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Self Storage #5 hits LCS and Comixology

Self Storage #5 hits LCS and Comixology

The penultimate issue of the highly praised series Self Storage has hit stores. Here is the full synopsis: So... Tell me about love. Today is Chris and Laura's one year anniversary. I can't imagine this time last year Chris was thinking, "you know what, a year from now, I bet my relationship with Laura will have completely fallen apart, I'll be harboring a zombie girl named Jessica in a storage locker, occasionally murdering innocent folks to feed her, and I'll have no exit s

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

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Humbug 1.1 - Smoke and Mirrors

Humbug 1.1 - Smoke and Mirrors

Alas, the motion comic of Humbug has arrived! Synopsis: A dark historical revisionist take on the classic character from Dickens' CHRISTMAS CAROL answers the question of what happened to Scrooge the day after that oh so famous Christmas Eve intervention and his grave encounter from the Other Side? Meet Ebenezer Scrooge and London's first Paranormal Agency for hire, The House of Humbug. Together with his nephew Fred, Bob Cratchit and Bob's all grown up six-foot, not-so-tiny-so

Six #1.1 - I've Got Your Six

Six #1.1 - I've Got Your Six

This is where it all started falling apart, where the seems started coming undone, where "victory" became just another seven letter word instead of a memory. 451 Media Group proudly presents the first installment of a new graphic novel from living-legend crime writer, George Pelecanos. Welcome to the bullet-riddled world of SIX. In the earliest days of the US occupation of Iraq an elite squad was sent to find WMDs. What they found instead was a great deal of heartbreak. Septe

Sunflower Presents: The Rise of Rush

Sunflower Presents: The Rise of Rush

Synopsis: Lurking in the shadows of 451 Media Group's critical smash, SUNFLOWER, is a brand new brand of fear: His name is Rush Bridge. Most people who have heard his name don't dare speak it aloud. He is the phantom of death who destroyed CJ's life, but he didn't appear out of thin air, no, the evil of this world has been building Rush Bridge since the day he arrived on this earth; unwanted and unloved. Rush has built a cult of hate, orbiting around his insatiable lust for c

Bad Moon Rising #5

Bad Moon Rising #5

It's finally here, the showdown we've all been waiting for. In one corner, the machine gun-toting citizens of Talbot and, the other, the fur and fury of the werewolf biker gang the Lunar Cycles. How many silver bullets will it take to send this wolf-pack on a one-way burnout straight to Hell? Does that much silver even exist? And at what price? Item Code: OCT151471 Page Count: 32 Pages Full Color #451 #violence #badmoonrising #werewolves #bikers #graphicnovel #comicbooks #com

Weekly Burn #5

Weekly Burn #5

Richard. Yes. Thank you, it’s cashmere, my Mom got it for me for Christmas. You have such good taste for a 4th-gen dictation bot. I agree, it fits perfectly snug. Yes. I’m ready. Begin the recording of the 5th installment of the Weekly Burn: Hello dear Readers and keepers of the eternal flame, oh how I’ve missed you. We’re back to start our first full calendar year as a piping white-hot factory of trans-media bar-raising industry defining watershed moment pumping redeemer of

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

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

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