Archaia Studios Press (ASP) has announced its 2007 schedule. In addition to continuing their ongoing series, such as The Killer, Okko: The Cycle of Water, The Secret History, and Artesia Besieged, they’re planning new series in their Robotika and Mouse Guard lines.
New ASP titles include:
Starkweather: Immortal by Piers Anthony, David Rodriguez, and Patrick McEvoy (5 issues, launching in June). “The Starkweather series, begun with Arcana Studios, returns with a short story penned by fantasy legend Piers Anthony. More than two thousand years ago, a Roman soldier named Cartaphilus struck a prisoner who was to be executed by crucifixion. From that moment, he was cursed by God and fated to walk the Earth until Christ’s return. Doomed to always bleed, always hurt… and never die. His story leads into the new Starkweather: Immortal series, chronicling Alexander Starkweather’s date with destiny.”
Revere by Ed Lavallee and Grant Bond (hardcover graphic novel, publishing in July). “When a supernatural killer stalks the townspeople of Boston against the backdrop of the first shots of the American Revolution, renowned silversmith and monster hunter Paul Revere is called in to fight the evil.” This one volume is a collection of the four-issue series originally published by Alias.
Awakening by Nick Tapalansky and Alex Echman-Lawn (10 issues, launching in August). “A series of missing-persons and gruesome murders has begun to unfold in the city of Park Falls. When town crazy Cynthia Ford visits former police detective Derrick Peters, she utters only one word to explain it all: zombies.”
Killing Pickman by Jason Becker and Jon Rea (6 issues, launching in August). “William Zu, a New York homicide detective, just made the arrest of his career: Richard Pickman, a serial killer of over one hundred children. But as his frustration at being clean-up man to the detritus of the world becomes a deep depression, Zu makes a potentially fatal mistake: he decides to kill Pickman. Fatal, because Pickman’s ritual killings were not the work of an ordinary psychopath, but of a man making sacrifices to a very real demon.”
The Black Knight by Robert Randle and Aaron Campbell (6 issues, launching in September). “Throughout the lands of the known world, the ten Reliquum gods walk the Earth with man, but on the continent of Shathlatamia, it is man who determines his own fate. Beholden to no god, no king, with a legacy passing from father to son, a lone warrior—the Wandering Champion, the Patron Saint of the Good Fight, the Black Knight—