By Staff
special to The Star
April 18, 2004
Thirty feet is the difference between infinite power and utter inconsequence.
That's all the distance needed for Lisa Torres to pick up the Source, an ancient and mysterious superhuman power that gives her strange, wondrous and dangerous abilities.
The Source inhabits human hosts and uses them as conduits for this power; the host unknowingly funnels this power out to select individuals called Siphons when they get too close.
Meet Lisa and Caleb, Siphon and Source. Separated, they are human like everyone else, but together they can change the world.
Lisa is a vagabond singer/songwriter making her way through the gritty rock 'n' roll underground when she encounters Caleb. The good guys are trying to kill Caleb and the bad guys are trying to enslave him and his only ally is Lisa, a fiery 5-foot 3-inch aspiring pop star who is as ordinary as any other young woman, except when she's within 30 feet of Caleb.
Lisa's musical weapon of choice is the Peavey Rotor, a bold new neck-through-body guitar designed with retro 1980s stylings and outfitted with extra-hot Peavey humbucking pickups for ripping metal tone.
The Rotor's patented Peavey Dual-Compression Bridge system creates a metal-to-metal string connection for singing sustain, while its warm, resonant mahogany body and neck and ebony fretboard add a velvet feel with smooth attack.
The Rotor is Lisa's traveling companion and her ticket to success.
The first two issues of "Proximity Effect" will be available online free of charge a first for the comic book industry at www.proximity-effect.com. This unique way of introducing the property will allow readers to sample and connect with the property and its main characters.
Issue No. 1 will be available on Wednesday with Issue No. 2 following May 19. The entire series, including issue #3, will be collected into a graphic novel with extra anthology material and will hit comic book stores June 30.
Top Cow was founded in December 1992 and currently publishes its line of comic books in 21 languages in more than 55 countries. The company has launched 22 franchises (18 original and three licensed) in the industry's Top 10, eight at No. 1, a feat accomplished by no other publisher in the last two decades.
Its flagship franchise, "Witchblade," was TNT Network's No. 1 original film of 2000.
Peavey Electronics Corp. is one of the largest manufacturers of musical instruments and professional sound equipment in the world. Peavey holds more than 130 patents and produces more than 2,000 products, which are distributed throughout the United States and to 136 other countries.
To find out more about Peavey Electronics and its artists, visit www.peavey.com.