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MISTERIIX :
THE ARCHIVES

To commememorate the 25th year since Mister X's first Vortex appearance Dark Horse is publishing a high-end archive edition of the color run of the seminal 1980's comic series. This 384-page hardcover edition features new, high-quality scans, printing and corrected pagination (compared to the ibooks collection) and, of course, my revised and restored finale. It highlights the work of the Hernandez Brothers, Seth, Paul Rivoche, myself and others. It also features stories by Bill Sienciewicz, Dave McKean and Neil Gaiman.

Sepia preview of all-new color series now in production at Dark Horse.

MISTERIIX :
CONDEMNED

W r i t t e n + I l l u s t r a t e d b y
D e a n M o t t e r

All-new series now in production!

Dark Horse has offered me the opportunity to resurrect my most popular creation in an all-new four-issue mini-series. This fresh visualization is a reboot is designed for new readers as well as those that remember the original series. These stories are even more rooted in Film Noir, German Expressionism, Art Deco and the Bauhaus architectural aesthetics that made the book so compelling in the '80s. It is a darker and more somber vision, but not completely devoid of humor. At least I hope that's the way the readers will view it.

From Yacht on the Styx.
This eight page intersticial episode is scheduled to appear in the upcoming Noir anthology from Dark Horse.

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New Collection by Dean Motter

This 38-page special edition includes the new finale for the 1986 storyline, After the Spirit, the Comic Book Artist tribute to Will Eisner featuring Mister X and a number of other pieces and seldom-seen guest appearances of Motter's signature creation.

Now available from www.lulupress.com for $11.99 USD.

Electropolis, the noted follow-up to Mister X and Terminal City, is available once more, for a limited time, in two online editions. Originally published by Image Comics in 2002-2003, the series follows the adventures of Menlo Park, the electric detective and his partner the feisty Anesta Robbins and features guest appearances by Mister X, as well as Cosmo Quinn & BB of Terminal City fame.

At wowio,com one can download all six issues as pdfs for free.

Smashout Comics (www.smashout.net) is an independent comics studio that focuses on online re prints and original series on Wowio.com,

"Electropolis has stunning art and a really interesting future crime noir premise," says Steve Horton, editor-in-chief of Smashout Comics. "I'm really glad to have it, and Dean, as part of the growing Smashout Comics library.

At lulu.com a higher resolution, print-on-demand bookshelf edition is available. Both editions include revisions, improvements and new artwork.

Both sites require registration (it's free) and a password. Then it's just a matter of entering Electropolis into the search window. While you're there poke around and check out some of the other interesting e-publications available.

HARDCOVER ANTHOLOGY...UNIQUE... THE GRAPHIC NOVEL FROM PLATINUM STUDIOS AND IMAGE... BY DEAN MOTTER AND DENNIS CALERO...

Click here to read INTERVIEW from COMICON PULSE March 2007.	Written by Dean Motter Illustrated by Dennis Calero Jon Geoffries has just learned that the Earth has a twin, a parallel world in another dimension. The two worlds are closely linked. Most people have nearly identical counterparts of themselves on both Earths, and their fates are tied together. If your counterpart dies on the other world, you die, too. It's inescapable. The twin Earth is mirror of our own, except that human society is nocturnal. And our worlds are phased in such a way that when it is day in one it is night in the other. The night world is similar to our own but it is marked by cultural differences as the result of humanity developing in darkness. A shared history and population tie these worlds together. Each major event has a similar reciprocal event. There are unscrupulous types that seek to affect events in one dimension by manipulating those in the other. They do this by means of the rare individuals who have no doppelgangers and are able to move from world to world. These people are referred to as 'Uniques'." Jon is one of those Uniques, and he's a target of ruthless enemies who plan to use the connection between the Earths to control the fates of billions. While *Unique* is my first contemporary story in a while, it is somewhat of a a tribute to Richard Matheson and Harlan Ellison; as if Richard Kimble from the old Fugitive TV series woke up in a vintage Twilight Zone episode. My script is illustrated by Dennis Calero of Marvel's *X-Factor* fame and I couldn't be happier with the results.	Click here for PODCAST INTERVIEW from BULLPEN BULLETINS April 2007. Unique © Platinum Studios
Hollywood Reporter Click Here to View the Original Article Touchstone has 'Unique' view of Earth By Boris Kit Touchstone Pictures has picked up "Unique," an upcoming graphic novel from Platinum Studios, to serve as a directing vehicle for David Goyer. David Heyman will produce through his Heyday Films, while Platinum's Scott Mitchell Rosenberg will serve as executive producer. Michael Cooney has been tapped to adapt the material.	"Unique" centers on Jon Geoffries, a man who discovers the Earth has a twin, a parallel world in another dimension. The worlds are closely linked, explaining such phenomena as deja vu and love at first sight, with people having counterparts on both Earths. However, a few are born "unique," with no doppelgangers, and can travel between worlds. Geoffries is one such person and soon finds himself a target of enemies who want to exploit his connection. The graphic novel, by Dean Motter and Dennis Calero, was brought to Heyman by Heyday's Marc Rosen. Louanne Brickhouse is overseeing the project for the Walt Disney Co. Aaron Severson is supervising it for Platinum and will serve as associate producer. Rosenberg, who helped bring "Men in Black" to the big screen, established Platinum in 1997 with a focus on comic book-to-film adaptations. The company has set up "Cowboys & Aliens" at Sony, "Nathan Never" at DreamWorks and "Mal Chance" at Miramax. It also optioned indie comics "The Dark Fringe" and "Rust." Platinum also produces the sci-fi Showtime series "Jeremiah."	Heyman is best known as the producer of the "Harry Potter" movies. Goyer, who wrote "Blade" and "Blade 2," is shooting New Line Cinema's "Blade: Trinity," which he also wrote. He also penned the new "Batman" movie that Christopher Nolan is directing for Warner Bros. Pictures. Outside the movie world, Goyer writes the DC comic "JSA." He is repped by WMA. Cooney, who wrote last year's hit "Identity," is repped by UTA. The UNIQUE graphic novel is scheduled to be published by Top Cow. Platinum Studios

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INTERVIEW from COMICON PULSE
March 2007.

Written by Dean Motter
Illustrated by Dennis Calero

Jon Geoffries has just learned that the Earth has a twin, a parallel world in another dimension. The two worlds are closely linked. Most people have nearly identical counterparts of themselves on both Earths, and their fates are tied together. If your counterpart dies on the other world, you die, too. It's inescapable.

The twin Earth is mirror of our own, except that human society is nocturnal. And our worlds are phased in such a way that when it is day in one it is night in the other. The night world is similar to our own but it is marked by cultural differences as the result of humanity developing in darkness. A shared history and population tie these worlds together. Each major event has a similar reciprocal event. There are unscrupulous types that seek to affect events in one dimension by manipulating those in the other. They do this by means of the rare individuals who have no doppelgangers and are able to move from world to world. These people are referred to as 'Uniques'."

Jon is one of those Uniques, and he's a target of ruthless enemies who plan to use the connection between the Earths to control the fates of billions.

While Unique is my first contemporary story in a while, it is somewhat of a a tribute to Richard Matheson and Harlan Ellison; as if Richard Kimble from the old Fugitive TV series woke up in a vintage Twilight Zone episode.

My script is illustrated by Dennis Calero of Marvel's X-Factor fame and I couldn't be happier with the results.

Hollywood Reporter

Click Here to View the Original Article

Touchstone has 'Unique' view of Earth

By Boris Kit

Touchstone Pictures has picked up "Unique," an upcoming graphic novel from Platinum Studios, to serve as a directing vehicle for David Goyer. David Heyman will produce through his Heyday Films, while Platinum's Scott Mitchell Rosenberg will serve as executive producer. Michael Cooney has been tapped to adapt the material.

"Unique" centers on Jon Geoffries, a man who discovers the Earth has a twin, a parallel world in another dimension. The worlds are closely linked, explaining such phenomena as deja vu and love at first sight, with people having counterparts on both Earths. However, a few are born "unique," with no doppelgangers, and can travel between worlds. Geoffries is one such person and soon finds himself a target of enemies who want to exploit his connection.

The graphic novel, by Dean Motter and Dennis Calero, was brought to Heyman by Heyday's Marc Rosen.

Louanne Brickhouse is overseeing the project for the Walt Disney Co. Aaron Severson is supervising it for Platinum and will serve as associate producer.

Rosenberg, who helped bring "Men in Black" to the big screen, established Platinum in 1997 with a focus on comic book-to-film adaptations. The company has set up "Cowboys & Aliens" at Sony, "Nathan Never" at DreamWorks and "Mal Chance" at Miramax. It also optioned indie comics "The Dark Fringe" and "Rust." Platinum also produces the sci-fi Showtime series "Jeremiah."

Heyman is best known as the producer of the "Harry Potter" movies.

Goyer, who wrote "Blade" and "Blade 2," is shooting New Line Cinema's "Blade: Trinity," which he also wrote. He also penned the new "Batman" movie that Christopher Nolan is directing for Warner Bros. Pictures. Outside the movie world, Goyer writes the DC comic "JSA." He is repped by WMA.

Cooney, who wrote last year's hit "Identity," is repped by UTA.

The UNIQUE graphic novel is scheduled to be published by Top Cow.

Platinum Studios

M I S T E RIIX Nightclubs & Daydreams Denouement Redux & Other Pages

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graphic novel by Dean Motter

M I S T E RIIX
`Nightclubs & Daydreams`
`Denouement Redux & Other Pages`