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Putting Matt Hawkins And Rahsan Ekedal's The Tithe Together – All Of It

I've grown up around churches and cathedrals, they are a perfectly natural part of the landscape to me. The spires working like advertising billboards of the first two millennia, they're getting drowned out now by skyscrapers, office blocks and bypasses. My parents local church from a few centuries ago has a large sign outside indicating the hypermarket carpark next door, clearly where all the moneylenders have been thrown out to. But in some places and, they are still a financial centre, a focal point for the citizens, where money flows in and up and out from the local area – occasionally trickling back a little.  But someone has to pay for those golden eagle lectern stands…

Matt Hawkins and Rahsan Ekedal are creating a new comic for Top Cow/Image in April, The Tithe, in which such mega-churches are targeted for digital heists, the intent being to give the money to a more deserving poor.

And we have the whole issue to show off, in its construction. First Rahsan's thumbnails.

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Then, almost all the pencils, missing the last two pages.

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But that's okay, here are all the inks in all their glory.

TITHE001LINE001 TITHE001LINE002 TITHE001LINE003 TITHE001LINE004 TITHE001LINE005 TITHE001LINE006 TITHE001LINE007 TITHE001LINE008 TITHE001LINE009 TITHE001LINE010 TITHE001LINE011 TITHE001LINE012 TITHE001LINE013 TITHE001LINE014 TITHE001LINE015 TITHE001LINE016 TITHE001LINE017 TITHE001LINE018 TITHE001LINE019 TITHE001LINE020 TITHE001LINE021 TITHE001LINE022 TITHE001LINE023 TITHE001LINE024

And finally eight pages of lettered coloured pages….

TO001_Preview-page-001 TO001_Preview-page-002 TO001_Preview-page-003 TO001_Preview-page-004 TO001_Preview-page-005TO001_Preview-page-006

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So… can you work out what's going on in the whole comic? The Tithe #1 by Matt Hawkins and is out on April 15th from Top Cow/Image.


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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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