Top Cow's Pilot Season 2010 - 100,000 Votes and Counting!

We're less than half way through the month-long voting period for Top Cow's Pilot Season 2010 and incredibly there have already been more than 100,000 votes cast across 30 countries - simple click on the 'Vote Now' image above to add your vote.

At the time of writing the competition leader is 39 Minutes, written and created by William Harms with fantastic art from Jerry Lando, Jay Leisten, Brian Buccellato, letters by Troy Peteri and an eyecatching cover by Rafael Albuquergue.

Robbing a bank is easy – it's the getaway that's hard. So what's the solution? Kill everyone in town.
“By voting for 39 Minutes, you’ll give a voice to all of the poor downtrodden bank robbers of the world. If you don’t speak for them, who will?”

Previews for each book are available at the Top Cow website - the winner of Pilot Season 2010 will be announced on Wednesday 1 December 2010.

Vote Now for 'Pilot Season 2010'

Voting is now underway for Top Cow's Pilot Season 2010 allowing readers to vote for their favourite title out of the five one-shots that were published this past month.

Pilot Season is the annual initiative Top Cow began in 2007 that borrows its concept from the television industry: 'Pilots' are submitted for consideration to be 'picked up for a season': and it’s the fans who decide by voting online.

Polling stations are now set up at the Top Cow website with additional polling stations appearing on various comics news sites, blogs and social media platforms - Escape from Tomorrow readers can click on the 'Vote Now' image below to cast their vote, and readers can vote multiple times a day up until the polls close on Tuesday 30 November 2010.


Here are the titles in contention this year along with a campaign plea from each book’s writer(s):

39 MINUTES by William Harms
Robbing a bank is easy – it's the getaway that's hard. So what's the solution? Kill everyone in town.
“By voting for 39 Minutes, you’ll give a voice to all of the poor downtrodden bank robbers of the world. If you don’t speak for them, who will?”

ASSET by Filip Sablik
Pat Benatar was wrong, love isn't a battlefield. Love is a weapon.
“Asset is about the dangerous side of love in the digital age. You meet that perfect person online thanks to next generation personality profiling and everything is hearts and flowers. Only they aren’t your perfect match, they’re an enemy spy and they’re going to get you killed. Vote for me, David Marquez and Bill Farmer if you’ve ever been punched in the jeans by love.”

FOREVER by Brad Ingelsby
Who can stop a biotech corporation that is stealing life from the less fortunate and giving it to those with means?
“I think we’ve created a world and a central mystery that people will want to return to. The history of Longevity and its miracle drug Forever is inextricably linked to Ryan’s personal history which should make for a thrilling journey, full of surprises.”

CROSSHAIR by Jeff Katz
I have 48 hours to kill the president of the United States. And the only man that can stop me – is me.
“Crosshair should win because it's classic action hero style wish fulfillment with a paranoid psychological thriller twist. Justin Weller is a true man of action who protects his family and his honor at all costs and is the type of hero our ever more dangerous world needs right now.”

7 DAYS FROM HELL by Bryan Edward Hill and Rob Levin
Redemption can take a lifetime. John Bishop only has 7 days from ending up in Hell.
“Phil Noto. ‘Nuff said.”

Previews for each book are available at the Top Cow website.

Pilot Season: Crosshair Creators Signing Today

Top Cow CEO and founder Marc Silvestri and American Original’s Jeff Katz will be doing an in-store signing for their Pilot Season entry 'Crosshair' at Brave New World Comics, Newhall, CA 91321, later today 16 October from 4pm to 6pm.

Immediately after the signing Jeff Katz will be broadcasting live via geekweek.com accompanied by a team of geek experts and special guests.

Pilot Season: Crosshair centers on the life of Justin Weller, a loving husband and devoted father in the suburbs and former assassin for the CIA who’s been brainwashed to kill the President of the United States. To his horror, Weller has discovered that in less than 48 hours something or someone will trigger his suppressed program and send him into deadly and irreversible action. He must discover his triggering mechanism and uncover who is behind the conspiracy that will pitch the world into chaos.

Pilot Season: Crosshair is created and co-written by Marc Silvestri (X-Men/Dark Avengers: Utopia) and co-writer Jeff Katz (Booster Gold) with art by Allan Jefferson (War Machine).