Featured New Release Comic Book Preview: Dark Beach
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Created by Michael J. Ruiz-Unger, story by Michael J. Ruiz-Unger, Tucker Tota, and Matthew Mongelia, written by Tucker Tota, illustrated by Sebastian Piriz, colors by Ray Jones, letters by Javier Puga, and logo by Patrick Hart.
Earth in 2355 is a hell of a lot darker than it is now, both figuratively and literally. Having abandoned our solar system due to the sun's increasingly deadly rays, the Earth now floats in space and has very little light, other than the artificial. Gordo dreams of the old sun that he never felt, or saw. He is a black market photographer that sells his photos to his buddy Duke at the newspaper The New Observer in exchange for drugs that make him feel something.
One evening in the city of New Santa Cruz aka "Dark Beach", he intercepts a police transmission about a dead body. Upon discovering a dead girl in her apartment, Gordo takes photos of her splayed out on the floor, but notices some strange things that begin to eat away at him, pushing him to look further into her demise. Her computer screen read "Bermuda" as well as a note left at the scene. With the help of Duke, the two trace the girl back to an establishment called The Mayflower, a bar where they blare artificial sunlight. The dead girl, who's name they discover to be Ket, was a sun worshipper. Not this artificial kind, but the old sun. The sun from the past. Gordo knew he felt a kinship with her. But how does this all link with the word "Bermuda"? How or why was she killed? I'm dying to know as much as the next person.
The art in this book is truly phenomenal. The storytelling sets a mood, and the art perfectly conveys the tone and helps the story flow beautifully. The clever angles and shots are risky and confident, perfectly invoking the feeling in each and every panel. The colors and the dialogue also form a symbiotic relationship, every line framed by matching hues of sunny pastel, vibrant neon, or dark muted blues and greys. As the story changes, the colors match perfectly and put us right there in the world of Dark Beach. We hang on to the moments that the creators want us to hang on to. This book is truly a mysterious experience, packed with emotion, suspense, and other-worldly scenery.
You can click the link to their kickstarter right here, to help the book meet it's goal and receive issue #1! If you back the project by a certain amount, you can even get yourself drawn into issue #2 which is pretty freakin' awesome.
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