PINNACLE from Dimestore! May 2008!

[Troy Boyle]

Hey everybody! Please consider purchasing my first solo title from Dimestore Productions! PINNACLE (http://www.dimestoredistro.com/mysteriousvisionsanthology8-p-1001.html?zenid=7lg1hruqmpspca2hvfq1dtmi14) tells the story of an average man who is gifted with incredible super powers. In a world without super-heroes, will his newfound gift be a blessing - or a curse? A finalist for the 2007 Small Press Idol contest, PINNACLE (http://www.dimestoredistro.com/mysteriousvisionsanthology8-p-1001.html?zenid=7lg1hruqmpspca2hvfq1dtmi14) is brought to you by artist/creator Troy Boyle (me, heh), writer Gary Francis, and inker Tomm Gabbard.

http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa302/Areophile/CoverColorFinalsmall.jpg

[tomm_gabbard]

a lot of time and effort has gone into this story,
i think everyone will enjoy it

[Troy Boyle]

Thanks Tomm,

Fact is, this comic is a #0 issue that kicks off the PINNACLE series from Dimestore Comics and Big Idea Comics.

Pinnacle is a deconstructionist look at the superhero mythos; the idea is to tell superhero stories without all the conventions that have developed and are ubiquitous to the superhero genre. For instance, how many times have you seen Superman catch a person that has fallen a great distance without harm when common sense tells you that the jarring impact of the catch itself should have killed the person?

Pinnacle tells a very human story and the fantastic elements serve only to highlight the realism of the story arc. Just ask yourself: What would really happen?

Best,
Troy

[Troy Boyle]

Anybody mind if I bump this back to the top of the list....(shuffles feet...kicks at imaginary stones)....you know, so everone can see it?!

[Cordova Deville]

Yes, I mind.

I really don't think messageboards are here to be manipulated by publishers to advertise. Buy your ads the same as anybody else. I'm going to PM the Moderator and see if I can't get this whole thing shut down. CBR is not here to serve the interests of Trolls.

I don't come here to read things like this.

and what was this crap? (Awww. him-haw...shuffle around , kicking dirt...trying to pass myself off as ackward nerd)

This is just the sort of juvinial crap that makes me molten. And you two have the nerve to call yourself proffesionals?

Not only will I not buy your little hasbeen rag I will have my local store ban it.

You two need to be black-listed from comics,,,and banned from messageboards. This message board is for Fans!!!

Hello...remember us? The ones your supposedly marketing too?

You are taking advantage of potential fans. If your comics was any good it would be put out by Marvel or DC. All theses little so called Independant publishers just put out crap that no one wants to read. We read Spiderman and Superman, not wannabe man.

The marketplace is too closeminded and prejudiced for a reason. We want it that way. We don't want new. We don't want fresh. We don't want interesting.
when I come home from detailing cars on the line all day all I want to do is escape the real world. I want to play D&D and just read my Spiderman back issues.

I get tired of getting all excited about going to a con to get my books signed and having to fight my way through a meatmarket of wanna be Ninja turbo hamster kung fu dribble.

There is Marvel and there is DC. There is ketchup and there is mustard. There is up and there is down. If I want variety in my comics I'll close the Spiderman up and lay it down and pick the Superman up and start to read.

Grow up and smell the coffee !!! No one wants your rag.

It's not collectable!!!!
Loooooooooooserssss!!!

Jeezel-pete,
C.D.

[tomm_gabbard]

aw, c'mon mom!
you promised me you would stop posting this crap!
now leave me and my buddies alone!

seriously folks
check out the book
its a good read

[Troy Boyle]

OKAY! Here's a sample page from Pinnacle. Please let me know what you think!

-Troy

http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa302/Areophile/PinnaclePage3smalljpg.jpg

[dan bailey]

Looks darned interesting. I'll flip a coin & either order it through one of my LCSes (unless I find it on the shelves, which for a new indie isn't overly likely, though fairly often I'm pleasantly surprised) or from an online vendor.

[Troy Boyle]

Hey folks,

This post is not so much about "pre-ordering" Pinnacle as it is to inform you that Pinnacle is currently at the printers. The ONLY way to order Pinnacle is to follow the link at the bottom of this page and order it direct from Dimestore Productions. Ian Shires, publisher at Dimestore (and small press guru for 20+ years), is trying to singlehandedly invent a new paradigm for comic book distribution - one that doesn't depend on traditional distribution and comic book stores. Instead, Dimestore's comics are available to any comic lover, anywhere in the world, simply by ordering online.

Do yourself a favor, and even if you DON'T buy Pinnacle stop by Dimestore (http://www.dimestoreproductions.com) and look at the amazing indy titles available there!

- Troy

[dan bailey]

Thanks for making that point, Troy. I feel a lot like Unfrozen Caveman Comics Fan, still trying to figure out why I can't just pick up my comics down at the corner drugstore's spinner rack. (I'm old enough to remember being traumatized as a kid when the cover price went up to 15 cents, & about 8 1/2 years after that I swore off comics for something like 25 years when the price shot up to 40 cents. *sigh*)

[Troy Boyle]

Dan,
I completely agree. I grew up in Ludlow, KY, just a small river town of about 6,000souls in Northern Kentucky. When I was a kid, comics were 35 cents at Farrell's drug store, a corner-store entrepreneurship that today is an art gallery.

At that time, you could walk into ANY convenience store, gas station, or drug store and find a wire spinner rack absolutely stuffed with comic books. I read Spider-man, Power Man and Iron Fist, the Uncanny X-men and the Fantastic Four. I remember waiting breathlessly for the conclusion of the the Phoenix saga, and when that alien laser rose up out of the lunar dust to fire point blank at Jean Grey, I wept like a baby.

Don't even get me started on the death of Gwen Stacy.

So yeah, ordering online is a bit weird, but its not any weirder than the complete absence of comic books at the corner store. I wish there was some way to get 10-14 year olds reading comics again. They are missing a beautiful time, tapping away at their Nintendo DS's.

- Troy

[dan bailey]

Dan,
I completely agree. I grew up in Ludlow, KY, just a small river town of about 6,000souls in Northern Kentucky.

Aha ... a city slicker, eh?

The town I'm from in extreme southwest Arkansas still doesn't have a single traffic light -- it's so small (population peaked at around 2,500 some years ago, before the only real employer in town other than the school system shut down) that instead of a town square, it has a triangle (no joke). Even so, I could buy comics at 5 different establishments -- 2 drugstores, a proto-convenience store, a small grocery & a small supermarket.

If I'd grown up in such an environment, what, 15 years later, I guess my only exposure to comics would've been certain TV cartoons, & I might well never have gotten into them at all. (In which case I'd have loads more money & lots more room here in my bedroom ... so, uh, never mind.)

When I was a kid, comics were 35 cents at Farrell's drug store, a corner-store entrepreneurship that today is an art gallery.

At that time, you could walk into ANY convenience store, gas station, or drug store and find a wire spinner rack absolutely stuffed with comic books. I read Spider-man, Power Man and Iron Fist, the Uncanny X-men and the Fantastic Four. I remember waiting breathlessly for the conclusion of the the Phoenix saga, and when that alien laser rose up out of the lunar dust to fire point blank at Jean Grey, I wept like a baby.

What? Spoilers, man, spoilers! (I'm kidding, of course, but I am, lessee, some 30 years behind in my X-Men reading, having happened to bail out, because of the price rise, before John Byrne ever touched the book.)

Don't even get me started on the death of Gwen Stacy.

So yeah, ordering online is a bit weird, but its not any weirder than the complete absence of comic books at the corner store. I wish there was some way to get 10-14 year olds reading comics again. They are missing a beautiful time, tapping away at their Nintendo DS's.

- Troy