- THE JUMP – Issues 1-4
- Writer: Rylend Grant
- Artist: Fabio Alves
- Colorist: Edson Ferreira
- Letterer: HdE
Returning to Kickstarter on Monday, February 17th is THE JUMP, a kick-you-in-the-teeth
paranoid thriller set in the world of astral projection from the FOUR-time Ringo-nominated
team that brought you Banjax.
After a series of crippling personal tragedies, Thomas Northrope retreats from his everyday life
and finds comfort in an online community dedicated to the art of astral projection. When he
demonstrates a unique aptitude for the practice, Thomas becomes the target of a mysterious
corporate/political machine – known as Horizon– bent on using promising young practitioners
to win a centuries-old war on the astral plane.
Creator Rylend Grant describes THE JUMP as “a smart, high-concept sci-fi thriller full of meaty
twists and turns. It is Inception meets The Bourne Identity… if it were dripping with macabre
and directed by David Fincher.” Now, tell us that doesn’t sound intriguing.
The film comparisons flow freely and easily from Grant, a screenwriter by trade, with a
decade’s worth of experience penning smart, character-driven action movies for the likes of JJ
Abrams, Ridley Scott, Justin Lin, Luc Besson, and John Woo. His film STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
was the #2 movie on Peacock last summer… and his latest film – a collaboration with Matt
Dillon and Academy Award-winning Director Fernando Trueba titled HAUNTED HEART – is in
theaters now.
Rylend’s HALF EVIL COMICS has been publishing Award-winning, face-melting actiontainment
since 2018, bringing you Kickstarter hits like THE BREACH, THE PEACEKEEPERS, and FA SHENG:
ORIGINS and comic shop sensations like ABERRANT, BANJAX, and SUICIDE JOCKEYS.
Half Evil Comics won a Ringo Award. The company was nominated for BEST SERIES (along-side
Bitter Root, Something’s Killing the Children, & Black Hammer Age of Doom). Rylend was
nominated for BEST WRITER next to first ballot hall of famers like Jeff Lemire, Scott Snyder,
Brian K. Vaughan, and Brian Michael Bendis… short and sweet, the company makes pretty
damn good books… and honestly, THE JUMP might be their very best title!
Issues 1-3 of THE JUMP launched to much fanfare on Kickstarter and received RAVE reviews.
This Issue 1-4 campaign gives folks who missed out on those early issues a chance to catch up
and promises plenty of unique goodies for returning backers… three amazing variant covers
(colorful homages to pop culture classics like Star Wars and Star Trek: The Next Generation),
original art and commission opportunities from Ringo-Nominated Banjax artist Fabio Alves, the
chance to actually appear as a character in the book or on a cover, and the chance to come
onto the film and TV property as a producer. “We pulled out all the stops for this one,” said
Grant. “We wanted to make this one of the most epic Kickstarter campaigns in recent memory
and so we left nothing on the table.”
Check out THE JUMP campaign and make your pledge here
