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Markosia provided BF with an exlcusive preview to the OGN The Dark, originalyy planned as a digital release but due to overwhelming reviews now also as a printed OGN.

Markosia Enterprises will solicit the much anticipated original graphic novel “The Dark” in the January 2010 edition of Diamond Comic Distribution's “Previews” catalogue.
100 pages in length, the graphic novel contains the complete story as devised by UK scribe Chris Lynch and US based artist Rick Lundeen. Originally planned for a digital release, Markosia have moved the property straight into print following incredibly positive reviews for the digital preview offered in August of last year.

The official solicitation text for the book reads:
"Imagine a story that you can drink, a story that you can feel, a story you can live. Welcome to the city of Dante, and the world of Memetech. As a wave of drugs that create living stories sweeps his city, one man fights back as “The Dark”. A vigilante who wields fiction as a weapon, he is the last hope for a city where nothing is what it seems."

The creator followed this information with:

WHAT IS “THE DARK” ?
Branded “The Dark Knight meets The Matrix” by reviewers, The Dark is the story of Daniel Abbot, a brilliant young scientist on the fringes of the establishment and the creator of Memetech - a technology that encodes information and memories into a liquid form, allowing anyone to “drink” the information. Terrified that his invention will be used for military purposes he decides to destroy his research, but not before he takes one last
trip ... with disastrous results.
Two years on, and the Memetech genie is out of the bottle. Abbot, having perfected his own version of the technology, fights a one-man war against the spread of his own invention and the collapse of our information culture in the guise of “The Dark”. Aided by an artificial intelligence nicknamed Howard Hughes, Abbott creates “The Baffler” – a coat made of Memetech that gives his the edge over his enemies. Capable of injecting information directly into this brain and firing Memetech flechettes to hit others with bursts of pure information, The Baffler is both weapon and disguise in Daniel Abbot's war against his own creation.
When The Dark uncovers a plot to set off Memetech bombs across the whole of the city Dante, filling the air with liquid information and creating a new society of his enemy's devising, The Dark is plunged into a desperate race against time against his own technology.
But, not everything is what is seems.
Who is the new and mysterious enemy who seems to know The Dark's every move? How did the Memetech, thought destroyed, reappear? Why can't Daniel wake his wife and son? And why is everyone else in Dante named after an English poet?
Mixing high octane super-hero action with hard science-fiction in a world of overlapping realities and fantasies, the story offers the reader the opportunity to solve the mystery of just what is real in the world of The Dark before even the hero can.

       

       

More information can be found at http://www.thedarkcomicbook.com and more free preview material can be found at http://www.myebook.com/index.php?option=ebook&id=12805.