With the dearth of gross sales charts nonetheless bedeviling the business, noting sell-outs continues to be the closest factor we’ve got to a hit metric, and DSTLRY, the brand new writer on the block, has been doing effectively with that.
They only introduced that GONE #1, the primary difficulty of Jock’s futuristic story of have-nots stowing away on a luxurious house cruiser, has offered out on the distributor stage from each Diamond and Lunar. The primary 48–web page difficulty debuted final week to optimistic critiques.
DSTLRY, which was launched earlier this 12 months from business vets Chip Mosher and David Steinberger, additionally offered out of its first publication THE DEVIL’S CUT.
However concern not, GONE #1 continues to be accessible at native comics outlets. Spinning out of Jock’s 8-page story “The Stowaway” from The Satan’s Reduce, GONE is edited by “business legend” Will Dennis (Snow Angels, Y: The Final Man). The logline reads:
On an impoverished and distant planet the place menial employees scratch out a residing resupplying starships, the most effective place to be is GONE… and that’s precisely the place 13-year-old Abi needs to be. Alongside along with her street-tough pals, Abi stows away on a colossal luxurious space-liner, hoping for a greater life. Unbeknownst to her, Abi’s ‘pals’ aren’t who they appear, and she or he all of the sudden finds herself branded a saboteur as she desperately struggles to evade the ship’s lethal crew to remain alive! Because the younger heroine confronts betrayal, discovers her true allies, and fights towards all odds, Abi will quickly understand that nothing is farther away than…dwelling.
That is Jock’s first comedian accomplished on his personal as creator,w riter, artist and co-colorist and “I couldn’t be extra grateful for GONE’s reception, he stated in a press release. “This can be a true labor of affection, and I can’t look ahead to retailers and readers to see the place this cosmic story will wind.”
“It’s phenomenal to see Jock’s first creator-owned work—that he’s each written and drawn—create a lot pleasure and enthusiasm,” stated DSTLRY co-founders Chip Mosher and David Steinberger in a joint assertion. “Jock is the primary creator in a line of many legendary writers and artists—our Founding Creators and pals—who’re going to launch comics that will likely be new benchmarks for the medium. We promise to work tirelessly on behalf of creators, retailers, and followers to proceed the excessive bar this units.”
And let’s face it, a sell-out PR is simply an excuse to run some good artwork, so right here’s the preview pages and canopy variants for GONE #1. All inside artwork by Jock, covers as marked.
Major cowl by Jock
On-line unique cowl by Caitlin Yarsky
On-line unique cowl by Cliff Chiang
For extra details about GONE and to enroll in information concerning DSTLRY’s upcoming drops, go to www.dstlry.co and observe the writer on social media through @DSTLRY_Media.