FLAX COMICS is a studio whose goal is to create original and self-contained comic books. As no flax fiber is alike, each Flax story attempts to challenge its readers with different themes and genres, ranging from sci-fi, horror and war to mystery, action and romance, albeit a little twisted. Here are our current projects:
EMPATHY
Written by Hermes Pique
Cover by Christian Ward
A solitaire woman, Hannah, has nightmares of a house she visited some months ago, looking for a replacement of her claustrophobic apartment. While asleep she feels horrible stench and unbearable cold. The recurrent dreams are giving her sleep deprivation and obtruding her work. Her health is deteriorating: she’s been vomiting and cannot contain urine and feces during sleep. A colleague suggests she may have sleep paralysis.
Searching for information on sleep paralysis, Hannah finds about the old hag, its paranormal explanation: a decrepit witch that takes pleasure of immobilizing her victims during sleep. Tough skeptical of the old hag, Hannah believes there’s something unnatural in her problem...
COMING SOON!
TICKET #1 (of 4)
Written by Hermes Pique
Art by Juan Caruso
Cover by Christian Ward
It's 24 meets Philip K. Dick! The terrorist Bhuada holds a bomb of planetary threat. Unable to find him, word leaders resort to techlepathy experiment Cody: a man able to copy minds. Assuming the identity of Bhuada, Cody provides a location. But Bhuada's mind remains in Cody, and soon he escapes, aiding the real Bhuada to avoid capture.
A madman bent on destroying the world and a mind reader who shares his identity are now both on the loose. As Earth's most important individuals prepare to flee the planet in spaceship headed to Mars, international operatives race to stop a terrorist cell that anticipates their every move.
This is the end of the world. Do you have a ticket out?
COMING SOON!
SURROGATE #1 (of 3)
Written by Hermes Pique
Art by Fabio Redivo
Cover by Christian Ward
An alien shape-shifter is accidentally saved by a teenager, who thinks he just helped an innocent girl. Unbeknownst to him, the alien's purpose becomes repaying the act. Yet, in its warped mind, this means killing and replacing everyone the teenager loves.
The first victim: the boy's girlfriend...
COMING SOON!
THE BULLET #1 (of 2)
Written by Hermes Pique
Pencils by Nicolas Colacitti
Inks by Debra Rohlfs
Colors by Giuseppe Pica
A wealthy patriarch and his two sons, Arthur and Gabriel von Neumann, buy an antique pistol during a trip to Persia. The seller warns them: the pistol always follows the will of the owner.
Decades later Arthur is now a father. A war looms close to the family and local authorities want to use their hidden fortune to fund it. Soon a killer arrives at the von Neumann manor, and Arthur's only defense is the pistol he bought long ago. He shoots…
…but the bullet magically stops in mid-air, just inches away from its target. The killer is saved and Arthur is doomed, but the location of the treasure dies with him. Yet, the bullet remains in its place, unmovable, unforgiving, waiting to enact its horrific vengeance at exactly the right moment. No matter how long it takes.
COMING SOON!
MISERY DEPOT
Written by Hermes Pique
Art by Mike Howland
Cover by Terry Pavlet
An anomaly causes an elder mother to awake undressed inside a humid capsule, the voice of her daughter echoing in her memory, her intentions forgotten. Was she sharing the completeness of their unity, or hatefully whishing her death?
A seemingly infinite corridor of capsules hosts hundreds of persons, calmly sleeping, miserable underneath. Yet, an old man shares the mother’s awareness. Unlike her, he is certain of the nature of the place: a high-technology concentration camp; the second one for him to escape.
COMING SOON!