PILOT SEASON: TEST #1 (10/5/11)
story JOSHUA HALE FIALKOV
art RAHSAN EKEDAL
cover BAGUS HUTOMO of IFS
The Harvey nominated creative team of ECHOES, JOSHUA HALE FIALKOV (I…Vampire) and RAHSAN EKEDA (Solomon Kane) reunite to kick off 2011’s PILOT SEASON competition with TEST. A group of ten strangers wake up in a mysterious town with no memory of who they are and how they got there.
They are the lone survivors of an apocalyptic event, chosen to repopulate the Earth. But what is the true nature of their fate?
PILOT SEASON: CITY OF REFUGE #1 (10/2/11)
story MORGAN DAVIS FOEHL
art & cover DENNIS CALERO
Over a decade after Terminal, the residents of San Francisco live a peaceful and prosperous existence thanks to the Program. Every resident of the city is hand-selected and implanted with the chip Secura, which removes the human capacity for violence to maintain the greater good. Only the city's security forces are allowed a brief reprieve from Secura through use of the drug Freestone in order to do their jobs. Now, rumors of Freestone getting out into the open market threaten to upset the delicate balance keeping humanity from extinction.
PILOT SEASON: THE BEAUTY #1 (10/19/11)
story JEREMY HAUN & JASON HURLEY
art & cover JEREMY HAUN
Modern society is obsessed with outward beauty. What if there was a way to guarantee you could be come more and more beautiful every day? What if it was contagious? In the world of The Beauty, physical perfection is attainable and while the mass majority of the population has taken advantage of it, Detectives Foster and Vaughn will soon discover it comes with a terrible price.
PILOT SEASON: FLESH
DIGGER #1 (10/26/11)
story SHANNON ERIC DENTON & BRAD KEENE
art ALEX SANCHEZ
cover BERNIE WRIGHTSON
A random act of kindness can be damning. When a man witnessed the ruthless beating of an innocent woman, he rushed to help her and was brutally murdered for his trouble. Now driven by revenge, sorrow, and guilt, the woman enacts arcane forces to resurrect him. From out of the earth he'll rise, a twisted, worm-riddled monstrosity forced to carry out vengeance to maintain whatever life he has left, all while confronting the unimaginable truth of his new, hideous existence. Is he forever damned to be a rotting monster driven by an insatiable bloodlust...or is it possible to shed the curse and return to normal? The torment belongs to the living nightmare they'll call Fleshdigger. God help anyone who gets in his way!
PILOT SEASON: MISDIRECTION #1 (11/2/11)
story FILIP SABLIK
art CHRIS DiBARI
cover MICHAEL GAYDOS
Vince Martinez raced cars for a living, now he can’t even drive. A tragic mistake took Vince from the height of success to losing his career, his family & his freedom. When he is unwittingly made the getaway driver for a bank robbery gone wrong, will Vince head back to jail or show the world why he was NASCAR’s hottest driver in one of the heaviest trafficked cities in the US.
PILOT SEASON: THEORY OF EVERYTHING #1 (11/9/11)
story DAN CASEY
art THOMAS NACHLIK
cover ERIK JONES
Charles Witten is a brilliant scientist capable of inventing devices that will change our world. Unfortunately, most of the scientific community thinks he’s a crackpot. As does the government, until… a precision team of heist men rob a bank in Switzerland using what appears to be Witten’s dimension hopping technology. Technology that Witten designed, but never completed…
PILOT SEASON: ANONYMOUS #1 (11/16/11)
story ALAN McELROY
art MICHAEL MONTENAT
cover ERIK JONES
Marcus Walsh was an elite Special Forces soldier involved in black ops all over the world. Wet work like this takes its toll and Marcus wanted out, but this wasn’t a job you quit. There was only one way out. Now believed dead and completely anonymous, Walsh struggles to use his black ops skills to atone for his past sins.
PILOT SEASON: SERAPH #1 (11/23/11)
story LANCE BRIGGS & PHIL HESTER
art & cover JOSE LUIS
The angelic warrior now known only as Seraph was once a sinner. After living a life of selfishness and sin, personal tragedy drove him to kill himself. Plucked on his way to Hell by Heaven, the man was made Heaven’s soldier in an endless battle. Charged with fighting an ancient war, but bound by God’s law, can Seraph triumph over opponents not restricted in the same way and regain his faith in the process?
With a record number of competing titles, the voting this year will be done in a triple elimination system in December. After the final release in November, fans will be able to log onto TopCow.com and vote for their favorite for two weeks with no restriction on the number of votes per day. Then the top four will compete for a week with one vote per fan per day allowed. Finally the top two square off for one week with one vote per fan per day.
Top Cow has always had a tendency to keep outdoing themselves (not that I'm complaining), and this year's pick is no exception. The crop of writers and artists alone speak for themselves. These one-shot titles will be out later this year. All PILOT SEASON one-shots are 32-page full color comic books that will go on sale for $3.99.
For your first look at the eight titles, be sure to pick up Pilot Season: Declassified 2011 today for just a buck! [Sources: Image Comics; Top Cow]
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