What Tears Their Lives Apart – Will Bring Their Souls Together!
The Rift™ tells the tale of three ordinary humans who, like us, go through the same motions of everyday life. These three strangers are forced together to confront things that they neither believe nor understand. The Rift™ is a book that delivers characters that you will care about, thoughtful dialogue, a sense of mystery and wonderment.



The Rift #1 :: 5-Page Preview
MAR032310 Testimonials

Writer: Andrew LoVuolo
Pencils: Richard Connelly
Inks: Andrew LoVuolo
Colors: Danimation
(Marvel Age Spider-Man)
Letters: LithiumPro
(Anita Blake, Highlander, Battlestar Galactica)
The Rift #1 Wrap-Around Cover P: Brennan Rudd; I: Jack Purcell; C: Dynomokid

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The Rift #2 :: 5-Page Preview
MAR032309 Testimonials

Writer: Andrew LoVuolo
Pencils: John Nguyen
Inks: Andrew LoVuolo
Colors: Danimation
(Marvel Age Spider-Man)
Letters: LithiumPro
(Anita Blake, Highlander, Battlestar Galactica)
Synopsis:
First Issue By Martyr Press! Ja’Laar™ and his band of Kudarian™ conquerors have crossed through the Rift™ in search of the fourth and final Relic. The green moors of Ireland will never be the same! The truths of human myths such as Vampires, Witches and Werewolves are revealed! Our villains soon find out that much has changed on Earth since their last visit centuries ago.

Meanwhile our heroes are forced to deal with the surreal situations now enveloping them. As they do, we meet young Julie Ryan™, a young college student living an ordinary Bostonian's life, but it won't remain so ordinary for long. She soon will have her world torn apart by...

...The Rift™!
Front Cover: P: Brennan Rudd; I: Jack Purcell; C: Danimation
Back Cover: P: John Nguyen; I: Jack Purcell; C: Danimation

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The Rift #3 :: 5-Page Preview
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Writer: Andrew LoVuolo
Pencils:
Robert Atkins
Inks: Jamie Snell
Colors: 'M3th'
(The Punisher)
Letters: LithiumPro (Anita Blake, Highlander, Battlestar Galactica)
Synopsis:
Costume Change Issue! The story of three humans caught in a fantastical battle between the forces of good and evil continues! The Vampire army prepares for attack on U.S. soil. Meanwhile the stranger from the MBTA subway in Boston follows an unsuspecting Julie Ryan™ home. Will he finally reveal himself? Who are the men in black that drop in on our shape-shifting alien Silo’Ett™ and his newfound allies? Tune in and find out!

Front Cover: P: Robert Atkins; I: Jamie Snell; C: M3th
Back Cover: P: Brennan Rudd; C: Danimation

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The Rift #4 :: The Lost Pages!
MAY042808 Testimonials

Writer: Andrew LoVuolo (Marshal, THUNDERagents)
Pencils:
Robert Atkins & Brennan Rudd
Inks: Matt Dalton
Ink Assists: Austin Janowsky & Brennan Rudd
Colors: Erik Korsgaard
Letters: LithiumPro (Anita Blake, Highlander, Battlestar Galactica)
Synopsis:
The cover by Paul Gulacy and Jimmy Palmiotti is a classic opener to this soon-to-be-classic tale! Y'Nett’s™ mysterious transformation from a lone munitions expert into something deadlier is fully realized at the cost of the diminishing vampire clan in Ireland. Meanwhile our human heroes and their newfound Kudarian friend, Silo’Ett, find out who those men in black really are. Battle tensions rise and the action is about to begin, but what are Julie Ryan™ and Nicky Nuzzo™ doing at the country’s first public beach? Find out in The Rift #4.
This issue presented a huge series of hurdles for us as a publisher. While we were working on getting a new creative team put into place we also changing printers. One printer we switched over to to reduce costs tried taking the money without printing any books! The printer we ended up with never sent us a proof leading to an inversion of our back covers and the omission of four pages. On top of all that we also discovered two lines of dialogue missing from Page 17.

Below are the missing and re-edited pages as they were meant to be seen originally.

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The Rift #5:: 5-Page Preview
Testimonials

Writer: Andrew LoVuolo (Marshal, THUNDERagents)
Layouts:
Richard Connelly
Pencils: Enrique Savory, Jr.
Inks: Austin Janowsky, Robert Richardson
Colors: Erik Korsgaard
Letters: LithiumPro (Anita Blake, Highlander, Battlestar Galactica)
Special Cover by Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti!
(The Pro, Friday the 13th, Painkiller Jane)
Back Cover: P: Richard Connelly; I: Austin Janowsky; C: Erik Korsgaard

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