Hey everyone!
How’s it going..? Uh … yeah, I know…
Well, rather than me going off on a tangent about everything let’s just play a bit of catch up…
First, MALICENT BLACK: MUNDICIDE is at the printer! Here are the hard proofs we’ve been looking over:
More so than the first book, Mundicide really sets up a lot of things for the future. We can’t talk about what those things are yet, but once you guys get the chance to read this issue (and the backup story) I think you’ll start to understand why Drew and I are so excited about the third Malicent Black book, which we’re planning to launch later this year…
In the meantime, I’m working on a project with Matt Garvey, and that project is live on Kickstarter right now!
NIGHT MOVERS
A Psychological Thriller About Love, Obsession, and How Far You’d Go to Find the Person You Love
How far would you go to find the person you love?
Night Movers is a psychological thriller set in modern-day Japan, where a young English woman living abroad wakes up one morning to discover that her boyfriend has vanished.
Not just missing…Erased.
No note.
No struggle.
No explanation.
An apartment stripped bare, like he was never there at all.
A woman alone in a foreign country, chasing the last trace of the man she loves.
What begins as a search for answers becomes a one-way fall.
This isn’t a loud, explosive thriller. It’s a quiet spiral into obsession that drags Stacy into the shadowed backstreets of the city, forcing her to become someone she never thought she’d be. Urban legends blur with reality. Hidden subcultures operate in plain sight. Neon streets give way to alleys no one talks about. Every door she opens leads somewhere darker.
This is a story about crossing invisible lines.
About love turning into fixation.
About grief mutating into resolve.
And about what happens when you chase the truth far enough that it starts chasing you back.
A slow-burn journey into Japan’s unseen underbelly, where hope becomes a liability, trust is a currency, and some discoveries change you forever.
By the end, you won’t just question what happened to him.
You’ll question every choice she made to find him.
From the creator of multiple award-winning indie comics, Night Movers is a complete 72-page, one-and-done graphic novel, told in stark black and white, designed to be read in one sitting.
No sequels required.
No cliffhangers.
Just a gut punch ending you won’t see coming, one that will leave you thinking about what you just read for days afterwards.
Stacy has built a life in Japan. She has friends. She has routines. Most importantly, she has Aoto. Then one morning, he’s gone. Not just missing. Gone. Refusing to accept the easy answers, Stacy begins searching on her own, pushing deeper into unfamiliar parts of the city, chasing leads that may or may not exist. And the further she goes, the more everything starts to blur.
Night Movers is a psychological thriller about love turning into obsession, grief warping perception, isolation in a foreign country, and the quiet horror of not knowing what’s real anymore. It pulls on the heartstrings… then leaves you with a gut punch that will stay with you long after you finish the final page.
If you love the creeping dread of Gideon Falls, the self-destructive obsession of Kill or Be Killed, the noir fatalism of Fatale, the claustrophobic paranoia of The Nice House on the Lake, or the bleak psychological horror of A Walk Through Hell and films like Gone Girl, Prisoners, Black Swan, orOldboy, then Night Movers was made for you.
This is not a superhero book.
It’s not a quippy caper.
It’s a psychological thriller about ordinary people making extraordinary decisions under emotional pressure.
We’d love your support on this, so if you’d like to back our campaign, here’s the link:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mattgarvey/night-movers
My wife and I also had the chance to go to the Original Art Expo a couple of weeks ago, and I gotta say … it was a great time. I wasn’t setting up, I mostly went to see some amazing art and finally meet Chris Ryall in person. We’ve known each other professionally for close to 20 years, as Chris was the head honcho at IDW when I worked on some GI Joe stuff, as well as Dungeons and Dragons, and then we’ve worked together even more recently on the Dread the Halls books. We also have plans to do more together, but it’s not time to talk about that yet…
Anyway, Chris has a great write up about OAX and the Kirby Awards here, and his newsletter is, as always worth the read:
Not only did I have a great time hanging with Chris, soaking in the art and seeing some pals that I don’t get to see nearly often enough, I also got the chance to chat with Kevin Nowlan again (yeah, the same Kevin Nowlan I gushed about in my Heroes Con newsletter last year – he’s STILL far too kind and far too humble), I met Phil Hester in person for the first time, watched Stephane Roux do his thing with no small amount of awe, and I also finally met Walter and Louise Simonson. Not only are they both incredibly kind, but Walt … he’s a force of nature! The man was meeting fans and blasting out signatures and sketches at a pace that was honestly awe inspiring. And speaking of sketches, I made one purchase over the weekend…
I’m pretty sure the first time I ever came across the best villain in the DCU was also the first time I came across Walt Simonson’s work. Yeah, you know the book:
I have several copies of this thing around my house, because … well hell, why not? It’s one of my absolute favorite superhero comics ever. And it’s definitely where I became a Walt Simonson fan. So yeah, when it came time to get a sketch from Mr Simonson, Darkseid seemed like the perfect fit…
Okay, that catches things up (a bit, at least.) One last thing … I’m going to be (finally) putting a proper store on the website. I keep meaning to get it ready, but … deadlines, you know? However … seeing as how I’ve had this site going for ten months now, I thought maybe I’d do a sale. There’s a lot of original art (from Chamber, Black Canary’s Wedding Planner, Dungeons and Dragons, etc), as well as a bunch of Artist’s Proof prints for the pages I’ve done digitally (like Blade, Predator vs Black Panther, Giant Size X-Men, etc) that need a home. My office is kinda getting crowded, so maybe I can sell some art and make a bit of room…
So hey, til the end of March, everything on the website is 15% off, yeah? Just email me with the page(s) you want, I’ll let you know how to pay for it, and then I can get it sent your way. How’s that sound..? Just make sure to mention you saw the sale in my newsletter, and we’ll take care of it.
Alright, I gotta go get back to work. Please don’t forget to check out our Kickstarter 🙂
Best,
LF
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