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Red Pill answers fans request; Matrix Comics will be due out in October.
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ICv2 reports: Red Pill Productions is planning to release a 160-page trade paperback volume, The Matrix Comics, in mid-October. This will ensure that it reaches store shelves at least a couple of weeks before the November 5th theatrical release of The Matrix Revolutions, the final movie of the trilogy. The trade paperback release will be followed a couple of months later by a limited hardcover edition of 5,000.
Spencer Lamm, founder of Red Pill Productions and editor of The Matrix Comics, said that the impetus for the book came from fan requests. "This book is a direct result of countless e-mails," Lamm said. "The bottom line is that we're not doing it to make a lot of money. We're just doing it as a direct result of people saying, 'we'd like to hold this,' and 'we'd like to put this on our shelves.'"
Diamond Comic Distributors will distribute The Matrix Comics to the comic trade (September Previews), and a deal with an undisclosed company for the book trade will be announced soon, said Lamm. "It's a big deal," he said, which leads us to believe that it may also include other Matrix books. Red Pill produced The Art of the Matrix, a $60 hardcover released by Newmarket Press in 2001 that has sold some 60,000 copies, according to Lamm.
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