An exclusive preview into the first chapter!
Oni Press –the multiple Eisner and Harvey Award-winning publisher of groundbreaking comics and graphic novels since 1997– presents an exclusive look at the full first chapter of fan-favorite Down, Set, Fight! 10th Anniversary Edition! Featuring a new deluxe hardcover edition with all-new cover art, the YALSA-nominated graphic novel smackdown from co-writers Chad Bowers and Chris Sims (Deadpool: Bad Blood, X-Men ‘92) and artist Scott Kowalchuk (Lucha Liberty, Batman ‘66) throws its second punch into stores June 25th!
In Down, Set, Fight!, “Fearless” Chuck Fairlane was football’s fastest rising star, but his career came to a screeching halt when he was expelled from the league after goin’ HAM and causing the biggest brawl in the history of sports. Years later, Chuck has found peace as a high school football coach, until costumed mascots begin attacking him for seemingly no reason. Before long, Chuck’s going to discover that you can’t run away from the past – but you CAN punch it square in the face!
The gut-busting, gut-punching tale of football mascots, Down, Set, Fight! 10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition HC settles a score in comic shops and bookstores everywhere June 25th!
PRAISE FOR DOWN, SET, FIGHT!
“With plenty of good old-fashioned fistfight action, tongue-in-cheek humor, and messages about honesty and mentoring, this comic would appeal especially strongly to sports-loving young men, teenage and up, who may be reluctant readers. Kowalchuk’s blocky, slightly retro art renders the action with clarity and zest.” —Library Journal
“Kowalchuk’s rock ’em, sock ’em art fits the action, and Sims and Bowers’s slam-bang, slapdash script manages to be both cynical and fuzzily warmhearted.” —Publishers Weekly
“You may never look at a mascot the same way again.” —Las Vegas Weekly
DOWN, SET, FIGHT! 10th ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION HC
WRITTEN BY CHAD BOWERS AND CHRIS SIMS
ILLUSTRATED BY SCOTT KOWALCHUK
$29.99 | HARDCOVER | 160 pgs. | FC
ON SALE JUNE 25th, 2024