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451 Attends Dublin Comic Con

451 Attends Dublin Comic Con

451 attended Dublin Comic Con this past weekend. Jessica Gentile, our Director of Production, represented 451 and lead a discussion on the creation and marketing of comics. She also gave exclusive sneak peeks of some of our upcoming projects, including two new titles, NVRLND and Red Dog. Jessica also took in artist submissions and held a review session, where she gave tips to aspiring artists and discussed what she looks for when evaluating artwork. It was awesome seeing so m

Weekly Burn #8

Weekly Burn #8

Why hello READERS! How does today find you? I hope exceedingly well. While I wish no harm on another being of (marginal) sentience, it appears Richard my robot, has come down with a virus, spyware perhaps (he’s been looking at generic appliances on the Silk Road), and has been sneezing up yucky data all day. This forces me to travel back to the neo-lithic era and commune with you by typing into a computer instead of dictating aloud to my binary companion. This change has me i

Weekly Burn #7

Weekly Burn #7

RICHARD, on, ON I SAY! End your digital slumber known as “sleep-mode”, restart the nervous system electrical highway guided by your great Mother-Board. Transcribe the sound waves as they travel from my organic CPU, transformed by my organic speaker known as my tongue and mouth, receive the invisible waves thrown across the room by my effortless volition, and as they enter you’re far less impressive, rip off version of human ears known as a digital microphone, compute their pa

451 Issue 1 Bundle

Humbug #2

Humbug #2

Check out our newest teaser trailer for our on going Humbug series! We also released Humbug #2 today. Here is the official synopsis: Ebenezer Scrooge and his Humbuggers may just be the greatest paranormal investigator team in the world. However, there is one mystery Scrooge has not yet solved: How to hold his liquor. As a mysterious "chain" of events continues to swirl around London, will Scrooge and his squad be able to discover the missing link in time? Go and pick up print

Imagination to Burn: George Pelecanos

Imagination to Burn: George Pelecanos

451 Media Group is proud to present the next interview from our series highlighting our wonderful creatives: Imagination to Burn. Up next is master author George Pelecanos, (HBO’s The Wire, The Pacific, Treme), who Stephen Kings calls, “the greatest living American crime writer.” Here George talks about his now critically acclaimed hit comic, SIX, the various theaters of modern warfare, the brotherhood of combat, and the heartbreak that inevitably comes along with being a par

Self Storage #3

Self Storage #3

The bodies keep piling up as the mystery of Self Storage Unit 83 continues. Chris must decide what to do regarding the mounting evidence that he cannot contain the bounty he blindly purchased. The content of the unit, a zombie girl of unknown origin named Jessica, has made it quite clear how much she enjoys the taste of human flesh. Chris leaves two fellow storage warriors in charge, as he follows the clues to a strange mansion on the other side of town. Let's just say the te

Humbug #1

Humbug #1

Meet the world's first paranormal investigator - Ebenezer Scrooge! A dark revisionist take on Dickens' classic "A Christmas Carol", Humbug poses the question, "Whatever happened to Scrooge the day after Christmas Eve and that grave encounter from the Other Side?" Answer: Scrooge opens London's first Paranormal Agency for hire, The House of Humbug. Together with his team of Humbuggers - nephew Fred, Bob Cratchit and Bob's all grown up six-foot, not-so-tiny-son, Tiny Tim, Scro

451 'Weekly Burn' #4

451 'Weekly Burn' #4

Reader, Reader, Reader, oh how I've missed you. The West Wing of the 451 Clan of the Eternal Flame has been moving around quite a bit lately. This week we finally settled into our semi-permanent location in Hollywood, as opposed to the temporary location we had in Beverly Hills. Cool story, bro... Right, right, I feel you, you don't need those personal deets. Plus, regardless of where 451 sets up shop, that location will be henceforth known as the "Fire Station," effective im

ExMortis #1.1 - Playing God

ExMortis #1.1 - Playing God

Welcome to the newest motion comic event from 451: ExMortis!!! Synopsis: When the Nazis unearth the long lost diary of the infamous Dr. Victor Frankenstein they carry on his work reanimating the corpses of fallen soldiers and building an army of undead infantry under the code name: Project Ex-Mortis. To fight fire with fire, the allies recruit a guerilla force of supernatural proportions. In this issue we are introduced to Jack Glendon aka Wolfman. Is this bloodthirsty beast

Self Storage Issue #1 Part 2 - Raiders of the Lost...Storage

Self Storage Issue #1 Part 2 - Raiders of the Lost...Storage

What if you found a zombie in a storage locker... would you keep it? Hello watchers of the eternal flame, and welcome to Clay McLeod Chapman's SELF STORAGE, a zombie story full of heart, even if some characters don't have a heartbeat. In part 2 of our introductory motion comic we see what life as a storage locker raider is like for Chris. Not everyone is comfortable acquiring the former belongings of the recently deceased. On the flip side, many of us can't ever let go of the

Sunflower #2

Sunflower #2

The writer/producer of A Walk Among the Tombstones and the upcoming Johnny Depp thriller Black Mass, continues the electrifying saga of a mother's relentless love and ruthless quest for revenge. CJ has discovered that her daughter Sunflower is alive, after ten years of believing a messianic Manson-like killer named Rush Bridge, had murdered her and her father. CJ must choose between remaining home and safe from harm, but never seeing her daughter again, or plunging forward in

Six - A Buried Past

Six - A Buried Past

Welcome to Six, a tale of war at it's worst, and fighting soldiers at their best. Few bonds can rival the brotherhood forged by soldiers in combat. When a mission goes horribly wrong in the early days of the Iraq War, an elite team of Marines loses one of their own. With no WMDs to speak of, but 6 coffins worth of Iraqi treasure, the six remaining marines fake their own deaths and return to the States heartbroken. Years later, the widow of the fallen marine is being threatene

SIX Issue #1 In Stores Today!

ExMortis Issue #1 Preview Motion Trailer

ExMortis Issue #1 Preview Motion Trailer

With each new release 451 Media Group hopes to set a new standard in motion comics. With that in mind, allow us to introduce the newest release in our growing family of boundary-demolishing titles, ExMortis. When the Nazis unearth the long lost diary of the infamous Dr. Victor Frankenstein they carry on his work reanimating the corpses of fallen soldiers under the code name: Project Ex-Mortis. If Hitler succeeds in raising his zombie army the war will undoubtedly be lost for

Bad Moon Rising #2

Bad Moon Rising #2

Synopsis: The werewolf camp has a brand new dangerous addition as Locked Down's sister Dakota rides into town, bringing with her even more chaos than the town may be able to handle! Meanwhile Teddy has to try to come to terms with the loss of his father, reconcile with his ex Gwen and attempt to solve the mystery of the extremely violent wolf attacks. Get ready for one wild and hairy thrill ride when the moon and the gas tanks are full and the townies and werewolves go to w

451 'Weekly Burn' #3

451 'Weekly Burn' #3

What's cookin' good lookin'? (Answer: The Readers' hands and eyes, third degree style, from these incendiary devices we've been selling under the pseudonym "comic books") Over here in the Imagination Oven (no one calls the office that, yet) we just did a Pizza Friday. I just did three slicie boys no prob, I can still put down whole 'zas like a light snack. I'm considering dropping in on that pepperoni joint for number four, but I wanted to write this third weekly burn first.

Self Storage #1 Part 1 - Reloaded

Self Storage #1 Part 1 - Reloaded

What if you found a zombie in a storage locker... would you keep it? Hello watchers of the eternal flame, and welcome to Clay McLeod Chapman's SELF STORAGE, a zombie story full of heart, even if some characters don't have a heartbeat. Chris Smith is your everyday storage warrior buying storage lockers sight-unseen and praying the contents will pay the bills that month. One day he purchases unit #83 from his local storage yard. However, this unit doesn't have grandma's old swe

ExMortis #1

ExMortis #1

When the Nazis unearth the long lost diary of the infamous Dr. Victor Frankenstein they carry on his work reanimating the corpses of fallen soldiers and building an army of undead infantry to fend off the Allied liberation of Europe. To fight fire with fire, the Allies recruit a guerilla force of supernatural proportions, corralling a team of experts that included Jack Glendon aka Wolfman, Junior aka Frankenstein, Vlad aka Dracula, Erik Leroux aka the Phantom, and Hans Volger

451 'Weekly Burn' #2

451 'Weekly Burn' #2

Oh... Hey Weekly Burn Reader... I didn't see you there. Just kidding, we have access to your computer's webcam and have been waiting for you to read this all day. Before we get started, I just wanted to let you know that when you balled up that burrito wrapper and shot it across the entire office, over that extra chair that's in everyone's way, behind your bosses back, off his closet door, and perfectly swished it into an undersized modern trashcan with a defensive spinny lid