Stain The Seas Scarlet Preview

Writer: Ryan K Lindsay / Artists: Alex Cormack, Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou If you ask me what this comic, Stain The Seas Scarlet, is about I might say it’s about fighting in space, betrayal, badassery, and the will to get it done. Get what done you ask? Freedom, maybe. Sticking it to the oppressor in place, maybe. Proving a point, maybe. Perhaps all of that and more in a blazing one-shot set in intergalactic space with one last pitch by the resistance. Billed as “a sci-fi revenge one-shot about resistance, shitty robots + spacesuit noir” this thing of beauty is brought to us by the fantastic mind of Ryan K. Lindsay, who wrote and co-created one of the best comics of 2017, Beautiful Canvas. It is illustrated by Alex Cormack who is perhaps best known by his series SINK at ComixTribe and lettered by Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou who you may or may not know from the verily awesome Strip Panel Naked series on Youtube.

In the comic, Yelena, an alien resistance leader, is trying to do the absolute most. She’s been trying to stop an army full of androids from terraforming and razing her home planet — they have been doing so at a speed that would make Captain Planet villains proud. She’s running on E. On Fumes. She’s given what everyone thinks is her own and this is her last card (Yeaaaaah, we don’t say Trump Card anymore for oblivious reasons cause the country is literally on fire right now). This is Yelena’s last play before all is lost. This is a 22-page full-color comic. It’s bleak and beau…