Undisputed
The Federacion Mundial Lucha Libre Undisputed World Heavyweight Championship is a title that is defended every four years during an event called the Open the Chest Tournament. Hack Halloway is the reigning champion. He’s also retired. Tino “El Jefe” Montez has won the right to host the Open the Chest Tournament. He wants his fighter Tigre Negro to win the belt. But to get full value of promoting the Undisputed World Heavyweight Champion, it’s important that Tigre Negro beat Hack Halloway. Like Ric Flair said, “To be the man, you gotta beat the man”. But Hack is only interested in spending time with his family and at his bar “Hack’s Place”.
How far is Tino Montez willing to push, and how far is Hack willing to get pushed before he comes back to fight…for one night only.
Cameos: Dr. Carl Martin (ring announcer), Maven Bentley & Salamander Jones (commentary team), Francesco Iaquinta (referee)
Created & Written by: P.J. Curling
Edited by: Christopher Stevenson
Interior Art by: Francesco Iaquinta & Wedersom Arantes
Lettering by: Marco Della Verde
Covers by: Wedersom Arantes, Erik Arreaga & Juan “Of the Dead” Ortiz
Taking Out the Dead
It’s 2032, and it’s been three years since The Big Sick. A viral epidemic that decimated the United States. The virus evolved. It takes over it’s host, using it’s victims like decomposing meat ships, creating more victims as it goes.
But pockets of humanity remain. Microcommunities remain in the otherwise vacant streets of the East Coast’s major cities. One of those microcommunities, in the Asylum Hill neighborhood of Hartford, lives “The Mad Doctor” Carl Martin. A pirate radio DJ, broadcasting seemingly non-stop from the top floor of his apartment complex to the few hundred citizens of the city still left.
Besides being Hartford’s last living DJ, Carl is also our story’s narrator. Floating back and forth between navigating us through the world, and providing the world it’s sound track.
Taking Out the Dead Issue 0 (8-page preview)
Created & Written by: P.J. Curling
Edited by: Christopher Stevenson
Art by: Eliseu “Zeu” Gouveia
Lettered by: Marco Della Verde