A comic about imperfect superhumans (secretly about disability).

Late pledges available for Zip #4

Zip issue 3 is live NOW

The day is here! Lots of work for me ahead, so I’d like to keep this snappy:

Zip issue 3 is live on Kickstarter now!

As for the plot, remember these two shady characters from issue 1?

Black and white comic art in a gritty photorealistic style. Two men are sat in a van. They were wearing suits and staring intensely a smartphone. One of the men is older than the other, his hair beginning to thin and grey. The other has black hair and a fringe which covers his forehead.

Well, the megacorporation they work for has created a nanobot collective named The Hive.

It is designed to analyse consumer goods by atomising them, and then rebuilding new products for the market with the training data they’ve amassed.

But in the company’s rush to present The Hive to their investors, they neglected to address its greatest flaw. It has escaped: and identified a prime target for cannibalisation – human beings!

This is our longest and best issue to date at 27 action-packed pages. I did say I was going to make this update snappy, so I’ll just leave you with this absolute menagerie of jaw dropping images from Zip #3:

Gritty, black and white comic art with heavy inks. A cyborg with a hairless human head which bulges with veins. Over its eyes is a metallic visor. Its torso is part organic and part mechanical: with riblike cables running across its chest and meeting at a mechanical sternum. It has hulking, robotic arms. On its back is a huge mass of machine parts, so cluttered and complex that it is difficult to identity what individual parts do.
Black and white comic art with heavy inks and a gritty style. Panel 1: a robot firing the miniguns it has in place of an arm. 2: a bald man and a woman in a superhero costume modelled on a tracksuit diving out of a petrol station. 3: elsewhere, a man with messy hair is watching the news in shock. On his TV is a bewildered looking man being interviewed on the street. 4 and 5: the messy haired man picks up his car keys and walks out of the room. 6, 7 and 8: back at the garage, the bald man launches a fireball from his hand at the robot, which ricochets off of its chassis, and to the man and woman's horror, careens towards a petrol pump.
A two headed skeletal robot with huge mechanical tentacles has been caught in an explosion. A woman in goggles and a tracksuit costume is running from it and a man is escaping by projecting a blast of fire from his hands which rockets him into the sky.
Black and white comic art in a gritty style with heavy inks. 5 panels. 1. A lab rat crouching at the far end of a tank heavily reinforced by steel supports. It is cautiously sniffing a metallic liquid which has pooled in the far corner. 2. A human hand presses a button on a remote control. 3. The liquid darts through the air towards the rat who, terrified, is trying to run away, but has been cornered. 4. An enlargement of the liquid, as if it were seen through a microscope: it is, in fact, made up a swarm of millions of microscopic nanobots. The robots look like mechanical locusts, baring snake-like jaws complete with sets of long fangs. 5. A group of shareholders seated in a boardroom watch this display, looking terrified. Some appear as if they are close to vomiting.

Covers

So far we have two covers ready to show off from San Espina and Francesco Tomaseli. Later in the campaign we’ll reveal a third from returning cover artist Matt Schofield, whose cover for our last issue was a backer favourite during our campaign for issue 2!

A comic book cover with a vibrant colour pallet where a woman is running in the foreground. She is wearing a costume modelled after a tracksuit, and her hair is blowing in the slipstream she has created by her speed. The energy she is creating is causing electricity to spark around her. She is almost entirely lit in an amber tint, all except for her googles, which are bright purple in contrast: a hue which matches the blurred buildings that she is whizzing past. The comic's title 'Zip' is stylised as if it too, is blurred by moving at great speeds, and is distorted in places by the bursts of electricity.
Francesco Tomaseli’s cover
Black and white comic art with heavy inks. A woman in a tracksuit themed superhero costume and goggles, screaming in horror as she is transformed into a robot.
San Espina’s cover

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Zip is published by Markosia in the United Kingdom. © Mike Scrase 2023. ISSN 2976-8721 (print) 2976-8721 (online). No similarity between the names, characters and institutions depicted in Zip with any real life names, persons, or institutions is intended. Any such similarities are purely coincidental. Zip’s Kickstarter rewards are printed in the UK by Stuart Lloyd Gould. You can find our press kit here.