RIM CITY is the first miniseries of the
brand-new comic label ATOMICO. It’s a spectacular 80-page adventure written by
Alessandro “DocManhattan” Apreda and drawn by Daniele Orlandini, with the
amazing cover art of Francesco Mattina.
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Rim City is a place unlike any other.
In a far future, as the human race stands on the brink of extinction, Rim City may be the final chance of survival for mankind. When everything seems lost, a fragile hope suddenly presents itself. Something can be done, but the only way to find out if it’s true, is to risk everything humanity has left. An impossible mission awaits Captain Kendra and a handful of soldiers of the Trident Corps. A journey into the unknown that will take them from the depths where they are confined to where no man has gone before.
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Kendra is the bold leader of the Trident Corps. Resolute and strong,
unstoppable and fragile, she is a young woman that will have to carry the fate
of Rim City and of all mankind oh her hardened shoulders while confronting an unstoppable
enemy.
You will fall in love with Kendra.
Or you will hate her.
Or both.
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The Tridents are the last bastion of
humanity’s desperate defenses against the cold nothingness that surrounds Rim
City. Since birth, they are called upon to defend a city that, for the most
part, despises them. The marks they bear on their faces and bodies are both a
uniform and a sentence. Ray, Nathe and Blackie-4 are members of Kendra’s team, the Trident Elite, the
only ones she can trust. The only ones who can join her on her dangerous
mission.
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THE WORLD OF RIM CITY
What will be left, in a distant future, of
the things we value so much in our present-day world? Very little.
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The sands of time are unstoppable and
civilization as we know it, will be forced to face threats mankind never had to
face before. Out there, there’s nothing but a darkness populated by a progeny
of monsters, gigantic creatures that haunt the dreams of every Rim Citizen. But
what really threatened the City is something that cannot be faced like a Giant
Octopus. It’s not a monster who will be satisfied with tearing its prey apart
and consume it to survive. This threat wants the extinction of all mankind.
And it may not be aware of what it’s doing…
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You can help us in many different ways.We want the RIM CITY project to happen
thanks to many, small contributions. Therefore, the best you could to lend a
hand, is talk about us and this project on your Facebook page while the campaign
is ongoing. Share our updates and point us to the friends you think may be
interested in this ATOMICO Project. You can use Twitter or Deviantart as well, linking this
page and using with the hashtag
#RIMCITY.
On our Facebook page you'll find some
artwork specially designed for social sharing.
Or you can became an
ATOMIC HERALD as explained here!
Your help will be precious in making RIM
CITY a reality!
[IMPORTANT UPDATE FOR ITALIAN LANGUAGE READERS - READ BELOW]
Per i funders che hanno già acquistato i perk EASY, DIRECTOR'S CUT e POWER UP sarà possibile convertire i propri perk nei perk PRINT o PRINT DELUXE integrando la somma con una donazione libera e scrivendo via mail all'indirizzo info@progettoatomico.it l'avvenuta integrazione, il perk di 'partenza' e il nuovo perk acquistato.
Per chi ha già finanziato con ONE OF US, FAN, IN THE FACE, COMMISSION sarà possibile ottenere il PAPERBACK DA 96 PAGINE con un'integrazione di 5 € e l'HARD COVER con un contributo di 10 €. Per queste integrazioni vale quanto sopra: basta inserire una donazione libera e comunicarci il tutto via mail.
Per chi ha finanziato con il perk EARLY BIRD, MONSTER e COLLECTOR il paperback sarà aggiunto in omaggio a quanto acquistato mentre sarà possibile ottenere la versione HARD COVER (al posto del paperback normale) con l'integrazione di 5 €.
Per chi ha acquistato PREMIUM COLLECTOR, RAPTOR e GUEST l'hard cover di RIM CITY sarà in omaggio.
Per i coraggiosi che hanno acquistato MEGATON DINNER e HOT sarà incluso in omaggio un PAPERBACK DELUXE CON VARIANT COVER IN EDIZIONE NUMERATA E FIRMATA.
Per
chi fosse intenzionato ad acquistare sia il Paperback che l’Hard Cover
consigliamo di contattare direttamente il team Atomico alla mail info@progettoatomico.it Si segnala
che l’acquisto diretto dei volumi sarà consentito solo a chi avrà già
contribuito alla campagna con un perk di finanziamento e che non sarà comunque
consentito l’acquisto di numero superiore di 2 copie per ogni edizione.
Tutte le versioni a stampa realizzate per i finanziatori di Indiegogo saranno uniche e fuori commercio: saranno personalizzate ad hoc per i nostri coraggiosi funders e saranno quindi diverse da qualsiasi futura edizione cartacea!
THE AUTHORS
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Born on December 1975 (according to new post-disaster calendar), in Neo-Cosenza, Southern Europe,
Alessandro Apreda wrote
the sci-fi comic "Ethan?", a short story winner of the Spacewave prize
and the essay on Eighties "Per il Potere di Grayskull". When he's not
writing his biographies in third person, he manages at weird hours
L'Antro Atomico del Dr. Manhattan, questionably the coolest blog in the world.
Daniele Orlandini was born in 1992. He's been reading and drawing comics, since he was a little kid. It's been little more than a hobby until 2011, when he enrolled at the Scuola Internazionale di Comics in Reggio Emilia. Shortly after his recent graduation, in June 2014, he started a collaboration with team Acchiappasogni to illustrate their role-playing games manuals and became the assistant of comic creator Roberto Baldazzini. His work on Atomico's science fiction project RIM CITY will mark his debut as a professional comic artist.
Francesco MATTINA aka MATT with a background in
architecture and set design, he worked as a concept artist for cinema before
being hired by Marvel Comics as a cover artist on Fantastic Four, Nova, Thunderbolts,
WarMachine, Punisher, MoonKnight, Wolverine and more recently for Spider-Man 2099 and Avengers Undercover. He also worked for DC Comics’ Batman Confidential , Redhood , Azrael and The Joker's Asylum.
CONTRIBUTE NOWWhy we need these funds
We need 40.000€ to cover the following expenses:
- 20.000 € will cover designers, author and editor payments for graphic staff.
- 6.500 € will cover the prizes production costs.
- 4.000 € will cover project promotion's costs.
- 4.000 € will cover billing registration related costs.
- 5.500 € will cover Indiegogo, Paypal fees and italian taxes.
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Shipping and taxes costs
All EU-resident backers outside of Italy, please add 5,00€ to cover the extra invoicing costs for every Perk, INCLUDING those containing only digital contents.
All EU-resident backers outside of Italy, please add:
- 5,00€ to cover the extra invoicing costs for the In the Face!, Commission, Monster, Early Bird, Collector and Premium Collector Perks.
- 10,00€ to cover the extra invoicing costs for the Raptor Perk.
For non EU customers, please
contact us to define shipping and taxes costs.
1) To make Atomico able to complete a correct invoicing process, all
backers need to fully fill out the “address” field and include
tax/fiscal code and/or VAT registration number (if viable) upon
registration.
2) Digital contents will be provided in PDF, CBR and in EPUB format.
3) All contents shown in the perk as issues are digital or paperback even where not specified.
4) All the digital versions RIM CITY will be available in Italian and English.
5) All the PRINT versions RIM CITY will be available only in Italian.
6) The hi-res Francesco Mattina covers (digital version, printable in A2) will be added to all perks from "Power Up" above!
