed good people, and we got good people.
We got the excellent writer, 
On the art side, we got a mighty triple-threat. On the cover, the inimitable, the colorful, the deliciously, richly saturated work of the mighty
But that’s not all! We’ve also got a pin-up-palooza, with some fantastical pieces representing the silver-age of the Uniques universe.
We’ve got the 50’s era League of Seven by Paul Sizer!
We’ve got Kid Quick’s whole family taking a beach vacation, by 
And we’ve got the modern Ambassador by
And that’s all. We’ve talked enough. Go over to
-Adam & Comfort
CommentsUniques: The Uniques Tales #3 is out!
Thu, 27 May 2010 16:30:43 GMT
The Uniques Tales #3 cover by the spectacular Jenny Frison
That's right - this here is a splash page by Mr. Charles Holbert Jr. with colors by us. Pretty fancy pants if we do say so ourselves!
Taskforce pin-up by crazy talented Andrew Shirey
-Adam and Comfort
CommentsUniques: Uniques Tales Update! Rainbow: Rough Pages Complete!
Fri, 21 May 2010 18:12:36 GMT
Uniques Tales #3: As Defined by the Choices… by the all-star lineup of Bryan J.L. Glass and Charles Holbert Jr. with color by yours truly and smashing pinups by Andrew Shirey, Corinne Roberts, and Teshika Silver will reveal some of how the Invasion of Normandy was changed by the presence of uniques-- and how it stayed the same; a story of uncommon valor and what it means to be a hero in truly bleak circumstances. Catch it all for free next Wednesday, May 26th.
In other news, today we begin final pencils for Rainbow In The Dark #1. All page layouts are finalized, now it’s on to the mid-stretch where the book really comes together. We’ll have more Rainbow stuff on Monday, so stick around. It’s gonna be cool.
-Adam & Comfort
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