Awesome Storm Justice 41

"Awesome Storm Justice" is a collaborative webcomic. "Awesome Storm Justice 41" is often referred to by the nicknames Assjay and ASJ41.

History

"Awesome Storm Justice" started as a community project at the Penciljack website. A piece of artwork posted by a member of the Penciljack community received the comment "Awesome Storm Justice 41." Another community member commented that it sounded like a Japanese superhero team.

A contest was held to create the designs for members of the team. The original contest winners are credited with the character design:
* Blazeguy - created by Oscar Padilla (Spidey)
* Bumblebee - created by Oscar Padilla (Spidey)
* USA Kid - created by Clint Smith (CS)
* Thunderclap NEO - created by Clint Smith (CS)
* Ika Nigiri - created by Warmule
* Grease Monkey and A.P.E. - created by Nate Lovett (Raede)
* Saiko - created by Nate Lovett (Raede)
* Trajan - created by Isa Richardson (Ishmiel)

A video game, "Awesome Storm Justice 41: Dark Days in Summerside City", is being developed by [http://www.rustyaxe.com Rusty Axe] games.

Story concept

The superhero team battles dastardly villain and philanthropist Dennis Dennis III. [ [http://www.thewebcomiclist.com/p/3974/awesome-storm-justice-41 Awesome Storm Justice 41 ] ]

Collaborative nature

The "Awesome Storm Justice 41" webcomic is a collaborative project involving over 100 comic creators. Each 6-page episode, or "webisode," has a unique creative team. It utilizes the talents of many professional, semi-professional, and aspiring professional artists, writers, and editors, on a volunteer basis.

Coverage

"Awesome Storm Justice 41" has received coverage on Drawn! [http://www.drawn.ca] , Silver Bullet Comics [http://www.silverbulletcomics.com/news/story.php?a=4318] , and is listed in the Comic Book Database [http://www.comicbookdb.com/title.php?ID=15303] .

Many of the contributors to "Awesome Storm Justice" are an integral part of the 100 Artists Project [http://www.100artistsproject.com] a charity endeavor to raise money for art-related organizations starting with the Hero Initiative and the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.

Contributing Artists

; Notable contributing artists:
* Loston Wallace — A Joe Kubert school graduate, Wallace has contributed to some 65 role-playing books, Superman and Batman activity books for DC Comics as well as "Klyde & Meriem" from Basement Comics.
* Jeremy Dale — Past works include "Wildguard Fool's Gold" for Image Comics, "G.I. Joe" 25th anniversary comics and his own title "Absolute Zeroes" for Ronin Studios.
* Nate Lovett — Lovett was the artist on "Xombie: Reanimated" from Devil's Due Publishing and has done licensing work for Hasbro, G.I. Joe, Cartoon Network; and contributed to "Popgun" vol. 1 for Image Comics and "General Jack Cosmo".

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