Okay, check this out, DiPascale and I were brainstorming some cover ideas and thought it’d be pretty cool to showcase Rayne’s great cast of villains. Since the Prime Cuts series is so heavily reliant on the actual video games themselves, it made sense to toss these characters on the covers.

But I wanted to take it a step further and borrow an idea I’ve seen done in the past where a character appears to have taken over someone’s title. Thus, this was born.

This isn’t the actual incentive cover for #4, it’s a preliminary mock to test out the concept. Which cover will Ferril appear on? And which other popular Rayne villains will get their own covers? Stay tuned.

Check it. From BloodRayne: Tokyo Rogue. Art by Jake.

Source: Friendly Neighborhood Komics
Rating: Three out of five Cults of Kagan.

Few comics can adapt a videogame into a comic book well, but I think this issue really works.

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Source: Reporting on Marvels and Legends
Reviewer: CalvinPitt

Prime Cuts #2 - Ah, the closest I come to supporting indie comics, I suppose. I dig this cover (Bilbao cover), if only because there are about three different ways I interpret it. 1) She’s gesturing towards the creature, in sort of a nonchalant “ta-da!”. 2) She’s about to get attacked by it, and is flippantly dismissing it as a threat. 3) It almost looks like she’s about to pet it on the side of its head.

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Here’s a 5-page preview of BloodRayne: Tokyo Rogue #1
On sale: May 14, 2008, Digital Webbing Press

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BloodRayne: Tokyo Rogue #1
by Troy Wall, Jake Bilbao, John Wycough, Joel Seguin
Covers by Don Walker and Michael DiPascale (200 copy Limited Edition)
Prepare for an action-packed journey to the East. This three-issue mini-series spins a tale from 10 years past. Join Rayne and her old pal Severin as they’re dispatched to the Land of the Rising Sun to investigate the disappearance of the Japanese annex of the Brimstone Society.

Here’s a 5-page preview of BloodRayne: Prime Cuts #2
On sale: April 9, 2008, Digital Webbing Press

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BloodRayne: Prime Cuts #2
by Chad Lambert, Ignacio Calero, Jake Bilbao, Dan Campos
The “stories within the story” of the groundbreaking video games continue with three blood-spattering prime cuts! This issue features a suicide bomber with a soul, the hunt for Kagan’s trans-dimensional nunchucks, and an evil so sinister it could only thrive in corporate America!

Prime Cuts #1 hits on February 27th with #2 already at the printer. So Prime Cuts #3 will be here in no time. We’re targeting an August release and have already begun work on Prime Cuts #4 (with the return of Steve Scott, artist from BloodRayne Twin Blades, working on a short story to match his cover).

Here’s a peek at a great, new BloodRayne artist who we hope to keep around for a long while. If not on BloodRayne, definitely something new we have planned by year’s end. Oscar Bazaldua is sure to build a huge following as more of his work is seen by comic book fans.