#Helm Greycastle

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CREEPSHOW no.4 • cover art • Chris Burnham [Dec 2022]

In the spirit of all iterations of Creepshow in pop culture, each issue of the Creepshow comic anthology series comes packed with two spine-chilling stories.

First, Kyle Starks (I HATE THIS PLACE) and Fran Galán (Lucky Devil) deliver the story of a ragtag group of kids who hunted a nest of vampires in their neighborhood…and the one who lived to tell the tale.

“It’s an honor and a privilege to get the opportunity to work with a franchise as legendary and iconic as Creepshow,” said Kyle Starks. “I believe we’ve continued with our story its legacy of spooky greatness and timeless creeps.”

“As a kid I watched both parts of the movie Creepshow countless times. I loved being scared with their stories, the animated scenes, the clear reference to the world of comics,” said Fran Galán. “Kyle’s story maintains the purest essence of those stories and drawing it in my mind has evoked that happy time. I hope you have as much fun with it as I did drawing it.”

Then, Henry Barajas (Helm Greycastle) and Dani (Detective Comics, Coffin Bound) drop a hellacious tale of a fallen luchador who will do anything to claw her way back to the top!

“Growing up, my family told me horror stories like La Llorona and El Cucuy. Now I get to pass this tradition down and scare a new generation,” said Henry Barajas. “It’s a dream come true to work on Creepshow with Dani. I just want to tell a story that would make the late, great Bernie Wrightson proud.”

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David Lapham - Helm Greycastle 

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Helm Greycastle #2 Cover

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The Weekly Haul: Week of July 14, 2021

The Weekly Haul: Week of July 14, 2021

Annnnnnnnd we’re back to covering a single week’s haul in a single post! This time out, looking at stuff from the week of July 14! Starting with the X-stuff, we’ve got three for the week: Way of X #4, Excalibur #22 (and officially a "senior book" over the adjective-less X-Men now), and X-Corp #3. Can’t say I’m thrilled at the prospect of this latter one…and definitely not a fan of the…

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Preview pages for Helm Greycastle #1 by Henry Barajas, Rahmat M. Handoko and Bryan Valenza. Image/Top Cow, April 2021. 

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Preview- Helm Greycastle #1 (of 4)

Preview- Helm Greycastle #1 (of 4)

New Latinx fantasy by HENRY BARAJAS, author of the critically acclaimed LA VOZ DE M.A.Y.O.: TATA RAMBO! The last dragon prince has been abducted-kept prisoner by an unknown threat: AZTEC MEXICA! Helm Greycastle and his outsider comrades are here to save the prince-but are recruited by a resistance plotting to overthrow Montezuma. Will Greycastle help save the people of MEXICA…or rescue the dragon…

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Helm Greycastle Mixes High Fantasy and Aztec Mythology

Helm Greycastle Mixes High Fantasy and Aztec Mythology #Comics #ComicBooks

Critically acclaimed writer Henry Barajas teams up with artist Rahmat M. Handoko and colorist Bryan Valenza for the all new Latinx fantasy series Helm Greycastle. This four-issue miniseries will launch from Image Comics and Top Cow Productions this April.  Helm Greycastle will also feature alternative covers by such talent as David Lapham, Tony Parker, and Becky Cloonan, along with a bonus…

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Helm Greycastle Mixes Goes From Comics to a 5E Compatible RPG

Helm Greycastle Mixes Goes From Comics to a 5E Compatible RPG #TTRGP #RPG #Comics

Critically acclaimed writer Henry Barajas teams up with artist Rahmat M. Handoko and colorist Bryan Valenza for the all new Latinx fantasy series Helm Greycastle. This four-issue miniseries will launch from Image Comics and Top Cow Productions this April.  Helm Greycastle will also feature alternative covers by such talent as David Lapham, Tony Parker, and Becky Cloonan, along with a bonus…

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Successful Crowdfunded Latinx Fantasy Series 'Helm Greycastle' Comes To Image/Top Cow Comics

Successful Crowdfunded Latinx Fantasy Series ‘Helm Greycastle’ Comes To Image/Top Cow Comics

Writer Henry Barajas (La Voze M.A.Y.O.: Tata Rambo), artist Rahmat M. Handoko (Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix, Ultimate Spider-Man: Infinite Comic) and colour artist Bryan Valenza (Witchblade) are bringing their all-new Latin crowdfunded fantasy series, Helm Greycastle, to Image Comics and Top Cow this April. Helm Greycastle #1 Cover A Rahmat M. Handoko & Bryan Valenza A four-issue…

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There's a new wave of comics creators using their own cultural history and folklore to create superpowered heroes and fantastic worlds -- comics writer Zack Quaintance spoke to a few of them (like Djeliya author Juni Ba) about how the comics market has changed to allow more creators to tell these kinds of stories -- check it out here!

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#HelmGreycastle #1 (2021) Rahmat Handoko & Bryan Valenza Cover & Pencils, Henry Barajas Story The last dragon prince has been abducted-kept prisoner by an unknown threat: AZTEC MEXICA! Helm Greycastle and his outsider comrades are here to save the prince-but are recruited by a resistance plotting to overthrow Montezuma. Will Greycastle help save the people of MEXICA...or rescue the dragon prince and flee? BONUS! HELM GREYCASTLE #1 includes a Latinx one-shot RPG (5E compatible) written by TRISTAN J. TARWATER (Rolled & Told) and art by JEN VAUGHN.  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B094DV4KZV?ref=myi_title_dp

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Henry Barajas Talks Helm Greycastle

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Session Summary - 109

AKA “The Honour Of Phlan”

Adventures in Taggriell

Session 109  (Date: 14th May 2021)

Players Present:

- Rob (Known as “Varis”) Elf Male.

- Bob (Known as “Sir Krondor) Dwarf Male.

- Paul (Known as “Labarett”) Elf Male.

- Travis (Known as “Trenchant”) Human Male.

- Arthur (Known as “Gim”) Dwarf Male.

- John (Known as “Ragnar”) Dwarf Male. 

Absent Players

Nil

NPC

- (Known as “Naillae”) Elf Female. <Controlled by Travis>

Summary

- Moonday, 8th Sarenith in the year 815 (Second Era). Late Summer.

- The party begin this session, still in the besieged and broken city of Phlan, under the control of Vorgansharax and the Dragon Cult.

- Having just returned to the underground ancient Escape Tunnels, filled to the brim with refugees, the party discover that Sir Zern has been missing since they left. Before they can mount a search and find operation, the tall Half-Orc comes striding into view, now dressed in proper full plate and wielding a shield and a morningstar.

- Sir Zern has recovered backup gear hidden in the grounds of the Gauntlet Estate. Sir Zern moves to the party and kneels in front of Sir Krondor, a fellow Knight of the Gauntlet. The Half-orc Knight speaks:

“I Sir Zern Xerstil of Phlan, Knight Of The Gauntlet, Knight Of Helm, do hear-by pledge myself to you Sir Krondor Bannerett. You are now may Banner Lord, and I shall serve you as your Banner Knight. My shield, my weapon, my heart, my honour and my oath, do I now pledge to you. From this day forth, I shall follow you as your Knight and obey all your orders, my Banner Lord.”

- Wasting no time the party, now one member larger, walks through the long bending Escape Tunnel until they reach a wide dead end, except for a narrow passageway that runs forward for another roughly 120 feet before it appears to stop at a dead end. 

- The party search the dead end and easily find a small, worn indentation when once pressed reveals a secret stone door, which opens into a small larder, with one single door.

- On the other side of this door is an entry guard room, filled with a group of Cult Enforcers and lead by one Cult Officer. The party manage to lure one Enforcer into the room, and quickly dispatch him, but when they try a second attempt they are discovered. 

- Battle starts but thanks to Trenchant summoning into the entry guard room an arcane stinking, obscuring cloud, the Cult forces are rendered almost useless. The party pick them off one by one until they all are dealt with.

- Using a set of located cell keys, the party proceed into a corridor with multiple cells, where they encounter four large Torturers guarding the cells. The party dispatch the foes, but not without some of the party getting badly injured. 

- Trenchant uses a Detect Thoughts spell to locate which cell Captain Greycastle is held in and the party free her. She is in a very bad state, with obvious signs of torture and abuse. At first she does not believe the party are here to rescue, her mind in turmoil from the Red Wizards using illusions to torment her, but eventually she is convinced.

- Whilst Captain Greycastle is being spoken to, Varis opens one of the cells when he learns that a Drow is imprisoned there. Varis will not listen to reason or be dissuaded and in a blind fury opens the cell door to reveal a single Drow male. The Drow has only a loin cloth on but holds a metal bar that it appears he has forcibly removed from a now broken bed frame nearby.

- Varis and his animal companion, Shadow, immediately move in, with Varis firing an arrow into the unarmoured prisoner. As the Drow reels back in pain from the arrow sticking in his chest, Shadow leaps in and tears out the throat of the Drow with his jaws.

- Sir Krondor looks on in disgust, “Was that necessary. Do you feel better now, killing a helpless prisoner like that? I don’t like the Drow either, but what you did was murder, not justice.”

- Varis, a dark look in his eyes, moves past Sir Krondor, “There will be justice when every last Drow is dead.”

- Captain Greycastle, her mind still affected by her recent treatment, begins to move towards an occupied room, where she tells the party the two other secret doors are: one leads to the Palace and one leads to the graveyards. She intends to confront Vorgansharax and kill the Dragon, even though she is badly injured, wearing no armour and wielding no weapon. It is obvious that she is not yet thinking straight, a look of madness in her eyes.

- Before the party can stop her, they her screaming coming from the occupied room. The door to room bursts open and a tall figure in plate armour that has been painted black, and is dirty from multiple splatters of blood, strides out kicking Captain Greycastle to ground and knocking her unconscious as her head hits the stone wall.

- Removing their helmet, the figure is revealed to be a human female with an attractive face, covered in dirt and blood, and long dirty blond hair.

- Sir Zern gasps, “The Black Knight is Lady Aleyd Burral! She was a high ranking officer in Knights Of The Black Fists.”

- Trenchant yells out, “My lady, don’t kill Greycastle!”

- “Kill her?” replies Aleyd slowly. “Why would I kill her? She was the best of us, Ector always respected her, as did I. No, the two I want to kill are inside the Palace. I’m just passing through.”

- Trenchant moves slowly forward, seeing Greycastle start to slowly stir as blood runs down from the back of her head, and asks “Are you here to help us and the people of Phlan? You’ve been killing Cult Officers and Knight Captains, we need your help now to save the people of the city.”

- Aleyd is momentary taken aback and then bursts out laughing loud, “Help the people of Phlan? I don’t care about the scum that live here or this wretched city. I only loved one thing, the Knight Commander Ector Brahams and I were secret lovers. He was a brilliant man, passionate and unyielding. He sort power and used it! And that traitorous piece of filth, Lieutenant Cron Bolver killed him! Bolver and all the other Knights turned traitor, taking orders from a purple robed Senior Cult Officer called Aseth and that dam dragon Vorgansharax.”

- Aleyd takes a step back towards the door behind her, “I can’t kill a dragon but I can kill a man, two in fact. I have been trying to lure those cowards out but they have remained hidden in the Palace. I got stuck outside when the city was besieged by the magic thicket but then I remembered something Ector told me once, about the ancient escape tunnels. I snuck through graveyard, not a problem if you know what to do, followed the tunnel to this room, killed some sleeping Red Wizards and now, I have work to do …”

- She steps back into the room and begins to close the door. Trenchant yells out, “Wait! How did you get past the undead?”

- “It wouldn’t work for you. But you do need to get out of the city before Vorgansharax destroys this city and levels it to the ground once he learns that his two precious underlings have been killed. And take her …” Aleyd says with resolve in her voice as she looks at Greycastle who is now sitting up. “If any one deserves to live it’s her, she was the honour of the Knights and of Phlan.” She lifts her sword to Captain Greycastle in a salute, as the Captain looks towards Aleyd.

- Then Aleyd disappears from sight, slamming the door shut, and the sound of a sword sliding into a bar lock on the other side can be heard. As the party ran up to the now barred door, they can hear the sound of a heavy stone door closing.

- The injured Captain Greycastle looks around the party, rubbing the back of her head where it slammed into the wall, and looks at the party. Her eyes are no longer showing signs of madness, “I’ve pulled myself together. You heard her, we have little time. If the people of Phlan are to be saved, we act now! You go clear the way through the graveyard, do what ever it takes, and I’ll go back to the escape tunnel to warn and gather the others that they need to leave now!”

<And as the party realise they have to make a clear path for two thousand refugees, through an undead infested cursed graveyard, that is the end of the session.>

XP Allocation

Group - Combined (This is equally divided by the number of players who were involved)

Quests (Only quests that are completed or rendered undoable, during this session, are shown here)

- “The Honour Of Phlan” - Rescue Captain Greycastle = 1000 XP

Creatures Overcome

> XP Allocated (Note: Sir Zern now as a Follower does not count towards XP)

- Dragoncult Human Officer = 1100 XP

- Dragonfang Cult Enforcers = 14400 XP

- Brute Torturers = 2800 XP

> XP Allocated 1 Combatant (Varis Only)

- Drow Prisoner = 600 XP

Individual (This is only given to that person and is not divided amongst all players)

Special Bonus (Outstanding Role Playing)

Nil

XP Levels and Player Allocations

Player : Start +  Received = Total  (Notes)

Rob : 152526 + 3357 = 155883

Arthur : 123089 + 2757 = 125846

John : 117329 + 2757 = 120086 (Level 13)

Travis : 139932 + 2757 = 142689 (Level 14)

Paul : 129415 + 2757 = 132172

Bob : 142950 + 2757 = 145707

NPC (Naillae) : + (1379)

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Top Cow announces ‘Helm Greycastle’ by Barajas + Handoko + Valenza

New miniseries combines high fantasy with Aztec mythology.

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Episode 297

Comic Reviews:

Robin 1 by Joshua Williamson, Gleb Melnikov, 

Batman: Black and White 5 by Jorge Jimenez, Lee Weeks, Mariko Tamaki, Emanuela Lupacchino, Wade Von Grawbadger, Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie, Jamal Campbell

Infinite Frontier Secret Files 2 by Stephanie Phillips, Joshua Williamson, Inaki Mirandi

Spider-Man: Curse of the Man-Thing by Steve Orlando, Marco Failla, Minkyu Jung, Guru eFX

The Marvels by Kurt Busiek, Yildiray Cinar, Richard Isanove

Helm Greycastle 1 by Henry Barajas, Bryan Valenza, Rahmat Handoko

Summoner's War: Legacy 1 by Justin Jordan, Luca Claretti, Giovanni Niro

Reckless: Friend of the Devil by Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, Jacob Phillips

Dejah Thoris: Winter's End 1 by Dan Abnett, Roberto Castro

Cyberpunk 2077: You Have My Word 1 by 

My Little Pony/Transformers: Cybertron is Magic 1 by 

Galactic Rodents of Mayhem 1 by Gilbert Deltrez, Sebastian Navas, Tiago Barsa

Snatched 1 by Sheldon Allen, Mauricio Campetella

Cold Dead War 1 by George C. Romero, German Ponce

Maiden 1 by Michelle Sears, Bart Sears

Shadowman 1 by Cullen Bunn, Jon Davis-Hunt

20 Fists 1 by Kat Baumann, Frankee White

Additional Reviews: 22 vs. Earth, The Mitchells vs. the Machines, Invincible s1, Control, Palm Springs

News: Haunted Mansion reboot, Brian Wood, casting for Paper Girls, Marvel's JLQ by Steve Orlando?, Omninews, Invincible renewed for s2 and s3, Guy Gardener casting, Amphibia delay, Disney animation PR disaster, John Paul Leon

Trailers: Sweet Tooth, Luca, Vivo

Oscars!

Comics Countdown:

Reckless: Friend of the Devil by Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, Jacob Phillips

Crossover 6 by Donny Cates, Geoff Shaw, John Hill

Once and Future 18 by Kieron Gillen, Dan Mora, Tamra Bonvillain

Batman/Superman 17 by Gene Luen Yang, Ivan Reis, Danny Miki, Sabine Rich

Department of Truth 8 by James Tynion IV, Martin Simmonds

Beta Ray Bill 2 by Daniel Warren Johnson, Mike Spicer

Deadly Class 45 by Rick Remender, Wes Craig, Jason Wordie

Black Widow 6 by Kelly Thompson, Rafael De Latorre, Jordie Bellaire

Batman: Black and White 5 by Jorge Jimenez, Lee Weeks, Mariko Tamaki, Emanuela Lupacchino, Wade Von Grawbadger, Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie, Jamal Campbell

Shadecraft 2 by Joe Henderson, Lee Garbett, Antonio Fabela

Check out this episode!

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Check Out this Week's New Comic Releases

Check Out this Week's New Comic Releases. Check out what you can get in comic shops this week. #Comics #ComicBooks

Find out what’s coming out this week courtesy of Previews and DC. As always, check with your local shop as to the availability of items. Highlights for the week include: Bitter Root #12, Crossover #6, Deadly Class #45, Department of Truth #8, Friend of the Devil: A Reckless Book, Helm Greycastle #1, Summoners War Legacy #1, Two Moons #3, My Little Pony/Transformers II #1, Beta Ray Bill #2, Black…