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Armageddonquest Book Three: Ego (Kindle 1 & 2 Comic)

robotcomics — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:07:12 +0000

“A completely overlooked trilogy of graphic novels about the Antichrist. Drawn by Roach over a 20-year period on anything from typing paper to napkins to worse, from what I understand, it’s brilliant. Printed before its time; the right publisher could make a nice killing on its quirkiness. (While Googling, I found it’s now a webcomic over here: http://www.armageddonquest.com. Still needs a reprinting, though).”

–TOM SPURGEON, COMICSREPORTER.COM

This Issue:

BOOK THREE brings the Anti-Christ to his first major crossroads: he’s forbidden to leave the villa, due to the mysterious threat of “Anton Arcane” and his “Hellmen”, and yet…fame and fortune beckon! When Tazio becomes the toast of the town and the local star soccer player, he has to choose between feeding his own ego and obeying his nearly all-wise guardian, The Ulfae…and let’s just say this chapter ain’t called “EGO” for nothing! PLUS: Bonus INSPECTOR GARRAZZI Illustrated prose story in the back! Exclusive to this edition of AQ BOOK THREE!

The Series:

ARMAGEDDONQUEST is the story of Tazio, the reluctant Anti-Christ, as he travels from birth to the very moment of ARMAGEDDON. An epic modern-fantasy-horror adventure over 850+ pages and TWENTY Books all told! Created, written, and illustrated by Ronald Russel Roach (3R), this is one of the greatest of the lost and forgotten underground comix classics, now remastered and re-presented for modern audiences.

Screeensavers

Download Free Armageddonquest Screensavers at: http://www.robotcomics.net/armageddonquest-custom-kindle-screensavers

Title: Armageddonquest Book Three: Ego #3 of 20
Credits: Written and Illustrated by Ronald Russell Roach
Publisher: Robot Comics
Price: $1.99
Screens: 65

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Armageddonquest Book Three: Ego #3 is available for download on the following platforms:

Amazon Kindle

The Kindle edition of Armageddonquest Book Three: Ego #3 is optimized only for Kindle 1 and 2.

Links

AQ Webcomic Site

AQ in Print at Indyplanet.com

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Armageddonquest Book Two: Beast for Amazon Kindle 1 & 2

robotcomics — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:53:05 +0000

“A completely overlooked trilogy of graphic novels about the Antichrist. Drawn by Roach over a 20-year period on anything from typing paper to napkins to worse, from what I understand, it’s brilliant. Printed before its time; the right publisher could make a nice killing on its quirkiness. (While Googling, I found it’s now a webcomic over here: http://www.armageddonquest.com. Still needs a reprinting, though).”

–TOM SPURGEON, COMICSREPORTER.COM

This Issue:

BOOK TWO begins with our lovely Anti-Christ’s indoctrination into the real world – school, shopping in the local town market, confronting the clergy, making friends…but all the while, secrets of his past begin to rear their ugly collective heads. Who is THERON? Who is ANTON ARCANE? Also: Tazio’s mother, MARIANGELA, decides it’s time to kill her prophesied-to-be demonaic (but awfully loveable right now) son once and for all! Pathos, bathos, and incredibly intricate storytelling make up this second of twenty books! PLUS: Bonus FATHER GIORGIO Illustrated Prose story in the back!

The Series:

Screeensavers

BE SURE TO DOWNLOAD FREE ARMAGEDDONQUEST CUSTOM KINDLE SCREENSAVERS AT: http://www.robotcomics.net/armageddonquest-custom-kindle-screensavers

Details:

Title: Armageddonquest #2 of 20
Credits:
- Written by Ronald Russel Roach
- llustrated by Ronald Russel Roach
Publisher: Robot Comics
Price: $1.99
Screens: 75 + Short Prose Story

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Armageddonquest #2 is available for download on the following platforms:

Amazon Kindle

The Kindle edition of Armageddonquest #2 is optimized only for Kindle 1 and 2.

Links

ARMAGEDDONQUEST WEBCOMIC

ARMAGEDDONQUEST IN PRINT

AUTHOR’S WEBSITE

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Armageddonquest #1

robotcomics — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:15:14 +0000

Follow the story of Tazio, the reluctant Anti-Christ, as he travels from birth to the very moment of ARMAGEDDON. An epic modern-fantasy-horror adventure over 850+ comic pages and TWENTY Books all told! Created, written, and illustrated by Ronald Russel Roach (”3R“), this is one of the greatest of the lost and forgotten underground comix classics, now remastered and re-presented for modern audiences.

A completely overlooked trilogy of graphic novels about the Antichrist. Drawn by Roach over a 20-year period on anything from typing paper to napkins to worse, from what I understand, it’s brilliant. Printed before its time; the right publisher could make a nice killing on its quirkiness. (While Googling, I found it’s now a webcomic over here: http://www.armageddonquest.com/ Still needs a reprinting, though).

–TOM SPURGEON, TheComicsReporter.com

Title: Armageddonquest #1 of 20
Credits:
- Written by Ronald Russel Roach
- llustrated by Ronald Russel Roach
Publisher: Robot Comics
Price: $1.99
Screens: 77

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Armageddonquest #1 is available for download on the following platforms:

Amazon Kindle

The Kindle edition of Armageddonquest #1 is optimized only for Kindle 1 and 2.

Links

ARMAGEDDONQUEST WEBCOMIC SITE

Creator RONALD RUSSELL ROACH’S Site

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A Comix Classic Reborn on the Kindle

robotcomics — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 06:55:54 +0000

Armageddonquest Book One: Tazio comes to the Amazon Kindle 1 & 2

The first book in Ronald Russell Roach‘s 20-Book Armageddonquest series has been released onto the Amazon marketplace, fully adapted for the Kindle 1 & 2 screen formats. Originally published in part by Starhead Comix and then in its entirely by Sirius Publishing in the 90’s, Robot Comics is proud to bring this forgotten work to modern eReading audiences. The thick black art of “3R” translates beautifully onto the eInk Kindle screen, coming across clean and smooth and crystal clear. BOOK ONE: TAZIO is on sale for $1.99 and contains 77 Screens of comix storytelling glory!

I welcome those of you lucky enough to be discovering AQ for the first time. In 1993 there were just two issues available, covering about 160 pages of the story. The print runs were humble and the book was very hard to find. I was jealous of Starhead for publishing such an important new comic. I lusted after it. Like Tazio, this selfish motive inspired me into action, that I could not stop until I was satisfied. It was difficult to believe that Ron’s story truly spanned over 800 pages, as advertised in those comics. I had to see it. I had to read it. Within the second issue from Starhead was a message from Ron urging for support of the series to come from those that really wanted to see it keep coming out. I was completely hooked by what I had read so far: I needed to see more. I had to have it. I had a lust to read AQ.

Believe the hype. You have never, ever seen a comic like AQ. I have been into comics for (gulp!) 20 years. They were my first obsession. Reading and collecting comics offered me more than just incredible worlds and information you didn’t learn at school. Comics became a constantly renewable source of business opportunities for me. Yet in all my reading and in all my retailing and publishing, I have never, ever seen a comic like AQ.

–Robb Horan, Publisher, From his Introduction to the 1997 SIRIUS Edition of AQ, Volume 2

SYNOPSIS

The story of Tazio, the reluctant Anti-Christ, as he travels from birth to the very moment of ARMAGEDDON. An epic modern-fantasy-horror adventure over 850+ pages and TWENTY Books all told!

BOOK ONE introduces readers to TAZIO, the small child who is destined to be the prophesied Beast of the Apocalypse! Tazio lives blissfully unaware of this greater destiny, sheltered within the walls of an ancient Italian villa. He’s raised by the strangest guardian a boy could imagine: THE ULFAE, an adult who shifts genders and ferocity with the phases of the moon! Add to this a religious zealot of a biological mother, a dwarf-sized best friend, a suspicious town Priest, and a past filled with mystery and this is one childhood you have to see to believe! And this is just the beginning as questions abound – where did Tazio come from? Why is he in this villa? Is he really the Anti-Christ? Who are THE ULFAE? ARMAGEDDONQUEST begins with 52 PAGES of non-stop comix storytelling glory!

Download BOOK ONE From the Amazon Storefront

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002LAR7VC

Webcomic

Armageddonquest is currently being serialized online at www.armageddonquest.com where readers can sample any part of the story as it is posted.

Free Custom Kindle Screensavers

Kindle owners can additionally download Robot Comics’ free Armageddonquest custom Kindle screensaver packs, containing 67 unique screensaver images. There is both a Kindle 1 & 2 pack (600×800 images), and also a Kindle DX pack (824×1200 images).

http://www.robotcomics.net/armageddonquest-custom-kindle-screensavers/

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About Robot Comics

Robot Comics publishes mobile comics for hand-helds such as Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch, Google’s Android mobiles, Nintendo DSi and Amazon’s Kindle. It is one of first and few mobile comic publishers who offer titles specifically designed and formatted to be read on e-devices.

For more information on the mobile versions of Armageddonquest, please visit http://www.robotcomics.net/tag/armageddonquest/

For more information on the creator Ronald Russell Roach and his endeavors, visit his personal site http://www.danbbs.dk/~3r/

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Robot Comics Launches on the Amazon Kindle

robotcomics — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:32:53 +0000

We’re officially on the Amazon Kindle!

After becoming the world’s first comic publisher on the Nintendo DSi and having our Droid Comic Viewer rise to the top (most-used) comic viewer slot on the Google Android platform, conquering the Kindle seemed the natural next step!

All of our Kindle releases will strive to have the best clarity of image and readability of text possible – two hurdles that have long plagued Kindle and Kindle 2 users when it comes to comics. This was particularly tricky because we sought hard-to-find or out-of-print comics to fill our initial Kindle library! Comics that were hand-lettered, and not at all created with digital adaptation or multi-format presentation in mind.

“Due to the fact that reading on a Kindle is the closest that any mobile user can get to reading a printed book or comic, we wanted to offer readers something truly special – not just a digital version of what they could already read in print, but instead a number of titles that were made for print but no longer readily available in printed form.”, states Robot Comics‘ Deputy Director for USA, Dave Baxter.

Our first release

Our first Kindle comic, now available for purchase, is The Desert Peach #1 by 80’s comix writer/artist Donna Barr. Originally published in 1989, now long since out of print, The Desert Peach #1 introduces readers to Oberst Pfirsich Rommel, the fictional gay younger brother of Erwin Rommel – The Desert Fox! Along the way we also meet Pfirsich’s aide, Udo; the entire motley crew of the Halftrack 469th Support and Grave-Digging Battalion, and readers are ushered into the exotic and harsh climate of 1940’s North Africa. It’s history and humor with not just a dash of true-to-life dramatics.

Extras include:

A new author introduction to the series by Barr
A new “DER KAUZ” letters page with never-before-published letters
Preview for The Desert Peach #2.

Throughout its 20 years of publication, The Desert Peach has won the Inkpot Award, the Xeric Grant, and the Washington Press Association Award for Humor. Now Robot Comics is proud to re-introduce modern readers to this lost gem of 80’s and 90’s comix history.

Free custom screensavers for Kindle

We’re also offering Kindle users a free download of custom-made Desert Peach screensavers for their Kindle 1 or 2 (they’ll be a mite small on the DX), courtesy of us.

Upcoming releases

Future Kindle releases will include the 900-page, out-of-print fantasy/horror epic Armageddonquest by Ronald Russell Roach – a work that took the artist 10 years to complete! And the independently produced first work of writer/artist Steven Walters, titled Suburban Folklore.

Kindle 1 or Kindle DX?

Currently, we’re only focusing on comics for the Kinde 2 device. If readers would like to see comics for their Kindle 1 or Kindle DX, they can email us with their rabid demands at contact@robotcomics.net or leave a comment below.

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