Things get zealhot with a new GN coming from MW

Created and written by Daniel Shakespeare (Ripper, Photon, Esper, La Révolution), comes a new graphic novel under MW's Emblem Media brand. Emblem Media is an imprint of MW for typically arthouse-esque projects which are one-off stories with a concise beginning, middle, and end--no continuations, no spinoffs, no director's cuts or TPB's (trade paperbacks)--you get the full story with any Emblem releases. The new graphic novel goes by the name of "Missionary", suggested to Daniel by Matthew Werner. We've yet to attach an art team, editor, or letterer to this particular project, only Daniel himself so far is on-board with this. Thus, there's no firm release date planned nor an estimated page count as of yet. We'll update this as that information is made known, and the creative team . The premise is about a famous porn star who becomes a born-again Christian (hence the fairly on the nose and topical title)--it's a religious drama story which will be narrative-centric.

Obviously, if you've read anything about MW in the past, you'll know that we are not an inherently religious company but given respective creators may be. Ideologically we only as a group stand for creative freedom, transparency, and other such virtues, and are not necessarily theistic, atheistic, deistic, spiritual, or any other particular denomination. We only ask that creators are treated with due respect for their work and are not lambasted for their own personal beliefs, creeds, and dogmas which they may happen to bring into their creations. We ask the same for any project which may have some sort of messaging like Missionary will.

Missionary - Graphic novel
Creator & writer: Daniel Shakespeare
Penciller(s): TBA
Inker(s): TBA
Colorist(s): TBA
Editor(s): TBA
Letterer: TBA
Named by: Matthew Werner
Special thanks to: TBA
Publisher: MW Entertainment Industries (MW), Emblem Media (Emblem)
Genres: Religious drama
Themes: Christianity, porn industry, theology, commentary, sex work
Intended audience: Adult readers, 18+ due to involving the pornographic industry. There will be no explicit nudity shown, for those who are particularly squeamish. Also for those considering themselves somewhat Puritanical Christians.
Release date: TBA

Personal note from Matthew: Hey, just to let you know, I'm personally not going to be joining up with this project. This is because I'm not actually very fond of theological stories myself (except for tales like Humanoid Inc.'s Dominion and Book of Eli, which I enjoy in spite of them devoting themselves to Scripture and because they are fairly limiting in those regards, not really shoving it down your throat too much (at least in my honest opinion). Those are elements you can essentially ignore within the story's context and enjoy regardless of your own points of view), as I'm a deist (meaning I believe in a higher power but not a particular one or one who is personal and caring--there's more depth to it but that's the gist of it) and consider myself to be fairly secular and socially libertarian ((with a lower case "l" to distinguish between the political party and the idea of limited government in a given regard) the premise itself I think is just appalling and condescending to sex workers, which is unnecessary because of how poorly treated and viewed those in the industry already are by the general public in today's social and professional climate), and find those kinds of stories to simply be insufferable. Creators can have different viewpoints and coexist, naturally, but that doesn't mean I'm going to work on something I personally dislike from a conceptual point of view. I did help out a bit though in sharing those thoughts with Daniel (IE, giving feedback) and supplying the name (which I found too clever to let people think that Daniel had come up with it  ). I'm not going to get in the way of Daniel's own work because it's crafted for a particular audience (that being previously stated explicitly) and his idea, it is not my right to take that away from either party. I'm not the target audience nor the creator so I don't have much direct sway, and will not begin some sort of proxy war to get in the way of it either.


So yes, get hype if this interests you and contact us privately (either by note or email us at mwindustries2016@gmail.com) if you'd like to join the creative team or be an early reader to give some feedback.