Vault Comics Free-To-Retailers ‘Beyond Real’ #1 Takes Over 100,000 Orders
by Olly MacNamee
Vault Comics’ trippy and innovative new book, Beyond Real #1, has received over 100,000 orders at FOC. The second Vault title to do so this year, after the success of Unnatural Order #1. Suggesting that its Free-to-Retailers model is working well.
Written by Zack Kaplan and illustrated across the series by artists including Fabiana Mascolo, Toni Fejzula, Vincenzo Riccardi, Dennis Menheere, Jorge Corona, Luana Vecchio, and Liana Kangas and coloured by Eisner-winning artist Jordie Bellaire and letterer and Eisner-winner, Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, each issue will have a main cover painted by his Mindset co-creator and Eisner-winning artist John J. Pearson.
“The series follows the struggling artist June after a severe accident leaves her boyfriend in a coma and causes her to experience bizarre visual phenomena. When she discovers that the world she considers “reality” may in fact be a computer simulation, she must set out on a perilous journey through metaphysical layers of the simulation to reach the true creator and save her love from death.”
Beyond Real #1 is out on 13th December featuring variant covers by Jorge Corona, Luana Vecchio, and Fabiana Mascolo.
