PRIMA APPARATA #2

Ballerina mech pilots Mar and Rhea have survived to enter the last year of their brutal training at the Conservatory. Now, their unbreakable bond is tested. Only one senior student will be given the title of "Prima Apparata" along with the life-or-death lead role of Appolyta in a final battle performance to appease the Patrons. With their natural talents and motivations increasingly at odds in the studio, Mar and Rhea pursue two very different-but equally creative and reckless-acts of rebellion to claim control of their fates. A new realm is accessed, an advantage unlocked, and we get one step closer to Appolyta herself as Olivia Dufault and Rebekah Isaacs' celestial ballet mech saga continues! Christian Ward is a multi-Eisner Award winning comic book creator. Currently writing Event Horizon for IDW, as well as having recently written the critically acclaimed Two Face series for DC comics. As an artist he is perhaps best known for Batman: City Of Madness (which he also wrote), Spectregraph (written by James Tynion ) and the cosmic space opera Invisible Kingdom (co-created with G Willow Wilson). He is also a prolific cover artist for DC Comics, BOOM! Studios, Image Comic and others. Ward lives in Shrewsbury with his two daughters, his wife Catherine and pug named Thor. John J. Pearson is an Eisner Award-winning artist and illustrator based in Leeds UK. He is the artist and co-creator of The Patron (with Christian Ward), The Smart Division (with Zack Kaplan) and In Bloom (with Michael Conrad). John has worked on Hellblazer: Dead in America and Batman: Urban Legends for DC Comics; The Department of Truth, Razorblades, The Infernals, and Blue in Green for Image Comics; as well as contributing to works published by Dark Horse, Heavy Metal, IDW and BOOM! Studios amongst others. He also frequently creates work for film and television, including poster art for Vice Press and cover art for Arrow Video.