Media Release -- Orang Utan Comics are pleased to announce two exciting new releases, Dead Men #1 and Hypergirl!
Dead Men follows the tale of Cole, Sean, Alderman, Turner, Nash and Dalton: six professional criminals who, at a security depot on the outskirts of Chicago, pull off the biggest cash robbery in US history. Afterwards, they know the drill: keep a low profile. Keep your mouth shut. Be smart. But they're about to find out that the old rules don't apply anymore. Not in a city where the dead are returning to life and feeding on the living. And not when one of them decides his share of the payoff isn't enough and that instead he wants it all.
These career criminals are wanted men. Dangerous men. And now they're going to have to work very hard to not become dead men.
Written by Alex De-Gruchy with stunning, atmospheric, grey-toned artwork by Stoyan Rusev, Dead Men is a heist story with a twist…a shuffling, undead twist.
Hypergirl introduces us to the strange and unusual world of "Wierdsville," a city where almost anything can happen. We meet bored teenage girl Charley Matthews who has no idea that a chance encounter with the dying Doc Hyperpower is about to change her life forever. Will she rise to the occasion and defeat the evil of Pharoanicus, or will she lock herself in her bedroom and listen to The Cure? Find out in the senses shattering debut of Weirdsville's newest hero - Hypergirl!
"With Hypergirl we've tried to do something a little different," explains co-creator, Ian Sharman. "She's a teenage girl, but you won't find any cheesecake in the pages of this comic, and her costume doesn't have any convenient holes in it to show off her assets. She's a regular girl, someone I think any reader can identify with. I think anyone, young or old, male or female, will find something to enjoy in the pages of Hypergirl."
Hypergirl has been co-created by two veritable giants of the UK indie comics scene, Ian Sharman (Alpha Gods, Hero: 9 to 5) and David Wynne (Particle Fiction), and originally appeared as part of Orang Utan Comics' acclaimed monthly web comic, Particle Fiction.
Both Dead Men and Hypergirl are available in print from IndyPlanet:
Dead Men #1 – http://www.indyplanet.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=5719
Hypergirl – http://www.indyplanet.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=5692
For those who prefer their comics in digital form you can find Dead Men #1 on Wowio
http://www.wowio.com/users/product.asp?BookId=242279
and on DriveThru Comics
http://comics.drivethrustuff.com/product_info.php?products_id=92825
Hypergirl can be read digitally for free online at Particle Fiction - http://particlefiction.posterous.com/hypergirl
Comics retailers can order all of our titles from ComicsMonkey: http://www.comicsmonkey.com/store/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=orang+utan+comics&osCsid=e06ee855qbi5ncbr451efbj090&search.x=0&search.y=0
Check out www.orangutancomics.co.uk for more information on Orang Utan Comics and all of our releases.
