Bring Jack Back

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What is "Bring Jack Back"? Pilot Season 2008 was a contest run by Top Cow Comics, an imprint of Image Comics, in which six different standalone books were created and voted upon by comic book fans. The premise of the contest is that the two books that receive the most votes at the end of the process will be given a six issue mini-series. The six books: Twilight Guardian, Alibi, The Core, Urban Myths, Genius, and Lady Pendragon were all released at different times and then made available for free on Newsarama before the end of the voting process. Each week the results were presented so voters knew where their favorite books stood. Throughout the whole process only one book, Urban Myths, was in the top two every week. At the conclusion of the process it turned out that Urban Myths fell to the third spot and will not be given its own mini-series after all. So what is Urban Myths you might ask? Imagine a world in which Minotaurs are police officers and a Cyclopes is a street thug – welcome to the world of Urban Myths. The story features a private investigator named Jack Kaklamanis, but everyone calls him Jack Medusa based on the “good looks” he inherited from his mom. Jack wears a metal mask around as to not turn everyone to stone and is investigating a girl who has come up missing. Jack finds out that she has put herself in a coma and gone to Hades to find her father who passed away. Jack must follow her to Hades and deal with all of the downfalls of crossing the River Styx and facing old foes that you yourself had killed. The book is amazing both from a story telling standpoint and also from a visual standpoint. Jay Faerber and Jorge Molina combined to create what I feel was the best new book of 2008. Unfortunately Urban Myths was not voted as one of the top two books of the contest and there is actually some grumblings about some outside influences at the end of the voting process. This is a tragedy, and one that I believe Top Cow is willing to acknowledge. The purpose of this blog is to bring awareness to the injustice that was placed upon Urban Myths and rally Urban Myth Nation into a frenzy to take action. Top Cow is willing to consider more Urban Myths in the future but they need to know that the fans will support the book. Please check around this site to find information on Urban Myths and the world that Jay Faerber created in this book. If you support our cause to “Bring Jack Back” and Save Urban Myths then please sign the petition but more importantly send an e-mail to fanmail@topcowent.comasking for more Urban Myths. Posted by BrikHed