Bad Idea is a new publisher that is determined to put books on the shelves in comic stores and in front of your eyes to enjoy stories from some of the most talented creative teams in comics! ENIAC is just one of the titles Bad Idea has in store for us and to get you ready here’s a 10-page preview and story synopsis.
At the height of World War II, the world’s most ingenious minds began a race to create a super-weapon capable of ending the war with the push of a button. One of those projects gave us the atom bomb…and another produced the world’s first supercomputer: ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) – an immeasurably complex mathematical model that targeted the Axis war machine by calculating missile trajectories and troop deployments.
Everybody knows that. It’s real-life American history.
Or so we were told.
On August 6th, 1945, the United States dropped the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima.
Three days later, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki… Only President Truman wasn’t the one who gave order.
It was ENIAC.
In the Allies’ determination to end the war, they had accidentally created the world’s first autonomous machine intelligence...which had quickly deduced that one bomb wouldn’t be enough.
But ENIAC’s real plan was only just beginning…
Now, 75 years later, an encrypted countdown has just been detected in Earth’s satellite network and mankind only has three days left before ENIAC launches every weapon in the planet’s nuclear arsenal simultaneously. With few options and even less time, the Secretary of Defense has just given two covert operatives the most important mission in human history: kill ENIAC.Featuring an all-new cover by artistic juggernaut Lewis LaRosa (Punisher MAX) and practically bursting out of its comic book-sized muscle tee with more than 40 pages of content (including a top-secret, standalone bonus story that we can’t even talk about yet), prepare to hear an awful lot about ENIAC’s high-caliber sci-fi thrillride as March 2021 draws closer. And that’s not all – in the wake of ENIAC’s steamrolling debut, Bad Idea will be following it up with even more right hooks throughout the spring and summer:
ENIAC #1
Writer: Matt Kindt
Art: Doug Braithwaite
Colors: Diego Rodriguez
Letters: Dave Sharpe
Cover: Lewis Larosa & Laura Martin
Bad Idea is a dangerously unruly, equally experimental, and audaciously entertaining new comics publisher built to service just one wild idea: Monthly comics, sold exclusively in comic books stores. No digital releases. No trade paperbacks or hardcovers. And no variant covers, either.Just super-high quality comics storytelling published in a deluxe, prestige format package that will always leave you wanting more – because we’ll never publish more than two in a given month.
No, no, you didn’t accidentally eat paint chips and start hallucinating. Or maybe you did? It’s not for us to judge. Either way, if you want to pick one of Bad Idea’s egregiously awesome new series, you simply have to visit a Bad Idea “destination store” – one of the 100 and counting comic shops around the world that have signed on to join our independent network of direct-distribution retail partners – to pick them up on a Wednesday. (Or pre-order in advance to make sure you secure your copy.)
We’ll be revealing more stores in the weeks and months to come and progressively adding even more on a rolling basis too, so if you’re a retailer and would like to get some of what Bad Idea’s got, just email us at hello@badideacorp.com.
We’ve made it even easier, too. To locate a Bad Idea retailer near you and then pre-order ENIAC #1 and every other Bad Idea title, simply click here and fill out the little form.
ENIAC doesn’t drop until March 2021 and even though that’s a bit of a wait just remember that good things come to those that do! It’s also plenty of time to get those preorders in and make sure you have this in your pull box when it hits your LCS!
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