Review Fix Exclusive: Dre Ellis Talks Prophecy Comics And More

Review Fix chats with Dre Ellis, writer and creator of Prophecy Comics, who lets us know why we should check out their current Kickstarter and so much more.

Review Fix: How did you know a career in comics was for you?  

Dre Ellis: When I knew movies at this moment we’re going to cost too much to make. 

Review Fix: Tell us about your company…

Ellis: We are an black owned comic book company that focuses on black people being the center of incredible stories of all genres 

Review Fix: Who inspires you creatively?

Ellis: Life and wanting to see something totally opposite and new to Hollywood. 

Review Fix: How are your comics different or special?

Ellis: Because they will be an Experience and it will feel like your watching a show or movie but it’s in your hands. 

Review Fix: What about this comic? Sell us. Sell us hard.

Ellis: This comic will literally be like nothing you’ve ever seen before what I’m doing with this comic is taking a A Supernatural / Cosmic horror Action Thriller Revenge Story about about a black woman who plots revenge w/ a cosmic sledgehammer against a powerful group that destroyed her life. yeah this will be like nothing you’ve ever seen before like just imagine spawn the punisher and  this new show on Netflix called my name but add all that in with like that the supernatural Aspect and cosmic horror aspect because this is going to like shock a lot of people

Review Fix: Who do you think will dig it the most?

Ellis: Black people and just people in general that love cosmic horror and people that loves Action Thrillers and people  that loves revenge stories

Review Fix: How do you want your books to be remembered?

Ellis: Just like the name of my the company I want my books to remember almost like the Bible like their prophecy. they’re literally like could come true who knows but that’s how I want my books to be remembered. I want them to be revered next to the Bible and other  Legendary books

Review Fix: What are your long-term goals for your work?

Ellis: My long-term goals are to make my whole comic book universe and then make films and shows for my comic book universe because I’m a filmmaker as well and then just keep repeating the process and keep making books like I’m trying to be literally bigger than Marvel and DC no shade to them. 

Review Fix: Why should someone support this Kickstarter?

Ellis: I think they should support this kickstarter because I think people really want something new something fresh like literally like we been being fed recyclables  and like a lot of other comics are cool but like you know they still follow this core pattern of like you know how superheroes are made you know. 

Review Fix: Why should someone support your work?

Ellis: I think they should support my work because we are the future like literally we are the future like when they look at prophecy comics, they should see that’s the third out of the big two even though we are Indie right now. I feel like we are going to change a lot. I want to be able to pay the creators for their creations and do right, I wanna do right by people that’s it that’s why they should support us. 

Review Fix: Anything else you’d like to add?

Ellis: I will say is please give us a chance.   if this Kickstarter don’t work out we are going to do another one but it’s going to be a more feasible goal so yeah

Review Fix: What’s next?

Ellis: What next? If we get this goal in time. Issue 1, issue 2 , issue three , issue four and then new stories. I have new stories but I can’t do this without the people pushing me up. 

Review Fix: Where can people find out more?

Ellis: On Twitter  

https://twitter.com/prophecy_comics?s=21

and IG 

https://instagram.com/prophecycomics?utm_medium=copy_link

Here is the Kickstarter 

https://instagram.com/prophecycomics?utm_medium=copy_link

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Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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