“Sometimes I just feel like doing 499 push-ups and calling it a day…”

499 Book One is a 72-page color graphic novel that takes place in an alternate history where the US fought a ground war with Russia in Europe during the 1980s and 1990s. After “victory” was achieved, millions of traumatized veterans returned home and re-made the United States in their image. Military service is mandatory upon high school graduation. Marriage & Procreation are highly encouraged by the state to make up for the massive amount of deaths in the war with Russia. Are the three vicious veterans who run the town being targeted for the things they did during the war…or how they act during “peace”?

Vice and Nikki are best friends, high school seniors, almost ready to ship out, when the first  disruption happens.  “Sometimes I just feel like doing 499” is spray-painted on the scoreboard of the football field. This single act of rebellion pushes the older generation into a rage. A hunt for the “dissident” in the community is launched….and the kids are left scrambling. Who or what embodies this chaotic element introduced to the town? Is it one of them? More than one?

499 Book One mixes Cold War-Era paranoia with the slasher movie aesthetic of the 1980s.  Traditional conflict between adolescents and adults is amplified by the decades of trauma that the older veteran generation experienced. The parents are terrified that their children are too weak to defend the nation. The kids are terrified of the extreme expectations that their “war hero” parents put upon them. Something is going to BREAK!

499 Book One is written & drawn by Narwhal based on a concept by Richard Meyer. 

ALSO AVAILABLE AS BUNDLE OR ADD-ON

P.O.D. (PAYMENT ON DELIVERY)

The leaders of Earth must deal with the ramifications of a decades-old secret treaty between Nazi Germany and an Alien Empire when the Aliens arrive on Earth to collect payment for holding up their end of the agreement!

24-page, black-and-white comic book.

ADD-ONS

FOREIGN AGENT, the critically acclaimed 190-Page black-and-white graphic novel from Narwhal, is also available as an Add-On.

As is Richard Meyer’s IMPOSSIBLE STARS graphic novel.

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