Census

Illustrated by Sebastián Píriz
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On sale Jul 16, 2024 | 112 Pages | 9781506737164

To get the job of a lifetime, sometimes you have to sell your soul.

Liam Malone is an aimless college slacker living in New York City who answers a job posting ad for the Census Bureau that seems to require little of him. Knock on doors, ask a few questions, move on. But what he discovers is that the doors of New York City are hiding lots of things. Dangerous things. Supernatural things. Liam’s new gig requires him to register all of the demons, djinn, and other bizarre creatures living in New York. How will Liam both keep his life and a stellar performance review?

Collects Census #1–#5, originally published by Comixology Originals.
Marc Bernardin is a television writer-producer as well as a comic book author. His TV work includes serving as a supervising producer on Star Trek: Picard, a supervising producer on Starz's The Continental, was most recently a producer on Amazon's Victorian fantasy series Carnival Row, a co-producer on the USA Network spy drama Treadstone, a staff writer on the first season of Castle Rock, the Stephen King and J.J. Abrams original series for Hulu, and a staff writer on Syfy's superheroic television series Alphas.

In an earlier life, he was an entertainment journalist: He was the Film Editor for the Los Angeles Times, overseeing the paper's movie coverage and coordinating the efforts of a dozen staffers. He was also the Deputy Editor of Playboy.com, a senior editor for The Hollywood Reporter, a senior editor for Entertainment Weekly, managing editor of Starlog magazine, and a consulting editor for Fangoria magazine. As a freelance writer, he has contributed to Wired, GQ, Empire, Details, Vulture.com, and Syfy.com.

He also has written a fair number of comic books over the years. His most recent is Adora and the Distance, an original graphic novel coming from Comixology in early 2020. Other works include Genius (Image), an urban revolutionary miniseries which The A.V. Club called "the most relevant comic on stands, Static Shock (one of DC Comics' premiere African-American superheroes), X-Men Origins: Nightcrawler, Wolverine, The Authority, The Highwaymen, and Monster Attack Network.

Adam Freeman is a multi-faceted producer/director/writer with over 25 years of experience in unscripted and scripted television. An 11 year stint at MTV culminated with over 1,000 hours of live TV including Total Request Live, Direct Effect, and all of MTV's New Year's Eve and Wanna Be A VJ events. He then went on to be the youngest show runner in syndication with the launch of On Air with Ryan Seacrest. After shows with Nick Cannon and Chelsea Handler he went on to direct over 160 episodes of "Gene Simmons Family Jewels" and then helped that 4 person production company into what is now known as Thinkfactory Media - an ITV company that produces the hits Marriage Boot Camp and Mama June: From Not To Hot, both of which Freeman created. His critically acclaimed comic book (written with Marc Bernardin), "The Highwaymen" is in development at New Line.
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To get the job of a lifetime, sometimes you have to sell your soul.

Liam Malone is an aimless college slacker living in New York City who answers a job posting ad for the Census Bureau that seems to require little of him. Knock on doors, ask a few questions, move on. But what he discovers is that the doors of New York City are hiding lots of things. Dangerous things. Supernatural things. Liam’s new gig requires him to register all of the demons, djinn, and other bizarre creatures living in New York. How will Liam both keep his life and a stellar performance review?

Collects Census #1–#5, originally published by Comixology Originals.

Author

Marc Bernardin is a television writer-producer as well as a comic book author. His TV work includes serving as a supervising producer on Star Trek: Picard, a supervising producer on Starz's The Continental, was most recently a producer on Amazon's Victorian fantasy series Carnival Row, a co-producer on the USA Network spy drama Treadstone, a staff writer on the first season of Castle Rock, the Stephen King and J.J. Abrams original series for Hulu, and a staff writer on Syfy's superheroic television series Alphas.

In an earlier life, he was an entertainment journalist: He was the Film Editor for the Los Angeles Times, overseeing the paper's movie coverage and coordinating the efforts of a dozen staffers. He was also the Deputy Editor of Playboy.com, a senior editor for The Hollywood Reporter, a senior editor for Entertainment Weekly, managing editor of Starlog magazine, and a consulting editor for Fangoria magazine. As a freelance writer, he has contributed to Wired, GQ, Empire, Details, Vulture.com, and Syfy.com.

He also has written a fair number of comic books over the years. His most recent is Adora and the Distance, an original graphic novel coming from Comixology in early 2020. Other works include Genius (Image), an urban revolutionary miniseries which The A.V. Club called "the most relevant comic on stands, Static Shock (one of DC Comics' premiere African-American superheroes), X-Men Origins: Nightcrawler, Wolverine, The Authority, The Highwaymen, and Monster Attack Network.

Adam Freeman is a multi-faceted producer/director/writer with over 25 years of experience in unscripted and scripted television. An 11 year stint at MTV culminated with over 1,000 hours of live TV including Total Request Live, Direct Effect, and all of MTV's New Year's Eve and Wanna Be A VJ events. He then went on to be the youngest show runner in syndication with the launch of On Air with Ryan Seacrest. After shows with Nick Cannon and Chelsea Handler he went on to direct over 160 episodes of "Gene Simmons Family Jewels" and then helped that 4 person production company into what is now known as Thinkfactory Media - an ITV company that produces the hits Marriage Boot Camp and Mama June: From Not To Hot, both of which Freeman created. His critically acclaimed comic book (written with Marc Bernardin), "The Highwaymen" is in development at New Line.
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