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Retailers To Get Original Dan Brereton Art For The Last Battle

Published Tue, 01 Nov 2011 08:00:40 -0500

Comic companies often arrange interesting incentives to persuade retailers to order more copies. Increased discounts, extra copies, variant covers… but original art is a relatively new one.

Dan Brereton is offering two free sketches for every fifty copies of The Last Battle one shot written by Tito Faraci and drawn/painted by Dan ordered by retailers.

It's 1 $7.99 80 page one shot, which is a difficult price point for anyone these days, but two free sketches, which can be then sold in the shop by the retailer or just slapped on eBay, may help cover the risk of going heavy on the book. And, hey, it comes out the week before Christmas, so there are present possibilities here…

And if any retailer goes for a hundred copies, they'll get four free sketches, or two colour sketches.

Here's the PR bumf;

In 52 BCE, General Caius Rodius, retired hero of Caesar's Legions, is called back to war. In nearby Gaul, Rome's combined armies lay siege to the Gallic stronghold of Alesia in a conflict fated to shape history. A third barbarian horde prepares to attack the Romans from without, led by the rebel Cammius, who once fought for Rome. Rising star Julius Caesar dispatches Rodius to track through the wilderness and bring back the rebel's head. Who better to hunt Cammius than the man who taught him the very skills he now uses to defy Rome? Rodius must choose between duty to Rome and Caesar or the barbarian he raised as his own son.

Story by international comics legend TITO FARACI (Diabolik, Spider-Man: The Secret of Glass, Daredevil and Captain America), art by award winning, multiple Eisner nominee DAN BRERETON (NOCTURNALS, Punisher, Marvel Ultimate Team,-Up, God-Sized Thor, Red Sonja).

And examples of the sketches we're talking about…