Depending on how long you’ve been reading comics, the name Jimmy Palmiotti may or may not be familiar to you. He’s been a part of the comic industry for decades and has helped shape it in many ways. He was a part of Marvel Comics and helped make the much-beloved Marvel Knights run that saved the company. He and his wife Amanda Conner made the Harley Quinn solo comic that helped catapult the character to new fan-beloved heights (and inspired the animated series) and when he’s not doing those kinds of titles…he makes his own. Via his company Paperfilms, he’s gone to Kickstarter and made 15 straight successful comic projects. And now you can make it 16 via his newest project, RAGE.
Jimmy Palmiotti finds himself teaming with superstar artist Scott Hampton (Neil Gaiman’s American Gods, Black Widow, GI Zombie) this time around for an action packed thriller where one man embarks on a cross country journey to find his daughter in the wake of a worldwide catastrophe.
“RAGE is a full throttle, white knuckle thriller about a man with secrets in his past, who will do absolutely whatever it takes to save his daughter,” said Palmiotti. “It’s a story all about survival, which in this case means learning to live with what you’ve done ― and what you’ve failed to do.”
In RAGE, Braden Radovick is a desperate man. He wakes up in a New York City holding cell to discover the world has changed overnight. Everywhere he goes, there are fires. The city is littered with corpses. People are losing their minds. The cops are so overwhelmed, they just let him walk out of the cell.
Braden’s journey is just beginning. He’s separated from his daughter Friday, who’s on the west coast, and absolutely nothing ― not even a global disaster ― will stop him from finding her. Before his cross country odyssey is over, Braden will be forced to use all his resources and skills to reunite with his daughter and save her.
“Scott Hampton’s done an absolutely stunning job with the art and Amanda Conner and Bill Sienkiewicz have done jaw-dropping variant covers,” said Palmiotti. “Like most PaperFilms’ books, RAGE is a graphic novel with sex and violence and is for adults. We make comics for adults, by adults.”
If you were curious about why we said it was already successful, that’s because at the time of this writing, it has reached its funding goal (in less than a day) and has over 500 backers.
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