By Patrick Luce Jun 28, 2005, 18:58 GMT
Bad Planet is the first of many projects to be released under the Raw Entertainment banner. Together, Jane and Niles will create not only comic books, but independent horror films unencumbered by the Hollywood development system.
“Tom’s great to work with. I’ve never met anybody so consistently enthusiastic,” Niles said of his co-writer and partner in an Image press release. “We worked out an outline for Bad Planet based on us talking and then from there we took turns writing. So far, it’s worked out great. Two writers adds layers that one writer can’t.”
Bad Planet begins when a Near Earth Object (NEO) careens toward our planet and splits before crash-landing in Bloedriver, South Africa, and Washington, D.C. When a race of arachnid-like aliens emerges from the downed crafts, mankind falls a step down on the food chain.
The human race stands powerless against the monsters that would prey on it like cattle and use Earth as a nest for their thousands of eggs. At our darkest hour, a lone alien warrior may be our only salvation. But, his time is short – his intergalactic captors are en route to reclaim him, and mankind wants to kill him.
“I wanted to create a book that I would have loved to have discovered on the shelf at my local comic store – a book in the tradition of the fantastic pulps of the 1940s; the E.C. comics of the 1950s; Creepy, Eerie and Blazing Combat's of the 1960s and ‘70s; and the Twisted Tales and Alien Worlds from the 1980s and ‘90s by Bruce Jones,” Jane, who is using the series as his first foray into comics, said in the press release. “We are putting together an all-star cast of artists, including Tim Bradstreet (covers of The Punisher and Hellblazer), Lewis Larosa (The Punisher: The Cell), and one of my all-time favorites, Bernie Wrightson (Swamp Thing, Frankenstein).”
Bad Planet is just the beginning for Raw Entertainment. With their punk-rock, take-no-prisoners attitude, Niles & Jane stand poised to kick the comic and film industry’s doors open to bring fans entertainment unlike anything they’ve ever seen. On the film front, they’re in advance negotiations with a major independent film studio to produce films based on their material.
“This is my way of giving back to a genre and a community of artists that had a great and lasting effect on my own development -- for better or worse!” Jane said in the release.
The invasion begins now in a special web-exclusive trailer, created by Jane himself, available on his web site at Thomas Jane. Visit Image Comics for more information on this and other titles.
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