If you’re a direct market weekly comic chic like me, you might already be logging news from Fallout. A new series from author Chris Condon, artist Jeffrey Alan Love, letter Hassan Ottomane Elhau and designer Michael Twee. It’s a plot comic with killer artwork and is a premise that promises a twist. Well, my sources tell me that the first twist has arrived. It’s a month before the book started.
On Wednesday, news from the mastermind of Fallout launched a new website that is clearly inexplicable. I’m told that it’s Condon’s work, and perhaps more prominently, Tivey, where readers can find information about the series (release date, cover art, creator’s BIOS, etc.) and supplementary story material.
The word my super secret sauce used was specifically, “it’s the universe’s virus engine.” Rather, it is a place where readers can interact with design and learn more about the story. For example, you can highlight sections of a page to find hidden messages. You can then follow these messages and follow other parts of the site that further hide secret audio messages. Perhaps most exciting, my source was evasive when asked if there was a completely hidden page. wild.
Following a bit of guidance from my sources, I was able to access the site and it is somewhat designed to look a little like your standard Wonky government website. Of course, this makes sense given the book’s premise.
The book is set to be released in the first of six issues that arrived on June 25th, but will include a government nuclear bomb test that unleashes pollution into the air in the 1960s set sci-fi horror plot comic. The main character is a man named Otis Fallows, a private US Army and the sole survivor of the test in question. And it’s all painted in cold grayscale artwork. This seems to suit the aesthetics of the supplemental website.
The site is currently open, with the first issue (6 total issues) scheduled to be released on June 25th. You can read advanced reviews of the beat in the news for Fallout #1 here. Good luck.
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