Meet Billy Black, your average 20-something skatepunk with a robot head! WATCH-as he survives the high cost of living and fast times in San Francisco! SEE-him spend his day handing beatdowns to hippies and dot-commies alike! GASP-as Billy stumbles into a horrible conspiracy! Evil Nazi scientists have reincarnated Hitler, housing his evil soul in the corpse of Jerry Garcia! Their goal: to turn the world into mindless hippie zombies and begin the 4th Reich! The adventure that follows is a boss bowl of high-octane super-crunch as Billy fights the evil Garcia/Hitler robot, Deadhead! Can Billy, this rebel without a clue, save the world from free love and never-ending jams?
Rick Remender is the writer/creator of comics such as Fear Agent, The End League, Strange Girl, Black Heart Billy, Last Days of American Crime, Sea of Red, Sorrow, Night Mary, XXXombies and Doll and Creature. He is also the writer of Marvel's Uncanny X-Force, Punisher, and Venom.
Outside of comics he has served as lead writer on EA/EPIC/PCF's Bulletstorm game and was a writer on the Electronic Arts hit game Dead Space . Prior to this, Remender served as an animator on films such as The Iron Giant, Anastasia, Titan A.E., and Rocky and Bullwinkle.
During his time wrist grinding as an artist Rick penciled books such as The Last Christmas, Bruce Campbell's Man with the Screaming Brain and numerous issues of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles while also inking books such as The Avengers and The Terminator . He has provided album covers and art for bands such as NOFX, 3 Inches of Blood, Lagwagon and No Use for a Name. He also taught storyboarding, animation and comic art at San Francisco's Academy of Art University for many years.
He and his tea-sipping wife, Danni, currently reside in Portland with their beautiful new baby girl, imminent baby boy and a monster known only as Lester Magoo.
