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Art Director Frank Augugliaro
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Ignoble Hierarch card art for Magic the Gathering Secret Lair. Art Director Jacob Covey
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Rotten Metropolis | 20 Pages, Staple Bound printed on Grey Paper with Full Color Inserts. Published 2024.
Rotten Metropolis follows Gunk the Punk, the lone survivor of a science experiment where a group of researchers, scientists, and academics attempted to create a pill that cured death. The pill worked for Gunk and now, he wanders a far off future dystopia with a computer device installed onto the side of his head that stores his memories from one hundred plus years of living.
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