Book cover for Broken Frontier by Greg Pak, Cullen Bunn, Phil Hester, Marguerite Bennett, Fred Van Lente, Joshua Fialkov, Adam Egypt Mortimer, Steve Orlando, David Hine, Tyler Chin-Tanner, Justin Zimmerman and A David Lewis
2020 Released
312 Pages
5-7 Hours
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Wave Blue World IncISBN 9780982453940
This oversized hardcover is jam-packed with gorgeous artwork and captivating stories from today's heavy hitters in both mainstream and indie comics.

Greg Pak and Tom Raney deliver a poignant tale of police officer returning to duty thanks to a supernatural replacement to his amputated arm in "Phantom Limb Ghostpuncher."

Cullen Bunn and Nathan Fox introduce us to the skateboarding, sword-wielding goth girl who fights against creatures of the night in "Dark, Dark World."

Phil Hester and Daniel Warren Johnson take us back to the world of Vikings in "Plunder."

Tyler Chin-Tanner and Toby Cypress combine desert dystopia with technotronic futurism in "The Wall."

Marguerite Bennett and Varga Tomi share one woman's quest to tame a living, breathing mountain.

In "The Beard," Fred Van Lente and Alison Sampson present a woman with an unusual dilemma; her newfound facial hear has given her the ability to fly, give up one and so goes the other.

Justin Zimmerman and Mike Lawrence show us the events of Word War I through the eyes of a young girls with a jet pack and wings in "Flyer."

Plus many, many more.

Greg Pak

Greg Pak is an award-winning Korean American writer and director best known for writing over six hundred comic books, including series like Planet Hulk, Darth Vader, Mech Cadet Yu, and Ronin Island and Sam Wilson: Captain America (with Evan Narcisse) for Marvel Comics and Lawful for BOOM! Studios. His non-comics work includes the feature film Robot Stories, the children’s book The Princess Who Saved Herself, the illustrated poetry book I Belong to You / Motherland, and the how-to book/memoirs Cooking Will Break Your Heart and 35mm Love Letter.

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Cullen Bunn

Cullen Bunn is the writer of comic books such The Sixth Gun, Shadow Roads, The Damned, and Helheim for Oni Press. He has also written titles including Harrow County (Dark Horse), Uncanny X-Men, and Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe (Marvel). Cullen claims to have worked as an alien autopsy specialist, rodeo clown, pro wrestling manager, and sasquatch wrangler. He has fought for his life against mountain lions and performed on stage as the world’s youngest hypnotist. Buy him a drink sometime and he'll tell you all about it.

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Phil Hester

Phil Hester has been writing and drawing comics since the dawn of time. He has drawn Kevin Smith's Green Arrow, Mark Millar's Swamp Thing, Robert Kirkman's Ant-Man, and Jeff Lemire's Family Tree, as well as notable runs on Nightwing, The Flash, Batman Beyond, Justice League, and many more. His recent penciling assignments include Kevin Smith's Tales from the Quick Stop, and Gotham City: Year One with Tom King.

Phil has written Wonder Woman, The Darkness, Deathstroke, Mythic, Titans Giant, Swamp Thing Giant, and his co-creations The Coffin with artist Mike Huddleston, and Firebreather with artist Andy Kuhn, which became an Emmy-winning feature on Cartoon Network. 

He wrote and drew The Wretch, which was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best New Series. He lives in the sticks.

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Adam Egypt Mortimer

In New York City, I read books at Columbia University, played electric sitar in the subways, and explored various forms of art. Then I gave away my musical instruments and moved to Los Angeles to become a filmmaker. My feature DANIEL ISN'T REAL, produced by SpectreVision, premiered at SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST to amazing reviews. It was released in the U.S. on December 6th. 2019 by Samuel Goldwyn Films. In 2020, I again teamed up with SpectreVision to make science fiction / crime / psychedelic superhero movie ARCHENEMY, starring. The film was released in December of 2020. I was one of the directors on the anthology horror film HOLIDAYS, which was the opening film of the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival's midnight section. Other directors on the project included Kevin Smith, Gary Shore, and Sarah Adina Smith. My first feature, 2015's SOME KIND OF HATE was called "The next contemporary horror classic" by Fangoria. 2015 also saw the release of my acclaimed graphic novel Ballistic, with art by Darick Robertson, published by Steve Niles' Black Mask Studios. The graphic novel was praised by reviewers including USA Today and Ain't It Cool News, and was called "The Best Comic of The Year" by several writers.

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Steve Orlando

Steve Orlando is an American comic book writer, known for his work for DC Comics writing characters such as Batman, Martian Manhunter, and Wonder Woman, and two series starring Midnighter, which were nominated for a GLAAD Media Award.

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Tyler Chin-Tanner

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Justin Zimmerman

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A David Lewis

Justin Rentería is an award-winning illustrator. His illustrations have been published in the New Yorker and the Atlantic and as frequent contributions to the New York Times's op-ed pages. Before deciding to focus on graphic novels, Rentería worked on everything from book cover designs for the memoirs of media personalities to billboards for popular television series.

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