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AMP Launch at ComicsPRO with NeverWars , sell Love Struck to Ryan Reynolds , and party with The Prodigal son and Cobra Kai ’s Martin Kove
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AMP Comics recently gainedBleeding Cool ’s attentionfor taking on theLatino comic Christian Bible imprint Chispafrom Scout Comics take byDavid BowlesandHector Rodriguez III , and promise itself a new creator - centrical self-governing comic label set to plunge in April . And AMP Comics CEODon HandfieldofDark Age , The Source , Unikorntook to the ComicsPRO event to announce themselves and upcoming plans . Don Handfield ’s first book , The Rift , was adapted for tv by Steven Spielberg for the Amazing Stories reboot on Apple+ . Handfield is also a successful film manufacturer , includingThe Founder , drink down the Messengerand creator of the telecasting showKnightfall . He is a married person in the comic moneyman Thunder and a former board member of Scout Comics . That latter cite may also be why he mouth about " prioritizing quality , transparency , and creator satisfaction through well-timed royal house statements and payments . " Handfield states , " We designed AMP to nullify the industry pitfalls we ’ve all encountered . The commission of this fabulously talented team is to create a place where Divine can boom , and their stories can be release into the market place with the respect they deserve . "
Launching in July , MC Foley’sLoveStruckhas already been nibble up for exploitation as a television series byRyan Reynolds ' yield company Maximum Effort . At ComicsPRO , Handfield say that it ’s the floor of " a love - wearied char who ends up run over Cupid while making a photoflash mob marriage ceremony proposal . "
" He ’s in a comatoseness and his ghost seem to explain to her that you have to help me make people fall in love or I ’m gon na die , you ’re gon na go to jail … so it ’s kind of a making love procedural with this jaded woman who does n’t consider love even exist , has to make people fall in lovemaking . " And they were giving out previews at the show .
AMP will also publish the Thunder Comics impression , guide off withProdigal Son , a cowboy saga co - written byCobra KaistarMartin Kove , with the forward-looking three alternate endings , each with its own variant cover , so reader can choose their own ending to the series ( " safe , unsound or Ugly " ) or collect all three . Prodigal has been cull up for TV Development byJeff Frost , the former head of Sony Television , through his Bristol Circle Banner . mouth of Kove , Handfield stated " It ’s a passion project of his , he ’ll come out and babble out about it . A little - known fact : Lieutenant Blueberry , do a few guys commemorate the Mobius strip ? Marty was kind of the model inspiration for it ; he had all the old books , and he was really a vast fan of that . "
" We have an creative person who is in reality a Turkish human race just survive in Japan who we opine had that sort of Mobius vibration and could bring us cool stuff . "
" For me , comics are not a room to hack on Hollywood , but they are actually the saturated form of entertainment and creative thinking . We have a book with Marty Cove . If I had developed this with my business , it would ’ve ended up being a science - fiction picture . I would ’ve been fuel , andBrad Pittwould’ve been replacing Marty . I love comics ; I ca n’t say enough good about them . We digest for hard characters and foil , and we are open to this with Divine on royalties and payments and just peachy books . "
AMP has also announced an 11 - matter seriesNeverWars , from their Thunder Comics depression in which " the witching realms of Wonderland , Oz , and Neverland have been push up into a devastating warfare that sweep world and generation . The twisted magic of the Jabberwock transforms good into evil , turning beloved childhood figures into phantom of their former selves . In NeverWars , the heroes we grew up with must grapple with the horrors of conflict , the loss of sinlessness , and the fighting to hold onto hope . "
" assure through three uniquely illustrated and altogether distinct first exit , NeverWarsi invites lector to experience this epic saga from multiple perspectives . "
" Readers can select between three dissimilar part stories through which they embark the NeverWorld : Dorothy Gale , now a WWI nanny on the frontlines of the Great War , as she faces the revulsion of battle and a return to Oz . Georgie Bird is a young English recruit whose stuffed rabbit extend him into Wonderland , where he discovers his gran , Alice , has been transformed by the Jabberwock ’s evil spell into the Red Queen . "
" Or soar upwards alongside Petr Pfanne , a German Flying Circus scout who crash - lands in Neverland , only to detect himself unable to wing in a world charge apart by the warfare . "
They stated that they have secure a first feeling deal with The Op . , to make instrument panel game base on AMP ’s Bible . AMP is now the official publisher of the Script2Comic Contest , with the 2024 victor ’s work set to be finance and published in partnership with Kodansha .
They also held one of the two closure - out parties last night in their LA officeswith Marty Kove . I do hope it went well …
unite Handfield isJoshua Starnes , former carbon monoxide gas - publishing house of Red 5 Comics as President . Meanwhile , David Byrne , former Scout Comics Co - Publisher , will oversee the press release and development strategy as Publisher . Joshua Malkinwill serve aseditor - in - chief , andEshan Kamarsuwill serve as originative administrator . The AMP family of imprint and title will be usable to retailers through Lunar Distribution ’s Massive Indies initiative , as well as Diamond Comic Distributors and Universal Distribution .
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