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Each month I'll pick an Indy book that made me say
"WOW" and hype it until I can hype no more! This month it was hands down "Brodie's
Law" from
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The
country of Stinwan has always been a boiling point for
violence and bloodshed in the embattled
Middle East . For six years, Stinwan has
suffered through a civil war that threatens to destroy
the entire nation. Only a
peace treaty brokered by the
United Nations is able to finally end the fighting
between
the Stinwanese armed forces
and their enemies
from the mountains, the Kilipanese. Unfortunately, not
all the combatants involved are
satisfied with the
stalemate,
most notably Colonel Akbar Assan, a fierce
warrior from the Stinwanese army who gives up
his
official position and, along with a band of loyal and
equally-homicidal followers, go rogue to inflict a new
war of terror against the Kilipanese… and any others who
dare stand in their way.
Assan’s campaign is one of
attrition, utilizing ethnic cleansing as a means to an
end in his unholy war, including the wholesale massacre
of Kilipanese children.
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His numerous atrocities are enough to
catch the attention
of a horrified world, and the
United States
covertly sends in an elite 3-man team of
special
forces soldiers, known as
Team Orphan, to
investigate the slaughter taking place in Stinwan’s
Kilipan
Mountains.
When they arrive, they are shocked to
discover that the
mass gravesites they are guided to
have all been mysteriously emptied, with no clues as to
what has happened to the bodies of the murdered Kilipanese children. As the mystery of the empty graves
widens, and as Colonel Assan continues his rampage
against the innocent, Team Orphan’s leadership finally
decides enough is enough, and orders the team to
assassinate the Colonel and destroy his small army of
terrorists.
CHILDREN OF THE GRAVE is the story of
this mission.
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“In war, people
die,
and it is never
like
what we see on TV."
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Team Orphan – Lieutenant
Michael “LT” Drake, Sergeant Reginald “Shiv” Reese, and
Sergeant Pedro “Lil’ Pete” Rodriguez, in their quest to
rid the world of the maniacal Assan, will soon learn
that they are not the only ones who seek his death. Assan’s
many small victims –- the children he has destroyed –
have somehow returned from the dead, bent on revenge,
and Team Orphan is caught in the middle, wondering who
they should fear most: Colonel Assan, themselves, or the
CHILDREN OF THE GRAVE?
CHILDREN OF THE GRAVE is
written by Tom Waltz and illustrated by Casey Maloney.
It is a stark tale of terror, war, loss and redemption,
which Waltz describes as his, “fantastical look at a
brutal reality. Ethnic cleansing is all-too-real, as is
the murder of innocents throughout the globe by
terrorist groups, who will stop at nothing until they
shape the world into their own fundamentally-twisted
vision.”
Intended for Mature
Readers, no holds have been barred in the creation of
CHILDREN OF THE GRAVE. “This is not a pretty topic,”
Waltz explains of the story. “In war, people die, and
it is never like what we see on TV. Casey Maloney has
done a stupendous job of depicting the blood-and-guts
harshness of battle, as well as the dark foreboding of a
supernatural mystery. And, from my own experiences in
the military, soldiers cuss… A LOT
. So does Team Orphan. This is not a Sunday stroll
through the park, folks.”
CHILDREN OF THE GRAVE, a
4-issue mini-series, will hit store shelves in January
2005, and will be published bi-monthly. Waltz remains
mum as to whether this is the only time we see Team
Orphan, but guarantees one thing: “Casey and I will
definitely be working together again soon. We’ve
developed a fantastic writer/artist relationship during
the creation of CHILDREN OF THE GRAVE, and are anxious
to get together on new projects in the future for
Shooting Star Comics.”
Publisher:
Shooting Star Comics
Publication Date: On Sale January, 2005
Format: 32 Pages B&W with color cover, bi-monthly,
four-issue mini-series
Age Range: 16+
Genre: War, Sci-Fi, Horror
Price: $2.95
Diamond Preview Number: NOV042877 (page 313)
Tom Waltz has been a long-time staff writer for the
Writer's Digest award winning Cyber Age Adventures
Magazine (www.ihero.net)
from iHero Entertainment.
CHILDREN OF THE GRAVE is his first solo title under the
iHero Entertainment banner. He will also have two Cyber
Age Adventures short stories appearing soon in the
upcoming "iHero Presents #1" (also from Shooting Star
Comics --
www.shootingstarcomics.com/iheropresents.html,
as well as a short in the soon-to-be-released "Sorrow
#0" from Dark Elf Productions --www.freewebs.com/thesorrow/index.htm.
The Sorrow comic is being released in support of the
children's charity known as Protect.org. Also, He has
written 5 issues for the on-line UK comic "Night
Warrior", and is slated to write more in the future.
"Night Warrior" will be relaunched in December at www.nw-comic.co.uk. Waltz is a former active duty
Marine, Desert Storm Veteran, and served 5 years in the
California National Guard as a Military Policeman. Learn
more about Tom Waltz at
www.tomwaltz.com.
The artist for CHILDREN OF THE GRAVE is an exciting
newcomer out of L.A. named Casey Maloney. Casey's work
will also be available in the "iHero Presents #1",
"Sorrow #0", and "Night Warrior" projects mentioned
above. More of Casey Maloney’s artwork can be seen at
www.caseymaloney.com. |
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