Drive Thru Comics: Atlas, Katharsis & More

Drive Thru Comics have released their latest comics available for download this week. They also have a spotlight on publisher Visionary Comics:

Publisher Focus: Visionary

Based in Annapolis, Maryland, Visionary first opened in 2006 as the world’s first, dedicated comic teaching studio, operating as a packaging and production house working with new talent to develop properties into actual projects. They recruited well-known and established creators in many fields to act as mentors and teachers.

Within 3 years, Visionary had successfully helped launch the careers of a number of creators into the comic publishing industry and also debuted their first completed projects into the print market. Their creators went on to work for such companies as Image, Top Cow, Boom Studios, Dynamite, Archaia, and in supporting roles even with DC Comics. Print projects debuted with such publishers as Markosia, eigoManga and Bluewater.

By 2009 the studio expanded and launched themselves as the first banner for creator owned content as a digital publisher. They began publishing a line of digital comics to multiple venues, including one-shots, mini-series, books previously in print and all new content. The creators on these titles ranged from early to current work of top names in the industry, as well as the first published work of new creators just making their mark…

In June of 2011 Visionary announced its first license, the Deadlands role-playing game from Pinnacle Entertainment. It published a series of one-shots through Image Comics, featuring a who’s who list of top talent from the horror-western genre of comics. The comics were met with critical success and hailed as the “All-Star Westerns” of the comics industry…

To learn even more, check out this page. Now let’s take a look at some of their recent releases:

Technosaurs #2 Adaptations

Emily and Ian find that not only are they stranded on a world dominated by intelligent dinosaurs, but those creatures are about to go to war! Long buried tensions and conflict is about to erupt and Emily and Ian are get caught in the crossfire! Lines have been drawn, but the question is who stands on which side? And which side will protect the two human children? The adventure continues in book 2, Adaptations!

The C-Listers #2

C-Listers continues after the epic conclusion of issue 1.

Well, it was sort of epic, I mean, stuff blew up and all.  Anyways, this time the super-team of the 21st Century faces it’s greatest threat of all…wait, no. Actually, its all about Lt. Lightning’s latest drama with his girlfriend.

Plus we deal with the whole “how does a super-hero earn a living?” in ways that Peter Parker never imagined! On top of that, Manticore gets a date! No, really. Oh, and there’s lots of sex toys, there, that should sell it.

The C-Listers is Recommended for Mature Readers.

Deadlands: The Kid: Origins

Visionary Comics and Pinnacle Entertainment are proud to bring one of the world’s most beloved RPG series to comics!

Deadlands, the game that defined the Weird West, mixing elements of the classic Western with Horror and Steampunk to create a unique world of monsters, myths, magic and gunslingers! Explore the Deadlands like never before in these one-shots, featuring top talent from the comics industry! Journey into the Weird West, and make sure to hold on to your hat!

Visionary Comics and Pinnacle Entertainment brings Billy the Kid to DEADLANDS! 12 years old, family wiped out, and all alone in the middle of the wild Weird West… hunted by werewolves. Grab a gun, there’s killin’ to be done! The print backup series collected in its own special edition.

Cheers and keep reading!

-Sean Patrick Fannon (sean@onebookshelf.com)

Free Product of the Week

Atlas #0
by Blue Water Productions

After commanding the Titans in their war against the Olympians, Atlas was forced to hold up the heavens on his shoulders. His life was a tragic story of a lone God fighting boredom on Mount Olympus.

However, monitoring the earth from above, Atlas watched Earth change and the emergence of super powered beings donning capes and tights. Growing restless and craving adventure, Atlas decides to take the world in his hands and become one of the Earth’s newest heroes.

Other Featured Titles

Katharsis #1
by Americanime Productions

The Blitzkrieg is Coming.

 

In the Fall of 1943 the German Wehrmacht faced a decision that would determine the course of the war, and the future of the world. Rather than pursue a losing battle into the horrid Russian winter, they instead halted to reconsolidate, and build upon their power. The secret weapon littered through their propaganda, the prophesy which would bring the Reich to ultimate victory, began development. The eugenics program joined with the Volk, the occultist shadow society of the SS. ‘Dark Science’ was spawned, and their weapon came into being, but its power could not be controlled. There were whispers of cover-ups, reports filed, but a blind eye was turned, until it happened…

$3.50 $2.35

Eeek! #3
by Asylum Press

This retro-style anthology of all-new horror tales is guaranteed to give you the eeries and the creepies! Taking a pinch of black humour from EC comics and mixing it with the art stylings of House of Mystery and Warren comics, EEEK! blends a heady broth that hits you like a burning incense stick to the retina. Jason Paulos delivers the goods with tales of revenge, zombies, vampires, ghouls and monsters. Each tale drawn in a different style reminiscent of the B&W horror mags of the 70’s and 80’s. In ‘Witness to Evil’ Mormon demon hunters converge on a dark little house with a terrible secret. In ‘East Prey’ a helpless girl, lost in the wilderness … but is she all that she seems? Nest up: ‘What’s down in the Basement Horace Greely?’–If you hate real estate agents then you’ll love this tale of greed and bad kharma. We go back to the 60’s for ‘Head Trip’–This psychedelic little tale begins in a bizarre curio shop … and ends in a watery grave.

$0.99

Wheresoever Lies Tragedy if Love Endureth Forever? (4 of 16 in the SHAKESPEARE SHAKEN anthology)
by Red Stylo Media

His desire for revenge even beyond the grave cost the life of his son and birthed a millenia of strife that destroyed his Kingdom. Can the ghost of a long-dead girl show King Hamlet a path to peace?

Forgiveness is the key to eternal rest in “Wheresoever Lies Tragedy if Love Endureth Forever?” a haunting tale in the voice of King Hamlet, the ghost of immortal fame in William Shakespeare’s “The Tragedy of Hamlet.”

Written by Seth Mullins with art by Matthew Fletcher; colors by Mark mullaney, letters by Erica Schultz.

BONUS: this download includes a page from”Zombie Hamlet” a Shakespeare Shaken mini-series written by Eisner-nominee Jeremy Whitley, with art by Gabriel Dunston!

SHAKESPEARE SHAKEN is folio of thirty original comic stories and art inspired by the plays, poetry and life of William Shakespeare. Shakespeare SHAKEN, not stirred! Edited by Enrica Jang. Read the other fifteen titles in the Shakespeare Shaken series right here on DrivethruComics.com

$1.99

Pick of the Week

Farmhouse #1
by Asylum Press

Sam Corneile, a drifter, returns home to take a job at a local mental institution where he discovers a group of patients being exploited under an art therapy regimen. While there, he falls for Helen, a feisty but troubled female who dares him to confront his past. Written by playwright Elizabeth J. Musgrave (Darwin’s Pâté, Edge of Nowhere) and Illustrated by Szymon Kudranski (Spawn, Batman) this dark psychological thriller examines what lurks deep within the human mind, both sane and insane.

$0.00

 

 

Newest Free Products

The Legend of Isis #0
by Blue Water Productions
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Trapped 5,000 years out of time, the would-be Egyptian goddess, Isis, must adjust to her new life in 21st Century Los Angeles. Using her mystical staff and some help from a few new friends, Isis will protect those around her from evil that may threaten t…

Discussions with Decapitated Dan #107: Michael Mendheim
by Decapitated Dan
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Horror comics have been scaring readers for years. Is there anyone brave enough to sit down with their creators? This is Discussions with Decapitated Dan. Listen in this week as Dan is joined by writer Michael Mendheim to talk about The Four Horsemen of …

Discussions with Decapitated Dan #106: Matt Evans
by Decapitated Dan
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Horror comics have been scaring readers for years. Is there anyone brave enough to sit down with their creators? This is Discussions with Decapitated Dan. Listen in this week as Dan is joined by writer Matt Evans. Listen in as they talk about everything …

 

 

Newest Products

Fearless Dawn: Belly of the Beast #2
by Asylum Press
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“Hopped up out of their freakin’ minds on the Combat “Power” drug, Fearless Dawn and Number Seven go on a rampage through Helga’s camp. The combat monster versions of Fearless Dawn and Old Number Seven SMASH a lot of stuff and MAIM aplenty…

Darkness Rebirth Volume 1
by Top Cow
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A BOLD NEW ERA OF THE DARKNESS! “THE CRACK IN EVERYTHING” Hot on the heels of THE DARKNESS II video game release, this introductory-priced volume welcomes the new creative team of DAVID HINE (THE DARKNESS: FOUR …

Witchblade #159
by Top Cow
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“SAVIORS,” PART 1 Sara Pezzini will get drawn deeper into Chicago’s corruption when magician Cain Jorgenson asks her to investigate a mysterious Cult threatening

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