PRESS RELEASE: Vaistron
Guns, Cars, Money and Robot Porno
Vaistron from SLG in September!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
8/10/05
Gabriella Bukowsky is the most hardened Road Killer there is, a seasoned hijacker and mercenary-for-hire who answers to no one but herself. But being a resurrected sky-pirate isn’t always the limitless alcohol, booty, and senseless killing that it should be. Gabby’s easygoing, felony-laden daily life is starting to go from bad to worse. Her car is totaled, her credit is maxed out, her hostage is missing, and if she can’t get her business back up and running soon, she might find herself in a place worse than prison...like retail!
Welcome to Vaistron, the new SLG Publishing comic book series debuting in September by Boussourir and Andrew Dabb, a darkly humorous science fiction action-adventure with more robots, prostitutes, inept policemen and superfluous exhaust pipes than you can shake a stick at.
Boussourir’s gritty, over-the-top storytelling and irreverent humor couple with his highly stylized visuals in a story that he says is about “the little things that make life so enjoyable: Guns, Cars, Money and Robot Porno. More specifically, it is about a kidnapping gone horribly wrong in a chaotic, futuristic megapolis called Vaistron.”
Co-writer Andrew Dabb elaborates: “Gabby, our somewhat unstable main character, and her sin obsessed, robotic ‘gal friday’, Rekoton, are our main characters. They thought kidnapping the girlfriend of the richest man in Vaistron and holding her for ransom would be a gold mine, but it hasn’t really turned out that way. Now pretty much the entire city is after them, and the destruction and carnage that’s going to follow is, well, it’ll be a lot of fun.”
Readers should be warned, however: The fun in Vaistron is definitely of the grown-up variety. "The setting of Vaistron is one of complete moral anarchy," said editor-in-chief Jennifer de Guzman. "You have everything from rich men who keep harems to ascetics who believe the brain corrupts the flesh." She noted that it was a struggle to find sequential pages to use as a preview on the SLG website that were close to being all-ages appropriate. "We usually put up about eight pages, but we had to go for only four with Vaistron, and even one of those had to be altered a bit."
The violence- and smut-riddled fun can be yours in September, with the release of Vaistron #1. It's available now for pre-order through Diamond Comics, and you can see the now nearly obscenity-free (but still car crash and bombing heavy) preview at SLG's website, www.slavelabor.com.
Established in 1986, SLG Publishing is a San Jose, CA-based publisher of comics books and graphic novels. Operating under its imprints Slave Labor Graphics and Amaze Ink, SLG Publishing has distributed the work of such notable cartoonists as Jhonen Vasquez, Evan Dorkin and Andi Watson