Preorder my Graphic Novel: HEAVY WEAPON

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Some of you may remember when I posted about this last year... Well, it is now getting ready for actual release sometime before July, and I'm taking direct preorders for the DIGITAL edition.

For those who are new to this, a 15-page preview can be seen here: http://www.heavy-weapon.com/
The preview has also been updated with freshly cleaned up inks for all 15 pages if anyone who saw the early version wants a refresher. These are still non-final pages since the grayscale shading still needs to be added, and professional lettering is being added as well.

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ABOUT THE BOOK
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Heavy Weapon is the ultimate homage to 80's action movies in graphic novel form! You can excpect machine guns, muscles, action, one-liners and of course explosions!

PLOT SUMMARY:
Vietnam veteran, and former member of an elite Special Forces group, John Magnum, left the military due to the tragic loss of his entire battalion while under his command. Since then, he has been consumed with guilt over the deaths of his men. He just wants to live a normal life and forget his violent past...

...But now, his former Commanding Officer, Colonel Deckard, has tracked him down to inform him that a small group of POWs, captured during the war 10 years ago, have been found, and are being used as slave labor for a drug cartel in Costa Rica. Deckard asks Magnum to accompany him as an escort on a Top Secret mission to rescue the POWs, but Magnum refuses...

It's not his battle anymore.

Only a few days later, Magnum is approached by his old friend Richter, the only survivor of Magnum's lost battalion. Richter presents Magnum with a surprising video tape revealing that Deckard and his crew have been captured, and are being tortured then killed one-by-one at the hands of a ruthless drug lord. Before the tape ends, Colonel Deckard makes a plea for help from Magnum.

Magnum knows he can't let any more of his friends get killed and decides to go to Costa Rica to exact his revenge on everyone in his path on his mission to rescue Deckard, his team, and the POWs from the clutches of the heartless drug lord...

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ORDERING
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Payment Options and Prices for regular PHYSICAL COPIES is coming soon.
I will begin taking direct preorders hopefully around March/April 2013 for the physical copies...

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DIGITAL Preordering
Discounted preorder price - $2.25
This price is only good while I'm taking preorders.
Release dates are still TBA, but expected to be done in May 2013. Digital preorders will receive their copy of the book (the full story, without extras) in any/all 3 formats: CBR/CBZ/PDF and completely 100% DRM-free. You will get them FIRST, as soon as the book is complete. Same day. Digital preorders can only be done by Paypal, or money order (or cash at your own risk).


HOW TO PREORDER:
- For the Digital Version: Send me a PM offer for "Heavy Weapon DIGITAL Preorder" with you sending "$2.25 Paypal".
Provide me with your username, name, address, and Paypal email so I can keep track of who is who.
When making the payment, please leave all info default/blank, except putting your username in the subject.

How will I receive the digital copy?
Your digital copy will be provided via a personal download link. I can email it to you or just PM you, your choice. All 3 formats will be zipped into a password-protected .ZIP file that can be downloaded directly.

After the preorder period ends, the DIGITAL version will be priced at $2.99 US, and you can still choose from three formats: CBR, CBZ, or PDF. If you would prefer the book in Amazon or ComiXology formats, you will have to purchase the book from them directly at a later time. This is only for direct orders from me, and the pricing is only for direct orders; purchasing from other places may have a different, but still affordable price.



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Small updates:

I'll be placing my order of the die-cut bookmarks this week for the Munition Edition.

I'm revamping the website a little more too. Hoping to get the public online store open for preorders, and then maybe I can start advertising outside of like 5 forums.

Also, setting up the ComiXology version as well here soon. Looks like the price on the CX digital copy will probably be $3.99 since CX takes 50% of the profits, and that includes after the 30% cut iTunes takes. So, it costs more, and I make less, but then again, that's good advertising too.

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FYI, as long as the Munition Edition is available, it will be listed as so in the main post. Some folks have been asking if they're still for preorder/sale or not...

Currently, I'm down to 124 copies left available. This may not be the case by April.

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100 copies of the Munition Edition remaining

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An 80's video homage? Looks f*cking wild!

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Yessir. It's got a little bit of everything from 80's action tropes in it. The way I see it; if you liked any 80's action movie, you're bound to find something appealing about Heavy Weapon.

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One of these two will be the art used for the Munition Edition, and the other one will be the standard Hardcover's art.

Here's the nearing final version of the alternate VHS/betamax cover:




And here's the other completed VHS cover art for comparison:

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Only 80 copies left of the Munition Edition.

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Just sent the pages off to be lettered, so I should have a solid release date ready soon.

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Started production on the bookmarks and cloth maps. Negotiating the ammo box details as I type this.

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The bookmarks and cloth maps should be on the way to me soon. Wrapping up on the ammo boxes hopefully tonight, and then I'll be ordering the USB bullets and dogtags. So, once I get the boxes on order, I'm going to start taking full payments from everyone who made reservations.

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Just tweaking the final design and it should be into production soon!

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Well, unfortunately due to some personal issues with my newborn, I've run into a huge pile of unexpected costs and I'm going to have to put the can on the full Munition Edition...or at best, postpone it indefinitely.

Some of the Munition Edition is partially salvageable. I already have the die cut bookmarks in hand, as well as the Certificates of Authenticity and serial numbered holograms, so those are for sure available. The cloth maps were already paid for as well and are in production so those can also be included, but aside from those items, I pretty much have to say the other stuff won't likely be happening. Anyone who has preordered or paid in full for the original ME should have already been refunded.

The bookmarks are really great quality, very thick, solid and silky smooth. I couldn't see these getting easily bent/damaged from normal use. These are the kind of quality shit I wanted to make the entire ME out of... so what I'll be doing is probably coining a Munition Edition Lite that will be the variant cover hardcover with a set of bookmarks, cloth map and a couple of other things. You can see the bookmarks below, and a sample of the cloth map (not final product). I will also be signing all of the Munition Edition Lites, and including the serial number holorgram as well as the CoA w/hologram. I really wish I could have done the ammo box and other stuff though. If I can manage to turn out any additional extras, I'll update here. For now, it's going to have to be ME Lite...

If by some stroke of luck, this book becomes wildly successful enough to cover the costs of producing the remaining items of the original ME, anyone who buys the ME Lite will be the first in line to get the extra items separately to cobble together a full ME as originally intended. Otherwise, I hope you guys can be satisfied with what extras I'm able to offer with the Lite.

The bookmarks:



The cloth map sample: