Apr 22, 2024 3 min read

Full Tilt, Dawnrunner reviews, plus news!

Welcome back!

In my past life as a retail comic shop owner, I liked to think I had a reasonable radar for good content coming out. (These days its harder to maintain the radar due to there being like 17 different distributors to comic shops, back in the day nigh everything coming out was featured in Diamond Distributions Previews magazine). I remember ordering Big on Saga #1 due to this radar of mine as an example.

In the spirit of passing on such knowledge, please indulge me in the following:

In a post sometime last year. I recommended FULL TILT, by Jason Copland. I posted the link for the Zoop Campaign in the same post, and if you didn't back, well I got bad news for ya.

You slept on FULL TILT and you missed out.

This was one heck if a wild ride. The futuristic world is one of enhanced humans, Mafia turf wars, and of course, true love.

At it's core, just like the Rocky franchise, FULL TILT is a love story wrapped up in something else. And that something else is a noir fulled twisting and turning beast that keeps you guessing right 'til the end.

I emailed the author, Jason Copland and asked if folks slept on getting their hands on this book, what options did they have?

"The ship has sailed, Dan", was his reply.

And no, you can't have my copy.

Moral of the story, you better listen up when I make a recommendation!

It's not all bad news though, because the ship has just set out on Dawn Runner from Dark Horse Comics. I just peeped issue number one and boy oh boy is it pretty. I must admit that I bought the book purely based on Evan Cagle as the artist with no idea what the story was about. I have admired his work at evancagle.com for some time and just wanted to see more of it.

I did not realize it was gonna be about giant mecha suits fighting Kaiju type beasts!

Cagle's art is truly amazing though, and definitely worth the price of admission, the story being actually good is a bonus!!

Any thing else would be spoilers but Dawn Runner is definitely going into the must read pile for me.

So do yourself a favour and hit up your Local Comic Shop and get some Dawn Runner into your life. Issue #2 is out now at your Local Comic Shop!

Bonus reccomendation:

Go in cold, no spoilers or trailers required!

Not sure if it is on any other services, but Samurai Marathon on Prime Video was a pleasant surprise of a movie, this one will not disappoint!

#doyourselfafavour

In other news, I can confirm that my 4 pager short story is going to be included in The Adventurers: Beginnings. It was originally in Black and White, but for this edition - glorious full colour!! (Much like the rest of the book come to think of it)

So there's another reason to contact Bolt Comics via Facebook or instagram and pre-order yourself a copy, especially if you missed backing the Kickstarter! If you tell 'em I sent ya, well... actually nothing special will happen.

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Help required! On our car trips to school drop off I take the chance to musically educate my children, telling them often a good song tells a story. We have covered the Human vs the Devil genre of songs, notably The Devil Went Down to Georgia by the Charlie Daniels Band, and Tribute by Tenacious D. But I am sure there are more out there, get in touch and let me know! As parents we are still the primary educators of our children, if we don't teach them this, who will? Won't somebody think of the children?