New Cover for BOE

Epitaph: Beginning of the End, will now sport a new cover. This is a redrawn version of the original but now it features not only Locke and Ashen, but now includes Nightevil, ZombieGirl and Loren at the bottom where Hanover Blake once was. The cover was drawn by series artist Joseph Canave who will also be drawing the first of the Night Phoenix books.

In the meantime be on the look out for more Night Phoenix Press books including "Abiding Lilith: Alpha" and "Darksiders Issue #2". Plus, as mentioned, the long awaited "Night Phoenix" special.

Also we will be upgrading our Facebook group which is slated to be archived, to the new FB group model so please be on the look out for that. I'll be back with more information as soon as it's know.

Also we are still working on the Epitaph movie. It's taken longer than any of the first two films we've done, but it's still in effect so keep an eye out for more news on that which should be coming your way soon. And please email us if you like our books. We know you're ordering, but we want some feedback too so drop us a line.

-Nate

ABIDING LILITH AVAILABLE NOW!

Okay all you fanboys and fangirls ABL is now available at the Night Phoenix Press comic shop. You can find it by clicking on the store link in the upper left hand side of the page. Also we are selling a $25 "sketch" version of this book. Now before you freak out let me tell you about this one. You can send this book to Nathyn Brendan Masters and he will draw a unique cover for you in pen and ink. It's the coolest thing. If you're seriously into indy comics, you're going to want this one.

We will also start testing perfect binding for some versions of our comics as opposed to the normal saddling stitching. More on that soon, so be on the look out for info right here on this site. Currently we're looking at various paper stocks and such to insure a quality production.

Well, that's it for today. Make sure to check out our store over at Indyplanet and soon we will have a store for digital versions of our comics. You'll be able to get a hardcopy, a digital copy or both. But as I said before, make sure you're keeping your eyes on us because this year we plan to drop the bomb on the competition. Great art and stories with quality production and we're getting better every day.

ABIDIING LILITH IS BACK!!!

Cover for "Abiding Lilith Redux #1"

ABL is nearing end of the production phaze. Abiding Lilith is the story of the Sisterhood of Lilith and their evil plans to spread disease and birth demonic evils. This issue retells the story of those who worked for the Sisterhood as spreaders and have now either turned their backs on the organization or been turn on by the sisterhood.

In this issue, Naomi a former prostitute who joined the SOL and became a spreader is now working as a file clerk in an office. She is visited by Eon Drax a.k.a Decoy, who is believed by most to be a vampire, but she's knows who and what he is.

Eon is on the trail of The Sisterhood and wants to take them down at all cost. This book also continues the story of the young athlete Gill Savani, who died violently, but no one knows the cause. Eon knows it was magic and wants to track down the killer, but is also on the case of three new spreaders carrying a deadly new STD.

For answers to all his questions he will turn to Jill Morgan, a woman who made it to the upper levels of the order then left them. And on top of all this, children are disappearing in Chicago and a large bat-like creature is said to have been at the scene. But is the creature real? And what is it? You'll find out soon.

This issue will also feature an appearance by Adonijah Washington, the man known as the company namesake "Night Phoenix" and is the first story drawn and written by Nathyn Brendan Masters. Colors will be by our hot new colorist Maldad. 

The Darksiders #1 Comic Book in production...

Hey everyone, we're in production on the first issue of the Darksiders miniseries. This continues the story from the "Beginning of the End" one shot. In this issue the demoness called Aba'rell is given a jump code to allow her to interfere in earthly affairs. Damious will chose his wife and Loren and Gary go on their first actual date, but it's what happens when they go back to her place that will sit off a series of horrific events.

How do all these events fit together? Well I guess you have to pick up the first issue of "Epitaph: The Darksiders" which will be in our online store early next year.

The cover is by Von Everette done after one of her and my favorite artist Michael Turner (RIP) and colored by Kayla Swain. The inside art will by by series regular Joseph Canave. (Apologies to him for the name mishap) with colors by hot new colorist Tricia Cunningham. Keep an eye out for her, she's throwing down some great colors. And good luck to our homegirl Kayla whose back in school.

Also there will be an issue #2 of Abiding Lilith. We toyed with the idea of redoing the first issue with all new art to match up to what we're currently doing as the art in that issue is about two years old from the first run of books, but we came to a decision that people who bought that issue would feel like they've paid twice for the same story since the story hasn't really changed. There is talk of a possible artboard cover edition that can be sent in to us and Nathyn Masters himself will do an original drawing right on the cover.

Epitaph Comic Reboot...

Change is on the way! In fact a sweeping change. Epitaph and all related books will be put on hold until after the film. Since the movie and film are so tightly integrated we our funneling all of our resources into the film. The film will act as an issue #0. But understand there's a method to the madness. Up until now the Epitaph story had been loosely held together based on the pretty random events in "Epitaph: Beginning of the End". The series was based around Victor Locke, but looking over future scripts and stories we've decided that there could be more character realization. Simply put that means better writing. Victor is supposed to have his own series which would relegate "Epitaph" to a book of tightly interwoven stories that effect the NPP Universe as a whole. 

The "Epitaph" comics will be written and move more like a novelized film. If the film is issue #0 the continuity should flow from issue #0. The characters will remain the same but the issues of continuity will have to be solved. The "Beginning of the End" story, (which was originally penned in 2007 or 2008) will serve as a basis for who the characters are and what they're about. But we're going to try to make this thing something long lasting.

If you want to lunch a universe (Marvel, DC, Image, ect) you have to work with full stories and that can be built on. The purpose of "Epitaph" series is to be able to build. Each character being rich in depth and having rooted motivations. Epitaph was never slated to be an ongoing series. It was a collection of mini-series that spun off of other books. We plan to continue down that path, but everything will be tighter in the future. Currently the "Beginning of the End" book, which the movie is actually based around in some ways, is still (loosely) in the continuity and will hopefully be a great collector's item someday.

Trailer for Bread and Salt

Check out the first teaser trailer for the "Epitaph: Bread and Salt" movie. See the HD Teaser here.

Epitaph: Bread and Salt Movie in Production

The wait is over. The Nathyn Brendan Masters film "Epitaph: Bread and Salt" based on our series is in full production. As of now the production is well into the first few scenes including a fight between Victor and a day roaming demon named Satsu.

Nathyn told me this was "the most fun film" he's ever made," He's moving into the next scenes this Friday as they shoot a scene with Victor and Cassie before she becomes Zombie Girl. By this time next week they should have another battle scene down. Nathyn wants to have a rough trailer by the end of the month.

Masters plans to use the Epitaph franchise to open the whole Night Phoenix Press Universe up via films. He said "It's kind of like what Marvel's doing but we're staying truer to the stories because the stories are actually connected to the comics, not just merchandising for the comics."

So if all goes well the movie should be done with principal photography by the end of the year and finished by March of 2011. We're hoping for it and hoping to move forward with the actually books ASAP.