A comic about imperfect superhumans (secretly about disability).

Late pledges available for Zip #4

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Zip is an independent British comic book. It’s written by Mike Scrase, illustrated by San Espina, and lettered by Ferran Delgado. It’s funded through Kickstarter and new issues are released following readers supporting our crowdfunding campaigns. See info about our expanded team here.

This is a list of the issues that have been funded so far, complete with a synopsis for each individual story.

Zip #1

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Comic book cover. A speedster superheroine wearing goggles runs. In the background a face being penetrated by cables is screaming in pain. Two bewildered blue collar types stand amid the chaos, and a skeletal figure looms behind them all. Text on the cover reads: Spectacular debut issue of a very unusual speeder! By Mike Scrase, San Espina and Ferran Delgado. The Zip logo is blurred, as if moving very quickly itself.
Comic book cover. A woman in goggles and a tracksuit inspired superhero costume runs from a hulking monster dressed in a suit. The monster is a giant compared to her, and is essentially a living shadow with glowing yellow eyes. Text on the cover reads: Markosia (publisher), by Mike Scrase, San Espina and Ferran Delgado. The Zip logo is blurred, as if moving very quickly itself.

Covers: San Espina/Vanessa Cardinali

Nothing’s going right for Zip. When she tries to date, she can’t focus on slow talkers (that’s everyone besides her). An eight-hour shift makes her feel like she’s been awake for days. When she tries to stop a traffic accident, she forgets not everyone can react as fast as her and, well – boom!

She can’t be normal. She can’t be abnormal. Perhaps the world would be better off without her?

But there is someone who needs Zip, and thanks to a pair of shady characters running a mysterious science experiment, their life is about to depend on her.

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zip #2

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Comic cover art of a shirtless martial artist with a shuriken shaped tattoo on his chest and an animal tooth necklace is wielding a bo staff in a pink sunset. He has messy hair and appears gaunt in some places yet strangely, muscular and lean in others. He is facing someone in a stand-off, although only their leg and sporty trainer can be seen in the background: crackling with electricity. Text on the cover reads: Markosia (publisher), by Mike Scrase, San Espina and Ferran Delgado. The Zip logo is blurred, as if moving very quickly itself.
Comic book cover art depicting a woman in googles and a superhero costume modelled on a tracksuit, clutching her fist as it glows. There is a moonlit city street and x-rays hanging in the sky in the background. The art is black and white with heavy linework. Text on the cover reads: by Mike Scrase, San Espina and Ferran Delgado. The Zip logo is blurred, as if moving very quickly itself.
Comic book cover art. A monochrome purple colour pallet depicting the Bristol Clifton Suspension Bridge, and in the sky above it the woman from the first cover is looking off into the distance, as if she is a giant above the city. Text on the cover reads: by Mike Scrase, San Espina and Ferran Delgado. The Zip logo is blurred, as if moving very quickly itself.

Covers: Matt Schofield/San Espina/Vanessa Cardinali

Zip struggles with a strange and dangerous quirk of her powers that she has struggled with since childhood: a release of high energy generated by her body’s speed, which makes her touch explosive in stressful situations.

Zip’s control over her powers are challenged when she clashes with a kidnapper out to settle an old score. The stories about him say he’s so skilled in the martial arts that there is no attack he cannot evade and no technique he cannot counter. They call him: Mr Untouchable.

But are Zip and this deadly stranger more alike than they think?

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Zip #3

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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.
A colourful comic book cover. A multiheaded robot with long necks like a hydra is firing several arm-mounted miniguns at a woman in goggles and a superhero costume inspired by a tracksuit. She is running and weaving away from the line of fire at super speed, leaving a line of lightning in her wake. Top text reads: "Zip." Bottom text: "Survive The Hive!"
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.

Covers: Francesco Tomaseli/Matt Schoffield/San Espina

A megacorporation has created a nanobot collective named The Hive. It is designed to analyse consumer goods by atomising them, and then rebuild new products for the market with the training data they’ve amassed.

The Hive is a venture capitalist’s dream… all except for one problem: its directives compel it search for the most complex objects it can find, and cannibalise them for data. Now, it has escaped, and identified the most complex objects of all – human beings!

Those it assimilates are enveloped by a swarm of drones, tearing away flesh and turning bones to ash. From those ashes rises a soulless, part-machine part-monster, wearing the faces of those The Hive has killed.

When Zip clashes with The Hive, she faces her most dangerous foe yet. And when The Hive encounters her it will not rest until it has stolen her powers and exterminated her.

You can find Zip #3 here.

Zip #4

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Comic book cover art. The cover depicts a woman superhero and a hooded figure wielding a knife. They are stood in front of a huge clock face.
A comic book cover depicting a superhero bar. The patrons in the background are outlandish types, some are living flowers, some have tentacles, and some have fins or tails. At the front, the title character of the comic a speedster named Zip, is speaking to another superhero named Planemo, who is dressed in a tank top. There is a pigeon eating crumbs on the bar top.
Comic book cover art. A blonde superheroine in a tracksuit inspired costume and wearing goggles running at super speed down a city street. Tall buildings and neon lights blur in the background behind her.
Pixel art comic cover. A superheroine wearing googles and a tracksuit inspired costume runs across a rooftop, towards a hooded person clutching a knife, and an elderly man whose white beard flows in the wind. Behind the two people she is rushing to, there are ripples in the air emanating from behind them.

Covers: San Espina/Vanessa Cardinali, Giulio Centrella, Ray Friesen

A time travel story, based on the real-life testimonials of an ex-con sentenced to prison for murder.

In the aftermath of her most recent battle, Zip reconnects with the larger superhuman community which she’s been isolated from for so long.

Meanwhile, Pinstripe and Dogsbody, the two mysterious lab technicians stalking Zip, are up to something strange again. Their latest experiment is bound to sow chaos when a teenager out for blood is caught in the crossfire.

In this instalment, mysteries around Zip’s past will begin to unravel, and the pieces of her future steadily fall into place. You won’t want to miss it!.

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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.