Newsarama: ARTIFACTS: Prologue 7: The Rapture

Newsarama Note: This is the official prologue to the upcoming series Artifacts. The team at Top Cow Productions brings us an exclusive inside look at each of the mystical Artifacts, as Sara Pezzini, Danielle Baptiste, and Jackie Estacado give their unique perspectives on the sources of power. Come back each week for more information on the other Artifacts.

Part 7 belongs to The Rapture... and yes, that's as potentially bad as it sounds.


The Rapture of Absolution
By Gretch
Twilight Alternative Staff


God loves nothing more than a sinner saved, right?

A man flipped a coin ninety-seven times. It turned up heads with each consecutive flip. Another man pondered the extreme unlikelihood that the law of probability would permit such a fluke to occur, and subsequently stabbed his wife in the eyes ninety-seven times. His name was William Churchill.

Read the full prologue here.
Source: Newsarama

CBR: Experience "Rapture" on the Road to "Artifacts"

Hell hath no fury like a man of god scorned - a man like Tom Judge, wielder of the Rapture.

Judge is one of the Top Cow Universe's elite Artifact-bearers, a group consisting of Sara Pezzini (Witchblade), Jackie Estacado (The Darkness) and Danielle Baptiste (The Angelus). But there's a major distinction between Judge and the aforementioned bearers - unlike these Earth-dwellers, Judge's current place of residence is the depths of Hell. Of course, that's not to say that he won't have an important role to play when the time comes for "Artifacts," the 13-issue series written by Ron Marz and illustrated by a team of artists including Michael Broussard. CBR News spoke with Marz and Top Cow Publisher Filip Sablik to learn more about Judge and his role in "Artifacts."

"Tom Judge is a defrocked priest, and like a lot of the other characters in the Top Cow Universe, he's somebody with a lot of shades of grey," Marz told CBR of Judge. "He's very much a fallen man and also a guy who paid the ultimate price for his sins and got sent straight to Hell - which is where he currently resides."

Read more about Tom Judge and the Rapture here.

Source: CBR

ICV2: Top Cow's Artifacts Event

Top Cow’s scribe-in-chief Ron Marz, who’s been shaping the direction of Top Cow’s top titles, has written a 13-issue series, Artifacts, which will shake the very foundations of the Top Cow Universe. Marz’ saga involves the thirteen artifacts (including the Witchblade and the Darkness) that guide the fate of the Top Cow Universe, and which if they fall into the hands of a single entity, would herald the destruction of mankind. In Artifacts #1, which ships in July, the kidnapping of Hope, the daughter of Sara Pezzini and Jackie Estacado, initiates a plot that could create Armageddon and which lays bare the underpinnings of the Top Cow world in ways that make it easy for new readers to understand and jump in.

Read the full article here

Source: icv2.com

Broken Frontier Pinpoints Artifacts in Hope is Lost's Ad

Top Cow Productions has released the first teaser image for Artifacts, the publisher's big event kicking off this summer. According to the publsher, Hope, the daughter of Sara Pezzini and Jackie Estacado, has gone missing.

The message Top Cow sent out reads as follows:

Top Cow Productions, Inc. received a report early this morning that Hope, the daughter of Sara Pezzini and Jackie Estacado, has gone missing.

Above (not full-sized) and attached (full-sized) is an image of Hope. Please distribute amongst your network. Additional information will be dispersed as we receive it.

If you have any information about the whereabouts of Hope, please contact authorities at the phone number/email address below.

The Artifacts shown on the teaser images:

* Witchblade (Sara Pezzini)
* The Darkness (Jackie Estacado)
* Angelus's Crown (Dani Baptiste)
* The Wheel of Shadows (Sabine)
* Spear of Destiny (Magdalena)
* Ember Stone (Gloriana Silver)
* Glacier Stone (Finnegan)
* Blood Sword (Finnegan)
* The Rapture (Tom Judge)

Source: Broken Frontier

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