The Utopian returns to print for dramatic final chapters

Sept. 29, 2010 - PRLog -- He saw it coming. The dreams foretold what would happen. But there was no way for James Douglas to stop fate. And now, in the fourth and final issue of The Utopian, everything that’s been building online in the weekly webcomic for 18 months comes to a head in a dizzying swirl of adventure, mystery and drama.

The Utopian #4 collects nine months of pages from writer/artist Pj Perez’s ongoing, online comic series, featuring the final three chapters in the opening salvo of the Utopian saga. When issue three left off, James -- who adopted the anonymous identity of The Utopian to right what he perceived as wrongs in his high school and community -- had just returned from an odyssey that saw him conversing with the dead, hanging out with angels and being tasked with fighting evil. As the final issue opens, James is plagued by a new series of foreboding dreams. But even as the line between his two identities is blurring, so is the line between reality and the dream world. As James finds himself experiencing unexplainable, new “abilities,” he finds himself and those around him questioning his very sanity, even as he takes on neo-Nazis, drug dealers and school faculty.

“People told me they didn’t see what happened last issue coming,” says Perez. “But this issue is going to take them completely by surprise. Heck, the ending took me by surprise. The finale will tie up loose ends, leave room for future stories and leave readers with a little whiplash.”

Wrapped in a new cover by Pj Perez and Tiarra Wantz, The Utopian #4 features 36 full-color pages of story -- no ads or filler! Available Nov. 10, 2010, it can be pre-ordered online now at www.theutopiancomic.com or will be available in select comic book specialty shops, a list of which can be found at www.popgoestheicon.com.

Utopian fans have an added treat on the way: A trade paperback collecting the entire Utopian story in full color, including bonus features such as cover gallery and full annotations for every page of the saga. Release details for the Utopian trade will be announced later this fall from Pop! Goes the Icon.

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Pop! Goes the Icon is a boutique print and online publishing house, specializing in sequential art — both in pamphlet form (comic books) and as online presentations (webcomics) — as well as books, posters, prints and other art collectibles.