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Carmen Sandiego ’s Kevin Shinick and Greg Lee have a new graphic novel , , Host Mortem , hitting Kickstarter shortly
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Kevin Shinickis the writer of comics such asW.E.B. of Spider - ManandThe Flash , TV shows such asRobot Chicken , novel such asStar warfare : Force Collectorproducer onMADand gameshow host ofWhere In Time Is Carmen Sandiego?Now , crowdfunding a new computer graphic novelwithGreg Lee , the host ofWhere In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?Host Mortem , drawn byDamien TorresandAndrea Schiavone , is a time travel metafiction drollery mystery in which Kevin appears as himself , along with Greg , transported to the year 1947 by a sentence portal atComic - Con ; they recover themselves enmeshed in a slaying mystery involvingHumphrey Bogart ’s noir filmThe Big Sleep . When one of the whiz wind up dead , Kevin and Greg have to use their knowledge of random trivia .
" Between the two of us , Greg and I have host a numeral of biz shows , " say Shinick . " As a result , we have a lot of random trivia floating around in our head and I always wish I could put that noesis to better use other than just , " Hey , did you cognize the singular form of spaghetti is spaghetto ? " And since we both play bogus detectives onCarmen Sandiego(me a time travel detective and Greg a classic galosh investigator ) I got to wondering how we might fare with an actual murder ? The ultimate query being , " Are hosts really smart ? Or do they just have the answer ? " The 180 - varlet lifelike novel will be tell in four chapter from four dissimilar characters ' point of view . Kevin Shinick , Greg Lee , their fast - talking receptionist , and a mystery narrator . Each chapter will have a distinct looking , and accumulate in a slipcase , release by Clover Press . Kickstarter tiers includeoriginal artistic creation from the book , critical evaluation of body of work - in - progress comic books , crack of voice over narrative on an renovate project , and covers byTony Foti , Timothy Anderson , and Damien Torres .
" I intend what Kevin ’s come up with is simply brilliant and it continues to be a blast just perplex to be a small part of it , " says Greg Lee . " With his screaming and nuanced authorship I actually feel I ’ve spend clock time in 1947 . Why I did n’t buy some potential line of descent or at least advance anOscarpool while I was there is beyond me . alternatively , Kevin position me in the middle of a murder scene and have a bun in the oven me to rely on my secret plan show trivia to help him solve the criminal offense . But the real crime is that we do n’t know the first matter about being detectives so it ’ll credibly derive down to something random like knowing Humphrey Bogart ’s center name . ( It was DeForest , by the way . A fact I know because I ’m a secret plan show host and not a detective ! ) Luckily , Kevin ’s a capital friend and a gifted writer , so this project is nothin' but " win - win - and more win " for me and , if I ’m being honest , for all our backers and readers . "
" work out onHost Mortemhas been the biggest and most rewarding story of my career so far , " enunciate artist Damien Torres . " Comicshas been my dreaming , butfilmis my first love , and I ’ve been afford the chance to bring that love into this vivid novel . As someone who is a fan of the likes ofSean Phillips , Greg Smallwood , Lee Weeks , David Mazzucchelli , andAlex Tothto name a few , channeling the purpose of heavy black has been central to arrest the noir tone . Researching the forties and ground the scene with iconicLAlandmarks has helped convey pages to aliveness , and I ’ve work to make that legitimacy show through in each panel . Watching a good number of Bogart andBacallfilms has n’t hurt one minute either . I ’d be remiss in not mentioning how merriment and thorough Kevin Shinick ’s writing is , and an honour it ’s been to work with someone who happened to trifle a part in my childhood ! "
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