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GENE SIMMONS' Zipper Open To The Public This FallFrom: GeneSimmons.com New ongoing Sci-Fi series debuts from IDW and Simmons Comics Group in November Weirdness will get a whole new meaning when rock legend GENE SIMMONS invades bookstores with his Sci-Fi outsider series, Zipper, this November. Featuring exciting cover art by Adriano Loyola and showcasing the long-awaited reunion of writer Tom Waltz and artist Casey Maloney, the creative team responsible for the hit trade paperback Children of the Grave (IDW Publishing), Zipper promises to take readers out of this world this Fall… in more ways than one. Xeng Ral is a soldier whose sole purpose is to serve in defense of Etheria, his home planet. Xeng Ral is not an elite soldier, by any means—rather, he is simply one amongst many. But something happens to Xeng Ral while performing his duty, as has happened to others before him: he begins to question his purpose and contemplate his autonomy. He is affected by this... changed. He realizes his own capacity for individualism and wishes to explore it further. He begins to speak of himself as "One." In Etheria's collective society, this will not do. The Etherian solution to individualistic behavior is to "recondition" the Etherians who attempt to break This is where the adventure truly begins... Series mastermind GENE SIMMONS credits a sci-fi classic as part of the inspiration for Zipper, as well as his own personal immigrant experience. "Zipper is not from here," Simmons continues. "He is from the Nether Ether. A place Not Here. A place with different values—in fact, if you take Nietzche's take 'there is no universal good or bad' it's simply a cultural point of view, then you might understand some of the areas we will deal with. What I mean is, for head hunters in the Amazon, killing and eating a human being is perfectly fine. But here, if you're Jeffrey Dahmer, you are a monster and depraved. It's all a point of view. Zipper is not from here and the suit he wears is what we might wear when we do very deep into the depths of the ocean. The pressure would crush us, if we didn't have 'protective outer covering'... and that's what Zipper has. Picture Spider Man's outfit and inside is Venom." To learn more about Zipper and other Simmons Comics Group titles and merchandise, please visit www.Simmons-Comics.com and www.idwpublishing.com. GENE SIMMONS’ Zipper #1 will be available in November and is available for pre-order now. Diamond Order code SEP07 3766. Download a six page preview (PDF) here. |
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