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\"\"<\/a>[ENGLISH] Top Cow tells us:<\/strong> LOS ANGELES, Calif., September 18, 2008 \u2013 Top Cow Productions, Inc. announced today that the winners of the 2008 Pilot Season campaign are Twilight Guardian by writer Troy Hickman and artist Reza and Genius by writers Marc Bernardin and Adam Freeman and artist Afua Richardson. For over a month, fans went to the Top Cow website, the Pilot Season website or other sites once per day, every day, to vote for their favorite 2008 Pilot Season one-shots.\u00a0Pilot Season is an annual\u00a0initiative Top Cow began in 2007 that borrows its concept from the television industry: Six \u201cpilots\u201d are submitted for consideration to be \u201cpicked up for a season,\u201d except instead of TV executives deciding their fates, it\u2019s the fans! 2007\u2019s top two vote getters, Cyblade and Velocity, will debut with new series later this year. 2008\u2019s winners will debut with new series in 2009.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Twilight Guardian and Genius beat out Urban Myths by Jay Faerber and Jorge Molina, The Core by Jonathan Hickman and Kenneth Rocafort, Alibi by Joshua Hale Fialkov and Jeremy Haun and Lady Pendragon by Matt Hawkins and Eru.<\/p>\n

Twilight Guardian is about an average woman with a particular kind of OCD that drives her to patrol a nine-block area in her neighborhood every night, and about the other \u201cnight people\u201d and situations she encounters because of it. Genius asks the question, \u201cAlexander, Hannibal, Napoleon, Patton. What if the greatest military mind of OUR generation was a 17-year-old girl who grew up on the tough streets of an urban war zone?\u201d Both books resonated with a majority of the voters and their creators are ecstatic, excited and even surprised.<\/p>\n

\u201cHoley crullers! I really don\u2019t know WHAT to say,\u201d said Troy Hickman. \u201cI feel like I did once at a convention years ago when I somehow wound up on an elevator with Mr. Curt Swan, and I remember thinking, \u2018Something\u2019s gone terribly wrong. They\u2019ve accidentally let me on the IMPORTANT elevator!\u2019 The creative teams on the other Pilot Season comics are just terrific, some of the most talented people working in this, or any, medium, and I feel so proud to even be included in this competition. And big congrats to Genius for winning the other spot!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m shocked, really,\u201d said Adam Freeman. \u201cGenius is not a traditional comic and I suppose that is one of its greatest assets as well as its biggest obstacle. We weren\u2019t sure how readers would react but we knew it was a story we were passionate about. Kudos to Top Cow for being the only publisher willing to take that risk with us. Someone wiser than me once said, \u2018Never underestimate your audience\u2019 and, truth be told, we did a little on this one. We didn\u2019t think people would \u2018get it\u2019 but apparently they did.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHell, I\u2019m just thrilled to have won something,\u201d added Marc Bernardin. \u201cSeriously though, it\u2019s like Adam said: We knew Genius was an uphill battle, but every now and then, those uphill battles get WON.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI blew my voice squealing like a happy pig for a half hour and came up with at least five victory dances,\u201d exclaimed Afua Richardson when she found out Genius was one of the winning titles. \u201cI feel like I won one for all the oddballs out there\u2014all the artists left of center, for the chicks who fight stigmas in comics, all of them!\u201d<\/p>\n

Now that the winners have been declared, the creative teams will work with Top Cow\u2019s editorial department to start planning out their series, which will debut in 2009.<\/p>\n

\u201cIssue #1 of Genius sparked a few pretty heated debates in some circles but that was only the first act to a much larger story,\u201d explained Freeman. \u201cThere is a lot more to tell. I am very curious how the future issues will be received because, trust me, this book is not going where you think it is.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to dip a bit into Destiny\u2019s back-story and the forces that combined to make her the woman she is today,\u201d teased Bernardin. \u201cAnd we\u2019re going to show just how bloody revolution can be.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI look forward to a) seeing what happens next; b) getting the chance to work with Marc and Adam again; and c) really getting a chance to show my stuff,\u201d asserted Richardson. \u201cI just really want put my best foot forward on this.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, now comes the fun part: making comic books,\u201d conveyed Hickman. \u201cLet\u2019s see if we can take Twilight Guardian where comics haven\u2019t gone before. I don\u2019t want to give anything away, but I promise you there will be comedy, and drama, and plenty of the unexpected. Maybe she\u2019s a Skrull\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone here at Top Cow wants to wish a hearty congratulations to the teams on Twilight Guardian and Genius for a hard-won victory in this year’s Pilot Season,\u201d proclaimed Top Cow Publisher Filip Sablik. \u201cIt was an incredibly close race across the board and these two teams campaigned hard for the fans’ votes. The fans have spoken and we’ve already got the wheels in motion to give them more of what they want!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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