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Girls or towns or planets with names like Pandora just shouldn’t have boxes. Just asking for trouble. Satchels? Fine. Barrels? Okie doke. Boxes? No way. 

Prizes though? Every Pandora should have prizes. Which brings us to a contest!

The past ten years have proven to be the great comeback decade of the zombie films.

Almost as if Hollywood decided to forgive and forget the not-so-graceful burnout of the infamous genre during the late 1980s, a decisive reboot of Romero’s legacy was inevitable.

The first Resident Evil movie in 2002 spawned a series of zombie-related films released to satiate the hunger of millions of survival-horror fans the world over.

But what about in comics?

AMC’s major hit TV miniseries, The Walking Dead, propelled sales of the graphic novels on which it was based to the top of the charts and encouraged comic-book creators nationwide to pick up a shotgun and take aim at their own vision of a zombie-infested apocalypse.

Appropriately setting the story in 2012, Real Interface Studios released a brand-new, 200-page graphic novel on May 9th that depicted its own zombie-horror twist on the popular upcoming Mayan apocalypse legend.

The violent outbreak, illustrated with gorgeous, manga-style artwork by Jin Song Kim, isn’t started by some mysterious virus this time. Instead the story delves into the consequences of combining man’s reckless nature with archeology, which results in an ancient plague being released upon the modern world in Pandora: End of Days Volume #1.

Having already sold one thousand copies on Barnes & Nobles during its first month of publication and soaring to the top two ranking in Amazon.com’s graphic-novel horror category, this is a must-read for survival-horror and zombie/Apocalypse fans or anyone in need of a great thriller.

Additionally, the book also provides instructions on how to enter in a unique Giveaway Contest!

To celebrate the success of the release of their newest graphic novel: PANDORA End of Days volume 1, the new indie publisher, Real Interface Studios, is giving away cool prizes for a special sweepstakes to promote the upcoming release of the 2nd volume this September.

The Prizes:

- Real-life Commando Tactical Combat Vest. The same worn by real Police SWAT.

- A brand new WE-Tech G39c Airsoft (BB gun) Gas-powered Blowback combat training Rifle.

To enter the contest:

1)  Read PANDORA End of Days Volume 01  (full version)

2) At the end of Chapter 03, pick & choose which one of the J6 Commando Team operatives you think will be infected in Volume 02.

      a)   The Captain
      b)   Jet
      c)   Marcus

3)  Join the official Facebook.com/Pandora.endofdays page and Email your answer.

4)  A lucky winner with the correct answer will be picked randomly the week before Volume 2 comes out!

5)  The winner will be asked to provide:     - Full Name  - Shipping Address  - Phone #

    A random Facebook Fan is also picked every month to win a special giant size banner-poster illustrating both volume covers together!


For more information on this cool new 200 page zombie survival-horror graphic novel, go to: www.Pandora-EOD.com or you can read it now here on Graphicly.

Graphic.ly is proud to introduce the Jonah Hex Movie Mashup Contest.  The idea is that you’ll create a movie poster with Jonah Hex added to it.  An example would be The Good, The Bad, and The Hex with one of the main characters replaced with Jonah Hex, Like so:

All submission will be judged by Jonah Hex writers, Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray.  There are two ways you can send in your submissions, either by sending them to couch.graphic.ly/submit or by emailing them to jons [at] graphicly.com.  You have from now till June 16th to submit your Hex movie poster masterpiece.  Winners will be announced June 18th when the Jonah Hex movie hits theaters.

We’ll be showcasing submissions as they come in on The Couch, Graphic.ly’s blog.  The only rules are that you must make them clean (no nudity, swearing, F-bombs).

The winner will win: A signed copy of Jonah Hex: No Way Back by Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray, 5 free Comics from Graphic.ly, and some other surprise signed goodies from Jimmy Palmiotti.

So open up your favorite photo editing software and hop to it!  If you don’t own any photo editing software you can always check out Aviary, which is online and free.

We’ve recently created a Flickr Group for all of the submissions.  Feel free to check them out and comment on your favorites.

This Week’s Jon Stumps You All Winners are:

• Sean Bohan
• DcDomain
• Dmitri Noi
• William Robles
• Mike Buechele

Winners - If we do not have your email, please submit it or contact info with a shirt size to http://couch.graphic.ly/submit

The correct answer to this week’s questions was - Road to Perdition, which is based off of a comic of the same name.

Road to Perdition is slightly based off of Historical mobsters during the Great Depression, mostly John Patrick Looney and is also inspired by the manga Lone Wolf and Cub.  There have been a couple sequels as well.  On The Road to Perdition, which takes place during the same time period and Road to Purgatory/Road to Paradise two prose novels that deal with the adult life of Michael O’Sullivan Jr. (Tom Hank’s son in the movie).

This weeks Jon Stumps You All question was: “Which Wolverine Costume had the longest consecutive run?”  This week we also had a bonus question of “When was it’s first appearance and how long did it run?”

The answer was Wolverine’s classic Brown and Tan costume which debuted in 1980 with Uncanny X-Men #139 and ran for roughly 11 years when he went back to the Blue and Yellow.

3 people this week were not stumped by my question!

1. Dave Seley
2. Shannon LaBeach
3. Jonathan MacFarlane

Shannon was the first one to get the Bonus question correct, so he’ll be getting the spiffy Wolverine Claws!  I wanted to mention that Jonathan also got the bonus question correct, it wasn’t an easy and he deserves recognition.

It’s time to announce our winners from yesterdays Jon Stumps You All Contest!  Many entered, but these lucky five were able to run the gauntlet I setup.  Okay maybe it wasn’t a gauntlet, but they were able to come up with the correct answer.  For their efforts they will be receiving a Free Graphic.ly T-Shirt.  The winners were not Stumped by my attempt… this time!

1. Sky Mayhew
2. Ryan Closs
3. Shannon LaBeach
4. Nathan Dunlap
5. Josh Deese

The correct answer to the question, “What is the name of the computer in Iron Man’s suit in the first move” is JARVIS.  Tony Stark’s computer for the Iron Man costume was actually a reference to his butler, Edwin Jarvis, from the comics.  In the novelization of the film JARVIS was an acronym that stood for “Just A Rather Very Intelligent System.”