Broken Frontier

Markosia Enterprises, Ltd. is proud to announce that 'Starship Troopers' #1 and 'The Lexian Chronicles' #5, both with exclusive NYCC covers, will be available at Midtown Comics' booth for the duration of the New York Comic-Con from February 24-26 at the Jacob Javits Centerin the heart of New York City.

"We are very excited to be working with Midtown," said Chuck Satterlee, the UK based publisher's North American Director of Operations,  "It will be a big boost for us, especially with the numbers for 'Starship Troopers' surpassing our expectations like they did!"

Additionally, Markosia will be providing free "Retailer Packs" to qualified industry retailers.  These packs will contain a free sampling of Markosia product as well as some surprises.  Every retailer who registers to receive a free retailer pack will be entered into a drawing to receive a free ipod.  The retailer packs will als ocontain some other surprises such as coupons to receive free original art, among other items.

Markosia will be located near the Dark Horse and Tokyopop booths at #510.

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Markosia Enterprises can officially reveal that the first issue of Starship Troopers : Blaze of Glory has sold way beyond its expectations and can now reveal that it is to produce a second series based on the cult sci-fi book and film of the same name.

Markosia is being very tight lipped over the success of the first issue but can assure retailers that an overprint of 10% has been produced of each cover just in case of re-order activity.

The first issue is to be showcased at the forthcoming New York City Comicon on February 25th where Markosia will be exhibiting. The British based company has also produced a special edition of the first issue with cover art by Mike Bowden, a young Brit talent who has signed on to do the second series of Starship Troopers.

Bowden, based in the south-east of England, is a newcomer to the world of comics. Markosia’s EIC Richard Emms says "Mike is incredible, once the big guns get to see his work they will be queuing up to employ him".

The second series, written by Tony Lee, will ship in the fall of 2006 and will feature the art of Bowden and color talents of Kieran Oats who has been colouring the successful Midnight Kiss series, also written by Lee. Markosia’s MD, Harry Markos comments on the success of the first issue. "When we received the numbers from DCD we were blown away. We were expecting at least 50% of the amount that was officially ordered, so it’s great to know that retailers are willing to back a relative newcomer to this industry".

"Starship Troopers is a great license and the creators have produced a book which is second to none, which they should all be rightly proud of".

Starship Troopers #1
FC, 36PP, $3.50
Art - Sam Hart
Digital Paints - Rod Reis
Colors - Kieran Oats
Written by - Tony Lee
Shipping March 31st 2006 (USA)
Shipping March 1st 2006 (UK)