Bay Side Blues -- Issue #1 Preview

Here are the fully inked cover and the first page to Bay Side Blues #1, Riot Comics's first project.  It's written by yours truly, Justin Swartz, with art by Miguel Barriga (biggmiggz.deviantart.com).


Bay Side Blues #1 will be 24 pages in length with a full-color cover by Steve Oaks (siriussteve.deviantart.com) and a black-and-white interior.  I'll be pulling lettering duty on it as well.  It will also feature an ad on the back inside cover for our next project, Take It To The Grave.

Bay Side Blues is the story of Bay Side City, a tenement slum populated with criminals, thieves, low-lives, and scumbags, who are all after the same thing--The Bay Side Treasure, a fist-sized treasure chest said to be worth millions.  What they don't know is that The Bay Side Treasure is really Pandora's Box, and whoever opens it will unleash hell on Earth.

The comic's release date is tentatively set for September 25th, 2013.  Click on the "follow by e-mail" link so you can stay up-to-date on the latest developments, and be sure to spread the word about Riot Comics and Bay Side Blues!